A year in stock... 2009

by Francesco Carucci

December 12, 2009
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My first full year of stock has passed, when I think I produced my best images in order to reach my objections:

- 500 images online on Dreamstime

- 1.0 download/image ration (actually 0.98)

- 70% acceptance rate

I've learnt a great deal about photography this year, tips that I would like to share here:

- Edit my own work: I stopped submitting every sharp enough image I could produce and started to edit my work very tightly. The number of images I submit monthly went down, but both D/I ratio and earnings went up

- Enjoy. It looks like a silly tip, but I don't enjoy what I'm doing, I wouldn't submit my work to Dreamstime

- Rejections: They are annoying sometimes, but I imposed to me the rule to learn from every rejection, because something must have gone wrong: a perfect image would never be rejected whatsoever. I (ab)use Dreamstime support often asking for details over some rejections, in order to learn from the mistake I've made. I learnt a lot through this approach, and support has been extremely helpful

- Equipment: lens lust is a joy, but I'm trying to choose the equipment basing on actual needs in my photography rather than what I want to own. I just got a new Macro Lens, cause I want to diversify my portfolio.

Looking forward now to 2010, where I set to my self some rather ambitious goals to achieve. I wish everyone great light for the new year and some beautiful images to share.

Photo credits: Francesco Carucci.

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December 31, 2009

Troo

Congrats on reaching your goals! Beautiful images!

When it comes to rejections, I've personally found the Dreamstime reviewers very helpful in explaining why the image didn't meet the standard.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and here's to another year of exponential growth (as an artist and financially) selling stock!

December 31, 2009

Yuritz

well done!

December 26, 2009

Crisferra

Very interesting post and beautiful pictures! Bravo!

December 22, 2009

Fcarucci

Soon enough!

December 22, 2009

Baronefirenzeit

Can't wait to see your pencils pictures!!! :P