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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: sweetgirll on April 28, 2011, 11:58
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Hi guys
I was wondering how many here work full time in the stock image industry, or has it as their main activity.
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Full time for me. I have about 10% of my images in micro/RF....the rest with traditional RM agencies in addition to self-marketing (RM only).
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I have a few little projects on the go, but microstock earns well over 50% of my income.. probably closer to 80%
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Part time for me. First year- mainly for fun and to learn. Income to date is about 1/2 of one percent of my daytime job income (Better hope I have a good daytime job- LOL!)...
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I'm retired, comfortably, and enjoy photography including micro as a hobby. I make 99% of my photography income from gallery sales of landscapes. 99% of my income is from investments, <1% from photography sales.
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Starter in micro - but i hope that some day i will get lets say 10 percent per day that i make now with my job :D
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It is my full time job right now. I have plans to start doing other things as well other than micro (arts and crafts and whatnot). Until that happens I do this all the time.
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I made it my full time job since 2009.
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full time editorial and catalog (mostly fashion) shooter here. can pull lifestyle images from some editorial shoots (only occasionally from catalog). have been trying to arrange more stock/microstock targeted shoots in downtime. resale of editorial glamour and celebrity has paid better than micro for me as I am still building a library for micro. editorial resale and micro combined only account for a small percent of income compared to my assignment shooting, but I think of it as my babysitter (keeps me from getting in trouble).
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If it was my kids would be eating grass ;D
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part time - my official job is architect
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full time and really struggling this month
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~50%
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full time and really struggling this month
Same here. My significant other is tired of me complaining all the time. So I come here and complain to you good people instead ;)
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Full-time here.
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Part-time (with stock becoming less and less of that time) for me. Full-time job is web developer.
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"If it was my kids would be eating grass"
Wow! Than you must be making a lot of $$$ since one ounce of grass cost over $150 in Seattle- average street value LOL!
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Gladly no. Or I would not be able to have a decent living! ;D
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My answer would be... not yet :). Working on it this year. I own a small graphic design and advertising company (graphic design, print, web, video).
But since the beginning of January this year been working hard on microstock and happy to saw that I am increasing my Monthly revenue each month by 100 to 150$ so I do hope to make it full time by the next year, or at least greatly reduce my company work and gain more freedom and personnal creativeness (if that's a word) :)
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For me, vector microstock is part-time. Currently, I spend about a half-hour per day on it. I've been at it for awhile though, and it is now 60% of my total income. For the first couple years that I was building my portfolio. I would spend 2-3 hours per day creating vectors. Microstock has been a life-changer for me and my family, and I'm grateful every day.
From 9-5 each day, I'm a graphic designer. I think that helps me immensely to create good stock (stock that designers need and want).
~ Eli
www.graphicgravy.com (http://www.graphicgravy.com)
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Sort of... in that it is the money making activity that I spend the most time on - not necessarily the most lucrative, but it is in addition to some others. Luckily I am cheap - very cheap.
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Im a full-time commercial freelance photographer and have been shooting stock alongside for tha past 25 years.