Author Topic: New record for Iofoto? (Read 6665 times)

Fortunefame · « **on:** April 18, 2007, 05:00 »

I just noticed Iofoto's profile on SS and I'm wondering how many pictures he will sell in his first month. As everybody has had records sales in their first month on SS with a normal portfolio, what would it be with Iofoto's dump of all his almost 5k pics in one month. I think the number will be mindboggling.

Cheers

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2007, 07:15 »

Yeah, that would be interesting :-) Probably our sales will decrease considerabely taking away sales form us

berryspun · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2007, 07:49 »

Can you put a link for his SS profile, I can't find it. Thanks.
Speaking about profile, can we find one if a photographer has never posted in the forum? I tried and didn't succeed.

Fortunefame · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2007, 07:59 »

Quote from: berryspun on April 18, 2007, 07:49

Can you put a link for his SS profile, I can't find it. Thanks.
Speaking about profile, can we find one if a photographer has never posted in the forum? I tried and didn't succeed.

this is the link
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85699p1.html

cheers

red_moon_rise · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2007, 08:13 »

It is already very apparent that the life is beeing sucked out of my portfolio since easter. Thank goodness I do not depend on the income generated from my stockphotography for survival. That must be very frustrating for the full time stock pro beeing overrun by the big dogs. It just sux that the little people create/initiate/support the business model and than the ueber-portfolios take over when it is sufficiently lucrative. I for one, do not believe that these big dogs sufficiently increase traffic so that everybody benefits from the increased sales traffic.
just a shame.

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2007, 09:25 »

I do not believe it is a loss for us, there are so many images online at SS. If you have good images, you will have dls. By the way I just saw iophoto has one image in the Top50 of the week.
I think its good that he is there, that gives microstock more reputation. A lot of pros just haven't discovered it and that is our chance to become ourself a pro

Just think of a fan or customer of iophoto who happens to hear that he is on SS. They might get the subscription and dl our photos too.

berryspun · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:15 »

Thanks Canakris.

Iofoto has 4500 pictures uploaded on SS starting about mid-January. So about 1500 per month. Was it mentioned earlier that his studio employs about 10 people? Then that would make an average of 150 pictures uploaded per person per month. Which seems reasonable.

sim · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:17 »

My portfolio has been selling steadily as usual, so I don't see much of an impact on my sales since the arrival of Iofoto.

However, I do feel that this is another inevitable progression that will keep raising the standard bar. This in itself will be a good thing for SS as well as forcing us to be ever more creative in improving our quality.

This I see as a good thing for us and the industry since it will widen the gap between photogs that are not so good hobbiests and photogs that are more serious about the industry. Draw your own conclusions but I feel positive about this as part of the longer term picture.

sharply_done · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:54 »

Given the nature of SS, it is perhaps a blunder on iofotos's part to upload his entire portfolio so quickly - he may have made more sales if he had researched the SS business model and taken a more measured approach. But then again who knows? We don't yet know his productivity level - perhaps he intends to regularly upload to SS.

As far as pros elbowing out amateurs goes, it was fairly obvious that this was coming. It was just a matter of time before the microstock industry became lucrative enough to attract the attention of full-time photographers - that is certainly why I made the jump.

I can easily see how this industry will become increasingly competitive, mirroring just about every other aspect of professional photography. I think that the maxim of generalizing and developing a broad portfolio will become increasingly ineffective. Just like the real photography world, the most successful microstockers will be specialists, with experience/expertise in creating specific images that generalists cannot regularly/easily trump. I guess it all comes down to another maxim: adapt or perish/survival of the fittest.

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2007, 13:46 »

And you are the Jet specialist

Looking at your portfolio gave me a new idea. I have not yet created a penguin in the sunset image

I think some time I will do one.

sharply_done · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2007, 15:02 »

Yep, I'm the airplane specialist. One of my goals is to make it so that whenever someone searches for an airplane they will have a near full page of my images, regardless of how they order the list. The hardest nut to crack so far is "corporate jet".

You can be the penguin specialist. Maybe model yourself after the gold-stickman-thingy guy. I can see it now: penguins at sunset, penguins at dawn. Penguins on mountaintops, a line of penguins hiking through the woods. Penguins driving cars, penguins with umbrellas. Penguins using laptops amidst fields of wildflowers, penguins with hands-free telephone sets. The possibilities are endless...

Seriously, though. You've scored pretty big with a few of your penguin shots - especially in comparison with your non-penguin images. Maybe you should try to figure why they're so popular and work on different variations of that theme. You certainly have enough of a library to work from. There aren't many people who have penguin shots, and you should use that fact to your advantage.

leaf · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2007, 15:09 »

well would have to agree that it is no surprise that the big players are going to come to the micros. I think there is still room for the hobbyist creating good images but the one who is learning how to use a camera might have a hard time getting images online and making sales.

Hopefully this pushes use to create better stock.

GeoPappas · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2007, 16:15 »

Holy utility belt Batman!

The Penguin and the Jet are loose in Gotham City.

What next, the Joker???

glitterd · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2007, 23:44 »

A good way to get to the corporate jets is to go to a smaller county airport (dunno what they would be called in Canada). Check with one of the FBOs there to see if you can set up a shoot. Many of the fractional corporate jets don't mind as long as you mask out the tail number, but you may have to contact the parent company as the pilots don't always have the clearance to allow it. You could also see if you would be allowed to go on a test flight or something with a maintenance crew. They may say no, but all you can do is ask. I work for a FBO in the US and remember having a few photogs come through. Also, there are quite a few of the smaller aircraft (piston/prop) that go out on photography runs. Maybe you could hook up with one of them and catch some of the corp. jets at the same time.

About the penguins. They are just so hot right now. What with "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins", they are definitely on a roll. Plus, they are just so cute, how can you resist an awesome image of them from Freezing? I have a friend that is penguin crazy. When I was in San Diego last year, I had to photograph every penguin in Sea World just to make him happy

Good luck to both of you!

CJPhoto · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2007, 23:47 »

Quote from: Canakris on April 18, 2007, 07:59

Quote from: berryspun on April 18, 2007, 07:49
Can you put a link for his SS profile, I can't find it. Thanks.
Speaking about profile, can we find one if a photographer has never posted in the forum? I tried and didn't succeed.

this is the link
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85699p1.html

cheers

I wonder if he/she (who is this uber person) set up a dummy account to refer themselves? That could add a good 10% to their earnings.

Read_My_Rights · « **Reply #15 on:** April 20, 2007, 16:24 »

That of course would be forbidden by the rules of SS. However, if you have 10 people working for you, one of them could indeed set up a referring account and technically all is dandy.

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