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I simply do NOT understand. For ages ALL reviews are about optical quality and then we test the ultimo's of the lens, always looking immediately into sharpness, vignetting, aberrations and barrel distortion. And when a lens scored bad in these areas - woooo the lens manufacturor. And now, with Canon trying to get all their DLSR EF(S) body and lens owners onto the R patform - now this isn't an issue any more - for software can easily correct this? WHAT a NONSENSE. A) You're dependent on the in-camera JPG generation and - let's face it - that's not ideal. B) you HAVE TO post-process EVERY raw image. Well: that works quite well when shooting 1.000 images on your wild life trip, holiday, football match or wedding shoot. Any idea how time that's going to cost you? Or how advanced your automatic correcting port-procesisng workflow must be? WTF. Generating a strong, decent, directly OK raw file REMAINS to be very very relevant and this lens SUCKs at this. I'm ranting for I beleieve these type of Hooray! video reviews are either bad reviews or we're looking at marketing sponsored rubbish. And I'm ranting for Canon will simply not UP their game when we - as photograpghers - buy into this BS of accepting very poor optical performance of their newest lenses. I'm sticking to my R system adaptor and the ES, ES-F, L series, Sigma Sports and Tamron high quality lenses and DO NOT buy into this poor quality trap.

Hello Andrew, your videos are fantastic and incredibly informative. As someone new to shutterstock I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you for your honest reviews. Please keep sharing more. Thanks!!

Do not sell it - try it with at canon ML .. Canon R3 and it is at massiv combo

Very informative video, thanks for sharing it. 👍🏻

Hola Andrew yo tengo la R50 desde Mayo, es excelente, gracias por el vídeo saludos!

Попробуй canon r10!

Hi Andrew. I have seen almost every your video and decided to write you about the misunderstanding I can observe in your evaluations of high-pixel cameras like EOS R7. The thing is that you have forgotten about the fact that you are not forced to upload the images in full resolution to stock agencies. The truth is that even if the lens seems not being able to utilize the high resolution, it actually does. I know it seems that it does not but the problem is that you evaluate 1:1 view. If you will evaluate the same output resolution, the story will be different. In other words, 24MPx image from 24MPx camera will be less sharp and less detailed than 32MPx image (which does not seem to be sharp) converted to the same 24 MPx. You will better overcome Bayer interpolation and even with all that diffraction, the image quality will be higher. I have tried old prime lens on 14.6MPx, 24MPx and equivalent of approx. 180MPx APS-C camera (industrial chip from smartphone camera) in terms of pixel density, the results were mind-blowing. Of course, the image from 180MPx APS-C EQ camera with that lens seems to be extremely unsharp when viewed at 100% (1:1) but if it was converted to the same output resolution as the images from 14.6MPx and 24MPx cameras, it was severals levels better in terms of sharpness and details. You do not have to search for another camera. If you want to have Canon (and not another brand), EOS R7 is the best Canon thing that stock photographer like you may get if you do not want to go full frame. 4K60p allows you to make slow-mo and/or to stabilize the clips better (twice as slow twice as steady), 4K30p is oversampled 7K video, IBIS is a great help (especially with horizon problem, OIS in lens is incapable to handle that, much better night shots - lower ISO handheld), higher resolution (better IQ in the same output resolution, capability to crop more if needed).

Interesting look to see how people do editing. I'm a newbie, so I tend to go into an editing tailspin, and I just keep going and going. lol

You should get yourself a drone if you're jumping into the video side of things, really opens up the possibilities in what you can capture. Also a great ton of fun :^)

A wrist strap will stop you dropping it 👍

Cool test session Andrew! I love when you make a long video. Is that a metal detector in your living room? That would make a great stock subject. Is 18mm usually wide enough for architecture? I am thinking about Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD for my Sony A7IV. Any good sales in August so far? I hope things will take off a bit in September.

As a person considering getting into stock photography I find your videos very informative, interesting and motivating. I really enjoy seeing the photos and videos that you have sold.

Hey, new your channel. Have you done any recent videos on stock photography?

only shoot RAW

Hi Andrew, very interested to hear that your trip to Scotland was great. It’s on my list of places to visit next year in our camper van. Congratulations on your iStock earnings - nice surprise. For me July was a bit slow and that could be due to the seasonal dip. I had one good sale of over $13 in July at the unnamed agency and the rest were in 10c -25c range. My small portfolio of about a 1000 images is continuing to do well at AS though videos don’t sell there often. I agree, their rules for accepting editorial images are a mystery to me too. I hope you will make a trip to London sometime. There is always a lot to photography here that sells even though one would have thought that London images would have saturated the micro-stock market. I continue to get surprises! Thanks for sharing your work.

Hey Andrew, hope you're good! Nice to hear that you had a decent month! I totally agree with you that the new uploading process on shutterstock isn't the best. I always switch back to the old one. It's the best one out of all the stock agencies in my opinion. My july was way above average, best month of the year actually! Shutterstock $55 for 43 downloads. A lot of 0,10 sales but I also randomly sold images for 0,56, 1,43, 1,79 and even 4,51. Highlight: $40 drone video of the city I live in. Very happy with that one! Adobe stock $36 for 34 downloads, 50% ai images. Highlight: a drone video of wind turbines that I sold for $8,45, 5 days after uploading it. I've been selling quite some recent uploads on both platforms actually which is nice. Hope you've been enjoying the sunny weather!

Sorry to hear that the light conditions weren't optimal for the osprey - but heck, I'd still sell them. You should see some of the crap photos in terrible lighting that I sell! :D As for editorial on Adobe, I do really well with it but yes, they are picky. They need to be illustrative editorial with a very clear concept - so think taking a photo of a Taco Bell sign - they would accept something like that. Absolutely no people in the photo either. It's frustrating, as I have a ton of editorial photos on other agencies, but the money is decent. I wish they'd change their criteria!

I just uploaded video directly to Adobestock without having to use FTP - Victory!

Never had any issues uploading to Adobe Stock via FTP. In fact, I find uploading via FTP to Adobe Stock more reliable and faster than to Pond5 and SS. Could that be your internet connection maybe?

Call me crazy, but I'm diggin' that old Toyota Land Rover. I can just imagine driving that around here in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. It would probably do really well in the snow, too.

Hello! A few days ago, I tried to upload a video on Adobe the same way I upload photos and it worked. I don't use a FTP anymore :) Try it and see if it works. Thanks for the video, have a nice week :D

Adobe's weird rules and often poor moderation makes zero sense to me when other agencies are quick to accept. Primarily frustrating when you take a look through the store and see such utter AI trash getting approved when your totally-fine real photographs are rejected. I've had many times where aerial videos get rejected and I have to contact support to tell them that the reason given actually is wrong, and that they need to look again, to which the support ends up agreeing with me and getting the videos pushed through. Had one where my video was totally still, of a sunset over a lake with some birds flying through the shot. Got rejected for supposedly being shaky.

Hi ​ @andrewbalcombe1338 it was I that bumped into you by chance in Mallaig, glad I made an impression. I never saw any sand eels :( - my visit to the area was only a couple of days, but I got some moody shots of the wreck at Corpach on the way up, not for stock though. Blown away by the white sandy beaches in the area though.

The new system on shutterstock is terrible, especially the Catalog manager, fortunately there is still the option "Switch to legacy".

why was a cow considered an editorial photo?

Well I am thinking even if it's not a lot of profit, it's still a small motivation to think that as a beginner I can still make a few bucks with my photography. I think I wouldn't have the motivation to take photos and videos as much if I wouldn't have a platform to upload them to! I mean I started this whole thing as a passion and I was taking photos with my phone a lot before buying the camera but just posting on facebook it wasn't that satisfying and I was getting discouraged to continue. Even a few cents tell me someone found use for my photos and that's amazing to me!

hello dear what is the best camera for stock photography?

For Shutterstock I still have an option to switch to the legacy style of uploading. It might be worth to see if you've got that option as the new layout is hard work.

Nice one Andrew take care mate.

Hi Andrew! You have chosen really nice holiday destination. Looks like the northern gannet has made a new friend in the top selling realms - an atlantic salmon! I had another ok month with 290 dollars, and also 6 sales on Alamay. Oh, and video uploading on Adobe - should be possible without ftp, at least that is my experience from 2 days ago.

Thanks for the update! Always nice to get some perspective in this space!

Good video thanks, I’ve found if you upload frequently you achieve more sales, I upload a small amount every couple of days rather than a large amount of content once/twice a month 👍

Oh first! 👍

Great results 👏👏💚

I've had two good photographs in June this year with Alamy, one sold for $60.00 and the other sold for $69.99!!

Amazing, Can I post ancient temples, monesty, hotels and old sculptures pictures on stock without property released form ??

I don’t have any sales in Alamy, it quite confuses me a lot

Sold my first video on Pond 5

Thanks Andrew for sharing your earnings as always. Yes I had 314 images selected for the free section of Adobe, but same as you, they only took 9. I also had a $40 sale from Alamy refunded to the buyer, but it happens sometimes.

And about tripods, why didn't you use one (or even a monopod)?

Speaking about bodies, Canon EOS 70D does have a poor high ISO performance.

8:13 and why the hell didn't you shot in raw?!

Man, you are still enjoying the 400 5.6 lens, I would say you have fun with it. Have you tried it with a teleconverter x1.4 ? The new R50 camera looks quite useful for birding. The only downside is its tiny size in the hand as I see.

Hi Andrew, thanks again for the video. I hope you are feeling better now. I too find my commitment to stock photography quite demanding at times considering the returns I get. I aim to submit 20 images per week but don't always succeed, especially in winter. I had a good year with P5 last year but it's been very unproductive this year. For me SS has been performing quite poorly in the last six weeks for some unknown reasons. I did exceedingly well with AS last month though it's quite slugglish this month. Reviews are very slow. I decided not to go for submitting the AI generated images as I don't really want to spend my time sitting in front of the computer. Great that Alamay has been good for you. Look after yourself. Best wishes - Nishi

Will be experimenting with this one soon! Out of interest, how is it to actually make money off stock image submission?

Thanks for making the videos, Andrew. They always give me a boost. Adobe selected just three of my images, but I'll take what I can get. One of my sales on Shutterstock was of a street sign I took here in the U.S. It sold for ten cents in Melbourne, Australia. That's a long trip for a photo to take for ten cents.

So interesting. It sounds as limp as my design sales on Spoonflower. I've chucked it in.

Andrew. I am also focusing more on wildlife. I am planning future trips with wildlife in mind. I would do more now, but it is 116 degrees outside. Not fun.