Comments on: Shoot Daily and Contribute Nightly Challenge

By: Willis Shackleford

Willis Shackleford — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:17:01 +0000

I work a full-time job from 5:30am to 9:30am then again from 2:20pm to 6:30pm so I have the middle of the day free Monday – Friday to shoot. 15 a day is difficult for me only because of the editing and key wording aspects. I however do try to shoot, keyword and edit 3-5 per day. It’s not 15 but my portfolio at present is just over 100 accepted images. I’ve been a photographer for over 30 years. I just entered into microstock about 2 months ago. I’ve had great success at all the big (6) except for iStock. I stopped uploading to iStock a few weeks back because they are just to ridiculous with the 80% rejections for me. Granted they want what they want but I just can’t seem to find what that is. At present after only (2) months in the business I’m earning just over $100 per month with a very small portfolio so I will keep at it and maybe someday in the next few years I can go full-time and increase my daily uploads by 300-400%.

P.S. Thanks for a great site. I enjoy reading the articles and seeing what others have to say. I have also signed up at Yaymicro as a referred photographer from this site. I hope it helps!

By: pdtnc

pdtnc — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:25:28 +0000

I’ve got some good motivation to keyword… (my fiancé beats me with a stick if I don’t).
Doing big batches is a nightmare, I have such a backlog of shots to go through its a bit disheartening. I go in spurts, I massacre a load of files occasionally…
Once the backlog is gone I will feel more productive that the files I have just shot will be the files I then upload soon after, though at present time I am still working on files from mid 2007.

By: one8edegree

one8edegree — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:29:31 +0000

Being an illustrations artist i am also giving myself a challenge . you can check out the details here
http://www.one8edegree.com/pixelblog/?p=16

By: Pixels Away

Pixels Away — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:11:23 +0000

Daily Microstock Shooting – Are You Up to the Cha…

He is starting off with 15 pictures per day and has a number of followers with similar goals. Are you up to the challenge?

Well, I am not …

I am actually thinking about slowing down with microstock photography. After 5 months of intense work …..

By: prophotolife

prophotolife — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:35:14 +0000

Right on…goals! I look forward to hearing the results.

By: Matt Antonino

Matt Antonino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:07:28 +0000

Thanks for the link to my post Lee. I’m definitely “in” this challenge, obviously.

Through 11 days of this challenge, I’ve uploaded 119 photos and have 22 to upload right now. That’s 141 so by the end of the 11th, I’ll have submitted 141 pictures or 12.8 per day. It’s not quite my goal.

Here were the problems so far:
Didn’t upload on day 1 because I started the project the 1st.
Didn’t upload on day 4 because we went out shooting all day – but the next day I did submit 26.
Didn’t upload on day 7 because I was sick – so I just didn’t shoot or process.

My goal is unchanged – 450 new images taken/edited/keyworded/submitted in April. With 141 out of the way, I need to upload 309 between the 12th and 30th (19 full days) or 16.26 per day.

Another thing is – don’t stop at your goal! Once you hit 15 images for the day, just keep going. I’ve missed 3 days and still almost hit the target thus far because of my larger upload days. Days of 21 and 26 keep days of 11 and 0 on track.

~Matt

By: James

James — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:30:46 +0000

Awesome!! As I’m in the ‘have a full time job and are the parent of young kids’ category, I’ll aim for 15 each week Very neat that your wife does all your post processing!

By: EWRobinson

EWRobinson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:14:08 +0000

I’m in, though as a full time grad student I can likely only attempt at a few per day…