microstock photography question.

[david888lee]

how many websites do you submit to. also, do you submit the same photo to different website even if they tell you not to, and what are the chances they will catch you.

[sfgp]

For me - that answer would be none - zero - nada.

I would advise to think VERY long and hard about using these sites.

The following is submitted for your consideration;

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A Quote from Photo District News:
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"SAA executive director Betsy Reid pointed out a discussion board on iStockPhoto where members were congratulating photographer Lise Gagne, who wrote that she had just seen one of her stock images on IBM's web site. http://www.photographersdirect.com/1.gif
'Once you're done celebrating, is anyone going to stop and think that you got 20 cents for that image?' Reid asks."
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Can IBM afford to pay market rates for images? Of course! Would they pay 500 dollars for this same image if that was the price? The odds are they would. So why did they pay 1 dollar? Because that was the price it was offered for. The photographer has thrown away 499 dollars.
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The painful injustice of microstock sites can be seen from the July 23rd 2007 cover of Time Magazine (yes, that's right, Time Magazine). The cover has 3 images. One is credited to Getty Images, one to istockphoto. How much did the photographers earn? A conservative estimate would be that the Getty photographer earned over 1000 dollars. The istock photographer? 20 cents.

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Full article here -> http://www.photographersdirect.com/sellers/microstock_sites.asp

[mysticalbeing]

dude, go to the search tab and type stock photography... many links...
very sad news, too many photographers, too many pictures...
u really have to break through and have some shots nobody has.. don't wanna discourage you but it's a tuff business to make good money off...

o h m s h a n t i jai

josh

[adam LC]

u really have to break through and have some shots nobody has..
This is true..

Also, if do you have those photos that nobody else has.... Getty and Alamy spring to mind. If I had great photos (probably never happen!:lol:), I would want a damn site more than 20c for my effort!

[david888lee]

thanks for the input guys. i'll think about it some more lol.