 Photography Stock Sites, Any experience with them? |
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 Jun 14 2005, 04:57 PM
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Member [ Level 2 ]  Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Frankfurt, Germany Member No.: 2,413  |
yeah im an amatuer photographer but i was thinking that with so many stock sites out there i might make some money with pics that would only get old on my HD and i wouldent use anyways otherwise.
Ive signed up for Shutterstock.com and also Imagevortex.com $0.20 is pretty lousy i guess but with imagevortex you can set your own price. Anybody else have any experience with these sites and could recoment something? |
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Jun 14 2005, 06:59 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 4-December 04 From: California Member No.: 1,608 |
Eh, stock photography sites are generally a ripoff for the photographer. Basically, the whole premise is that you sign over all of your rights to the photograph in exchange to see it up on their site. Most ad agencies go through stock agencies, so there's little chance of seeing your work in magazines or billboards. I looked into doing this when I was starting out, but after looking at the fine details, I opted not to in order to save my own rights to my work. Why put something on a stock site and get $0.20 for each sale when I can put it on my own site and make at least $35 on one sale? It just doesn't add up, unless you have a ton of images.
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Jun 15 2005, 04:14 AM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Frankfurt, Germany Member No.: 2,413 |
well yes thats how it is in the 20cent sites. i havent seen a lot but theres a few where you can set your own price. at imagevortex the range you can set is between $20 and $300 so im guesssing its pretty good. the problem with them is that they havent gone online for buyers yet only for the photographers to build up their stock.
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Jun 15 2005, 11:17 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 18-April 05 Member No.: 4,120 |
I think that www.sxc.hu is great and it's free. Try it out
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Jun 15 2005, 11:30 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 196 Joined: 12-April 05 Member No.: 3,899 |
I don't believe in charging for that kind of stuff on the 'Net. I would put photos up for free if it were up to me.
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Jun 15 2005, 05:29 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 11-June 05 Member No.: 6,088 |
www.istockphoto.com seems pretty good. A huge variety of stock photographs. You will find almost anything you want there.
Hope that helps a little. Ed |
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Jun 16 2005, 12:31 PM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Frankfurt, Germany Member No.: 2,413 |
QUOTE(edskii @ Jun 15 2005, 04:29 PM) www.istockphoto.com seems pretty good. A huge variety of stock photographs. You will find almost anything you want there. Hope that helps a little. Ed  lol thanks but im not looking to buy but im looking to sell. |
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Jun 22 2005, 01:21 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 22-March 05 Member No.: 3,156 |
QUOTE(edskii @ Jun 16 2005, 03:29 AM) www.istockphoto.com seems pretty good. A huge variety of stock photographs. You will find almost anything you want there. Hope that helps a little. Ed oh, i believe u. its a pretty good site. thanks mate... |
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Jun 22 2005, 11:37 PM
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Member - Active Contributor Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 25-April 05 Member No.: 4,378 |
Yup, honestly... Stock photography should be available for a decent price. You could buy one for cheap, but the quality is just soo crappy, theres no more purpose for it. And when you want a good photo that has some sort of meaning to the picture, its bank to even touch it...
I believe a good way of making money off that is offering a free organize and enormous collection of stock photos to everybody and make tons of income on the banners and advertisement... Due to the fact that it;s free, there will be an outrageous amount of traffic to the website and many companies would love to advertise on it... Chin chin... If somebody is interested in starting something like that... let me in on it.. hehehe... . |
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