earn money from your photos

[MDowdey]

Its not the .20 cents Matt. I did not post my images in istock to really "earn" money. .20 is nothing! Istock was and is just a fun thing for me, but no more fun with photographs that I love.

And thanks for the kind words re. my work. But I know I have miles to go.

haha, if you have miles to go, then that means im on the wrong continent.


we will ALL get there sooner or later.

md

 

[Artemis]

im glad that you and arty are taking pride in your work. i think stock photog is great for graphic designers and companies on a limited budget, but for me personally, and alot of others on this forum...we all take these pictures to remember, not to dish out to a stranger so that his kitten in a jar website will be springing to life with top notch photography. ive seen your work dan, and its amazing, so is arty's. you both take pictures for the livelihood of your soul, not for .20 cents.



md

MD your words have really inspired me, and screw Istock (sorry for the harsh words) no art, even my rubbish art, is worth just .20, for me thats about 9P, and...NO! lol

I still have a few lightyears to go just to reach you MD.

(Congrats on having a strong opionion against this, sometimes I wish I could see the tree's through the forest)

 

[MDowdey]

i have a strong opinion about everything. :twisted:


arty, keep snapping dude, youll get there.



md

 

[tmpadmin]

Let me just get this straight. If you snap off 100 photos and like 10 of them, work with them then sell them for $XXXXXXX (whatever), you made your money that you wanted to make on that lot of 100 Photos. You still have 90 other shots that you do not like for one reason or other and don't want to spend any time on. This is all assuming 100 different photos... You see it as a prostitution of your art, hobby (insert other here) to post those 90 on a stock site and MAYBE make .20? We can get technical and say that the hour or so it takes to upload 90 photos is not worth .20, I agree. However, think of someone who is just getting started or is advancing, especially if they have a dslr they are snapping photos of everything in sight. If 1% of them are uploaded and 1% of those uploaded are downloaded that budding photographer just make a few bucks on his work that would normally chew up hard drive space or even be deleted. This leads to confidence in his work, which fosters the art. Than that lot of 100 photos he takes he like 15, then 20 and so on. Soon who cares about the .20 on the stock sites? I don't think stock photography is for those who have made it or are making a living off of their art, however, I see no issue with someone using it in my example.

 

[MDowdey]

completely disagree.

but its whatever you are into the hobby for...are you wanting to make money? or take pictures to preserve better days?


whatever


md

 

[tmpadmin]

completely disagree.

but its whatever you are into the hobby for...are you wanting to make money? or take pictures to preserve better days?


whatever


md

Sounds like you are done with the thread Personally, I don't have the time to bother with the stock sites plus most of what I take just wouldn't move. Not now anyway.

 

[MDowdey]

i think its really great that we can talk about it and get it out in the open without becoming dorks and acting like children. but i guess it all amounts to what you want to do with your art. even though i am against this, im no one to deny anyone else there chance to make some dough!



md

 

[metroshane]

(Congrats on having a strong opionion against this, sometimes I wish I could see the tree's through the forest)

Um, yeah. Way to go McD. :roll:

 

[railman44]

Just checked out their most downloaded pics. These are the types of pictures used in Powerpoint presentations and well worth the cheap cost. That's a deal if you're responsible for putting together a legal (owned pics) presentation for your company!

 

[MDowdey]

(Congrats on having a strong opionion against this, sometimes I wish I could see the tree's through the forest)

Um, yeah. Way to go McD. :roll:

tastes the hint of sarcasm in the air...


it was shane that first opposed the idea. i would give him the credit.


md

 

[metroshane]

 

[ruxa]

Istockphoto.com also gives 20 cents per photo. Yeah it's not much, but look, you can download them for cheap also. It's meant more for the freelance graphic designer. Lots of students get stock from there, and I have as well. That being said, there are some amazing photos on that site, and if you put the right photo up there, you do stand to make money

as a matter of fact, dreamstime.com offers 50-65c/image, while the costs are 1-5 USD/image. not bad, ha? they also have some interesting prizes each 10k milestone. last time thay gave a Mini Mac to some Kentucky photographer for posting the image no. 100.000.. !
ruxa

 

[MDowdey]

ok first of all, quit bringing up old threads just to spam them...again.

secondly, post them in the right section...or die.


ADMIN

 

[fadingaway1986]

I enjoy visiting the places people suggest...

Without clicking their referer links.. Hehehe. I type it in myself to make sure no one makes money off me... Woo.

 

[Dweller]

The referral links is whats bothers me most. This thread was started by a spammer. He has a post count of 1. He posted his referral links and never came back

I did not read the etnire thread but it seems obvious when you post once and the post is a referral link that you had one purpose.