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Wouldn’t matter how good the image was technically. So if you were to submit your first ten images for review and you placed them into the wrong categories they would be rejected straight up. Instead it refers to Christmas, wedding photos and such. For example, in Shutterstock the categories ‘holidays’ does not refer to tropical holiday beach photos. By this I’m referring to knowing specifically what images are found in different categories.
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How do you get accepted into Shutterstock? I know many professionals who complete a photo shoot for a client, then upload all images the buyer wasn’t interested in to stock agencies. We are talking every day shots like zoo animals or holiday photos and such. Obviously I’m not talking about images you think you could sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars as fine art prints. Now multiply that by how many images you have sitting on external hard drives! It’s been my experience that an image that may not have otherwise sold at all, could earn you $25. With high clientele numbers behind Shutterstock it’s not beyond probability that an image will receive one hundred downloads over several months. These same images would likely not have been purchased if they were selling for $40 or more per image. So I figure as a seller, many of the photos people buy will never actually be published. I put them onto my external hard drive for possible future use and have never looked at them again. Being on the other end of stock as a buyer, I can tell you that often I purchased images simply to make up the daily quota. What this means is to start with you’ll receive 25 cents per download. However for the most part, sales come from subscription purchases. They can also buy other licenses that are more expensive.
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For example, one plan allows them to download 25 images per day. Shutterstock is primarily a subscription based model where buyers pay a monthly fee and get to download a number of images per month.
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I can honestly say that Shutterstock is what I imagined microstock photography to be, both in earnings and excitement. If you have already tried to get accepted into Shutterstock and been rejected, definitely don’t give up. That’s a lot of money to give up on if you’re not accepted on your first try! It is unanimous amongst stock photographers that 75% of their earnings come from Shutterstock. However, if you only have time to submit images to one microstock photo agency then it has to be Shutterstock. Our recommendation has always been to submit to many stock agencies and not limit yourself to only one. One way is by generating sales through microstock sites. Why? Well sooner or later every photographer asks themselves this question, “How do I make money with my photos”. One way of selling your photos is to get accepted into Shutterstock.