you just need patience and effort. 4 months is nothing with the amount of competition out there. You need a lot of elements for your work to be seen and purchased. Some of those elements are already mentioned, lights, compositions, and most importantly commercial values. And the understanding of what "commercial values" really mean. Took me years for my small portfolio to make it worthwhile, and a few years for me to shoot and think as a potential client.

I started with istock in 2004 with the first set of 10 images. Forgotten about it till 2006 when I could cash out. Uploaded another 30 or so and started to contribute on a few other sites, forgotten about it again for another year. It was around 2008 when I could cash out every month (from almost every site) with a portfolio of 200ish photos. When I reached around 400, the earnings became significant. Although I never really had the urge to feed the beast and drop my full time job for it, 12 years later, with a portfolio of 600+ my earnings are still roughly the same. I'm just happy and thankful that with my little effort, I could upgrade my gears every few years, bought a car, and even a small vacation home.

This is what I got from email.

We have removed a total of $-52.57 from your account. This is the first recoupment out of six.....

what???

Yes, they have! They now reject my images of Industrial machinery and public transportation, and those have been accepted everywhere else.

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on September 27, 2012, 07:21
I was invited via bridge to BS and sales used to be really good but now its gone way down. I guess they like SS, changed their sort order and suddenly its just another low earner. Pitty.

+1

And since they introduced the subs, sales have gone down even more drastically.

I have 165 there, and I get 1 or 2 downloads monthly. Most I got is about $8/month

I have only 40 clips total, and have been online a little over a year. For me Shutterstock is best with the average download ratio of 3 to 1.  Although Shutterstock pays less amount per clip, it still wins consistently every month. Maybe I need more clips to get more exposure at Pond5.

Down for me, both contributor or buyer account

Sama sama, Santosa. 

I love canstock too. I have a small port there (less than 400), but I do make regular sales. Enough to keep me motivated and upload 5-10 pictures monthly.

Silver rank here, with 7 day rank, drop from a consistent 800ish to 1300

Quote from: Morphart on October 25, 2012, 15:51
I do both. Contribute for the extra revenue per month and buy as part of the graphic design, web design, videos or print services I offer.

Mostly buy the Photos and Illustrations for clients. Saves them money, and saves me time, helps with creativity also when you have tight deadlines! Also love buying After Effect compositions to create stunning video presentations without spending days to make them.

+1

If I understand correctly, this time Santosa is not complaining about low sales.

Several times to see here, I do not find the news interesting.
Possible sale, denial or others.
If my story is, always upload and upload. How do you all premises, do the same with me?

I think he meant to say....

I visit here (this section of forum) several times, and found nothing interesting. No good news, rejections, nothing much is happening.
In my case, I upload and always upload. How do you guys do at your end? Are you doing the same as me?

Once a day when I'm awake, during weekends.
Three or four times, during weekdays.

broadband internet in those countries ain't cheap too

Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone at GL!

I'm glad to report my first download with only 23 in portfolio. 

http://graphicleftovers.com/ref=photosoup/

I also take out the camera and shoot about once a week.
When I'm scheduled for a photo shoot session, I charge both batteries (both originals) the night before the shoot. When I'm not scheduled, meaning just shooting for fun, I just used whatever left of previous charge just because I know in case of emergency, I have an extra battery with me.

I only charge a battery (immediately after a shoot) when it is used 3/4 or almost died.

Just joined and uploaded a dozen of mix vectors and photos. They are approved within 48 hours and some of them already appeared in the GL Collection.

I have to agree that the site looks good, straight forward, and the most importantly, easy uploading. The 52% commission is UNBEATABLE!!!

I think it is a smart idea (business wise) for GraphicLeftovers to accept photos instead of just illustrations, many buyers are moving away from that other site that raise prices and lower commissions. I'm included. Wishing you the best!!!

http://graphicleftovers.com/ref=photosoup/

I signed up with them a week ago, uploaded a dozen of mix images and vectors and got approved within 48 hours. The uploading process is so easy I don't need the ftp.

Just found this thread, and after reading the whole 7 pages, I have great confidence with GL. Thanks everyone for the info. I'm looking forward for some sales. 

My referral http://graphicleftovers.com/ref=photosoup/

To my knowledge, 300dpi equals to 150lpi (simply divide it by 2), so your file exceeds what they require.

edited 150ppi into 150lpi, thanks for great explanation, cuppacoffee.

19 approved
77 views
4 sales
$9.80 USD

since 7/25/2009

Congrats to you! My first video also got accepted!!

Shot with HV30, captured and rendered in Vegas Pro

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/475781

I started my younger days with analog Nikon. Getting my feet into digital world, I went through a pile of p&s cameras, including Fuji, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon and Canon. I was really happy with Canon G1 at the time. Which lead me to G2, G5, a 300D, 400D, 30D, 40D, now 5D and I'm getting a Canon G10 soon.

I've used a friend's G9 for the past year and have no problem getting some shots accepted in both SS and IS. My workflow with G9 is to shot RAW, iso100, downsample to about 6 MP.

Good luck with whatever you choose!

Wow... Thanks for the tip

I only have a few of healthy food, the rest are junk food 

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4576805
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=5851207
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=1976063

Thanks much!

around $2.40 with a smallish port of 187. Upload regularly in small batches of 5 to 6 everytime the previous batch got approved (or rejected).