at .10 a download I'll be paying off my lease in ...well, a long time. But, it's seems like a fun place to be for beginners!

I like the way the pro site works, it's a fun concept.

Just a fun fact: They listed that they sold 250,000 images last year. From those images sold 10 cents was paid to photographers for each image. That equals $25,000.

The company sold each of those 250,000 images at 50 cents each equaling $125,000. Of that only $25,000 went to the hundreds of artists providing the artwork which the business runs off of.

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$100,000 doesn't sound like a lot of money to finance it; when you consider the volume of traffic they move (25 gig yesteday), and the labour cost of having people look at each image that gets submitted.

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Maybe they should sell the photos for a bit more than 50 cents. Before the days of the internet, film stock photos costed a LOT more than 50 cents.

I have a few photos up there, and in 6 months I've made 40 cents. Woo Hoo!

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From what I understand, stock agencies still sell photos for an ass-load of money each.

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Professional photo-stock CDs are incredibly expensive. We're talking $250 US for a CD with 20 images. All things considered iStockPhoto is a pretty decent deal.

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Anyone know how to break into the bigger agencies? I've got a bunch of photos laying around that i think would sell, but i'm not letting them go for a measly .10cents. Thats rediculous, besides if they download it, they can turn around and sell it themselves from istockphoto if they wanted to, to a bigger agency. But, any help with the stock agencies would be appreciated, thanks!

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Great concept.

I'm using this one [link]

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I think iStock is great. I go there, sxc and here (dA) for all my stock photo needs. of the three, iStock is the only place that charges is anything, but i think that's good. i don't think many people understand how much time is put into taking a set of photos, or even manipulating one. it's not always easy work. iStock at least gives something back to the artists for all their efforts. yeah, it may be a measley "10 cents" but it's better than nothing (hahah.... college student here. can ya tell?)






sorry if that didn't make sense. it's the middle of the night and i'm way past tired