How to sell photos in istock
How To Sell Photos On iStock By Getty Images
well hi this is chase swift again and in
this video I really want to cover a
review of some other photos that someone
submitted to me and they were asking me
would these be good enough for
iStockphoto so we're gonna look at some
of the images on iStockphoto and then
some photos were sent to me via Facebook
now I don't want to be overly critical
but I do want to give you the truth and
I think you'll be able to see that there
is quite a difference so we have some
photos here some of these involved water
drops which I love water drops on I
imagine you do too they're fun to look
at and we also have an interesting shot
here and then we have some roses so I'm
gonna cover all these in comparison with
the iStockphoto
images so let's start with this water
drops on the leaf I'm gonna go over to
iStockphoto
and I'm gonna type in water drops on
leaf or leaves let's just do that leaves
okay so just right off the bat there's a
big difference here we're looking at
some very high quality very clean and
very let me leave this interesting they
must have placed maybe this is glycerin
but it's a studying photograph of water
drops even this one we have water drops
and it's kind of light and airy so that
someone could drop a product or some
text okay so many times your image the
background is huge huge you have a great
shot of a water drops here but the
background is killing this photograph
it's just cement or stone in the
background we have some more leaves here
it's great I mean it's okay on the
leaves but the background is is is
killing this image whereas I mean look
at this image right here holy cow
this is a beautiful one I mean that's
really taking this to a whole different
level and just the you notice how we got
rid of the background with white okay or
came in so close that the background
went out of focus or I mean you can see
I think clearly that there is a big
difference between this image and then
the images that we have here are nice
not photo so I just encourage you if you
think you have some good images great
let me look at that
that is amazing okay that's incredible I
don't even know how they did that okay
but as you go through here there's some
great shots of drops on leaves okay but
they have better backgrounds than that
so let's just say that these are pretty
weak and these stalks are torn maybe
there was a storm and I understand that
but we have big sky we have a lot going
on and then we have our drops here so I
think you got to get much closer and
even then the quality of these leaves
are kind of torn and ragged and I don't
I just don't know okay now this image
here really quite hard to tell what's
going on I understand it's very
interesting the moss but this says
nothing to me okay so I just I don't
even know where to go on here we have to
have a point of focus and I realize it's
right here but you know if there were a
diamond ring right here someone may have
lost something maybe there's a concept
of loss or if there was a coin here I
don't know there but we're focused in on
I'm really nothing and this is out of
focus and it's right in the line of
focus and it's just
something's not it's not it's not well
done okay our last one are some images
of roses it's sharp it's in focus the
Rose is a little bit old or
I don't know maybe it's you know it's
just getting a little bit wilted on the
edge here the inside I don't know it
looks okay but it's with a flash and
flash does not make things flattering it
looks harsh
it looks like it's in the middle of the
night I'm not sure why we mean literal
you have to think why are we looking at
roses in the middle of the night also
this rose these roses they're at the top
in the bottom and then a lot of boring
right in the in the middle and again
we're looking at some stone walkway very
bad the background is is killer bad it's
just it's not good at all okay so if we
go over to iStockphoto let's try again
roses okay and let's just do roses and
right off the bat I mean look at the
beauty these each one of these roses is
perfect okay I understand you know
you're not going to always find that but
these photographers went to great detail
to list you know to to lay out in in and
light and or organized in a range even
this is an outdoor shot and it's it's
fading off into the darkness here a
little bit and it's out of focus I would
call this okay but these images up here
are stunning beautiful I mean this one
is right this one could have been
outdoors but it it's just the Roses the
bouquets are close together now let's go
down here a little more this is very
nice and a lot of these images you're
gonna see room for text for placement of
text or images this one is really nice
and fades off into a light pink
background very very nice I really like
this where we have kind of a diagonal
effect and each one of these
rose's is really really nice so you can
see the difference in even these
outdoors he's got a really good rose and
then we don't have a whole lot of sky or
anything like that and there's how to
focus I would like to see this a lot
more out of focus a lot more because
there it's hard to put text or it and an
image in the background this is stunning
this is beautiful
very well done lots of room for text
people will use your images for text
and/or location of an important product
or something like that these are
beautiful isn't that nice and then you
get some nice arrangements here because
again people will place images or text
in the center so when you look at these
you're like my goodness these are
awesome and they're just very well done
when you go back here you're like
there's no way there's no way that in
comparison if this image were with all
these other images there's just no way
the quality is so high even on this if
we zoom in on that we've got great we
can even zoom in more too by the way
great you know focus here and then nice
blurry really remember that earlier
images I wanted to see blurrier this
goes really blurry really fast so that
someone can have a title a magazine
bullet points text images something
dropped in on this image because they're
gonna try and sell something and so
they're gonna use your image to do that
so this in a way gives you I think a
very clear distinction between what is
really good imagery and so the
competition is fierce yes absolutely
you really have to have your game on
you've got to be you know you've got to
look at this and say what can I do much
better much better and so you got to
look at your background so the
background is
crucial you cannot have you know a black
background well-liked it's at middle of
the night because of the flash and you
certainly can't have stone walkways that
are wet on this side this is very dark
so your eye goes there and then you're
just you're like what are we looking at
are we looking you know at roses of
course but they're right at the end of
the spectrum here are the frame so
really challenging so I hope that you
got some good education about
understanding what you know you think is
good I mean obviously the pitar were to
love the water drops that's great but
it's not even close we're gonna have a
point of focus we can't be shooting
things where it looks like it's at night
because of flash and flash is very harsh
makes harsh shadows and really
everything about a rose is soft there
are soft shadows there are not hard
shadows anywhere it's all soft goes off
into different focuses there's a good
arrangement there's a it's very soft and
delicate you're right here very soft and
delicate throughout all these images
they're very soft and delicate when I go
back here it's harsh it's boom we got
shadows it's rough it's cut it's it's
just hard okay
so those are kind of the reasons why I
mean I'm telling you the truth but
you're also seeing it with your eyes as
well you can see there's a big
difference so best of luck with you
trying and doing your best and looking
at what is here and there's tons of
images you could let you know if you got
flowers or rose petals I mean just look
at the complexity and the detail and
just the beauty of these images and
that's what it takes that is what it
takes but you get images like this you
will do well ok these images are they
will do well and they're placed on the
first page there are many more but these
first page images are the top sellers do
you know that
because of where they are okay and back
to the water drops the water drops is I
mean there's incredible detail and
beauty and simplicity and look at the
background look at the background okay
so the background is huge in all of
these and you've got it nailed down your
background actually this one I'm not so
certain that it's as good because these
are sharper and better than this okay
that's my preference I mean I'm kind of
getting it but this one's out of focus
why I don't know if the Darbar is just
shooting focus on one I'll let the other
ones go and there's only one and focus
there are some really much better images
here so anyway those are my thoughts and
ideas you're gonna do water drops look
at the competition I mean it's just
that's that's a leap that is just
beautiful that's amazing here we go this
is awesome again I'm the background is
not so great I I'll be honest I don't
like this one as much do you I don't I
like when it the background is really
out of focus so we can focus in on the
water drops purity and cleanliness and
just fresh that's what this is the
concept is all about and not so wild
about that but you know things like this
much better
we got one drop fades off into
out-of-focus one drop one drop fades
into a nice background simple nicely
done
beautiful amazing I don't even know how
they do that so these I mean this that
is stunning that is really cool so if
someone that's that's gonna grab so much
attention and they'll use that
photograph over and over and over and
over over again so hope this helps and
just come into iStockphoto
and just go to photos and type in what
you're what you're photographing and
look at the competition I think you'll
see that you got to be on your game you
have to have some really good
photographs and a lot of times it's the
background that makes your photo
this is chase wet I hope you enjoyed it
give me a like and if you are open to
earning income in another way passive
without doing anything please look at
the link in the description of this
video or there may be a video floating
on comput this video at the end and you
can find out more information about how
I make significant money thousands of
dollars every day even it'll build up to
that so I don't want to over promise and
over hype this but I am a photographer
but I also make money online so I
encourage you to look at that have a
great day bye for now
