Author Topic: Your plans, for 2012 ? (Read 22697 times)

donding · « **Reply #75 on:** January 12, 2012, 12:09 »

Do away with all the crawly stock sites that seem to take forever to hit payout....like iSTOCK!! Probably the only one I'll keep is Shutterstock because it is making three to four times as much as iStock or Dreamstime. So tired of all the BS...it's not even fun or enjoyable any more. Haven't even picked up the camera since October. Just doesn't seem worth it anymore.

fieldsphotos · « **Reply #76 on:** January 13, 2012, 01:12 »

I am small fry here, and mostly doing this to pay for gear, but here are my goals:

Start uploading again after a 4 year hiatus with microstock. I logged into all my ports at the various sites and found a nice little sum of $$ which was surprising as I only have about 30-40 files online. That got me all geared up for getting this started up again.

I was GOING to go exclusive with iStock as I don't really have the time for uploading to multiple sites due to my day job and back in 2007 they were where the biggest $$ came from. I deleted all my ports at SS, DT, FT and the now-defunct StockXpert. THEN I took a look at what was going on at IS, and decided to keep uploading to SS at least until IS gets their proverbial cr*p together. I actually can't even apply to be exclusive right now due to their website issues. Ah well, my new (VERY SMALL) port at SS is starting to get a few DL's, so we will see how it goes over the next couple months.

Sarah

Ed · « **Reply #77 on:** January 13, 2012, 07:59 »

Dropped five micro agencies last night…picked up two new traditional (non-exclusive) agencies in the last two weeks. Revenue is looking great – licensed an editorial image day before yesterday for $92.15. It was an image I tried to upload to Shutterstock over the summer that they rejected for poor captioning (I think a period or a dash was off in the dateline somewhere). It will be in a textbook in Canada for the next 3 years (and my trip to take the image is paid in full). Gotta love the rights managed market.

I may be completely out of the micros before the end of the year if things keep going like this.

nicku · « **Reply #78 on:** January 13, 2012, 13:36 »

My plans for 2012 have changed a little. Now i plan to photograph more people... my first real competitive model :

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=885118&safesearch=1&prev_sort_method=popular&sort_method=newest&page=1#id=92633854

swellphotography UK · « **Reply #79 on:** January 20, 2012, 15:52 »

I'm trying for 1000 photos uploaded on average by the end of the year. I made this target last year when I was just contributing to Alamy and wasn't really focusing on microstock; and failed.

This year I'm more organised. I'm going to plan 52 subjects to photograph twice a week, organizing all the bits I need for the shoots before hand. I'll process during the week (couple of hours a night). Also want to get accepted to Shutterstock (really struggling with this).

So far I've stuck to it!!

http://swellphotographyuk.blogspot.com/

lagereek · « **Reply #80 on:** January 21, 2012, 01:53 »

Quote from: Ed on January 13, 2012, 07:59

Dropped five micro agencies last night…picked up two new traditional (non-exclusive) agencies in the last two weeks. Revenue is looking great – licensed an editorial image day before yesterday for $92.15. It was an image I tried to upload to Shutterstock over the summer that they rejected for poor captioning (I think a period or a dash was off in the dateline somewhere). It will be in a textbook in Canada for the next 3 years (and my trip to take the image is paid in full). Gotta love the rights managed market.

I may be completely out of the micros before the end of the year if things keep going like this.

Same here! dropped 4, agencies few months back. Now I am active and uploading to only 6 agencies. The RM and RF, markets have trebbled for me during 2011 and I intend to work them a lot more.

wut · « **Reply #81 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:01 »

Which ones did you drop lagereek?

lagereek · « **Reply #82 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:40 »

Quote from: wut on January 21, 2012, 04:01

Which ones did you drop lagereek?

123, Zoonar and Panthermedia. Nothing wrong with 123, exept for their automatic editing program, which is dreadful, unfortunately, because I was actaully earning quite well there. Zoonar, well that eas a joke and a half. Panthermedia, because they insisted on PRs, just for general corporate scenes which were unrecognizable anyway.

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