squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
Each one can be downloaded an infinite number of times. It's $350 to buy an exclusive use...the most popular images get downloaded hundreds of times.
You should check out the most popular images, BTW, they are HORRIBLE
kbg32
neo-romanticist
I shoot for Getty. I can't tell you how bad things have been going lately....
Bike Tourist
Well-known
I think you've made a fine living doing what you enjoyed. At least, I hope so. But that's one thing about Adsense or microstock — once it's out there it keeps on earning — even if it's 17 cents!
Avotius
Some guy
Getty is one of the biggest reasons we have this photo selling problem actually, but unfortunately for most photographers who are trying to make a living (which is very very hard) Getty made everything bad by the way they changed the whole game for everyone with their online sales model, we did a in depth study of the Getty company here and found it to be the harbinger of the modern photographer. But unfortunately that is also the way a photographer has to go to get paid now a day, yes there is other more private work you can do and you have to to make money. Basically being a photographer now a days is like working 5 jobs at once, and I have only been doing this for a few years and I really dislike it, I would make more money working as a gas station cashier and it would not be a tenth as hard. Part of me wants to go find another line of work, I entered photography at the exact wrong time, what I make from photography and the horrendous amounts of time I put into it is not enough to pay my rent, I teach English on the side which sadly pays about 10 times more then I make from taking photos and is how I feed money into my habit.
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squirrel$$$bandit
Veteran
I was afraid of that...