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Dear human Colleagues,

As AI technology continues to advance, its understandable for us stock photographers and videographers to feel somewhat concerned about its potential disruptions to our revenue streams. We can just keep doing the same old and hope that it just blows over (which it wont) or we may adopt strategies to protect our livelihoods.

I've published five such strategies that you may wish to start adopting right away lets get started!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/03/07/future-proofing-creativity-5-strategies-for-stock-photographers-videographers-in-the-age-of-ai/

Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

Just published this post on the new EU AI Act that will soon be coming into force and specifically for us, how it will impact AI-generated stock content.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/01/26/new-eu-ai-act-and-its-impact-on-ai-generated-stock-content/

Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

I've just published my comprehensive year-end stock summary on the blog as well as on YouTube (41 mins long).

Hope you enjoy watching/reading as much as I have compiling these reports. Overall it's been a difficult year but I remain optimistic about certain segments of the stock industry.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/01/03/2023-year-end-review-good-bad-and-ugly/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct_O0CtxICM&feature=youtu.be

All the best - Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

Ive just published an interview with Veteran Travel Microstocker, Dmitry Rukhlenko on my blog that I'm happy to share with you. Great tips for beginners, as well as veterans.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/10/22/interview-with-dmitry-ruklenko-veteran-travel-microstocker-with-675000-in-earnings/

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home Steve McCurry

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Dear colleagues,

If you're doing commissioned / client work there are many reasons why you should also upload the content to stock sites to earn an extra income. I'll discuss my top-10 best selling assets from client shoots.

Would be interesting to hear from you whether you also earn from content gathered during a client/commissioned shoot and whether those have (double)earned you as stock.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/09/18/earning-stock-income-from-commissioned-work-a-case-study-with-my-top-10-best-sellers/

Alex


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Dear colleagues,

I've carefully put together a detailed workflow analysis, including forecast earnings from a recent drone/DSLR shoot I did overlooking a busy highway junction in Portugal.

Perhaps this analysis will be useful for your own business and/or if you're interested in getting into drone photography/videography.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/08/25/detailed-workflow-breakdown-on-highway-drone-shoot/

Alex

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Dear colleagues,

I've just published this blog post on a trend that I potentially see occurring soon (hope I'm not giving these agency decision-makers any ideas):

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During the past six months, most notably, Wirestock and Picfair have dropped their respective statuses as free to upload stock agencies in what is a potentially significant trend for contributors. In this blog post Ill discuss whether this business model will become more commonplace and if it may present itself as a threat to contributors income in a time when were already experiencing diminishing returns coupled with rising inflation. Or perhaps, this fee will be an opportunity!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/07/13/will-contributors-soon-have-to-pay-microstock-agencies-to-host-their-content/

Alex

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Dear fellow Humans,

I've just published special edition of the monthly report where, on top of discussing my monthly earnings and restoring and licensing old prints from my dads collection, Ill be delving deep in discussing the latest AI craze and whether it may soon pose a threat to Stock contributor incomes.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/05/31/may-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report-special-ai-edition/

All the best - Alex

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Dear Stock Colleagues,

It's that time of the month when I'm pleased to share with you my detailed monthly earnings report for March 2023:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/03/31/march-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

All the best,

Alex

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Keen to share this useful tip.

Was looking for some images back from 5+ years ago and found out that you can download a high-resolution copy from your own DP port instead of digging through backup drives archives.


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Greetings from Rio and happy to share my first detailed monthly report of the year where, as usual, Ill be focusing on my overall earnings for the month and other industry-related news, including news on uploading a portion of my images for free as an experiment, a legal complaint via Alamy and another nasty street photography episode (illustrated by AI). Lets get started!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/01/31/january-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you're having a great start to the year.

Alex


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Dear Stock Colleagues,

I've published a comprehensive review of my stock business in 2022, while providing a glimpse forward to 2023 with some realistic goals.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/12/31/2022-year-end-review-good-bad-and-ugly/

All the best and happy new year - Alex


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Dear Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my November 2022 detailed monthly report focusing on my overall earnings for the month, including a new book cover sale making it four months in a row! Ill also discuss why Ive decided to re-start uploading to Robert Harding. Lastly, Ill tell my side of the story of a recent unpleasant encounter as a humble street photographer. Lets get started!

Hope you had a good month.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/30/november-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Alex

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General Stock Discussion / Anybody on TikTok and is it worth it?
« on: November 10, 2022, 07:19 »
Trying out for the first time and created two clips.

TikTok is apparently all the hype now with Gen Z, so may be a good way to reach out, even to promote POD for instance or talk about the photo industry developments like AI.

Or perhaps just a giant waste of time, not sure yet but willing to experiment. Anybody having success?

Wrote a blog post on it which shamelessly includes a link to my channel on there.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/09/tiktok-is-it-worth-uploading-content/

I'll give it 6 months promoting my travel photos/videos and if that fails I'll put on my dancing shoes! :D

All the best - Alex

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Dear colleagues,

Happy to share with you my results for the major agencies since 2017.

As you'll see, the future looks bleak for images in micros (at least for me) if I don't change my ways...

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/10/18/comparing-earnings-stats-since-2017-at-largest-microstock-agencies/

Alex

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Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my August 2022 earnings report including highlights.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/08/31/august-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a successful August as you also gear up towards the business-end of the year.

Alex

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Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my July 2022 earnings report.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/07/31/july-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a good month.

Best regards,

Alex

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Hey all, quick update here on my stock business! Ive recently invested on a tilt-shift lens, more precisely a Samyang 24mm f3.5 T-S Lens Tilt & Shift ED AS UMC Manual Focus Nikon Fit and in this blog post Ill outline why I thought it was a good decision and perhaps its a niche piece of gear that youll also consider investing.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/07/12/why-i-just-invested-on-a-24mm-tilt-shift-lens/

Alex

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Dear Stock Colleagues,

Welcome to the May 2022 detailed monthly report where, as usual, Ill focus on all my stock earnings for the month. Overall, its been a busy May particularly with loads of drone content produced and knowledge acquired which I'm happy to share.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/05/31/may-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report-special-drone-edition-continued/

Alex

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Dear MSG colleagues,

I'm pleased to share with you my April 2022 detailed monthly earnings report, including a special feature on my experiences as a newbie drone pilot.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/04/30/april-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report-drone-special-edition/

Alex

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Welcome to the February 2022 detailed monthly report during these increasingly dystopian times, this time war-time in the heart of Europe once again. Other than my usual earnings, in this post Ill be discussing how inflation has begun negatively impacting our stock business big time.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/03/01/february-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

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Randomly checking up on how some of my best-sellers on SS rank for certain keywords and was surprised to see that some of those best-sellers have listed to buyers as "Never Used".

Here's an example of one of my best-sellers from Sept 2015. I've randomly checked other best-sellers and have encountered the same issues. How about yours?

Perhaps to entice buyers to use it so that it's more unique to their content, which would be fraud. Or at the very best, just plain old negligence. I'm all for more sales but not if you need to trick buyers to achieve this result.

I'll create a thread on their forum, oh wait, there is no more forum  :-X


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The year is officially over and its that wonderful time again to publish a comprehensive review of the year that was, while providing a glimpse forward to the new year.

To sum up, its been largely a year of frustration mainly due to a lack of travel but as always, I remain optimistic for next year, particularly when it comes to capturing book covers and drone footage. Lets get started!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/01/01/2021-year-end-review-good-bad-and-ugly/

All the best - Alex

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Welcome to the November 2021 detailed monthly report during these increasingly dystopian times. Just when things seemed to be going back to relative normal we receive some bad news with this new variant. Anyway, lets try to be optimistic and hope you enjoy this Brutally Honest Earnings Tale for November!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2021/12/01/november-2021-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

How did you do in November?

Stay tuned as Ill be presenting a year-end 2021 recap with goals for 2022 in a few weeks with loads of stats.

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