YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SELLING STOCK PHOTOS & HD / UHD VIDEO FOOTAGE AS
Welcome to Microstock Insight! It is a new site to help provide photographers with some insight into the difficult, but sometimes lucrative world of Royalty Free Microstock Photography. I will be posting quite regularly on this blog articles about Microstock strategy, sales data and also information on existing and new players in the market. My background in Stock Photography is mostly with Rights Managed agencies and in recent years, that license model has suffered a lot at the hands of Microstock licenses. Hence, I have been uploading since the summer of 2016 to several Microstock agencies, such as Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Depositphotos, iStockphoto and Bigstockphoto. it is early days, so income is small, as are my portfolios (you can see what I have on the best-selling Microstock portal Shutterstock here) - though I am very curious to see how it pans out and will help you understand better which agency/agencies are good for your work. I shoot a lot of reportage material, which is mainly editorial, though I also shoot commercial stock images when circumstances allow. This gives me a good insight into the market for editorial microstock. So far, in just three months, a few trends have emerged. Two sets of images sold relatively well, one being portraits of Nicola Sturgeon shortly before she took up the position as first minister of Scotland which earned around $10 and another set from Jarlshof in the Shetland Isles of an archaeology site sold about $12. Of course, this fees are very small, though covering expenses for editorial work is becoming difficult and perhaps with certain sets it is better to put them out under a Royalty Free Microstock licensing model. It is still early days and a better analysis should emerge in the spring, when I have more sets of images of an editorial nature and more time to see levels of sales. Since 2009, I have also been filming HD Stock Footage clips in 720p and in recent years on 1080p. Hence, I upload video and images to Microstock sites and will be writing articles about both experiences. If you maintain an interest in the subject of Royalty Free Stock Images and HD / UHD / 4K video stock footage, then you may want to bookmark this page and check back regularly for the latest insights into the RF Microstock industry.
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AuthorMicrostock Insight is written and edited by Jonathan W Mitchell, a seasoned stock photographer and photojournalist with over 20 years experience submitting images to photo and video agencies. Categories
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