Can you still make “passive income” from microstock photography?
Can you still make passive income in microstock in 2012? Statistics say you can still make money in microstock photography.
Focus on: Steve Heap – photographer, author
Steve is a photographer I met through his blog a couple months ago while reading about Photocase. I read his microstock book, Getting Started in Stock, and thought he’d be a great first photographer feature.
Alamy pseudonyms
Alamy has one of the more creative ways to manage your images in pseudonyms. A pseudonym is the name you sell your images under and is credited by customers.
Immediate goals
NiltoMil has always been based on goals so I figured I’d update you with some of my current N2M goals.
Edit and submit 80 more images for June.
Edit and submit 100 images in July.
Complete 8 more food shoots in June.
Complete 12 food shoots in July.
Catch up on small site submissions (DP, SF, etc.)
Submit 40 more iStock images in June.
Submit 100 iStock images in July.
Finish July with $1000+ in stock income.
Get at least 2 new advertisers for NiltoMil including a top banner advertiser to replace DepositPhotos.
We will revisit this post July 31st …
Microstock for Beginners
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.
BME in 12 days, onto $1k
Just a quick note, mainly for my own historical records. I passed my best month ever on Friday. That’s a best MONTH in only 12 days with 16 left this month. I am already at $844.10 which is nearly $55 over my previous BME. With Shutterstock and Dreamstime doing very well this month and Bigstock, 123 and Istock picking up just a little and even sites like GraphicLeftovers and 3dStudio just destroying all expectations, I’m going to FLY past $1000 this month. It will be (obviously) the first time I’ve …
Time’s a wastin’
Some time ago I wrote a post called “No Mas” and listed agencies I was quitting uploads to unless sales increased. Now I have new decisions to make.
Really great start!
I’ve started to push images and get reviews.? I was pending this morning but a lot of batches were reviewed and now I’m starting to go live everywhere.? I can’t wait to see how the food images sell!
Our shooting has started off very well too – I want to get ahead a little. We have now completed 6 food shoots in the last 9 days – about 200 new photos to submit now.
We need to plan our dishes for this week – we’ve done a lot of desserts so I …
My Lookstat trial
Lookstat offers a trial of their new keywording & uploading back office services.? 25 images will be uploaded to up to 10 sites for no charge, no strings, no payment info given.
Now, before anyone asks, you do have to provide your microstock site credentials.? If you aren’t comfortable with providing this to a service provider you need read no further.? Understandably, you’re not going to be interested in this service.? That’s the first stage of getting setup.
Onto my trial!
I ftp’d the 25 images to Lookstat and a few days later …
Speed Editing, Part 1
Speed Editing, Intro
We have examined our workflow many times over the last year in an attempt to gain speed without sacrificing a bit of quality.? The first step in that process is always difficult and time consuming but ultimately necessary and extremely beneficial.
Our first step is to create an awareness of our current situation and workflow.
What steps do you take in order to go from image in camera to image on site?
I would suggest that while there are other steps to many photographer’s workflows, the following covers all of the …
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