As the topic of extra or primary income from photography is interesting, I'd be glad to share my experience with you on this subject.
Let's do a quick intro, my name is Alexey Ivanov, and I'm working for iStock by Getty Images as a photographer, and I'm also a part of the iStock Content Team.
Our website with Yuliya: http://www.ingredientsphoto.com
iStock by Getty Images is one of the world's leading stock content marketplaces, offering millions of hand-picked premium images. Founded in 2000, iStock created the crowd-sourced stock industry and became the original source for user-generated stock photos, vectors and illustrations, and video clips.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
As a hobbyist, you can submit your images of corals, fish and anything else any time via mobile or desktop for review. After your photos are accepted, they will be available online for customers to see and license.
When customers find the content they want, they purchase a license that allows them to download the file for their personal or commercial purposes (based on the terms of the content license agreement).
Customers can use your content in advertising, marketing, apps, websites, social media, TV and film, presentations, newspapers, magazines, books, and product packaging, among hundreds of other uses. And this is the most fun part because you will start seeing your works in action all over the world. For example, when travelling, reading a magazine, receiving brochures in your mailbox or surfing online. It's always a delightful surprise to find your work in action.
Sure, the reefing content is not a super popular concept as togetherness, innovation, love, and collaboration, to name a few examples. But any quality content will find a buyer.
HOW MUCH CAN I EARN?
Everything depends on your portfolio and how consistent your uploads are. But if you take this serious this can tranform to the only family source of the income how for us with Yuliya for the last 12+ years. So keep in mind your earnings are proportional to your efforts. For this business, this is a very true statement. But it's also the beauty of it. You decide how much time you want to invest in this according to how much you want to get back.
WHAT SHOULD I SHOOT?
If you go full power, as a contributor, you'll have access to Getty creative briefs, which describe content the customers want. More trendy content you shoot, more sales you will generate. But you are free to shoot anything you want.
Go to
https://www.istockphoto.com - enter in the search keywords like Reef, Corals, Aquarium, Tropical Fish and other reef-related keywords and see what other people are uploading. Also don't hesitate to look at this board, for example, to understand how top-selling content looks like:
https://www.istockphoto.com/collaboration/boards/L9m43WDlbUO8O94wqUFIIA
HOW TO START?
It's very easy, all you need is to go on iStock website and click on
Sell stock in the footer of the website. Register your account and follow the instructions.
I hope this post opened something new to you today and motivated to create something amazing! Have a lovely weekend everyone. ;Happy
