Now that I’ve fallen in love with my iSyndica account, I have decided to start doing more with stock photography. I had pretty much abandoned doing stills when I got into stock footage, but as I have preached often lately… diversification is the key. Get your portfolio everywhere you can and create as many income streams as you can.
What actually prompted it was that I was doing a 3D video render in Cinema 4D and while looking at one of the frames, it occurred to me that it would make a nice photo… So I rendered it at 12mp and uploaded it to a few of the sites where I have stock photo accounts. And it sold… So, now when I’m doing 3D renders for video, I review the footage to see if there is anything I can do to make a still from it as well and I am uploading stills again.
And I decided to give ShutterStock a try again. The last 3 times I submitted my 10 images it was a frustrating experience. The first time I got 7 photos rejected. The second time I got 5 which included the original 3 they liked. The last time they rejected 4, all of which they accepted when I did the second time. The inconsistency of reviewers there is extremely frustrating. But I’m starting to do better at DreamsTime, so I’ve decided I have better things to do that get frustrated over ShutterStock. If they reject me again, I’ll just keep trying each month (yes, they make you wait a MONTH) until I get in.