An update of how i am doing!

Heya fellow stock photographers and illustrators!

So i thought i would post an update on how i am progressing. The last month has been extremely interesting indeed. It has been interesting for many reasons. Firstly those of you may be aware of my first payout, it was not from fotolia, shutterstock, dreamstime or istock....IT WAS FROM DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM!? Now you may not realise why that is strange. It is strange as this site has only been around for little over a year now. I have a payout due to their promotion programme and the fact that someone baught 40 of my images. It seems so strange to me that the site i put the least effort into provides me the most revenue....Oh well cant complain!

Fotolia- as you may know this is may favourite site, it is clear, easy to upload, rejections seem to be fair-ish and the forums are great. They help a lot and they are very friendly. So for my fotolian update:

1. This time last month i had exactly 100 images in my portfolio and that was wonderful, such a milestone for an ameteur like myself. However over the first two weeks of my easter holiday i just uploaded so many and now my portfolio is exactly 241 images!!!! My acceptance rate skyrocketed, i seemed to upload batches of 25 and ALL, yes ALL were accepted. It made me so happy!
2. From previous posts i have shown you some of my illustrations. My first one sold on fotolia:

           Not only that they sold as a vector license....!

Shutterstock- so shutterstock seem to be loving my new submissions, before i was averaging 32 sales per month, but this month I HAVE SO FAR 62 sales and counting.

THIS HAS BEEN MY BME!

Lastly guys a favour- please can you all follow me on twitter, i am trying to get some more portfolio exposure and more traffic to my site. I have had some positive feedback so far, and people seem to find it useful.

Thanks for reading

Jonny

First stock photography "set"

Hello again,

Thanks to those who have visited this blog and continue to do so. I apreciate the views. Ok so i have been having exams recently so i have not submitted too many photos recently however i would like to tell you of a trick. As stock is a numbers game as so many people have previously told me, i have discovered sets of images.

A set is a group of images which are similar but have significant differences in their concept.


So i will show you my first set, oh and on fotolia the first image in the set/series has had a sale. It is a simple set with a hand writing various things, a tick, a cross, a mind map, equations etc. Simple but hopefully successful. We shall see...

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This is just three of the ten image series that was accepted at fotolia. But, just by some simple editing i have made ten sellable images out of one and a bit of PS. 

Enjoy,

Oh and please follow me. I am yet to have followers. Thanks

The beginning

Hi guys

My name is Jonny. I am a student in the university of birmingham and i am beginning to write this blog on my progress in the world of photography. I have recently (within the last year) become interested in photography and graphic design. It has been an interesting learning curve and i am now interested in stock photography and selling products on the internet.
I use the stock site:

Fotolia --------------> My portfolio

I will be posting regular information about my stock career, including review, revenues and portfolio progress.

So far i have a CLEAR BEST SELLER:

I know it isnt technically perfect, but as you can see a simple idea and a decent isolation can be sold. It has been sold 4 times and is therefore my best seller.

My next post will be on the beginning of depositphotos.com

Jonny