Micro Stock Photgraphy Agencies

A couple of weeks ago or maybe longer I made a post about my experience with iStock. I guess it came across as a bit negative, I must say that I have not been the most pleased with iStock but I also have to say that I am not giving up on them. I see a potential to make some money with iStock but at this point the potential is far out of reach. So I have decided to try out some of iStock's competitors, I have currently started submitting images to Snapvillage and StocXpert. Snapvillage is owned and operated by Corbis Stock Photography, iStock's biggest competitor. Snapvillage is owned by Jupiter Images, iStock's 2nd biggest competitor. I have so far like the process of uploading to Snapvillage, it is much smoother and faster that iStock. I have not found any type of upload limit with Snapvillage either, so it should be easy to get a large portfolio with them rather quickly, very much the opposite of iStock. It is so hard to get images uploaded and accepted to iStock that I don't see me being able to make any real money with iStock for 3 or 4 years at best. I have been praying and asking God to give me one or two good ideas or images that will allow me to get some serious downloads, if He has given me the idea or the image iStock hasn't approved it yet. So I am still praying, if you are a believer I would appreciate it if you would add to your prayers that God would allow me to find the images that He wants me to post to iStock that will allow me to support myself on the mission field as a missionary photographer. Back to the post at hand, so far I am impressed with Snapvillage, I was impressed with Photoshelter before they closed down hopefully Snapvillage will not close. I also submitted some images to StockXpert which is owned by Jupiter Images. One of the big differences between Snapvillage and StockXpert is that StockXpert makes you submit 5 images to be approved before you can upload to their site, just like iStock. I am still waiting for them to approve me as a submitter then I can start submitting images to their site. I am not sure if either on of these new agencies will have the amount of traffic that iStock has but unless I try I will never know. There are many differences between iStock and Snapvillage and I am not sure which is better but I hope to know soon one way or another. I will keep you informed as I learn more about the 3 agencies. The image that I have shown today is one that was rejected by iStock but accepted by Photoshelter, I have submitted it to Sanpvillage to see if they will accept it. I will keep you informed.

Photoman