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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Newbie Discussion => Topic started by: tab62 on April 02, 2011, 16:49
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Hi Stock,
I've noticed that some types of photos since to produce sales on Large to X-Large but few sales and others produce a lot of small size downloads. Basically, you get a lot of $.25 sales or one or two $3 dollar dollars. I will have to study this in more detail to see if there is a pattern on my portfolio - guess to a balance between lot's of quarter sales and a few mult-dollar dollars...
Tom
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So.... What's the question or the discussion point?
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I think the question is "What kind of photos produce higher resolution sales" ?
If that is the question, let me join the OP in asking that question as well :)
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Pictures where the subject is too small to be useful from a small size file and needs to be cropped out. Don't shoot huge macros if you want large sales.
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If 99% of your sales are 33 cent subs, should you be reducing the size of your uploads to the minimum resolution allowed? Or should you submit full resolution for those rare non-sub sales and even rarer ELs?
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I have a couple of very large images which are collections of related objects, each of which is at a high enough resolution to be useful on its own. Some sites tell me I can't do this, and that I'm supposed to break down the collection into indivual images. But what I found out is that individually, they don't sell but the collections do well and are sometimes sold as XL.
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you may study it but honestly upload always your max megapixels, buyers might look for it and FT and IS pays more, a few cents :)
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Thank you all for super comments! It seem like the best approach is having a 'mixed' bag of pics- Some days I a really surprised on what sold at an extra large photo.
Tom