Last sale was today. No problem here.

No problem on FT.
Low sales on DT.

I joined Fotolia 2 weeks ago and since then I uploaded 71 photos. There is still no earning  Does anyone know what is wrong?

Quote from: mr_coffee on December 30, 2014, 15:06

I joined Fotolia 2 weeks ago and since then I uploaded 71 photos. There is still no earning  Does anyone know what is wrong?

Let's see- here are few major reasons why they are not selling- personally I am surprised they even accepted the majority of them.

1. Poorly exposed (under exposed)
2. Poor Isolation
3. Texture shots have wrinkles and crooked
4. Nothing really special- there are like millions of these type of shots

I would stop the production and take your time to learn just one area first, say objects isolated on white, and do it well. You're just dumping more marginal images in my eyes to the already glutted inventories...

Thanks for the critics. I should work more 

FT accepted eleven (11) images of the same green, fake-cactus candle with flame? Really???

Yes I am also surprised  I really didn't understand their policy 

Here's another tip from somebody who's been doing this for a while. If you've got a whole series of the same subject (11 almost identical duplicates of a green, fake-cactus candle with flame, for example), pick ONE. Pick the very best one. And submit that.

If you'll do that, your ONE very fine image will look better, like something special.

As it is, even if FT accepts all 11 almost identical images that you submit to them, the images look cheap and easy. Make the subject look special by sending the best one and you'll stand a better chance of getting sales with that "special" one.

This holds true in your case not only with the green candle but the multiple almost identical shots in your FT portfolio of nuts, coins, statues, buildings, etc.  From now on, find the ONE best shot from the whole batch and submit that.

This means it will take longer to build a valuable portfolio, but once you do it will actually be worth something.

By the way, your portfolio is excellent!

Thank you for that, Mr. Coffee. I appreciate your compliment very much!

The choice of approach is yours, of course. But I suspect almost every old-timer in this group would encourage you to submit your best shots of a given subject, not endless duplicates that (to be honest) detract from one another.

If you'll go back and look at my Image Gallery on Shutterstock (http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=508327, you'll find (scattered around that first page) 17 images of cute brown rodents called Black-tailed Prairie Dogs. This past October, in Texas, I spent 3 days shooting these "dogs" in all kinds of light and activity level, so I came home with over a thousand images of them, including near-dupllcates of every one you see. But then, working in Lightroom at 100% magnification, I was ruthless and threw away every single shot that wasn't a "best." And even some of those I originally thought were "bests" got dropped when it came time to select a final group for submission.

Shutterstock and Dreamstime both accepted every image from that group that I submitted, because they were all "bests".

And also� even though the subject is the same in that whole series of "dogs", all the poses you see are different. No two are alike. And the subject of every one is in razor-sharp focus.

I was aiming to have a "category killer" collection of these threatened little critters, which have been poisoned and shot almost out of existence in most of their original range. So I worked hard to make it happen. And, I believe, I have done just that.

This Dec. FT was two times last Dec.  I am real happy about it.  Not enough to cover Istock plunge, but almost.

What happened man? Im interested to know.