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Photo Critique / Re: Disappointed after three months microstock - need advice on whether to keep goin
« on: March 22, 2017, 09:43 »
Hey man. Look, I have started to submit pictures to microstock some years ago. In that days, it was more dificult to enter in this word and I spent some months to be able to enter in the best players (like shutterstock). Microstosck is really fun if you do not count with it to live. I used to take landscape pictures in my travels and trekkings. I really enjoy it. But, as you noticed, it is really competitive market and, lets be honest, there will be hundreds of better pictures than yours (and of course than my ones too). So, why I keep doing that? Weel, as I said, for me it is fun. And for some reason, there are guys that like and buy my pictures.. even than they are not the best. There are a lot of factors that someone choose one picture instead other from the same place. Each one of us has different perspective from the same scene. So, you should try to explore it. For example, I did some trekking on Silicon Valley some years ago. I got lucky, it was a beautiful day and I got pretty good pictures. And these picture sell. It will not give me a fortune.. but it sells... Now, I could just think, oh man, it is silicon valley, problably there are plenty of pictures from it.. why anyone would buy my ones... Even from Central Park I have already sell pictures... Central Park, man... So, my advice... it will not give you a lot of money. But it will be fun, so, go ahead, take your pictures, read about microstock (this forum is really interesting for that) and have fun... never give up...
