
This month should be the start of summer slowdown but without really doing a lot of new work, I’m up. I don’t know why, really.
It’s a Tineye-type Firefox or Chrome extension so I added it and rebooted Firefox. Right click an image and under TinEye is the new Google Images context menu.
One of my goals has been to complete the 31 Days to a Better Blog project from ProBlogger. I didn’t know I could feel so far “ahead” on work for the blogs.
Over the last 3+ years I’ve written a lot of posts for the new microstock photographer. Everything from how to get your first 10 images accepted to the Long Tail of Microstock. This is an index of those microstock blog posts for new photographers and new microstock artists.
I only seem to post these type of posts once a year but now is as good a time as any. If you’d like to follow along with NiltoMil without opening your browser to my page every single time:
I feel like I’m making slight progress lately. Alamy, iStock and some smaller stocks are progressing well.
Finally! I reached the “final” milestone at Shutterstock for raises. $10,000 all-time earnings. Or as someone said, 1% of my goal.
Our industry *clearly* has far, far too many photographers. That’s not a guess. Here’s where I see the industry headed…
As I know a healthy portion of my readers are microstock and rf photo buyers, I thought I’d take a post to introduce a new agency I’m contributing my images to: WarmPicture.com
When I license my own images directly I am looking for 3 things: 1. A fair commission rate. 2. A decent price. 3. No categories. Easy upload. Fair reviews.