1st sale on iStockphoto

Tobers · 05-07-2007, 7:28 PM

Bizarrely, I seem to have sold a pic on iStockphoto. I haven't received an email or anything like on Fotolia - I just happened to have a peek at my pics to see if any had been viewed. I've only uploaded 5 pics so wasn't expecting any to be bought.

The one I sold was a pic of a rather large (4lb) trout I caught a few weeks ago (alert members will remember the "River Test" pics I posted up). It wasn't the best composed one of the series as I'd cut the fish's tail out of the frame, but it had a nice rod & reel blurred in the background with shallow DOF.

It's this one....

Well, that's $0.84 for me then :-)

Happy days...I'll have to upload some more.

Tobers

Liquid101 · 05-07-2007, 7:34 PM

Nice one Tobers - I set up an account a while ago and still haven't uploaded anything.

Fotolia occasionaly inform me of sales, but certainly not every time. I went back and rest my preferences to make sure, still no joy.

Tobers · 05-07-2007, 7:47 PM

I've just found a little utility ("widget") on iStockphoto which sits on your desktop and keeps you informed of views, downloads etc without having to go to the iStockphoto website.

I'll be interested in others views, but iStockphoto seems more robust than Fotolia (certainly recently), I seem to be getting more views per pic even though I've only got 5 pics there, but it's a bit harder to use, upload etc.