I remember when I first started working with Getty Images (then just iStock) and Shutterstock. As a budding microstock contributor, these stock photo agencies were real treasures, offering a stable source of high income from selling my vector illustrations through their platforms.
A couple of years ago on my blog, I already discussed how to register with Moneybookers and how to withdraw money from Moneybookers. But time goes on, and things gradually change. Just last year, Moneybookers announced an upcoming rebranding of their brand.
When buying any product or service, the aim is always the ideal balance of price and quality. But considering that stock sites now have rather strict quality requirements for images offered for sale, price comes first.
Usually there is catastrophically little time on a shoot, so it is important not to step on the same rake twice. There is no desire to repeat the typical mistakes many photographers make, which once also stole time that could have been used more effectively for closer work with stock photo sites and to improve professional mastery as a photographer.
For many beginners, it is often quite difficult to understand the specific vocabulary used by experienced stock contributors, which is full of slang terms and abbreviations.
For beginners uploading and attributing images on stock photography sites, one of the difficult steps is selecting keywords.
First, it is hard to decide which words will be key for a specific image; second, from the full list of possible words it is tricky to choose the most sellable keywords; third, many simply do not understand why keywords are needed.
