Just a quick post today. I haven't posted in so long and I am so behind. I hope to get caught up soon. I have been really busy lately. I decided to start into stock photography, it has been really time consuming, I have been spending most of my free time away from being a mom into taking and editing photos for stock.
For those of you who don't know what stock is let me give a brief explaination. Companies who need photos for presentations, brochures, magazine articles and advertisements will use a stock company to find the image they need. They can search through millions of images to find the one that is just right for what they are doing. They pay the company to have limited use of the photo and that company pays me a portion. They don't own the photo but have the right to use it, so one photo can be used many times by many different companies. Even hundreds of times if it is a really popular photo.
I have reached my first two mile stones and thought I would share a link to my portfolio so you could see what I have been up to. My first two milestones reached are: #1: I have 100 photos approved in my portfolio (all photos must pass a review and be accepted, if they don't feel like the photo has commercial value or is of poor quality they won't accept it) #2 I have sold over 100 images so far, seems like a lot until you remember I only get between .25 and $25 per photo and I hardly ever get the $25 mostly just between .25 and 2.00 per image. My goal by the end of the year is to have around 1000 photos in my portfolio. It will be a lot of work but by then I should be able to slow down a bit and should be able to see a return of several $100 dollars per month. So wish me luck, here is the link to my portfolio you can see all the photos I have been working of for the past month and a half:
I probably won't be posting my photos on here anymore, except just my family snapshots, people steal photos from blogs like this all the time and I don't want to have to take the time to watermark everything. So keep checking back I will post a link to my portfolio on my sidebar so you can see what I have been up to lately.
