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Hi Nicole, just wanna mention that your inputs are stunning inspiring to me. I started with landscapes and nature one year ago and your reports and videos are like a boost for the next season to me :) You appear honest, without an show or allyres (if I type that correctly). Tough solid and elegant breed, you! Thanks a lot and all the best for your future! Martin
Hey Martin, thanks so much for the kind words! I had no idea these types of videos would inspire people but I'm glad that they do :) And yeah I am not much of an actress so putting on a show would not be easy for me, haha.
My most common comment, which I receive multiple times every single day, is "how can I upload photos of people, properties and brands without a release form?" Before asking this question, please watch my video on commercial vs. editorial images! ua-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/v-deo.html And if you like the music I use in my videos, check out this super awesome FREE trial to Epidemic Sound: share.epidemicsound.com/zdM3n Literally the most awesome place to get music for videos.
I'm just getting started with stock photography and videos. We do not do a lot of editorial because we know a lot of people do not like to be photographed. We get a release from anyone who's the subject of the photo. It's so good to offer to take the picture in advance and let them know what we can do for them. We give the person 25% of what we get when we can get a mobile number for them. I'm in Nepal and so many of these people really can use $25 or so. They often cannot sign their own name so we bring an ink pad for a thumbprint.
The most weirdest photo i had downloaded was a isolated photo of my Iphone 6 witch sold twice for 25c each. But there's too many photos of iphones on shutterstock. also this has nothing to do with it but i took your advice from this video and took some photos of stuff that there isn't too many of. If there's too many saturated photos of one thing then i don't take them photos.
It's great that you share your full experience with pictures while sharing your ideas and revenues! Feels like you're worth trusty. Keep the good work and thank you for sharing! :)
Questions: Were you required by Shutterstock to get consent forms for the hotel video and trademarked products (dryer sheets and Lysol)? And did you have to provide one for your toe, even though it was yours? Thank you. Chuck
You are so right about the weirdness on what sells on SS! Thanks for all the videos. I had my first 2 sales on SS with less than 100 pictures uploaded and I’ve been uploading any picture I think has any value thanks to this video! Both sales are the pictures I thought would never sell. Sorry but may have to steal some of these ideas 🧐
The most i got from 1 download is $20 usd, its an old photo i dug up from years ago of a windmill next to a billabong. I took it with an very old 9mp fujifilm camera with a mold spot on the lens that had to be edited out of every photo i took so it was far from professional yet it sold about 6 times so far.
A bottle of Dettol on a plain white background. Sells all the time! Everyone says stock contributing is a waste of time. Hope they keep saying that cause its making you and I money. Great content! I'm away out to stub my toe cause at 64, Scottish and male the wife would complain if I started waring her heels!
Haha, yes indeed. Although I've exposed so many secrets at this point, it should be easy for everyone by now! Lol please don't stub your toe on purpose!!
@@mikeosinski50 Yes but you have to follow submission guidelines and submit it as Editorial content. Follow Shutterstocks submission guidelines for 'Editorial' and you should be OK
So funny thanks for this video ! Quick question, how many photos do you have uploaded since you began on Shutterstock ? Or you exclusive to ShutterStock ?
That's not up to you, that's up to the buyers. If they don't have subscription plans and they buy an image, you get more. If they buy an extended license, you get more. Check Shutterstock's pages on license options and you'll see the choices the buyers have.
Nice video thanks for the tips.. Have a question ' how did you get release for picture which have marked name and video allso cause me I've got som. Issues they tald me picture Contain names or mark did you got the release OK from owners or is ther a way to let it be allowed thanks at advance!
Mine was a line of garbage cans overflowing with every sort of item tossed out during holiday season. Another was a pile of bricks, rubble, and rebar from a building demolition against a blue sky.
Great channel. I should dig out my pictures of my spinal fusion lol. How does the pricing work? do you put the price on the picture or video or does shutterstock arrange that?
I so appreciate this video because I’ve been wanting to do something like this! Thank you so much for sharing! I think this is the best video yet that I have seen!
Interesting. I remember seeing a while back that my town of 100k had almost no photos or videos on stock footage sites and the ones that were actually there being pretty underwhelming. I figured there probably just wasn't a lot of demand for them but now I know that those hyperspecific photos can fill a unique niche which can be lucrative. Other people always say that you should be more like the competition but these cases prove the opposite can also be true. Although I obviously don't know the real rate at which your weird photos get downloaded.
As a grahic designer I buy photos that might work for placing text rather than a nice photo, So table tops, walls with detail around them but the center not having mcuh going on and things like that.
I sold an overexposed picture of a bridge over a pond near my hometown in Romania for $299 on 123rf. On shutterstock I think the best I had was $36 for a photo of a mountain top...
Just started experimenting with stock photos and after spending many hours editing, keywording and uploading old pics from my portfolio to Adobe and Shutterstock, I've had one pic downloaded twice at .25 ea. lol. Now starting to take pics with stock photo possibilities with hopes of a bit more in earnings.
Considering you just started, that's not bad! Sometimes it takes a while for your photos to get discovered. Wishing you all the best on your stock photography journey :)
@@MacroShots No worries. I did not have any release forms. Please see my video "Commercial vs. Editorial Photos" for more info (it's also in the pinned comment I believe).
Stoked to have found you and your channel on UA-cam. Lots of great info. We haven't downloaded anything yet, but will be doing some soon. Thanks again! Michael & Melissa
Yep, that would be helpful. I wonder weather it is better to edit [foto or video] as I'd like [B&W for example] / leave it for buyer to edit / upload different versions - thanks Nicole!
So many videos, so little time! Thank you for the suggestion. I will add it to my list of potential future videos :) But just to give you an idea of what I do: I do some color correction and enhance the colors a little bit, but nothing too drastic or unrealistic. I used to work for a place that bought a lot of stock images and they usually wanted the freedom to edit the images themselves. If you upload them as black and white, then they can't undo those edits.
@@NicoleGlass I came to that conlusion same day :D since stock are mostly not the place for art'ish work, more like digital documentation of "every day situation" so it should look like it, still thanks for rep.
Jakub Bielicki You could upload the b/w and a color version, I suppose, but you’d really have to know how to process in post. In other words, there’s a lot more to it than just concerting it to greyscale. I use Bridge and Photoshop; I shoot in RAW. Others use Lightroom (I’ve never worked in Lightroom, but if I were to use it, personally I’d only use it to manage my workflow.) But having a video from Nicole about post processing would be helpful, especially as there’s not just one way to edit photos. Either way though, I’d recommend taking a class, especially if you’re going to work in Bridge and Photoshop.
Exactly. Reverse Google image search sometimes works - but that's only if the buyers upload the images to the internet. If they're used in books or products, you unfortunately can't find them that way.
Hy Nicole thanks so much for such valuable content anda straight on point. I just get interested in the stock photography theme, the photos or videos you show that contain labels how do you sell in shutterstock? It's editorial anda not commercial or something like that? Thank you again!!
I make serial numbers for my pictures as follows: A letter prefix plus 6 digits. A=Smaller than Micro 4/3, B=Micro 4/3, C=APS.C, D=Full Frame, E=Medium Format, F=Large format. Don Slaughter
Great video and always a good reminder to just shoot all the time because we never know what's going to sell. So far my weirdest sale was for the underside of a starfish, on a rock in flat light. $180 net to me on Alamy. Go figure!
Awesome video... I wanna know if I am uploading photo of morning view the what should be additional info tag, when I uploading from my android phone it's ask Editorial, illustration and adult. So which option I have to select? Can you please suggest
This page is really good to watch when you are really interested in shutterstock. Love from India 😍 All the best for further videos I'm waiting for the next one❤️❤️🤗🤗
Hello Nicole! Love your channel. I was wondering, when uploading an illustrative editorial photo, do you click editorial AND illustration when you upload or just one or the other?
Hello, ma,am! I have small question please that, If someone uploads a picture it gets downloaded regularily over an year. Does a photographer also be paid regularily on each downlaod?? Please ma,am guide
Hi. I really enjoy your videos about ShutterStock. One question though. Whenever I upload pictures of logos or brand names, they don’t get approved. Are you uploading as editorial?
I have DSLR Nikon D5100 with zoom lens. But I mostly work by photographing something (sport) and then making a silhouette out of it in adobe Illustrator. You can see my earnings for silhouettes on shuttestock, vectorstock, dreamstime...
I've only sold three drone videos and all three were ones I thought would never sell. What I consider to be my best stuff has been viewed, but never downloaded. I've kind of specialized in sunrises with video and HDR pictures, but I know I need to move away from that if I ever want to make anything with stock.
@@NicoleGlass about your "toe" photo, is it for editorial or commercial use? If that "toe" pic for editorial use, can someone use it for commercial purpose?
You are a wonderful woman, I really like your videos very knowledgeable.keep it up, you are really helping a lot of people around the world. God bless you.
You are so funny..... laundry founding through Shutterstock... :):):):) here comes to toe photo... I was so waiting for that... I cannot finish my coffee, I am chocking!!! You taking photos of your toe.... hahaha.... good one Nicole!!!!! Great video!!!!
LOL. You were the first one to find out about this and I'm glad you appreciate how absurd it is. Haha. I was sooo hesistant about even including the picture in the video because it's kind of ugly.
Yeah, it's definitely a gray area. And I guess no one can really prove that you took your photos with a drone rather than a helicopter, right? Anyway, thanks so much! :)
Thanks for the insight. I have been shooting stock for many years but always as a very part time on the side kind of thing. I really want to devote more time to it and your videos are definitely inspiring. Thanks.
Hey Todd, thanks so much for the kind words! Yes, it's definitely a side thing for me as well but it has created pretty good side income. I know a few people who do stock photography full time, which is also very possible with a lot of time and effort.
This video as well as many more you published about Shutterstock, are extremely useful. I'm planning to open a new account on SS soon, and your videos help me a lot.
@@NicoleGlass Thanks, so for editorial, you don’t need to remove all the signs, names etc.? Just realized so, then I might have thrown away some really good photos.
I uploaded 50 of my backlog photos to Shutterstock four months ago to test the waters and see of the stock game was viable. I've had 17 photo uses, 11 of which were the same photo of a Japanese garden waterfall and the rest were all one of uses. Only one of the photos downloaded was editorial.
I've had problems getting photos approved by Shutterstock. I've only got photos up on Adobe, which of course doesn't pay well at all and hard to get bites. Does Shutterstock prefer unedited photos? What is the trick to get photos approved by Shutterstock?
It's a common problem that a lot of photographers face. I'm not sure what the reasons are for your rejections but if you think they don't make sense, then definitely try reuploading them again. (I know, it's a pain.) But in general I'd highly recommend focusing on video sales instead of photo sales because it's much harder to make $ with photography these days on SS.
Hi Nicole, I'm watching your videos from time to time to be aware of which to upload to stocks to earn more, and have a question to you in terms of the images you've described in the video: do you upload them to stock under "commercial" license or "editorial" one? Thanks in advance for your answer)
my biggest earning was 9,50 i only get like 15% as im in the lowest royalty tier. it was a picture of a red bellied piranha. I didn't know you could get a 100+ for 1 photo that is really nice. wich tier are you in? other random downloads where about $5. You seem to do a lot of editorial and earn really well on them.
Stellar video! I love all of your videos and really appreciate your info and personality! The WEIRDEST asset downloaded (I only do video) was a macro shot of my knife sharpener. It looked a bit like a city street so I labelled like that lol. But the camera was an OLD Nikon J1 with a pinhole cut in the lens cap and a tiny but strong magnifying glass as the "lens". The movement wasn't even smooth but I actually uploaded it as a test to see if it would get rejected for jittery camera movement. Nope. Sold it for a cool $27USD LOL....
Nicole, I am a “newbie” to stock photography. Do you have videos explaining ALL the aspects of video stock ? I know nothing, at this point! Please give me some advise on resources, if you don’t have any videos. Thank you, in advance. Ben M.
Nicole Glass , hi, yes, I do subscribe to his videos. What I’m looking for is a video or a block diagram (with explaining the process) carrying someone (me) thru all the process. I’ve been in the photography business for about 20 years, mostly in Equestrian photography. I’ve done a few Senior photography and a few of SMALL weddings...pictures and video. I just don’t know anything about what the requirements are for stock videos. Thank you, Nicole! I appreciate you responding. I like your presentation, so, will continue to follow you. Keeping smiling! 😁
Nicole, just wanted to thank you for all the information and experience you are sharing on your channel! Binge watching your stock photography playlist 😂👍🏽🤪
I'm sort of confused about 3 photo rejections I got. One was of a pipe organ in a medieval church, stating I had no property permission? Another was a tiny package/litter on the ground which had a product brand?? And thirdly, storefronts in Munich, Germany had store names/brands visible??? But other people can post products and well-known store fronts? Please and thank you ;-)
Funny, good for you and I wouldn't think of putting images of such items up on a site. I usually junk images like that in the past, but you got me thinking.
It's not necessarily "junk". Randomness can also be photographed artistically :) But yes, the less-beautiful images can often have a lot of value due to their subject matter.
If you pause it when she shows the little image of the thumbnail on shutterstock, it shows date and location in the title. I'm assuming she uploaded it as editorial. Hope that helps!
"...but I've definitely photographed body parts of mine and sold them on shutterstock"
Hold up!
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Hi Nicole, just wanna mention that your inputs are stunning inspiring to me. I started with landscapes and nature one year ago and your reports and videos are like a boost for the next season to me :) You appear honest, without an show or allyres (if I type that correctly). Tough solid and elegant breed, you! Thanks a lot and all the best for your future! Martin
Hey Martin, thanks so much for the kind words! I had no idea these types of videos would inspire people but I'm glad that they do :) And yeah I am not much of an actress so putting on a show would not be easy for me, haha.
My most common comment, which I receive multiple times every single day, is "how can I upload photos of people, properties and brands without a release form?" Before asking this question, please watch my video on commercial vs. editorial images! ua-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/v-deo.html
And if you like the music I use in my videos, check out this super awesome FREE trial to Epidemic Sound: share.epidemicsound.com/zdM3n Literally the most awesome place to get music for videos.
I'm just getting started with stock photography and videos. We do not do a lot of editorial because we know a lot of people do not like to be photographed. We get a release from anyone who's the subject of the photo. It's so good to offer to take the picture in advance and let them know what we can do for them. We give the person 25% of what we get when we can get a mobile number for them. I'm in Nepal and so many of these people really can use $25 or so. They often cannot sign their own name so we bring an ink pad for a thumbprint.
The most weirdest photo i had downloaded was a isolated photo of my Iphone 6 witch sold twice for 25c each. But there's too many photos of iphones on shutterstock. also this has nothing to do with it but i took your advice from this video and took some photos of stuff that there isn't too many of. If there's too many saturated photos of one thing then i don't take them photos.
Nicole Glass must have been a toes fetish? :)
Hallo mam , can I shoot with mobile for shutterstock ?
Hi Nicole do you get the property release from the drone video? Thanks
It's great that you share your full experience with pictures while sharing your ideas and revenues! Feels like you're worth trusty. Keep the good work and thank you for sharing! :)
Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoy my videos :) And yeah.. I guess I just speak my mind. I know some of those sales were super weird.
Questions: Were you required by Shutterstock to get consent forms for the hotel video and trademarked products (dryer sheets and Lysol)? And did you have to provide one for your toe, even though it was yours? Thank you. Chuck
I'm wondering the same thing
Hi Nicole, great vid as usual....quick question, was the video of the Marriott editorial or commercial? did you need a property release?
That video was editorial, no release form
OMG, first photo I ever sold on the internet was a picture of my girlfriend's toes! We were excited and weirded out at the same time! lol
Lol I’m glad I’m not the only one 😂
Ha ha. Probably used by a print designer for a pamphlet for the local beauty parlor or nail salon. :)
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You are so right about the weirdness on what sells on SS! Thanks for all the videos. I had my first 2 sales on SS with less than 100 pictures uploaded and I’ve been uploading any picture I think has any value thanks to this video! Both sales are the pictures I thought would never sell. Sorry but may have to steal some of these ideas 🧐
The most i got from 1 download is $20 usd, its an old photo i dug up from years ago of a windmill next to a billabong.
I took it with an very old 9mp fujifilm camera with a mold spot on the lens that had to be edited out of every photo i took so it was far from professional yet it sold about 6 times so far.
A bottle of Dettol on a plain white background. Sells all the time! Everyone says stock contributing is a waste of time. Hope they keep saying that cause its making you and I money. Great content! I'm away out to stub my toe cause at 64, Scottish and male the wife would complain if I started waring her heels!
Haha, yes indeed. Although I've exposed so many secrets at this point, it should be easy for everyone by now!
Lol please don't stub your toe on purpose!!
Toes sell. I can say 😂
David Bautista mind didn’t !! Mind you I’ve got feet like a hobbit 😂
Hello I am new to Stock photography. But you can take a stock photo of a products like that and sell it?
@@mikeosinski50 Yes but you have to follow submission guidelines and submit it as Editorial content. Follow Shutterstocks submission guidelines for 'Editorial' and you should be OK
Now I'm trying to figure out how I can covertly photograph my mother in-laws super crooked toes without here knowing...lol
Lol, good luck with that one! Let me know how it goes.
😂 😂 😂
I think you would need a model release ...
So funny thanks for this video !
Quick question, how many photos do you have uploaded since you began on Shutterstock ? Or you exclusive to ShutterStock ?
as per my knowledge shutter stock pay 25 to 36 cent per download then how you get more than that? kindly guide
As an Accountant That’s my question too
That's not up to you, that's up to the buyers. If they don't have subscription plans and they buy an image, you get more. If they buy an extended license, you get more. Check Shutterstock's pages on license options and you'll see the choices the buyers have.
How do you go about taking pictures of things like Lysol and submitting it? Are you doing it as an editorial or commercial?
Daniel Turner editorial 🙂 You can not upload like commercial photo if there’s any building, people or product. Things like that
New to ss but my best is .25. But it's sold 5 times! $1.25 total. Oh and it's a recycling bin. So random
That's definitely really random!
Me after this vid:
*Aight imma get my bones broken...*
Please don’t!
@@NicoleGlass 😂 Thanks for the gr8 vid... really appreciate it!
We're in a pandemic. Need the money
back in the good days of stock I sold (well, sold via a library) a photo of a bunch of roses for £1500. I had bought the flowers for my wife 😀
Wow that's incredible! That definitely paid for a lifetime worth of flowers for your wife 😊
That was the early days of Alamy when my image sales averaged £400+
Not the case now so I am considering more than just Alamy to place my images
Nice video thanks for the tips.. Have a question ' how did you get release for picture which have marked name and video allso cause me I've got som. Issues they tald me picture Contain names or mark did you got the release OK from owners or is ther a way to let it be allowed thanks at advance!
Mine was a line of garbage cans overflowing with every sort of item tossed out during holiday season. Another was a pile of bricks, rubble, and rebar from a building demolition against a blue sky.
Great channel. I should dig out my pictures of my spinal fusion lol. How does the pricing work? do you put the price on the picture or video or does shutterstock arrange that?
I so appreciate this video because I’ve been wanting to do something like this! Thank you so much for sharing! I think this is the best video yet that I have seen!
Hey for the drone video do you have your part 107? Or is that something that could come back to bite you in the end?
Yes I do
Interesting. I remember seeing a while back that my town of 100k had almost no photos or videos on stock footage sites and the ones that were actually there being pretty underwhelming. I figured there probably just wasn't a lot of demand for them but now I know that those hyperspecific photos can fill a unique niche which can be lucrative. Other people always say that you should be more like the competition but these cases prove the opposite can also be true. Although I obviously don't know the real rate at which your weird photos get downloaded.
As a grahic designer I buy photos that might work for placing text rather than a nice photo, So table tops, walls with detail around them but the center not having mcuh going on and things like that.
Do you have to put a signature/ trade mark on photos you sell? or just post and money
Was the photos and videos uploaded as commercial or editorial?
I sold an overexposed picture of a bridge over a pond near my hometown in Romania for $299 on 123rf. On shutterstock I think the best I had was $36 for a photo of a mountain top...
Wow, now that's pretty amazing, especially since you're saying it was overexposed! Congrats.
Unde e bodul ala ca ma duc si eu sa ii fac o poza?:))))
Just started experimenting with stock photos and after spending many hours editing, keywording and uploading old pics from my portfolio to Adobe and Shutterstock, I've had one pic downloaded twice at .25 ea. lol. Now starting to take pics with stock photo possibilities with hopes of a bit more in earnings.
Considering you just started, that's not bad! Sometimes it takes a while for your photos to get discovered. Wishing you all the best on your stock photography journey :)
Hello nicole, did you need a model release for the hotel video?
Nope, the hotel is not a model 😜
@@NicoleGlass hahaha property release i mean haha im new to this
@@MacroShots No worries. I did not have any release forms. Please see my video "Commercial vs. Editorial Photos" for more info (it's also in the pinned comment I believe).
Nicole Glass sorry I didn’t see your pinned comment, il check the video out now thank you 😊
Love your content, especially that b-roll taking photo of your toe beside your computer. Haha!
Lol I'm glad you enjoy my weirdness 😂
Stoked to have found you and your channel on UA-cam. Lots of great info. We haven't downloaded anything yet, but will be doing some soon. Thanks again! Michael & Melissa
Great videos thank you! So your photos of any products with brand names etc. are uploaded as editorial correct?
Correct :)
What does that mean?
Will you please make a video on how to do photo post processing for stock sites. Please
Yep, that would be helpful. I wonder weather it is better to edit [foto or video] as I'd like [B&W for example] / leave it for buyer to edit / upload different versions - thanks Nicole!
So many videos, so little time! Thank you for the suggestion. I will add it to my list of potential future videos :)
But just to give you an idea of what I do: I do some color correction and enhance the colors a little bit, but nothing too drastic or unrealistic. I used to work for a place that bought a lot of stock images and they usually wanted the freedom to edit the images themselves. If you upload them as black and white, then they can't undo those edits.
@@NicoleGlass I came to that conlusion same day :D since stock are mostly not the place for art'ish work, more like digital documentation of "every day situation" so it should look like it, still thanks for rep.
Jakub Bielicki You could upload the b/w and a color version, I suppose, but you’d really have to know how to process in post. In other words, there’s a lot more to it than just concerting it to greyscale.
I use Bridge and Photoshop; I shoot in RAW. Others use Lightroom (I’ve never worked in Lightroom, but if I were to use it, personally I’d only use it to manage my workflow.)
But having a video from Nicole about post processing would be helpful, especially as there’s not just one way to edit photos.
Either way though, I’d recommend taking a class, especially if you’re going to work in Bridge and Photoshop.
Did you need a release for the hotel video?
Hi! Have you asked the Hotel for a release? How it works for video? Thank you!
I've laughed so much with this video... you got a great sense of humor. Full of value information, thank you so much Nicole!
Lol I'm glad I made you laugh and that you enjoyed hearing about some of my most cringeworthy top earners 😂
Nicole Glass I love that word in english (cringe), perfect for some of these shots 😁😁
do you use all 50 keyword tags on Shutter stock or are you more strategic in your approach?
Hi. I wonder how you can upload photos/videos of buildings. Every time I try to do so the pictures get rejected. Thank you!
Did you check out the video in my pinned comment?
@@NicoleGlass thank you for the reply. No, but I saw another of your videos where you mention the editorial stuff.
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Hello greatings from country Serbia 😊 Is it usually to wait 3-4-5 days for iStock to review uplouded images? Sorry for posible mistakes in English 😶
I wish there was a way to find out what those photos were used for. Would be really interesting.
You can use google image search - it may work)
Exactly. Reverse Google image search sometimes works - but that's only if the buyers upload the images to the internet. If they're used in books or products, you unfortunately can't find them that way.
what about those model release/minor release/ property release?
Hy Nicole thanks so much for such valuable content anda straight on point. I just get interested in the stock photography theme, the photos or videos you show that contain labels how do you sell in shutterstock? It's editorial anda not commercial or something like that?
Thank you again!!
Hi Roberto, yes you are right - those are editorial images!
I make serial numbers for my pictures as follows: A letter prefix plus 6 digits. A=Smaller than Micro 4/3, B=Micro 4/3, C=APS.C, D=Full Frame, E=Medium Format, F=Large format. Don Slaughter
2:43 I really enjoyed that joke a lot.
You are awesome.
Thank you:)
Was your Lysol photo commercial or editorial?
Great video and always a good reminder to just shoot all the time because we never know what's going to sell. So far my weirdest sale was for the underside of a starfish, on a rock in flat light. $180 net to me on Alamy. Go figure!
Sweet, that’s an exciting sale for sure! 😊
Awesome video... I wanna know if I am uploading photo of morning view the what should be additional info tag, when I uploading from my android phone it's ask Editorial, illustration and adult. So which option I have to select? Can you please suggest
for photos like the Lysol shot- was it "Editorial" because of the brand name?
yes, it was illustrative editorial
@@NicoleGlass thanks! so you clicked both "Illustration" and "Editorial" ?
This page is really good to watch when you are really interested in shutterstock.
Love from India 😍
All the best for further videos I'm waiting for the next one❤️❤️🤗🤗
Can you share you export settings for stocks photos to be uploaded to stock sites?
Hello Nicole! Love your channel. I was wondering, when uploading an illustrative editorial photo, do you click editorial AND illustration when you upload or just one or the other?
Submit it as an "editorial" image and then write "illustrative editorial" as one of the keywords.
I love your humor! Congratulations on all your success!
Hi Nico! I'm wondering if you need to provide the hotel branding release form or something to submit that video or not?
The Marriott hotel, was that an editorial? Since that was branded?
Yes it was
I’m from WV & loved hearing you say Harpers Ferry 😊 great video with some great ideas.
The lizol and the drone shot of hotel were uploaded as editorials? Nice video
Had to be
Hello, ma,am! I have small question please that, If someone uploads a picture it gets downloaded regularily over an year. Does a photographer also be paid regularily on each downlaod?? Please ma,am guide
Yes indeed!
Hi Nicole, what camera do you use for stock photography?
Hi Joseph, I use a Canon 5D Mark IV. I have all my gear listed in my video description 😊
@@NicoleGlass Thank you!
Hi. I really enjoy your videos about ShutterStock. One question though. Whenever I upload pictures of logos or brand names, they don’t get approved. Are you uploading as editorial?
Indeed I am!
Can I upload photo I capture on my phone?
Yes! I talk about that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/4GrSItxUBXU/v-deo.html
Just started in shutterstock. Wanted to let you know how amazing your vids are!!! Thanks for sharing such great info, have a brilliant day mate :)
Aww thanks so much! Much appreciated 🙏🏻
I have DSLR Nikon D5100 with zoom lens. But I mostly work by photographing something (sport) and then making a silhouette out of it in adobe Illustrator. You can see my earnings for silhouettes on shuttestock, vectorstock, dreamstime...
Hi Nicole, thanks for great content. Question: Did you have to upload a release form for the hotel video? And how did you do it?
Glad you enjoy it. I uploaded that as an editorial clip!
@@NicoleGlass So as long as it is uploads as a editorial, brands really don't matter? You can upload old Mountain Dew bottles and such?
@@the_cash_coach yup
does the Fairfield hotel video, not need a permission to be used on stock sites, from the hotel?
didnt you need a licence for the hotel to upload, or was it editorial?
This was editorial
Whats your shutterstock gallery URL?
Do you have to have permission to take these kinds of images in CVS or other stores, or are they "stealth"? iPhone or DSLR?
Is that photos with company logo get approval?
I've only sold three drone videos and all three were ones I thought would never sell. What I consider to be my best stuff has been viewed, but never downloaded. I've kind of specialized in sunrises with video and HDR pictures, but I know I need to move away from that if I ever want to make anything with stock.
nice sharing. I have something to ask. For all pic in this video, do you submit it as editorial content? Thanks
Yes almost all of these were editorial images!
@@NicoleGlass thanks
@@NicoleGlass about your "toe" photo, is it for editorial or commercial use? If that "toe" pic for editorial use, can someone use it for commercial purpose?
@@demsyciu The toe was actually a commercial image. There is no identifiable person in that.
You are a wonderful woman, I really like your videos very knowledgeable.keep it up, you are really helping a lot of people around the world. God bless you.
Thank you Rateesh, I'm glad you find my videos helpful :)
please can you tell us about the editorial description and how to write it ?? my photo been rejected several times because of that
I have a video about this: ua-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/v-deo.html
You are so funny..... laundry founding through Shutterstock... :):):):) here comes to toe photo... I was so waiting for that... I cannot finish my coffee, I am chocking!!! You taking photos of your toe.... hahaha.... good one Nicole!!!!! Great video!!!!
LOL. You were the first one to find out about this and I'm glad you appreciate how absurd it is. Haha. I was sooo hesistant about even including the picture in the video because it's kind of ugly.
@@NicoleGlass this video is amazing and people will love you for the fact that you are so real!!!
I like you both!!! @@ZdenkaDarula thxs for your work helpimg us!!!
Hi Nicole do you submit storefronts and other branded items as editorial and whats the process to submit for editorial? Regards Rushay
Yes. I have a video about this :) It's called Commercial vs. Editorial Photos
Nicole Glass thank you so much for all the info.
Do you need your FAA 107 license to sell drone footage on shutter stock?
Shutterstock does not ask you for it. They probably should, but they don't.
@@NicoleGlass I guess it is a gray area if you upload as editorial :) LOVE your videos!!!!!
Yeah, it's definitely a gray area. And I guess no one can really prove that you took your photos with a drone rather than a helicopter, right? Anyway, thanks so much! :)
Thanks for the insight. I have been shooting stock for many years but always as a very part time on the side kind of thing. I really want to devote more time to it and your videos are definitely inspiring. Thanks.
Hey Todd, thanks so much for the kind words! Yes, it's definitely a side thing for me as well but it has created pretty good side income.
I know a few people who do stock photography full time, which is also very possible with a lot of time and effort.
@@NicoleGlassWell, keep it coming. Thanks again.
This video as well as many more you published about Shutterstock, are extremely useful.
I'm planning to open a new account on SS soon, and your videos help me a lot.
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck
Did you need to erase the brand of the dryer sheet? Also the video for fairfield hotel was uploaded as editorial?
Both of these were editorial
@@NicoleGlass Thanks, so for editorial, you don’t need to remove all the signs, names etc.? Just realized so, then I might have thrown away some really good photos.
I uploaded 50 of my backlog photos to Shutterstock four months ago to test the waters and see of the stock game was viable. I've had 17 photo uses, 11 of which were the same photo of a Japanese garden waterfall and the rest were all one of uses. Only one of the photos downloaded was editorial.
Not bad for 50 photos! Yeah, it might take a while to take off but eventually the earnings can add up. Good luck!
Can I also upload my body part photos without permission
You’ll have to ask yourself for permission 😉
I've had problems getting photos approved by Shutterstock. I've only got photos up on Adobe, which of course doesn't pay well at all and hard to get bites. Does Shutterstock prefer unedited photos? What is the trick to get photos approved by Shutterstock?
It's a common problem that a lot of photographers face. I'm not sure what the reasons are for your rejections but if you think they don't make sense, then definitely try reuploading them again. (I know, it's a pain.) But in general I'd highly recommend focusing on video sales instead of photo sales because it's much harder to make $ with photography these days on SS.
Hi Nicole question for you, is a government office like dmv a com or ed video?
Most likely that would be editorial
Hi Nicole,
I'm watching your videos from time to time to be aware of which to upload to stocks to earn more, and have a question to you in terms of the images you've described in the video: do you upload them to stock under "commercial" license or "editorial" one? Thanks in advance for your answer)
Hi there, it depends on the image. Some are commercial, some are editorial :) Which image are you asking about?
Hi Nicole, Since Fairfield Inn is a brand name, did you need their permission? Same with Lysol.. Thx.
my biggest earning was 9,50 i only get like 15% as im in the lowest royalty tier. it was a picture of a red bellied piranha. I didn't know you could get a 100+ for 1 photo that is really nice. wich tier are you in? other random downloads where about $5. You seem to do a lot of editorial and earn really well on them.
Hello Nicole how are you, i have one doubt, that is what have to do after approval of photos and what is publish sets
After the photos are approved you need to fill in the caption and keyword information :) sets are optional.
Is the app the same like the website?
Stellar video! I love all of your videos and really appreciate your info and personality! The WEIRDEST asset downloaded (I only do video) was a macro shot of my knife sharpener. It looked a bit like a city street so I labelled like that lol. But the camera was an OLD Nikon J1 with a pinhole cut in the lens cap and a tiny but strong magnifying glass as the "lens". The movement wasn't even smooth but I actually uploaded it as a test to see if it would get rejected for jittery camera movement. Nope. Sold it for a cool $27USD LOL....
Thanks, Nicole, for another great video. You are the best when it comes to stock photo advice!
Thank you Gregory 😊
Your videos are so helpful. I'm binge watching it while taking notes!
I'm happy to hear that! 🙂 Thank you. 🙏
Hi! Can i use the SAME photo in shutterstock and iSTOCK?
Fábio Textos yes
@@R.G.LovesBooks thank you
Have you ever tried reverse image search to find out where your popular images end up on the web?
Yup. It's definitely interesting
Nicole, I am a “newbie” to stock photography. Do you have videos explaining ALL the aspects of video stock ? I know nothing, at this point! Please give me some advise on resources, if you don’t have any videos. Thank you, in advance. Ben M.
Hey Ben, definitely check out "Crafted Shutter" on UA-cam. Stock video is his speciality. Most of my videos are about photography
Nicole Glass , hi, yes, I do subscribe to his videos. What I’m looking for is a video or a block diagram (with explaining the process) carrying someone (me) thru all the process. I’ve been in the photography business for about 20 years, mostly in Equestrian photography. I’ve done a few Senior photography and a few of SMALL weddings...pictures and video. I just don’t know anything about what the requirements are for stock videos.
Thank you, Nicole! I appreciate you responding. I like your presentation, so, will continue to follow you. Keeping smiling! 😁
Nicole, just wanted to thank you for all the information and experience you are sharing on your channel! Binge watching your stock photography playlist 😂👍🏽🤪
Aww thank you, I'm glad you like these :) I have tons of videos about this topic.
I'm sort of confused about 3 photo rejections I got. One was of a pipe organ in a medieval church, stating I had no property permission? Another was a tiny package/litter on the ground which had a product brand?? And thirdly, storefronts in Munich, Germany had store names/brands visible??? But other people can post products and well-known store fronts? Please and thank you ;-)
Did you upload these as editorial images or commercial images?
@@NicoleGlass Commercial
That’s the issue then. Those are editorials
@@NicoleGlass Thanks Nicole, noob here anyways.
Funny, good for you and I wouldn't think of putting images of such items up on a site. I usually junk images like that in the past, but you got me thinking.
It's not necessarily "junk". Randomness can also be photographed artistically :) But yes, the less-beautiful images can often have a lot of value due to their subject matter.
How are you able to upload a video with a company logo?
If you pause it when she shows the little image of the thumbnail on shutterstock, it shows date and location in the title. I'm assuming she uploaded it as editorial. Hope that helps!
You got it John 😊 very observant!
Thanks!!
Thank you so much for sharing these information with us. Wish you all the best for your journey
lmao @ "But why my toe?" ...Great vid Nicole!
thanks!
I get 0 downloads on adobe stock >_