Yeah, building up on stock takes time, time, time and time :-) And a good (read: commercial) portfolio. That was the biggest mistake that I made with stock, I focused mainly on landscapes and such. It used to sell well, like +15yrs ago (+1000€ even for one pic!). Lately I've been focusing more on people content (like the series you have here), and that does work better these days ;-)
But if I would start with a new portfolio right now, my main focus would indeed be more on Hive then on stock...
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If you're right, before I sold more, I really haven't been around for a long time. My main portfolio is in wirestock with only 1300 photos and in freepick with 1100 more or less in Adobe and others I have over 500 in each one and the truth is they don't even reach 3 dollars in two years, hahaha but nothing... what I like most about hive is that you create a story about your photos, and talk about them... you create a beautiful series of photos, defend them or simply comment on the story behind the story session and like it a lot and the truth is my content makes more sense this way, I also collaborate in pexels where a few days ago I managed to reach a million views and that was something quite good for me
Congrats on the pexels reach! I must admit I haven’t used it yet.
As for Hive, yeah, that’s also something I like about Hive, it’s more about the story and the art, less about being commercial, less “selling”
Exactly, it's more like a blog and that's what I try in each publication I try to tell my experiences and share a little knowledge trying to help new growing photographers and at the same time remember everything for myself
It’s all about the community 😉🙏