Free Photo of the Week at Shutterstock
I was contacted last month by Shutterstock to see if I would consider donating a photograph to their "Free Photo of the Week" section. I must admit, I have mixed feelings about giving away photos for nothin', but because it was SS it seemed like a good opportunity. They gave me the option to exclude 4 photos from their selection (I decided I didn't need to exclude any), and in the end they picked the photo below that was only a few days old at the time.
Just for the record, have you ever heard the phrase No sky - no photo? The sky was ugly and this photo sucked, but it's not every day I come upon a momma giraffe and her baby, so I figured it would be worth the time in PhotoShop to drop in a sky.
| This photo was added to the front page sometime after midnight this morning. It had only 11 downloads in 3 weeks online. Funny thing is, it had 3 paid downloads today. My sales today were quite high*, I must be benefiting from increased visitors to my portfolio. I enjoyed both increased subs and on-demand downloads. *Note: when I say "quite high" I mean back to levels of the good old days; my first 6 months on SS. The number of free downloads do not appear anywhere in my account, so unless they inform me at the end of the week, I will have no idea how many freebies have been issued. Yes, I'm looking forward my overall numbers at the end of this. Hopefully there will be an afterglow effect! |
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Just for the record, have you ever heard the phrase No sky - no photo? The sky was ugly and this photo sucked, but it's not every day I come upon a momma giraffe and her baby, so I figured it would be worth the time in PhotoShop to drop in a sky.
Posted by Lorraine Swanson at 3/10/2009 12:00 AM 
Categories: Shutterstock
Tags: photo free shutterstock microstock
Categories: Shutterstock
Tags: photo free shutterstock microstock
Amazing, how much the sky can change the look of the image. You made the right choice changing it. Looks much better.
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It is really good to be listed on the Shutterstock homepage - I was there last year and it almost double my earnings for those one week! So if you get such opportunity - never say NO
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Oh no! I shouldn't have bragged until the week was over! Day #2 has been just another ordinary day! I've jinxed it!
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It's also the #3 most popular on SS this week.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/top50.mhtml?span=week&filter=all
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Thanks for pointing that out Matt, I never would have checked. I see the giraffes are there between last week's potw and this weeks vector. I couldn't even find it on the first 20 pages of the regular animals category; maybe that will change after a week of freebies and give it a bit of life. It sold again as sub today, poor buyer.
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Hi,
Glad to stumble your article...Nice photo keep it up...
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