The stock photography game has flipped in the last 20 years. I was (well still am) with Getty. Back in the early 2000s the money I received thru my royalties paid all my expenses. One shoot I did for Getty--one day production set on a train in a train yard in LA with a hipster couple, business men, older traveling couple--made me probably $35K (after Getty's commission) and this was with Getty paying for all of the production. They offered to let me pay for the production and my royalty percentage would have doubled but I didn't want to spend $25K on the cost of production--train rental, model fees, wardrobe stylist fees/expenses, equipment rental, etc. I calculated that over the year or two the shoot remained relevant I would have made $80k for that one day shoot which is insane. I'd average around 6-10K a month. Now with the digital letting more and more people jump into photography it is a challenge to see any substantial income from stock. And yes, your images will be up on the stock site as long as you are photographers but if your agency is like most, the algorithm pushes down older photos as new shoots come on line. Basically making older shoots almost irrelevant to the search engine.
Great video, as per usual. My wife has been telling me for years I need to submit to stock photo services. The heavily curated nature of Stocksy is super appealing.
Applied to/joined Stocksy earlier this year and it's been a pretty interesting process for me to figure out what kind of photos will work and what will get rejected. As with the first video y'all made about stock photography, getting more insight into what you guys submit to Stocksy is very helpful. Thank you for this video! You guys are crushing it.
Lovely video! So easy to listen to. I really love your delivery style. I've always wanted to get started with photography/videography. Hoping to get my first camera this year so this website is a really exciting goal to work towards. Once I start to get the hang of it I will definitely apply to some websites. Thank you for inspiring me today!
Wow I have been wanting to get back into photography and was wondering how I could make money from stock photos. What a coincidence! Thanks for the ideas and helpful tips! 📸💯
This video is so helpful to be able to see real numbers from stock photography. I was wondering if you guys could do a video on where / how you get your model & property release forms? I’ve never been very knowledgeable about photography licenses
Great video and kudos for the transparency. We can really understand if it makes sense to start stock photography. You inspired me and I already applied to adobe Stock and Shutterstock! Keep it coming!
UM is your photo at 6:24 THE photo Lightroom demonstrates its new masking feature update?? If so, congrats! Also awesome vid, always super helpful and transparent.
It looks like your $47,000 is the gross amount billed to the client not the amount that you "made" after commission. Around 8 minutes into the video you mention the actual amount that Rachel and you made was closer to $26,000. Unless I missed some math you did not "make" $47,000 please explain. thanks
I sell quite a bit of stock images at 500px, but find that I always end up with images that would be more likely to sell with people in them that I don't exactly know how to navigate getting a model release for. Do you ever pay for releases, or how to do navigate that? Thanks! Great video!
it’s easiest to do up-front. we generally pay models extra to have the model release included. you can always just ask your subjects retroactively to sign and some may be cool doing it without payment!
Love y'all as always, YT kinda sucks for hiding your videos from me although I am subscribed to both channels, but question.. where do you guys sell those photos? okay then 2 questions actually, will you dig deeper into NFTs on your other channel or this one.. doesn't matter
This was an unexpected revelation because I have watched probably close to ten different stock photo channels and they aren't doing anything like these numbers. Mostly what I'm curious about is the per unit reward is so much higher than the others, which are typically reporting under $5 per unit royalty and that's the high end. What explains this? Stocksy is competing for the same end buyers as the others, no? BTW, thanks for the advice about local businesses and trades people and trading their releases for giving them social media use of your work. That's actually how I was thinking about going about it today.
stocksy is higher than the industry average, likely due to it being setup as a co-op, harder to be accepted as a photographer, and more curated and simplified process for clients.
I am considering of doing this but I want to put it in the form of an LLC what category of a business should I put this under photography modeling could you please let me know
you upload all the photos you make working? or you make photos specifically for sell them in stock pages? in case of the first choise, how do you manage with your clients about the photos you take of them or their products? you tell them that the photos you’ll make are going to be uploaded to be sold like stock photography? you give them a % of the money you make with the photos?
in our case, if we are doing a photoshoot for a youtube video, we can usually pay the models a little extra for a model release. for past wedding and engagement shoots, we did get a few couples to sign releases after the fact. it would be a huge pain to split any royalties, so i would recommend just a flat fee if they don't want to do it for free.
Hii sir love from India ❤️.I like watching a lot of your videos. Sir, can I make a lightroom preset on your photos? Sir, please reply, I will wait for your reply
That’s a high rejection rate at Stocksy, having put all the effort in processing and tagging you might just as well upload them to other sites who are less picky. Also, stock sites are reducing their commissions so Stocksy will probably follow suit at some time.
yeah, it can be frustrating. stocksy did introduce a pre-selects (or something) feature, where you can upload a shoot for them to review before post-processing and they can tell you what images they want so you don’t waste too much time. since stocksy is a co-op, i believe they would need votes from the members to lower the royalty payout, so i don’t see that happening.
Hi how did you get pay from stocksy? Please make video of how to setup payment on stocksy website because i cannot find the way to do it. Appreciated for your video.
we joined quite a few years ago so the process may have changed, but i remember it being quite intricate. i think there was even an interview. you can find all of the info you need on their site 👍
@@MangoStreet When someone writes 'How I made 25,000 dollars in one month' or how I got 10,000 to 25,000 subscribers in three weeks', usually it's click bait! Anyone who makes such a claim, is probably a scam or con artist. Such claims should be taken with a gain or spoonful of salt.
Not to brag or anything but I've made $2
I sold one for 75 cents recently.
We see you!!!!
The stock photography game has flipped in the last 20 years. I was (well still am) with Getty. Back in the early 2000s the money I received thru my royalties paid all my expenses. One shoot I did for Getty--one day production set on a train in a train yard in LA with a hipster couple, business men, older traveling couple--made me probably $35K (after Getty's commission) and this was with Getty paying for all of the production. They offered to let me pay for the production and my royalty percentage would have doubled but I didn't want to spend $25K on the cost of production--train rental, model fees, wardrobe stylist fees/expenses, equipment rental, etc. I calculated that over the year or two the shoot remained relevant I would have made $80k for that one day shoot which is insane. I'd average around 6-10K a month. Now with the digital letting more and more people jump into photography it is a challenge to see any substantial income from stock. And yes, your images will be up on the stock site as long as you are photographers but if your agency is like most, the algorithm pushes down older photos as new shoots come on line. Basically making older shoots almost irrelevant to the search engine.
Great video, as per usual. My wife has been telling me for years I need to submit to stock photo services. The heavily curated nature of Stocksy is super appealing.
Applied to/joined Stocksy earlier this year and it's been a pretty interesting process for me to figure out what kind of photos will work and what will get rejected. As with the first video y'all made about stock photography, getting more insight into what you guys submit to Stocksy is very helpful. Thank you for this video! You guys are crushing it.
thanks and hope you have some sweet success w/ stocksy!
I shouldn't be surprised that the balloon pictures did well yet I was. Its so simple and multi functional from a consumer standpoint. Very smart idea.
Thanks for this video guys, I've been meaning to get into this space. Your recommendations are very helpful.
Lovely video! So easy to listen to. I really love your delivery style. I've always wanted to get started with photography/videography. Hoping to get my first camera this year so this website is a really exciting goal to work towards. Once I start to get the hang of it I will definitely apply to some websites. Thank you for inspiring me today!
Wow I have been wanting to get back into photography and was wondering how I could make money from stock photos. What a coincidence! Thanks for the ideas and helpful tips! 📸💯
This video is so helpful to be able to see real numbers from stock photography. I was wondering if you guys could do a video on where / how you get your model & property release forms? I’ve never been very knowledgeable about photography licenses
we get ours from the stock site we contribute to, stocksy.
I'm the same 😁 it's a minefield when it comes to permission for images.
You two are great, super informative video.
thanks, tucker!
Always on point with the quality content
Legit info and advice, another top notch video. Thanks for being awesome.
47000 usd in sales. That's great !! But in how much time??
Great video and kudos for the transparency. We can really understand if it makes sense to start stock photography. You inspired me and I already applied to adobe Stock and Shutterstock! Keep it coming!
This is good stuff! Hope Rachel gets better soon. I want to see more photos!
UM is your photo at 6:24 THE photo Lightroom demonstrates its new masking feature update?? If so, congrats! Also awesome vid, always super helpful and transparent.
What about illustrations? How well do those do?
Great video, thank you for sharing some insight!
Love the insight! There’s tons of value in stock photography
It looks like your $47,000 is the gross amount billed to the client not the amount that you "made" after commission. Around 8 minutes into the video you mention the actual amount that Rachel and you made was closer to $26,000.
Unless I missed some math you did not "make" $47,000 please explain. thanks
mike, where did we say we made $47k? we said we sold that much in total sales.
Thank you for this video! I just joined this platform, so this content is very very helpful! Thank you so much! ❤️
I sell quite a bit of stock images at 500px, but find that I always end up with images that would be more likely to sell with people in them that I don't exactly know how to navigate getting a model release for. Do you ever pay for releases, or how to do navigate that? Thanks! Great video!
it’s easiest to do up-front. we generally pay models extra to have the model release included. you can always just ask your subjects retroactively to sign and some may be cool doing it without payment!
Great content!
One question, should i upload flat footage for the costumers to play with or edited versions?
Thank you for your transparency, very interesstin!
thanks for all the honest answers
May I ask when did photos start selling regularly? For example, if I upload a new picture, how long will it take for them to start selling?
Ok so I'm new to stock photography and curious to understand what/who determines the amount a pic goes for??
on stocksy, it depends on the size of the image they want.
A lot of good tips! Thank you so much
Super video‼️lots of food for thought here✌️🌻
But that hoodie though? Love the design, can I ask who makes it?
Thanks, this was super helpful
is stocksy free to use? (no monthly payment)
Can you upload old photos from albums you've found at like estate sales, black & white stuff that you didn't take, but no one really owns anymore?
fantastic information.... thanks for sharing......
Love y'all as always, YT kinda sucks for hiding your videos from me although I am subscribed to both channels, but question.. where do you guys sell those photos? okay then 2 questions actually, will you dig deeper into NFTs on your other channel or this one.. doesn't matter
yeah, so many people have the same issue of not being shown our videos. we contribute photos to stocksy.com
This was an unexpected revelation because I have watched probably close to ten different stock photo channels and they aren't doing anything like these numbers. Mostly what I'm curious about is the per unit reward is so much higher than the others, which are typically reporting under $5 per unit royalty and that's the high end. What explains this? Stocksy is competing for the same end buyers as the others, no?
BTW, thanks for the advice about local businesses and trades people and trading their releases for giving them social media use of your work. That's actually how I was thinking about going about it today.
stocksy is higher than the industry average, likely due to it being setup as a co-op, harder to be accepted as a photographer, and more curated and simplified process for clients.
and your photos have to be exclusive only on stocksy... so you cant upload them to more agencies!
@@TheWonderOfLifeic
Amazing! Thank you!
Is there a standard photo ratio we should use ?
having a variety of vertical and horizontal oriented photos is best just to cover your bases
very cool tips, thanks!
Thanks for sharing this valuable information 👍
New sub here ❤
How I get accepted to Stocksy
Thank you!
Super interesting! What about stock video? Do you do that at all ?
not a whole lot, but i talk about it in this video: ruclips.net/video/M9UUOEPWrGI/видео.html
Thank you so much.
I am considering of doing this but I want to put it in the form of an LLC what category of a business should I put this under photography modeling could you please let me know
is stocksy exclusive or non exclusive, means can i submit same photo on other stock agencies as well as stocksy?
I've never heard of that site.
* smashes the like button like crazy
Great content
you upload all the photos you make working? or you make photos specifically for sell them in stock pages?
in case of the first choise, how do you manage with your clients about the photos you take of them or their products?
you tell them that the photos you’ll make are going to be uploaded to be sold like stock photography?
you give them a % of the money you make with the photos?
in our case, if we are doing a photoshoot for a youtube video, we can usually pay the models a little extra for a model release. for past wedding and engagement shoots, we did get a few couples to sign releases after the fact. it would be a huge pain to split any royalties, so i would recommend just a flat fee if they don't want to do it for free.
What camera do you use
please give name website to sale photo? i new in photography
What level camera do u need to get into this?
I like how they watched the squarespace ad like its their wedding video😅🤧🤣🤣
Curious why Stocksy and not Adobe/Shutterstock, etc.?
less saturated, solid payouts.
@@MangoStreet thank you for responding!
Does Adobe stock has model release
How much do you pay the models
it varies. check our last video on stock photography to see how much we paid the models for the stock shoot we talked about in this video 👍
Willtry this
Could anybody help me? In one video i saw platform that upload your footage to all sites at once. Anybody know name of it?
blackbox i think.
What do you think of Shutterstock for selling your photos?
everyone left shutterstock because the new CEO is greedy and dramatically lowered commission rates
@@IdRatherBeHiking where should I go then?
What do you think of NFTs? They'd be perfect for stock photo copyrights.
we just made and sold 7 NFTs. check out our last video all about it 👍
Hii sir love from India ❤️.I like watching a lot of your videos. Sir, can I make a lightroom preset on your photos? Sir, please reply, I will wait for your reply
That’s a high rejection rate at Stocksy, having put all the effort in processing and tagging you might just as well upload them to other sites who are less picky. Also, stock sites are reducing their commissions so Stocksy will probably follow suit at some time.
yeah, it can be frustrating. stocksy did introduce a pre-selects (or something) feature, where you can upload a shoot for them to review before post-processing and they can tell you what images they want so you don’t waste too much time. since stocksy is a co-op, i believe they would need votes from the members to lower the royalty payout, so i don’t see that happening.
Hi how did you get pay from stocksy? Please make video of how to setup payment on stocksy website because i cannot find the way to do it. Appreciated for your video.
Can iphone pics work?
not likely
Is this site a non-exclusive photo, bro, because I'm selling it on another site, bro
how can i do this with music
daniel made a video about he does that here: ruclips.net/video/BJD_BSS0SLs/видео.html
If only my dogs are chill like Carlton 😤
How to get to Stocksy?)
we joined quite a few years ago so the process may have changed, but i remember it being quite intricate. i think there was even an interview. you can find all of the info you need on their site 👍
@@MangoStreet Do we have to pay some amount?
@@deveshdesai2605 nope! i’ve never heard of any stock site charging photographers for their work and would definitely avoid if i ever did.
Woooow
This is one thing I think I could do without getting my mind caught up in a debate about if I actually like what some random advertiser is selling.
i find it curious people actually buy these when you can get so many photos for free nowadays in unsplash and all those sites.
Unfortunately Twenty20 has closed down. :'(
i sold 10 photos 0.10 cent for each one
Stock photography is no more a realistic source of income
Who buys balloon letters..
a lot of people
What 😬
Third? Lol
Lol
you wife makes double
hell yeah
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Beware they are promoting stocksy is a scam
i don't think you know what a scam is
@@MangoStreet maybe you don't
@@mlimted okay, good talk
More click bait I see.
How? it says that’s how much their images sold for not what they actually brought home. You get a percentage of the images sold
you’ve got a strange definition of clickbait
@@MangoStreet When someone writes 'How I made 25,000 dollars in one month' or how I got 10,000 to 25,000 subscribers in three weeks', usually it's click bait! Anyone who makes such a claim, is probably a scam or con artist. Such claims should be taken with a gain or spoonful of salt.
@@TheNitebinder okay, well in the title we claimed to have sold $47k in stock photos and showed proof that we did. sorry, but that's not clickbait.
Yeah, although this video has substance and no false promises - and at the end of it you know it's not "easy money", quite the opposite.