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Whoever has a camera to photograph, be it a professional DSLR or a smartphone, can make money selling his photos and videos online. Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock...
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Whoever has a camera to photograph, be it a professional DSLR or a smartphone, can make money selling his photos and videos online.
Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock sell stock images to webmasters and advertisers, and stock footage to TV producers and directors. That content is produced by freelancers around the world that sometimes work with $1,500 equipment.
Stock images subjects can be city landmarks, people, professions, animals, and others, but only producers who know what the market wants can make a lot of money with microstock.
To learn more, please visit this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/someone-wants-to-buy-your-photos/
and listen to this podcast:
https://www.microstockguru.com/podcast/
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Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock sell stock images to webmasters and advertisers, and stock footage to TV producers and directors. That content is produced by freelancers around the world that sometimes work with $1,500 equipment.
Stock images subjects can be city landmarks, people, professions, animals, and others, but only producers who know what the market wants can make a lot of money with microstock.
To learn more, please visit this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/someone-wants-to-buy-your-photos/
and listen to this podcast:
https://www.microstockguru.com/podcast/
30 DEC 2021 · The story of an amateur video maker who started selling historical footage purchased on Ebay in microstock agencies such as Pond5 and Shutterstock, achieving 1000 euros a month earnings after his first year in the microstock business
In the 19th episode of Sell Your Photos and Videos Online, Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- A tool that tells which keywords buyers of a stock image have entered
- Why the same buyer should buy photos of a specific contributor multiple times
- How to go from being a contributor to being an entrepreneur
- The best software and marketplaces for 3D graphics
- Why agencies are selling new content faster
- How to shoot a hyperlapse properly
- A good DSLR for shooting 8K stock footage
- The new iStockphoto API key for Microstock Plus
- Why can't you upload stolen videos to YouTube
Find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/selling-historical-footage/
16 DEC 2021 · A professional photographer and microstock contributor earned $69 on Shutterstock with a single sale of an extended license of a stock image of a buffalo he shot near his house.
He also experienced numerous sales of stock images of a small city in Poland, asking the community of producers for an explanation about why that happened.
In the 106th episode of Sell Your Photos and Videos Online, Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- Sudden and anomalous sales of the stock images of a city
- The success that the Unreal Engine 3D graphics software is having
- Dropstock.io to understand the demand for content in microstocks
- The best codecs for selling stock footage
- The convenience of creating 8K time-lapses at 60 fpp
- Amazon publishing as an additional form of monetization for photographers
Find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/earn-stock-images/
2 DEC 2021 · Unreal Engine is a free software that allows you to create photos and videos that portray people who do not exist, but made in such a photorealistic way that it is difficult to notice that they have been generated on the computer.
In the 17th episode of "Selling Photos and Videos Online", Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- why outsourcing titles and keywords can increase your earnings
- how long it takes to sell a newly published video
- Shutterstock's increasingly insane policies
- how to make money by exploiting the shortage of supply for content
- Depositphotos changes ownership and business model
- professional photographers’ faults
Find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/photographing-people/
18 NOV 2021 · Gianni Nitti worked as an employee for years and then decided to give up his job to open his own business and become a full-time photographer and video maker.
Since he changed his life, his activity as a microstock contributor is booming.
In the 15th episode of Sell Your Photos and Videos Online, Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- Some reasons other than money why producing microstock can change your life for the better
- How much you earn from photo and video sales on iStockphoto
- A contributor who grossed $55 from selling an image on Shutterstock
- When you have to change your camera to earn more with microstock
- Why agencies don't accept content created in Disney parks
- Why it is not worth filming an event which has a registered trademark
- How to take your video business to another level
You can find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/office-worker-professional-photographer/
4 NOV 2021 · Andrea Delbò is a professional photographer who works in the publishing world and for some important brands.
A few years ago, he started uploading content to microstocks, starting with Shutterstock, and he obtained great sales with the latter, starting with a single video of 8 seconds that has grossed 4200 dollars to date.
In the 15th episode of Sell Your Photos and Videos Online, Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- iStockphoto and the kind of stock images that sells on it
- EyeEm that reshapes the royalties it pays to photographers and video makers
- a contributor who tried BlackBox as an editor
- how to create model releases efficiently
- why microstock is a passive income
- when it's convenient to create stock footage with a fluid head tripod
- how to shoot an Ironman event
- why the photography business is changing
- selling your photos directly on Arcadina
You can find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/photographer-4200-dollars-stock-footage/
21 OCT 2021 · The story of a video maker who started the digital business by selling stock footage in the various microstocks and, after obtaining good results, expanded his projects by becoming a bitcoin miner and a podcaster.
In the 14th episode of Sell Your Photos and Videos Online, Daniele Carrer also talks about:
- Listeners who write books and launch digital tools for microstock contributors
- Getty Images buying a site where they give away photos
- How to open two contributor accounts in the same agency
- Photos that are accepted by one microstock and rejected by another one
- How convenient it is to keep detailed track of sales statistics
- A review of iStockphoto made by a contributor
You can find the text of the podcast and all the links and resources mentioned on this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/microstock-producer-bitcoin-miner/
23 APR 2018 · Sometimes stock photographers are people who make thousands of dollars per month, but usually they are just guys who think that producing stock images is a job, but they make just a few dollars per month.
In this episode you will understand why stock photography can help you live a better life, but can also give you a lot of problems if you don't study what to do by listening to successful producers stories.
You will also learn:
- what kind of ND filter to buy
- what a magview is
- what the best lens set for shooting stock footage and stock images is
- when you can use cheap equipment and when you can not
- what taxes at source are
- how to sign multiple model releases with an App
- how long Pond5 takes to review your content
- how the new Pond5 membership area pay-outs work
You can find the text and the links of the episode in this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/stock-photographers-new-rappers/
9 APR 2018 · Being a producer of stock images and stock footage is the business of the future for many photographers and film makers. In that market competition rises day by day and only talented people can make money with stock photography.
Videoblocks gave me $3,000 to upload my content to their marketplace, but there's no secret formula to make money with microstock: just hard work and talent.
In this podcast you will also learn about:
- the agencies' algorithm
- history of microstocks
- when to use editorial use license
- if a music soundtrack is allowed on stock footage
- what the duration of videos to upload is
- when you need multiple releases
- if a pianist stock footage sells
- what shutter speed to set to shoot northern lights
- what the best camera brand for shooting a time-lapse is
You can find the text of the episode and all the link quoted here:
https://www.microstockguru.com/stock-photography-start-today/
26 MAR 2018 · In the microstock industry the competition between stock images and stock footage producers is rising, and in the globalized world your competitors are not only the photographers and video makers who live in your city, but people from all over the world.
The only strategy to beat them is studying and working hard to produce the content that the market wants.
In this episode Daniele Carrer will also tell you:
- Who your competitors are
- Why Copacana footage can sell while Milan footage doesn't as well
- Why new agencies don't have a chance to survive
- Who to price stock footage on Pond5
- Why a photo can sell hundreds of times on Fotolia
- A new strategy to produce content that sells
- What codec to use to export stock footage
- When to use editorial license to shoot cities
- If a Samsung Galaxy can create stock footage and stock images
- What tool to use to understand if a subject can sell
You can read the text of the episode and find all the links in this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/why-not-selling-photos-online/
19 MAR 2018 · A few years ago, I shot the hotel room that I rented for the weekend, and the stock footage I created allowed me to earn more than what I spent during those days. Today there is more competition in the microstock industry, but it's still possible to make money with the stock images and the stock footage you can create while visiting the world.
In this episode of the podcast, Daniele Carrer also explains:
- How you can pay a five-stars hotel with your stock footage sales.
- How long it takes to sell the stock footage you uploaded.
- How long Pond5 may take to review your content.
- If it is worth to shoot cities in 4k.
- If time-lapses can be created with speeded up real time footage.
- Why people buy images instead of download them with Google images.
- How to shoot travel photos and videos.
You can find the text of the podcast, along with all the links mentioned at:
https://www.microstockguru.com/paying-hotel-stock-footage-sales/
Whoever has a camera to photograph, be it a professional DSLR or a smartphone, can make money selling his photos and videos online. Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock...
show more
Whoever has a camera to photograph, be it a professional DSLR or a smartphone, can make money selling his photos and videos online.
Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock sell stock images to webmasters and advertisers, and stock footage to TV producers and directors. That content is produced by freelancers around the world that sometimes work with $1,500 equipment.
Stock images subjects can be city landmarks, people, professions, animals, and others, but only producers who know what the market wants can make a lot of money with microstock.
To learn more, please visit this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/someone-wants-to-buy-your-photos/
and listen to this podcast:
https://www.microstockguru.com/podcast/
show less
Agencies like Pond5, Shutterstock, and Adobe Stock sell stock images to webmasters and advertisers, and stock footage to TV producers and directors. That content is produced by freelancers around the world that sometimes work with $1,500 equipment.
Stock images subjects can be city landmarks, people, professions, animals, and others, but only producers who know what the market wants can make a lot of money with microstock.
To learn more, please visit this page:
https://www.microstockguru.com/someone-wants-to-buy-your-photos/
and listen to this podcast:
https://www.microstockguru.com/podcast/
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| Author | Daniele Carrer |
| Organization | Daniele Carrer |
| Categories | Visual Arts , Education |
| Website | www.microstockguru.com |
| dani@microstockguru.com |
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