A charming site and a series of photos from a magazine specializing in tourism and travel... Or even NatGeo, I would say!... What an eye-catching photographic work!... Thanks for sharing my friend @phortun !
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Definitely not NatGeo level considering that even ShutterStock doesn´t want these photos but thank you my friend, very kind of you ;) Was a pleasure to take you to these beaches through my shots.
Haaa haaaa haaaa :))... I spent quite some time struggling with ShutterStock's admission standards!... I see that they are still just as picky! :))... A hug for you dear friend!... I hlike a lotthat you are very well! ;)
So you know this struggle :) And now imagine how much time and effort it took me to push almost 1,500 photos to SS all of which were taken just by phones including some really old and crappy phones! :D But yeah, they still keep increasing their admission standards and now it´s almost impossible for me to get some new shots to my portfolio. But my earnings have been decreasing rapidly over the past few years. Seems like the photo stock business is dying... What is your recent experience?
Oh no... I stopped sending photos to SS maybe a couple of years ago!... I don't have anything recent to add... But at the time it was a real pain for me!... And I barely made a portfolio of 700 photos if I remember correctly!... But I started to stop sending when the image rejection rate got too high and image sales started to drop... It certainly seems to me that In a world with so many images without copyright available, it is difficult for this type of business to sustain itself... Although I have a couple of professional photographer friends (those who have their studio and all that stuff hahaha) who do still have largue portfolios of stock photos not only in SS, also in others too... And this still seems to be working for him to some extent... :)
I see, very similar to my experience. Ironically, my biggest sales were during the first months after the registration back in 2017, even though I only had just a couple of (average or below average quality) pictures in my portfolio back then :D It was not unusual to make 50 bucks per month back then. Now, with almost 1500 photos in my portfolio, I often make just 5 bucks per month :D Ridiculous. Btw did you keep your portfolio or you deleted it? If you still have it there, do you still get some sales? I think the SS algo actually favors active contributors who still submit new shots so I wonder if those who haven´t uploaded anything new in years still get some sales too...