Good Afternoon Everyone,
Just wanted to share a bit of happy news. I have recently started uploading images to istock and had my first two downloads this week. Sure it's only $1.20, but it's a start and I'm thrilled! I've sold plenty of images directly to clients over the years but stock is something completely different for me, much more anonymous and ambiguous than I am used to. I'm looking at it as an opportunity to be "Commercially Creative". Anyway, the image I sold, I posted in the photo critique forum prior to upload at istock for reaction. Ronnocco ripped it up, critique wise, and threw it in the ash can. Consumed with a wish to "show him" it was still good I clipped and added a bird from another shot to add interest and a focal point. Ronnocco still didn't like it, but I did, and that's what matters. So it's been the only image in my istock portfolio for two weeks waiting for notice (I'm still starting up and want to see how it all works ~ so I'm going slow.) and it worked!
Thanks Ronnocco! If you hadn't burned me on the butt about the unedited image it would probably still be languishing in the search gallery somewhere.
Here's the thread for the interested few:
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