Hy there,

I thought of starting a topic who can motivate the people without talents and not only. People who are following the first instinct on making random outdoor shots could be motivated by this one too. So how this should be going?
Write your opinion (based on your experience) on how many images you need to have accepted per day on SS, followed by the number of images you must already have in your portfolio on SS for your predicted earnings per month and last of course, the earnings per month you think you'll make with random shots on SS if you respect the numbers mentioned before.

For example: 10 APD (accepted per day) -> 6000 PORT (Portfolio) = $1000/month

I hope this will be a great help for many of us not only the beginners !

Have a great day everybody! Let the predictions roll

this is totally different for each individual, one will come here and say 2000 dollar with 800 images and the other will have 1000 dollar from 10000 images, doesnt tell anyone how succesful or how much money they will make

"How much can you earn on Shutterstock with random shots?"

Well, you _can_ make nothing.

Losing money by investing in time and equipment to produce shots that don't pay for your equipment and take up time that could be spent on other, more lucrative pursuits.

if we all really know the answer, we would tell you? LOL
no, seriously, we do not know the answer,
esp these days when the review is as effed-up as ever
and the flip flop algorithm whatever you call in ss.

if i take my own situation, i would say, you might be surprised that random shots
can make you as much money if not more ... or nothing, as sjl says..

taking the past months for me, after all those set up shots of isolated food bla bla bla
that clients paid me a commissions of 28 to 102 dollars each time vanished off this earth (for me
and many here who reported )...
random shots which were undiscovered,
which i had forgotten i had in my port, as they were really bad ,
i was a beginner at that time,..
are now my top (shucks) earner
of 50 cts a day
down from a lot more .

just upload them, it cost you zero anyway, so why sweat it?
they really don't want contrived well planned well exposed images anyway

that's what we have been talking about these days for months.
they want snapshots and selfies like the mobs.
take random shots which look like it's taken with a mob,
and give it to them. that's what ss really want now.

I find that when i set my camera to 'random' i end up with a massive pile of really unintersting images. Mostly of the inside of my camera bag.
 

Now the question really is can you make money on SS shooting random. At 0.38c a sale... why bother.

Which is basically what I said, answering "How much can you earn on Shutterstock...".

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on July 22, 2016, 12:18

Now the question really is can you make money on SS shooting random. At 0.38c a sale... why bother.

Which is basically what I said, answering "How much can you earn on Shutterstock...".

At 0.38 per download, I'd have to sell Herbalife and Amway combined.

What would you all think it will be the worst case scenario stats of making an income out of microstock?

Bad case: You earn nothing
Worst case: You earn nothing and waste time on forums.

Better talk about how much you lose rather than how much you earn

With random shots you will get random gains

With not random shots you will get random gains too�
(It is how microstock works)

Hey, something we agree on

I have random shots in my port and some do well, surprisingly well, while others....not so much. I think you need a good eye, though, to acquire a sellable port if randoms if your primary strategy.