[Leica] Shutterstock

[Tina Manley]

Just say “NO!” to Shutterstock and all micro-stock agencies. They have been the ruin of stock photography. If you want to sell your work, look at Alamy. Their prices have fallen because of the micro/agencies, but at least you get 50% of the sale.

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> On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:20 AM, 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
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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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