September 2012 Earnings

Once again, I had a best month ever at Shutterstock, followed by Fotolia ,and 123RF. Sales are increasing over Fotolia which is surprising ,and I finally got my first payout there.  I passed the $200 for the first time at Shutterstock , and earnings reached the amount of $ 219.98 with 307 downloads. Two ELs, two SODs, and many many ODs helped the increase.

Here are the 2 ELs from Shutterstock:

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-757657p1.html

August Earnings

I had the best month ever at Shutterstock in downloads, and earnings. I got 333 downloads with earnings of $ 190.74. It was way more than I expected since the month started pretty slow for me. It picked up after the 15th of the month. I got one EL, two $ 15 SODs, $4.75 SOD, low amount of ODs this time, but more regular downloads.

The first 3 days of September started pretty good,  hope it continues, and surpasses August. I'm looking forward to reach 1000 images in my Shutterstock portfolio, and I have 938 so far.

Other sites like Fotolia, and Deposit Photo had an increase in downloads also. I even reached my first payout at Fotolia. Dreamstime was dead for the first three weeks, and I got some sales at the end. It was an average month for downloads at 123 RF. Big Stock, and CanStock Photo are the worst sites ever with many months of consecutive zero downloads, and I'm not uploading images there anymore.

Two new images are having a high amount of downloads:

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-757657p1.html

Best Week Ever

I'm having the best week ever at Shutterstock, and very close to a best month ever this month of August. I had two $15.00 SODs, and  one $28.00 EL so far with a higher number of downloads in general. It looks like the summer slump sales are over.


$28.00 EL

Two $15.00 SODs:

July Earnings

The month of July was little bit odd, started very slow during the first couple of weeks, and picked up on the last two weeks. I believe that uploading extra 211 images helped to increase sales at the end of the month at Shutterstock. My best month was last May , and this month was my 3rd best month for money, and 2nd in the amount of downloads. I had no ELs ,and no SODs, but I had a pretty good amount of ODs.  I got 269 downloads ,and earned $ 136.88 for July.
Looking forward for the month of August, hoping for a best month ever.

Some new images that are becoming best sellers:
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-757657p1.html

My New Bestsellers

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-757657p1.html

Unsold Images

All microstock photographers have some images that  we had high expectations, and never got a sale.
Here are some of my unsold images.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=757657

My Newest Images for Sale on Shutterstock