My strategy for stock photography
I have made it no secret that I currently sell a number of my pictures on several different microstock sites. This has become increasingly more profitable, and I expect some day in the future I may be able to make $1000 a month just from microstock. I am currently not near this number, but my sales have been slowly improving. Still, I have received a number of questions asking what types of images sell best and how I go about taking stock pictures.
When I first started in stock photography, I spent a lot of time taking pictures that I thought would sell well. These were not pictures that I ordinarily would have taken, but were instead taken solely for the purpose of profit. Here’s an example of one of these shots.
This is not a particularly interesting picture, but could be of use to someone who needed a picture of a pile of saffron, which numerous people have needed. This particular shot has sold decently, but certainly is nothing to brag about. What I would find out from doing shots like this though, changed my entire philosophy about stock.