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!!
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 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!
Hi Laura, thanks for taking the time to tell me about your wins at both SS and AS. Also, thanks for the tip regarding SS uploading. I have a question for you, feel free not to answer if you don't wish to. But have you done a drone course? I am thinking about buying one but all the red tape put's me off. Great that you had your best month so far. Congrats and thanks for sharing!
Let's try again! I didnt do any courses. I have the DJI mini 2 so no courses were required, just the registration of the drone. I'd say flying it is quite easy. It reminds me a lot of when I used to have a remote control car when I was younger. You just have to get used to it and then it's like riding a bike haha.
It is annoying sometimes to find a place to fly though. There are Natura2000 areas everywhere it feels like. Those are the places I want to fly so sometimes you just gotta take a bit of a risk 🤫
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.
hello there in London. Yes, I'll never tire of Scotland. Beautiful and calm and good people too. I'm glad your growing portfolio is seeing some results. I hope to get to London too but it will not be this year. Such a great city, especially for microstock hunting 🙂. All the best for August and fingers crossed you experience Scotland with your camper!
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.
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.
hi there! I don't run into my subscribers very often ,so it made quite the impression 🙂. Scotland is a great place. Especially when the weather smiles!
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 👍
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!
thanks for the Osprey advice 🙂 and also with regard to AS editorial tips. That's very kind of you. I'm happy to hear that you are doing so well with your uploads too!
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!
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.
Hello. I would choose a camera with at least an aps-c sensor size. And not a DSLR that is older than 6-10 years. There are plenty of great second hand bodies and lenses on the market but be careful to do due diligence before spending your money.
@@andrewbalcombe1338 I think buy Sony a7rv new camera and 24 to 70 and 70 to 200mm new lens for stock photography,is this enough?now I use my hand phone for stock photography ,my Portfolio in sutterstock 386 images only 8 downloads,useless my time ,doing stock photography with cell phone, I think.can tell me good equipment for stock photography?
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.
I just uploaded video directly to Adobestock without having to use FTP - Victory!
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!!
Hey there, welcome aboard and thanks very much for reaching out!
Thanks for the update! Always nice to get some perspective in this space!
Thanks very much for the feedback!
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.
thank you very much for reaching out with your kind words!
Very informative video, thanks for sharing it. 👍🏻
Thanks very much. I'm glad you found it helpful!
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!
Hi Laura, thanks for taking the time to tell me about your wins at both SS and AS. Also, thanks for the tip regarding SS uploading. I have a question for you, feel free not to answer if you don't wish to. But have you done a drone course? I am thinking about buying one but all the red tape put's me off. Great that you had your best month so far. Congrats and thanks for sharing!
I think my reply keeps getting flagged or something, but I answered your question (:
@@lauratenveen Hi Laura, if you included some kind of link then YT doesn't like it. Perhaps that's what happened?
Let's try again! I didnt do any courses. I have the DJI mini 2 so no courses were required, just the registration of the drone. I'd say flying it is quite easy. It reminds me a lot of when I used to have a remote control car when I was younger. You just have to get used to it and then it's like riding a bike haha.
It is annoying sometimes to find a place to fly though. There are Natura2000 areas everywhere it feels like. Those are the places I want to fly so sometimes you just gotta take a bit of a risk 🤫
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.
hello there in London. Yes, I'll never tire of Scotland. Beautiful and calm and good people too. I'm glad your growing portfolio is seeing some results. I hope to get to London too but it will not be this year. Such a great city, especially for microstock hunting 🙂. All the best for August and fingers crossed you experience Scotland with your camper!
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 heads up amigo. That is great news! And well done on the 290. Hoping sand eels will join the salmon and gannet on top 🙂
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.
hi there! I don't run into my subscribers very often ,so it made quite the impression 🙂. Scotland is a great place. Especially when the weather smiles!
Nice one Andrew take care mate.
Thank you. I will 🙂. All the best!
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 👍
That sounds good to me Sean!
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!
thanks for the Osprey advice 🙂 and also with regard to AS editorial tips. That's very kind of you. I'm happy to hear that you are doing so well with your uploads too!
Oh first! 👍
Second! 👍
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!
thanks for sharing your experience!
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.
thanks for that information. I will be checking it out.
hello dear what is the best camera for stock photography?
Hello. I would choose a camera with at least an aps-c sensor size. And not a DSLR that is older than 6-10 years. There are plenty of great second hand bodies and lenses on the market but be careful to do due diligence before spending your money.
@@andrewbalcombe1338 I think buy Sony a7rv new camera and 24 to 70 and 70 to 200mm new lens for stock photography,is this enough?now I use my hand phone for stock photography ,my Portfolio in sutterstock 386 images only 8 downloads,useless my time ,doing stock photography with cell phone, I think.can tell me good equipment for stock photography?
why was a cow considered an editorial photo?
I thought it could be identified by it's ear tags 🙂
@@andrewbalcombe1338very interesting
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.
Thanks for sharing. Yep it gets frustrating that's for sure. Two steps forward three steps back.