Photography Anyone use Pictorem for selling prints?

[Vas (Jack)]

Hi. Is anyone here have experience selling art prints through Pictorem? I have around 250 upload and never had any sales, though other has better luck than me. And if is worth becoming a premium on their website.

 

[panos_adgr]

Hello Jack. I've tried other services in the past and haven't done any sale at all.
I haven't heard for Pictorem though.

 

[Vas (Jack)]

Hello Jack. I've tried other services in the past and haven't done any sale at all.
I haven't heard for Pictorem though.

hi panos_adgr

What sites you have tried if you don't mind me asking? I have uploaded around 250 images on pictorem, but no luck. Have an account on photo4me, made only 1 sale, which earned me £5 net.

 

[panos_adgr]

I have tried Alamy, Picfair and getty images. I also tried once smugmug. With no sales in none.

The market is so saturated with ambitious photographers that is hard to stand out. There many many good amateur photographers in our time and very big offer of photos.

You have to be very popular and have a big number of followers and publicity in social networks to succeed and stand out.
Another important factor is the very good knowledge of tags because it is a key element in photo search for the potential buyers
Finally the total amount of payment is so small for each photo that is has no sense in doing this. Only sites such us picfair allow pricing from the seller but have small number of buyers.

Shutterstock and Alamy are very popular but they do not pay much plus the fact that there is high offer of 'products'.
We have made this discussion in the past when I still had the account in Picfair. Now I've deleted my account.

 

[Vas (Jack)]

The market is so saturated with ambitious photographers that is hard to stand out. There many many good amateur photographers in our time and very big offer of photos.

I do agree about this, don't forget people from poor countries, that are spamming these sites with stolen images from others.

You have to be very popular and have a big number of followers and publicity in social networks to succeed and stand out.
Another important factor is the very good knowledge of tags because it is a key element in photo search for the potential buyers
Finally the total amount of payment is so small for each photo that is has no sense in doing this. Only sites such us picfair allow pricing from the seller but have small number of buyers.

Hard to make your name big in today's day sadly.

Shutterstock and Alamy are very popular but they do not pay much plus the fact that there is high offer of 'products'.
We have made this discussion in the past when I still had the account in Picfair. Now I've deleted my account.

How many images do you have in your port on Shutterstock ?I took me 2 years to upload all my content across agencies. Agree, SS pays rubbish, 10c for photo. On Alamy, I have now 58$ to cash out on 1st January.

Also, with AI here, it's even harder to make any money from photos. Have you tried POD?

 

[panos_adgr]

I do agree about this, don't forget people from poor countries, that are spamming these sites with stolen images from others.

Hard to make your name big in today's day sadly.



How many images do you have in your port on Shutterstock ?I took me 2 years to upload all my content across agencies. Agree, SS pays rubbish, 10c for photo. On Alamy, I have now 58$ to cash out on 1st January.

Also, with AI here, it's even harder to make any money from photos. Have you tried POD?

You are right Jack.

I can't recall how many photos I uploaded. The most photos I had uploaded were in Picfair. A hundred or so. A small number. But yes It is hard to make money in these services.

As for POD I have no idea what it is.

 

[Vas (Jack)]

I can't recall how many photos I uploaded. The most photos I had uploaded were in Picfair. A hundred or so. A small number. But yes It is hard to make money in these services.

I spoke to other photographers, they were saying to focus on quality images that can be uploaded on these sites. I have now 5k images on SS and around 800 videos there. Honestly, don't make much.

It's number's game and also how old you have been contributing.

Try to take images using your phone as well,I do upload phone images on Getty, and some are getting sold. Mostly weird, ugly images.

As for POD I have no idea what it is.

Like Pictorem.

Check FAA and photo4me. Maybe you can have more luck.