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Newbie Discussion / Is 500px worth the time?
« on: August 15, 2019, 08:09 »
I understand that they are now owned by Getty.
I already upload to iStock (Getty) , just got my first sale there.

I have uploaded some pictures for sale to 500px and they are a lot pickier on acceptance standards. Of 15 test photos I sent them they accepted 3.  All the other sites (Adobe, Shutterstock, Getty etc) have rejected maybe 2 of those 15.

Are they worth the effort?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: How much time?
« on: August 13, 2019, 07:21 »
I'm still very new at this. I'm up to about 100 photos on 5 different agencies and have been working on this for about month now.

My current process (which I am working on improving still)

Import from camera into LightRoom.
Go thru and Reject photos that are not in focus, or bad image.
Mark any that I really like with 5 stars.
Pick 3-8 of the best images from the set.
Do image adjustments if needed, and export.
Then I switch to XPiks. 
I import the photos into XPiks for Titles, Keywording and uploading.

I have found the xPiks application is a huge help in keywording and uploading.
It uploads to all the sites I am using except for iStock (getty).

I haven't sold anything yet. I know that it can take a bit of time, especially since most of my pictures are nature shots.
 
I try to upload at least 3 pictures a day.  I want to get up to at least 6 photos a day with a goal of about 200 photos a month.

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