There are many components to earn cash with your camera. One plan I found which succeeds in merging these is the Hartlyn Photo Pro (check it out on google) it's the most incredible guide that I have ever heard of. look at the awesome info .
here's several ideas for how to get paid for photos Use you social media accounts for promotion Setup your own blog Join a suitable course or site for marketing photos (I read these and the reasons they work on Hartlyn photo pro website )
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! th-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/w-d-xo.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! :)
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.
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 🧐
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.
Stoked to have found you and your channel on TH-cam. Lots of great info. We haven't downloaded anything yet, but will be doing some soon. Thanks again! Michael & Melissa
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.
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.
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❤️❤️🤗🤗
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 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!
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, just wanted to thank you for all the information and experience you are sharing on your channel! Binge watching your stock photography playlist 😂👍🏽🤪
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.
My most surprising success story is a photo of a black plastic box with the traditional Dutch fish snack "kibbeling" (battered chunks of fish) with sauce on a shiny metallic table top. Sold 18 times, earned me $15,68. Didn't make me rich yet, but at least I've earned back the money I paid foro it several times.
Another great video, Nicole. I sold a photo of an algae covered water puddle for a few bucks on Adobe, that surprised me. I also sold picture of a hole in the ground for a buck, which pleasantly surprised me as well. Great advice here about uploading content that is not over-saturated.
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...
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 :)
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!
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!
Thanks from Tampa, Florida Nicole... I'm up very early taking pictures of dryer sheets, nothing wrong with a little competition :-) Be well and stay encouraged!
AHHAHA i saw your Toe PHOTO very good IDEA learn alot of things from your work Your Work is very good i upload 3 images and download 1 now i am working on it regular you guide in a good way very good thank YOU. GOD BLESS 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.
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
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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 ?
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.
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.
Good sales. I laugh at the photo of your foot. I photographed my foot many times, but never sent it for sale. Need to make a series of photos and send for sale. Maybe I have a golden foot? )))
@@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).
Wow! You just popped out on my TH-cam Feeds and so glad I checked this video out! Thank you for sharing your tips and also what has happened to you. My friend keeps pushing me to try it out. I've always been afraid to for reasons I don't understand. But you really encouraged me to try too! thanks so much nicole! Looking forward to more vids!!
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.
I was wondering if doing stock photography would be a good idea and your channel is helpful! I'm studying up so I can get an account when I turn 18 in less then a month. During my research I found your underrated channel and have been watching lots of other stuff besides stock on your channel too. Keep up to good work!
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.
I've needed photos of specific hotel brands and they are surprisingly hard to find. Nice little niche opportunity! Also there are so many cheesy hotel photos on Shutterstock with models posing in a super generic hotel it's hard to find one that looks natural.
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?
My highest paying shot was of a thunderstorm. The shot though was nothing special; I was basically practicing taking lightening shots. Thought "what the heck" and popped it on Shutterstock. I have sold the photo several times but highest I got was $43. I also sold a picture of an old run down house in the country I edited in Photoshop to look like it's on old crinkled paper. I got $25 for that one.
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
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 ;-)
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?
So. I work on a medical TV series and, we belong to iStock, but we download so many medical images, and body parts! :D Those and crime scene photos are our focus (if you're wondering). If they look at all realistic, we're like, "DOWNLOAD!")
Hello, I have a hundreds of good photos I never put anywhere, only some of them are on Flickr under non-commercial license. Which service do you recommend me to use for batch upload so I don't need to spend much time uploading to several services separately? I want at least to get money to pay for my Flickr subscription. Thanks.
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.
"...but I've definitely photographed body parts of mine and sold them on shutterstock"
Hold up!
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There are many components to earn cash with your camera. One plan I found which succeeds in merging these is the Hartlyn Photo Pro (check it out on google) it's the most incredible guide that I have ever heard of. look at the awesome info .
here's several ideas for how to get paid for photos
Use you social media accounts for promotion
Setup your own blog
Join a suitable course or site for marketing photos
(I read these and the reasons they work on Hartlyn photo pro website )
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! th-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/w-d-xo.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.
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.
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 🧐
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!!!
Stoked to have found you and your channel on TH-cam. Lots of great info. We haven't downloaded anything yet, but will be doing some soon. Thanks again! Michael & Melissa
Love your content, especially that b-roll taking photo of your toe beside your computer. Haha!
Lol I'm glad you enjoy my weirdness 😂
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. :)
@@NicoleGlass uk'omwsx
@@annwilliams6438I love y
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 ...
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.
lmao @ "But why my toe?" ...Great vid Nicole!
thanks!
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.
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❤️❤️🤗🤗
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
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!
I’m from WV & loved hearing you say Harpers Ferry 😊 great video with some great ideas.
I love your humor! Congratulations on all your success!
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....
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 😁😁
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
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.
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.
My most surprising success story is a photo of a black plastic box with the traditional Dutch fish snack "kibbeling" (battered chunks of fish) with sauce on a shiny metallic table top. Sold 18 times, earned me $15,68. Didn't make me rich yet, but at least I've earned back the money I paid foro it several times.
Another great video, Nicole. I sold a photo of an algae covered water puddle for a few bucks on Adobe, that surprised me. I also sold picture of a hole in the ground for a buck, which pleasantly surprised me as well. Great advice here about uploading content that is not over-saturated.
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...
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 :)
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! 😊
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!
Paying your laundry bill with a picture of the dryer sheets you used for laundry!! Boy do I love the poetry on that :)
Hahaha
2:43 I really enjoyed that joke a lot.
You are awesome.
Thank you:)
Thanks, Nicole, for another great video. You are the best when it comes to stock photo advice!
Thank you Gregory 😊
Thanks from Tampa, Florida Nicole... I'm up very early taking pictures of dryer sheets, nothing wrong with a little competition :-) Be well and stay encouraged!
LOL! I expect to see a lot more of them in the search results after this video... guess I'll need a new way to obtain my laundry fund.
@@NicoleGlass You are awesome... Keep up the great work, I appreciate your channel!
AHHAHA i saw your Toe PHOTO very good IDEA learn alot of things from your work
Your Work is very good i upload 3 images and download 1 now i am working on it regular you guide in a good way very good thank YOU. GOD BLESS YOU
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 🙏🏻
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.
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
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
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
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
Great vid Nicole. Your tactics are paying off for my 3D model sales.
I'm happy to hear that! :)
Your videos are so helpful. I'm binge watching it while taking notes!
I'm happy to hear that! 🙂 Thank you. 🙏
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
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?:))))
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!
Hi! Have you asked the Hotel for a release? How it works for video? Thank you!
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
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.
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.
Thank you so much for sharing these information with us. Wish you all the best for your journey
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!
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!
You are the most honest youtuber I’ve ever found! I really like all of your videos! keep good work! 👍🏼
Aw thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate that! :)
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 ?
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.
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
Hi Nicole. Great post. I was wrong on every choice in photos. Hehe. Guess there is a lot to be said about supply and demand
It's often the unexpected ones ;)
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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Thanks for the video, you just made me realize that I am not monetizing my photography of all my travels
You probably have a gold mine on your hard drives!
Thanks for making the video. Once again very informative. 👍
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Good sales. I laugh at the photo of your foot. I photographed my foot many times, but never sent it for sale. Need to make a series of photos and send for sale. Maybe I have a golden foot? )))
Or maybe you have a different quirky feature about yourself! I've sold photos of my teeth too... hah.
what about those model release/minor release/ property release?
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 😊
Wow! You just popped out on my TH-cam Feeds and so glad I checked this video out! Thank you for sharing your tips and also what has happened to you. My friend keeps pushing me to try it out. I've always been afraid to for reasons I don't understand. But you really encouraged me to try too! thanks so much nicole! Looking forward to more vids!!
You're very welcome! I'm glad it motivates you to try. Never hurts to try something and it might just pay off in the long run 😊 good luck! 🍀
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 :)
I was wondering if doing stock photography would be a good idea and your channel is helpful! I'm studying up so I can get an account when I turn 18 in less then a month. During my research I found your underrated channel and have been watching lots of other stuff besides stock on your channel too. Keep up to good work!
Thanks so much!
Can you share you export settings for stocks photos to be uploaded to stock sites?
Was the photos and videos uploaded as commercial or editorial?
I get 0 downloads on adobe stock >_
Great videos thank you! So your photos of any products with brand names etc. are uploaded as editorial correct?
Correct :)
What does that mean?
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.
Fantastic video Nicole, gave me a bunch of ideals, now I better go write them down before I forget 😁 Take care.
That is awesome, happy to hear that! 😊
A puddle with an oil spill on it was my weirdest sold photo. 🤷🏻♀️
Definitely weird!
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.
Do you have to put a signature/ trade mark on photos you sell? or just post and money
I've needed photos of specific hotel brands and they are surprisingly hard to find. Nice little niche opportunity! Also there are so many cheesy hotel photos on Shutterstock with models posing in a super generic hotel it's hard to find one that looks natural.
Haha, I can imagine! By the way did you ever create a Shutterstock account to upload your own photos?
I did not. It's a low priority with everything else there is to do.
That is true, with all your tours you probably have so little time in the first place!
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 😶
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?
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: th-cam.com/video/WyWvDNDB3pg/w-d-xo.html
Love your Shutterstock videos. They have been a big help to get my contributor portfolio started. Thank you for the great tips and guidance!!
The lizol and the drone shot of hotel were uploaded as editorials? Nice video
Had to be
My highest paying shot was of a thunderstorm. The shot though was nothing special; I was basically practicing taking lightening shots. Thought "what the heck" and popped it on Shutterstock. I have sold the photo several times but highest I got was $43. I also sold a picture of an old run down house in the country I edited in Photoshop to look like it's on old crinkled paper. I got $25 for that one.
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
Speaking of WEIRD, a pic of my dad's grey hair (that I snapped TODAY) just got APPROVED!😃😆
For those who are curious, my display name is 'Miscell'!🙂
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!
does the Fairfield hotel video, not need a permission to be used on stock sites, from the hotel?
Great to follow lesser known photographers out there.
Hi Nico! I'm wondering if you need to provide the hotel branding release form or something to submit that video or not?
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.
Did you need a release for the hotel video?
Hi Nicole, Since Fairfield Inn is a brand name, did you need their permission? Same with Lysol.. Thx.
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.
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.
So. I work on a medical TV series and, we belong to iStock, but we download so many medical images, and body parts! :D Those and crime scene photos are our focus (if you're wondering). If they look at all realistic, we're like, "DOWNLOAD!")
Wow that's awesome to hear from
someone in the industry! I had my suspicions but you definitely confirm them 😊 thanks for letting me know!
Lesley Dehaan Hey, I’m uploading photos of my feet on iStock post foot surgery. Just sayin’. 😉
Hello, I have a hundreds of good photos I never put anywhere, only some of them are on Flickr under non-commercial license. Which service do you recommend me to use for batch upload so I don't need to spend much time uploading to several services separately? I want at least to get money to pay for my Flickr subscription. Thanks.
You can use Blackbox, but keep in mind that when you use services to batch upload, those services take a commission.
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.
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" ?
The Marriott hotel, was that an editorial? Since that was branded?
Yes it was