Stock Photography: A Note to Good Morning America Fans
Note: Today's post was originally posted by one of iStockphoto's top contributors, Sean Locke, on his blog on 05.26.09. It is being reprinted here with his permission.
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Making the rounds today through various forums, is this nugget of an editorial piece from ABC’s Good Morning America show: Make Money in May- Selling Stock Photos. Apparently, by snapping random things about your office, as detailed in the piece, you can make thousands of dollars to put your kids through school.
Advisory to anyone who has viewed this piece and has stars in their eyes: it is not as easy as turning your logo’d coffee cup away from your point and shoot camera.
Please note, I am a top contributor to the mentioned site, iStockphoto.com . So, I know what I am talking about, when I say to take this editorial news piece with a few grains of salt.
You are not going to make $10,000 from... (keep reading at Sean Locke Digital Imagery)
2 Comments:
Here's a conversation between Rich and myself about the realities of Microstock photography: http://ow.ly/9tl4
Jack Howard
Adorama Camera
http://techtock.adorama.com
Yeah, and it is possible that you could become a pro NBA athlete and earn millions of dollars just for playing basketball. But how realistic is that? Your chances of earning a good living selling stock photos is less than 1% and it takes a LOT of hard work, dedication, skill, money and TIME to get to that point. It doesn't happen overnight and definitely not without much effort like they make it sound like on this overly optimistic video.
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