Author Topic: A Money earning photo? (Read 5364 times)

bobkeenan · « **on:** September 17, 2009, 19:22 »

I have been doing microstock for about 6 months. So I am just a beginning photographer. I have anywhere from 50 - 300 photos on the big 6 sites. But I probably only make about $1 a day. I think my top photo has about 30 downloads between all of the sites but over about 4 months.

But today an interesting thing happened. I took a photo of some red and green peppers at the farmers market. It got approved 3 days ago. And today there were 4 downloads. That never happened before. So is that just a coincidence or could this one be a good money earner?

http://bobbyk.smugmug.com/Other/stock-1/9668450_TDKKz/1/652720010_5iqFj

MatHayward · « **Reply #1 on:** September 17, 2009, 19:29 »

It's a good looking photo. From what I understand of Shutterstock (I don't contribute to them) it is a revolving door of photographs as far as what sells and what does not. Newly uploaded images are sought out by the buyers and as the photo's stay in there for a while they get buried deeper and deeper in the database. Enjoy the sales while they last and keep shooting to keep the sales coming.

HermanM · « **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2009, 19:53 »

It is the quantity of peppers that make the pic so good. it is not the classic pepper on white, this is a great pic. Sales will go down after a while, but it will keep on selling for a long time. Just keep uploading.

Aetherial · « **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2009, 23:58 »

it is a great photo and 4 downloads in one day is very good, but wait and see what will happen in the next three or four days. If it continues to sell in those quantity over a week you have a strong seller. It's still not popular enough for Top 50 of the week, I'm afraid. I've had photos sell 2-3 a day for several days and then die entirely unless you regards one sale a month as "hot cakes".

Dan · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2009, 08:52 »

They look delicious - did you buy any. Oh yeah GREAT PHOTO!!

epantha · « **Reply #5 on:** September 18, 2009, 08:56 »

Yep, great shot! The lighting is good and the contrast of red and green makes it interesting. I bet this will be a best seller on more than one site.

tempura · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2009, 11:33 »

full frames of veggies sell well,
funny thing is that I haven't brought myself to shoot some,

nice one at that too, my guess is that it will keep earning you money

takestock · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2009, 14:58 »

Like in any other area of photography, vibrant colors attract the viewer.
One of my best sellers is 95% Red.

You'll know a best seller when it comes along - it should "take off" right at the start!

leaf · « **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2009, 17:04 »

I think most people can agree that 90% of the sales come from 10% of the images. The trick is to get more images that hit that 10% pot.

Sometimes it takes 30 images before you get one good seller, sometimes only 4 images. Perhaps this is one of those images.

click_click · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2009, 21:23 »

It is a GOOD shot!

Well done!

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