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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: fintastique on December 12, 2006, 15:37
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I switched to digital Dec 2002 and to D-SLR March 2006 but didn't start contributing to the Microstock until Feb 2006.
Anyone care to share?
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From last year I was only selling my travel photos at SP, then I started shooting the type of stock-oriented images to sell at microstock. I also started in microstock in February, at IS, then DT, Stockphotomedia, StockXpert and CanStockPhoto. With limited time to shoot and edit, my portfolio grew very slowly.
Regards,
Adelaide
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July 2006 is when I found Shutterstock. Since then, started contributing to Dreamstime, iStock, FeaturePics, Fotolia, BigStock, and 123RF. Waiting to find out if my StockXpert application goes through.
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I started uploading to microstock sites in Feb 2005 so I will be celebrating my two-year anniversary soon :)
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Started with DT, IS and 123 at the end of June. FT in July, SS in November and BigStock just last week. I too just started out with my travel photos but am trying to get out there and shoot everything ;D
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I discovered Sutterstock and Dreamstime in the fall of 2005. Also contributed to an up-and-coming site that never got traction (pinupinoo) where I had the honor of talking to Rachel a few times. She knows a lot about the business and I so valued the opportunity to get a few tips.
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I started contributing about 6 months ago , but interesting that 6 or 7 months before that I bought my first camera and took my first photo ever , I don't recall I pressed the shutter ever before , maybe at some birthday when I was kid or something. I just hated when I had to smile in front of the camera and kept myself away from them. But i just love trying new stuff , so I used to paint allot , i play guitar and blues harp and stuff like that. One day I was surfing through some photos and I saw some Bressons work. After I saw that kid with a bottle of wine photo I decided that tomorrow I will buy a camera and start shooting. So I did , i bough Sony W-17 and started pressing the button like mad , i took few hundred photos first day , and they all sucked. So i decided to learn something and joined some photo community and i read 1000 of tutorials and posts,questions and answers etc , and one day I saw some topic about stock. Well there was a link to Scandinavian stock photos , and I join there first. I dont remember the order I was joining other sites but it was something like sites with more sales and potential at the end :)
Well thats my story , I went a little out of bounds as the question was when did you start microstock but maybe someone is is bored and likes to read allot so ... :D
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I was introduced to Microstock in March 2006. Am still enjoying it so far.
Thanks to Phil for introducing it to me.
cheers,
ptlee
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February 2nd 2006, SS was my 1st site.
My son strongly encouraged me to submit and to learn, and I got hooked... he used to submit (portrait photography), but doesn't have time to do it these days.
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Berryspun I hope your son referred you to get his 3c per download
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Yes he did :)
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February 2nd 2006, SS was my 1st site.
My son strongly encouraged me to submit and to learn, and I got hooked... he used to submit (portrait photography), but doesn't have time to do it these days.
hey, sounds familiar. I got my mom started :) she only hs 8 images on dreamstime so far but is eager to get into it more.
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I started Dec 2005 with IS and DT. Found FL, BS and SS soon after. But had to wait 3 months at SS :(
After the first excitement (first 2-3 months, approx. 150 photos) I took a break for about 2 months as I found things very slow. But then I was accepted at SS. And in the first month I made as much as on all other sites combined.
Recently the growth was slowing down a bit again, but now it was IS increasing in sales. Passed 500 DL early Dec.
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I started just this past summer. Photography has been a passionate hobby for me since I was a kid. My wife is a photog too. About a year ago she started to dabble in things like Zazzle and Cafe Press with her photos and had a modest success. She also used many of my photos. She turned me on to microstock.
I figured, hey, what the heck. I started with SS and got shot down 2 or 3 times... tried my luck with DT and BS... now I'm with SS, DT, BigStock, FT, LO, StockXpert, 123RF & USPS ( yeah, I actually have sales there). I've been working on a disk for Alamy... trying to find the time to uprez, a tedious affair in my mind.
I have a small portofolio, still less than 300, but I'm working on it. I am having a modest success in sales, but I won't be quitting my day job any time soon. ;) Right now, it's still fun.
Interestingly, all 3 of my kids and two of their mates are also now breaking into the biz.
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well i was wondering the same
Dreamstime was my first site and I uploaded March 30, 2004... so in a few months it will be 3 years online :). It doesn't seem like that long. Istock was shortly after that, i guess since it takes a while to get accepted there.
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I've dabbled for about 2 1/2 years at various sites. This is strictly a hobby time activity for me. Though it has allowed me to upgrade my equipment.
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july 2006 - sept 2006
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June of this year (2006)
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Hurro,
I joined IS after reading about it on www.dpchallenge.com back in September 2004. Not long after I switched to Digital as it happens, which was about August that year, give or take. I got a P&S digital in May 04, and sold all my 35mm flim gear in August 04 to pay the deposit on some lenses for my 20D.
I was quite sceptical of the Micro thing, and I was really busy anyway, so it wasn't until April 2005 that I uploaded anything for approval.
Since then I've joined SS, DT and FL. I also submitted to 123rf for a while, but after very slow sales and odd rejections I gave up on there.
I've just done my initial submission at Stocxpert, and got an email asking for more sample images, problem is I can't remember what I submitted first time round! :-). Ahhh well.
This is very part time for me, and I've only got a portfolio of around 300 images (Depending on which site you're talking about). I keep on telling myself I should shoot more stock, but I never quite get around to it. :-).
The micros have paid about 25% of the finance payments on my studio lights though, so I'm not complaining.
Happy 2007. :-)
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June of 2006
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August 2006 and I am completely hooked.
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Joined Dreamstime Jan 06, Fotolia in the fall - but man it's time consuming to try and build a portfolio! It's also an obsessive hobby and I'm always taking pixs and have disks and disks of RAW files to sort through. (Amazing I have time to check out the message boards at least once a day though! Should devote that 10 minutes to stock!)
I only managed to sumbit one image on Lucky Oliver and it sold once over the holidays so I've pulled up my socks and done some ftp'ing today... must get organized.
I have mostly (not wildly popular) nature/wildlife pix but in 07 I aim to do a few trade-for-print shoots and build up the people photos that seem to sell. I'm a bit shy to ask for model releases though but getting better. Actually got 4 signed over the holidays. My sister's family, we'll see how they do!