Photo Microstock industry, which are the best in your opinion...

United States
July 29, 2007 6:02pm CST
There are a group of these photo microstock sites out there and I've seen a couple mentioned in mylot. I have not seen a good thread on peoples experience and which ones people like the most and why. I'm looking at a few my self and just joined a couple but the grapevine is always a valuable tool. So I'm wondering if I can solicit a few opinions on the best online photo stock agencies from the members here at mylot? It can be from the photographer(contributer) or buyers point of view. There is a lot of work to getting images, preparing them, getting releases, captioning, filing, editing and getting them accepted so a choice of a good online microstock company can be an important choice in starting out. Here is a list of a few I've looked at and I would really appreciate hearing about the ups/downs and good or bads anyone knows about these microstock sites. Bigstockphoto: bigstockphoto.com Istockphoto: istockphoto.com Fotolia: fotolia.com Morguefile: morguefile.com Shutterstock: shutterstock.com Dreamstime: Dreamstime.com Stockxpert: stockxpert.com 123 royalty free: 123rf.com featurepics: featurepics.com This is only a few of the photography microstock sites I've found. Do you know of more? Which ones do people recommend? I can't give a lot of input yet about them. I'm just joining and looking around at each of them myself.
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susieq223
@susieq223 (3742)
• United States
6 Aug 07
You are really serious about your photography, aren't you. That is great! You have found a lot more about photostock companies than I knew about. I applied for Istockphoto, but they did not accept my pictures, saying they had too much noise. I didn't see any myself and I have the noise reducer always on, on my camera. I sent some of my best with the application, so I don't know if I will ever get any accepted or not. Some of the sites require a dig camera to have more than 5 pixels. My camera is only 3.3, so that prevents me from even trying some. If you would like a place to get good evaluations on your photos, then try fanartreview.com. I really like that site, but it is not a stock photo site. Good luck with your search.