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- So I shared a video a few weeks back
about how to make money with photography.
And one of the options I gave you guys
was stock photography.
And so many of you were very interested about this,
so I decided to make a video.
But when I was doing the video,
I realized it was way too long
because I really want to explain everything properly.
I don't want you to give up
because so many people take a bunch of pictures
from the laptop, they drop it out there
and they think they're gonna sell.
And it doesn't work that way.
But if you really wanna learn the whole process
to be able to make money for sure,
stay with me, because today I'm gonna show you
what is the stock photography,
the kind of the stock photography websites
you have to apply for,
and how to upload the pictures,
tag them, title, descriptions.
You're gonna be able to learn the whole process
and make money from today.
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So what is a stock photography?
Stock photography are those websites
where you can sell royalties of your pictures.
You are not selling the copyright.
This is super important to know.
You are not selling the ownership.
You are selling licenses for people to be able to use them.
That's all it is.
So for example, if a travel company is looking for pictures
from Ecuador, Cuba, whatever it is,
they not gonna send a photographer
all the way there to take pictures.
They will go to stock photography websites,
they will browse for pictures they like,
and they will buy licenses, the right for them to use them.
A more commercial example will be a hair salon.
They want to open a new salon,
they have a new website and they don't have pictures.
So what they will do
is go to this stock photography websites,
and they would browse for hair salon pictures
and buy royalties for them to be able to use them.
That's what it is.
This is super important to know guys.
And you can use just your computer and a camera,
is all you need to do this.
And nowadays they allow you to use just your phone.
So this is super positive
because you don't even need to own a good camera for it.
Because with the phone is enough.
So there is no excuse for you to start right now.
And the fun part is that
you can take pictures of everything.
I take pictures of my travels,
I take pictures of everything,
because I'm thinking already about the stock.
So once you learn this properly,
you're gonna be able to think about the stock
and shoot everything you see around you,
and then put it out there and make money.
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The next thing is to know if you want to apply
in micro stock websites, macro stock websites, or both.
To be honest, everyone recommend me to do both.
So I'm gonna start to do it.
So micro stock websites are those
where the pictures are sold for very little money,
but you sell a lot because obviously
they are very cheap, so you gonna sell a lot.
And you don't need exclusivity with them,
which means you can upload those pictures to many websites.
As long as they are micro stock as well,
and they don't have any kind of evaluation test,
which means you can just start upload them right now,
which is very positive for beginners as well,
or even intermediate.
And then you have macro stock websites.
This is a bit harder to enter
because they do an evaluation test,
it takes longer,
they have to check the quality and then they say yes or no.
But then when they say yes,
your pictures are sold for way much more money,
which is very exciting.
And to be honest is worth it.
But I recommend you to start with micro stock.
And then when you have more quality,
go to macro stock because you can make more money.
And talking about micro stock,
for me, if you go for it,
go for Adobe Stock or Shutterstock,
both probably even better,
because in those websites I know they sell a lot
and they work very well
and I would even recommend you to apply many of them
because to be honest you don't have exclusivity,
so what you can do is be in 10 websites of micro stock
and just make money from them with the same pictures.
So this is very good to start guys
I would start from there.
And I will put in the description below more websites
but those two at least apply on them
because I know they work.
And then for macro stock websites,
Getty Images is the king.
Am there personally and I sold pictures
to Conde Nast Traveler, to Microsoft, to Timing
and to Business Insider, between many others.
They have amazing companies out there.
But the problem is, they are sold for little
because those big companies
they have memberships with Getty Images.
So they are sold for little money,
but the same time is great as a photographer
to have your pictures published
in certain amazing publishing companies.
So I will keep pushing with Getty Images
because I actually sell a lot,
mostly travel pictures, and it does work.
And the other stock that I love is Offset.
Here is even harder to enter than Getty Images,
I would say.
They do an evaluation test of 30 images are placed,
but then when you pass,
the pictures are sold for a lot of money,
and you take a big cut,
and I'm very happy with this website,
it's actually the macro stock version of Shutterstock.
It belongs to the same people.
I will put more websites as well but I'm just talking
about my own experience to recommend you
what it works for me.
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Now that you know what is stock photography
and which kind of websites you have available,
you just have to register yourself in those websites
and then start uploading.
Is a super simple process,
so I'm not gonna explain,
there is instructions and it's super simple.
But if you have any question please ask.
I will be very happy to help as always,
and I want to remind you to subscribe to my channel
because I'm gonna release two new videos about this.
Being super specific about which pictures sell the most,
how you have to edit them,
and how do you have to shoot to make sure
you are not rejected by the companies and you sell the most.
So press the bell button to be notified
as to straight to my time for this.
And now what I want to explain you is how to title,
how to describe and how to tag your pictures.
For example, if you have a man in the park
talking on the phone.
The title would be something very short
it will be "Man talking on the phone."
Then the description would be the same as the title
but more descriptive.
So you will put, "Young man talking on the phone
"while sitting in the park."
And then tags, I recommend you to put from 20 to 40 at least
because this is super important for discovery,
and you would put "young adult, adult, technology, writing,
texting, communication, social media.
You have to put a lot of tags.
And to give you an idea of this,
I will release another video super specific
about how to do it.
Because if you don't master this part,
you're not gonna be able to be discoverable by clients.
So you really have to master this part
and the part of how to shoot the pictures.
And this is gonna be in the next two videos
I'm gonna show you.
And I'm gonna carry on talking about agencies.
Maybe for a start, you don't want this
but I recommend you if you're gonna drop a lot of pictures
and it's a lot of work for you
to do the tags and everything.
Believe me, it's time consuming.
You can sign up with agencies,
and the only thing you have to do
is shoot and pass them the pictures
and they take care of distributing the pictures
to different stock photography websites.
And they do the titles, descriptions and tags.
This is super good guys
because you don't have to do anything else than shoot
and send the pictures.
But they keep between 40 and 50% of the benefits normally.
Am with one from Spain called Addictive Stock,
which is super good.
They work internationally as well.
And it works very well for me,
they keep 40% of my benefits, but I already sold with them,
and I'm very happy.
But I always try to do it myself,
obviously to have more cut of my pictures.
But when I wanna save time and I'm very busy,
I send them to them and they do it for me.
And another good agency is called Westend 61.
I'm not with them.
They keep 50 ,is it 40,
but they work super well guys, like I know so many people
who are with them and it works amazingly.
So just so you know there is agencies available
if the tagging thing is not for you.
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Model and property releases, this is a must.
This is the legal stuff.
Every person that appears in your picture,
will need to sign a model release.
And same goes for private properties.
When you are shooting in a private property,
you have to think that you are making money
with the pictures.
So you need the consent of the owner of that property.
So you have the templates in the website model release
or property release is called.
But if you don't want to download the template,
and fill it and everything because it's a bit more hassle,
download an app called Easy Release.
Is super simple to use.
Even the same day of the photo shoot,
you open a new release in the app
and the person can just sign it and fill it there
and it's super quick.
So I would recommend you to use the app
because it's less hassle and it's quicker.
There is no way around this guys
because this is the legal stuff and you have to do it,
if you wanna sell.
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It's super worth it to start with the stock photography guys
because with what is going on in the world right now.
You cannot rely on clients too much.
It happened to me during the lockdown.
So I promised myself right now,
I will dedicate more time to that.
And at least a minimum of one day per week,
I'm gonna shoot for stock photography websites,
and build my galleries even more
because I have these more galleries
and I'm making money.
So imagine if you're making one session per week,
you're gonna grow and grow and grow
and have even a salary from it.
And when you cannot rely on clients during a lockdown
for example, because it happened right now,
you gonna be able to rely on this money
because the companies still need pictures.
All the magazines, editorials still need pictures.
So please take the time to learn properly
don't just skip this process and drop a bunch of pictures
because that's not gonna work.
And please make sure to subscribe to my channel
and press the bell button to be notified.
Am gonna be releasing in two more videos about this,
being super specific
about how you have to shoot those pictures,
to be able to make more sales
and don't be rejected by those websites.
And you will be able to know way much more
about how to be found by clients
with meta tags, descriptions and titles.
Please don't hesitate to comment below.
I'm always super happy to help, if you drop me a question.
And I will see you back here very soon guys.
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