Lovely photographer wherever you are today I wanna share my Shutterstock contributor income report that I receive in January 9th, 2019. I’m not going it is an easy way to get money but if you concern on future investment by selling digital download than being a Shutterstock contributor will one great option. So after selling 130++ download of my travel and daily life photos than this month I earned $39.37 on my Paypal account, that small amount that I believe that will become ‘something’ in the next future.
Become a Shutterstock contributor is awesome actually cause rather than keep your photo files on your computer hard disk than it might be better if you could earn few cents from every single download that you have. So I working in wedding photography industry which is mean I travel and shooting a lot for cityscape, daily life, street photography, food, and building details after I’m done in wedding photo shoot. As a photographer I could not stop taking picture and I know that you do the same thing too. Simply posting in Instagram also great but it might need times to monetize it comparing than selling all those photos in Shutterstock.
Check my video report of Shutterstock contributor income due to my January 9th, 2020 payout
One thing that I know that there are thousand of online media that need a photo for creating content, it can be a blogger, news maker, or any kind of company that need pictures every day so no matter what photography niche that you concern with than submit your photos on Shutterstock will means a lot.
If you read on term and condition than you will see the minimum payout for every download that you’ve made is just $0.25 but in fact you will able to earn more by some buyers like when I sell my moslem kebaya wedding dress than I could earn $8.49/download. My suggestion is don’t think too much for the money but keep selling photos that you love the most than if you do it consistently than you will start earning from Shutterstock.
What Photos That Can Be Sell as A Shutterstock Contributors?
It’s EVERYTHING!
No matter what you shoot than you will always have a chances to earn money from it, as I said I shoot for travel and daily life which is mean I shoot objects that I’ve found surround me especially trash in the street and sell it on Shutterstock.
Now take a look for what I got on my Shutterstock for contributor apps below:
So when you see my photos above than you will see the income difference from every photo that I sell, it can be as low as $0.25 but it also able to grow as $1.88 and $8.49 per download based on my experience.
Do I Need Post Production Before Submitting Photos?
If you could do that than I suggest you to do post production, you don’t need to be an expert cause simple editing by using Lightroom is quite enough to process your photos. Back few times ago I just comeback from Singapore for having short holiday with my family and surely I shoot for travel photos that could be sell on Shutterstock.
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Down here I’m gonna share to you for what I did during post production before submitting my travel photos on Shutterstock, by the way I use Lightroom cause it is so fast and definitely help me so much to work for many photos, so see my Lightroom tutorials below,
How to Sign Up as A Shutterstock Contributor and Start Selling Photos?
Sooo simple!
All you need to do is sign up your email as a Shutterstock contributor and fill all the form like name, email, phone, address and two most important thing is your tax number and your Paypal account.
Once you complete their minimum payout threshold for $35 than you are eligible to receive money from your photo royalty. Surely you can sell more than photos, it could be illustration, graphic design, and video. Especially video…they might give you better money for some reasons.
I hope this story inspire you about how to earn money by selling photo and become a Shutterstock contributor so let me know your opinion about it.