[Leica] Shutterstock

[Gerry Walden]

I have been selling stock images for years and have seen the price per image usage fall consistently for some time now. I now rarely get enough to buy a cup of coffee with. To give an example, my brother is working on a project involving a number of images and he does not anticipate paying a cent for any of them.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 28 Jan 2018, at 04:45, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Chris. Now I understand the reason for the creator’s becoming a billionaire at the IPO!
> 
> —howard
> 
> 
>> On Jan 27, 2018, at 11:20 PM, Christopher Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sites like shutter stock are awesome if you love making other people rich
>> by giving your work away for pennies.
>> 
>> There is a lot of money being made by stock sites like Shutterstock and
>> iStockphoto, but very little of it goes to photographers.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chris Crawford
>> Fine Art Photography
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>> 260-437-8990
>> 
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>> 
>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/27/18, 10:53 PM, "LUG on behalf of Howard L Ritter Jr"
>> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
>> hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was listening to an NPR show today where an interviewer spends 20 or 30
>>> minutes speaking with some innovator or another. One of the subjects was
>>> the creator of Shutterstock. This got me interested in the possibility of
>>> trying to sell some of my images through a service like this.
>>> 
>>> This may have been discussed on the LUG previously and I don’t recall
>>> anything about it because it wasn’t relevant to me at the time. So I’ll
>>> just ask for comments/observations/advice about Shutterstock: Thumbs up,
>>> thumbs down, neutral, alternatives?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any comments from voices of experience!
>>> 
>>> —howard
>>> 
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