{"id":1563,"date":"2014-08-21T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2019-02-14T21:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T04:52:54","slug":"photo-stock-making-money-for-stock-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Photo Stock: Making Money For Stock agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many young, inexperienced and downright naive photographers, I dreamed of making a living from selling photos to stock agencies.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, my dream took a step forward, with the “invitation” to submit photo to Getty Images. Had i made it big ?. Somehow, a photo editor at Getty Images had discovered my photos, and selected 25 to be submitted to the Getty Stock pool.<\/p>\n

“Whoo Hoo – making money”. I said.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later, another invitation arrived for 30 images, and a few months later, even more requests.<\/p>\n

So, now two years later, and approximately  120 images submitted to Getty Images, Yes -I am making money selling stock images.<\/p>\n

Check out my April 2014 Statement.<\/p>\n

Three images sold !!! …for a whopping $63.61<\/p>\n

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No, that big money isn’t for my pocket, as 80% goes to the stock agency.  My take-home pay is $12.66 which works out to enough money to buy breakfast, one breakfast for the month of April !.<\/p>\n

20% to the photographer  – Really ?? .<\/p>\n

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Now – Time to wake up !. To make a living; food, housing, etc….that works out to a whole lot of photos that need to be sold to survive.<\/p>\n

A colleague mentioned to me, what if the stock agency actually sold more of your images though didn’t tell you. Oh – now the plot thickens.<\/p>\n

Ever heard of a stock agency that sells photos on your behalf, and doesn’t tell you ?. Does this Really happen ?<\/p>\n

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Like many young, inexperienced and downright naive photographers, I dreamed of making a living from selling photos to stock agencies. A few years ago, my dream took a step forward, with the “invitation” to submit photo to Getty Images. Had i made it big ?. Somehow, a photo editor at Getty Images had discovered my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}