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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Hobostocker on March 08, 2014, 13:41

Title: Photo jobs on eLance ??
Post by: Hobostocker on March 08, 2014, 13:41

Well .. it seems that microstock is not yet the rock bottom ... take a look at the photo jobs on Elance/oDesk :

https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-Photography (https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/q-Photography)

Apart a job for 5-10K anything else is slave labour and there's also a couple jobs for stockers (paid a pittance).
Very interesting, i checked it out of curiosity as a friend of mine talked to me about his negative experience on Elance about wordpress etc, not surprised at all i must say.

Title: Re: Photo jobs on eLance ??
Post by: 08stock08 on March 09, 2014, 09:12

Some of them are for custom images while others are just on-location assignments. Mainstream stock images did not get that low as to auction them in open market.

Title: Re: Photo jobs on eLance ??
Post by: Red Dove on March 09, 2014, 11:13

I tried some of these sites - another one is "people per hour" - never got a sniff of any work. Even if I discounted by 25% - 50% there was always someone willing to work for a pork pie.

Title: Re: Photo jobs on eLance ??
Post by: Goofy on March 09, 2014, 11:27

there are folks willing to shoot for 'Free' in hope they will get paid work in the future which of course never happens...

Title: Re: Photo jobs on eLance ??
Post by: dingles on March 09, 2014, 15:54

The issue with these sites is that you are always underbid by someone in a different country will to work for far less. At least that is what I have found