"...but I've definitely photographed body parts of mine and sold them on shutterstock" Hold up!

OMG, first photo I ever sold on the internet was a picture of my girlfriend's toes! We were excited and weirded out at the same time! lol

Now I'm trying to figure out how I can covertly photograph my mother in-laws super crooked toes without here knowing...lol

My most common comment, which I receive multiple times every single day, is "how can I upload photos of people, properties and brands without a release form?" Before asking this question, please watch my video on commercial vs. editorial images! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jd-Hqad_qaiXoJs.html And if you like the music I use in my videos, check out this super awesome FREE trial to Epidemic Sound: share.epidemicsound.com/zdM3n Literally the most awesome place to get music for videos.

Hi Nicole, just wanna mention that your inputs are stunning inspiring to me. I started with landscapes and nature one year ago and your reports and videos are like a boost for the next season to me :) You appear honest, without an show or allyres (if I type that correctly). Tough solid and elegant breed, you! Thanks a lot and all the best for your future! Martin

You are so right about the weirdness on what sells on SS! Thanks for all the videos. I had my first 2 sales on SS with less than 100 pictures uploaded and I’ve been uploading any picture I think has any value thanks to this video! Both sales are the pictures I thought would never sell. Sorry but may have to steal some of these ideas 🧐

A bottle of Dettol on a plain white background. Sells all the time! Everyone says stock contributing is a waste of time. Hope they keep saying that cause its making you and I money. Great content! I'm away out to stub my toe cause at 64, Scottish and male the wife would complain if I started waring her heels!

back in the good days of stock I sold (well, sold via a library) a photo of a bunch of roses for £1500. I had bought the flowers for my wife 😀

It's great that you share your full experience with pictures while sharing your ideas and revenues! Feels like you're worth trusty. Keep the good work and thank you for sharing! :)

Me after this vid: *Aight imma get my bones broken...*

You are so funny..... laundry founding through Shutterstock... :):):):) here comes to toe photo... I was so waiting for that... I cannot finish my coffee, I am chocking!!! You taking photos of your toe.... hahaha.... good one Nicole!!!!! Great video!!!!

I've laughed so much with this video... you got a great sense of humor. Full of value information, thank you so much Nicole!

lmao @ "But why my toe?" ...Great vid Nicole!

I sold an overexposed picture of a bridge over a pond near my hometown in Romania for $299 on 123rf. On shutterstock I think the best I had was $36 for a photo of a mountain top...

Just started in shutterstock. Wanted to let you know how amazing your vids are!!! Thanks for sharing such great info, have a brilliant day mate :)

Love your content, especially that b-roll taking photo of your toe beside your computer. Haha!

Great video and always a good reminder to just shoot all the time because we never know what's going to sell. So far my weirdest sale was for the underside of a starfish, on a rock in flat light. $180 net to me on Alamy. Go figure!

This page is really good to watch when you are really interested in shutterstock. Love from India 😍 All the best for further videos I'm waiting for the next one❤️❤️🤗🤗

I so appreciate this video because I’ve been wanting to do something like this! Thank you so much for sharing! I think this is the best video yet that I have seen!

I love your humor! Congratulations on all your success!

My most surprising success story is a photo of a black plastic box with the traditional Dutch fish snack "kibbeling" (battered chunks of fish) with sauce on a shiny metallic table top. Sold 18 times, earned me $15,68. Didn't make me rich yet, but at least I've earned back the money I paid foro it several times.

New to ss but my best is .25. But it's sold 5 times! $1.25 total. Oh and it's a recycling bin. So random

Questions: Were you required by Shutterstock to get consent forms for the hotel video and trademarked products (dryer sheets and Lysol)? And did you have to provide one for your toe, even though it was yours? Thank you. Chuck

Paying your laundry bill with a picture of the dryer sheets you used for laundry!! Boy do I love the poetry on that :)

Great vid Nicole. Your tactics are paying off for my 3D model sales.

Thanks for the video, you just made me realize that I am not monetizing my photography of all my travels

Stoked to have found you and your channel on KZfaq. Lots of great info. We haven't downloaded anything yet, but will be doing some soon. Thanks again! Michael & Melissa

I make serial numbers for my pictures as follows: A letter prefix plus 6 digits. A=Smaller than Micro 4/3, B=Micro 4/3, C=APS.C, D=Full Frame, E=Medium Format, F=Large format. Don Slaughter

I’m from WV & loved hearing you say Harpers Ferry 😊 great video with some great ideas.

Interesting. I remember seeing a while back that my town of 100k had almost no photos or videos on stock footage sites and the ones that were actually there being pretty underwhelming. I figured there probably just wasn't a lot of demand for them but now I know that those hyperspecific photos can fill a unique niche which can be lucrative. Other people always say that you should be more like the competition but these cases prove the opposite can also be true. Although I obviously don't know the real rate at which your weird photos get downloaded.

As a grahic designer I buy photos that might work for placing text rather than a nice photo, So table tops, walls with detail around them but the center not having mcuh going on and things like that.

Nicole, just wanted to thank you for all the information and experience you are sharing on your channel! Binge watching your stock photography playlist 😂👍🏽🤪

2:43 I really enjoyed that joke a lot. You are awesome.

Mine was a line of garbage cans overflowing with every sort of item tossed out during holiday season. Another was a pile of bricks, rubble, and rebar from a building demolition against a blue sky.

The most i got from 1 download is $20 usd, its an old photo i dug up from years ago of a windmill next to a billabong. I took it with an very old 9mp fujifilm camera with a mold spot on the lens that had to be edited out of every photo i took so it was far from professional yet it sold about 6 times so far.

A puddle with an oil spill on it was my weirdest sold photo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

AHHAHA i saw your Toe PHOTO very good IDEA learn alot of things from your work Your Work is very good i upload 3 images and download 1 now i am working on it regular you guide in a good way very good thank YOU. GOD BLESS YOU

You are the most honest youtuber I’ve ever found! I really like all of your videos! keep good work! 👍🏼

Hi Nicole, great vid as usual....quick question, was the video of the Marriott editorial or commercial? did you need a property release?

I've made loads on the photos of my amputated finger...

Hi Nicole do you get the property release from the drone video? Thanks

Great to follow lesser known photographers out there.

Thanks for the insight. I have been shooting stock for many years but always as a very part time on the side kind of thing. I really want to devote more time to it and your videos are definitely inspiring. Thanks.

Just started experimenting with stock photos and after spending many hours editing, keywording and uploading old pics from my portfolio to Adobe and Shutterstock, I've had one pic downloaded twice at .25 ea. lol. Now starting to take pics with stock photo possibilities with hopes of a bit more in earnings.

as per my knowledge shutter stock pay 25 to 36 cent per download then how you get more than that? kindly guide

Thanks, Nicole, for another great video. You are the best when it comes to stock photo advice!

So funny thanks for this video ! Quick question, how many photos do you have uploaded since you began on Shutterstock ? Or you exclusive to ShutterStock ?

Hi, great and appetizing video must I say, already found wierd part of my body. The strangest photo I sold was A photo of rotten onions ;) Peace

Another great video, Nicole. I sold a photo of an algae covered water puddle for a few bucks on Adobe, that surprised me. I also sold picture of a hole in the ground for a buck, which pleasantly surprised me as well. Great advice here about uploading content that is not over-saturated.

I was wondering if doing stock photography would be a good idea and your channel is helpful! I'm studying up so I can get an account when I turn 18 in less then a month. During my research I found your underrated channel and have been watching lots of other stuff besides stock on your channel too. Keep up to good work!

I shot video of the wild fire and sold the footage to LA NBC news and got paid $150 for 8 minute footage. I was only there for two hours.

Thanks from Tampa, Florida Nicole... I'm up very early taking pictures of dryer sheets, nothing wrong with a little competition :-) Be well and stay encouraged!

You are a wonderful woman, I really like your videos very knowledgeable.keep it up, you are really helping a lot of people around the world. God bless you.

Thanks for making the video. Once again very informative. 👍

I was thinking 💭 about what you were going to show after the dryer sheet photo, and I kid you not, I thought of a TOE! What are the odds?!? 😲

Good sales. I laugh at the photo of your foot. I photographed my foot many times, but never sent it for sale. Need to make a series of photos and send for sale. Maybe I have a golden foot? )))

Thank you so much for sharing these information with us. Wish you all the best for your journey

Me: at four minutes and thirty seconds taking off my socks and looking at my feet! LOL

This is pretty hilarious.

Speaking of WEIRD, a pic of my dad's grey hair (that I snapped TODAY) just got APPROVED!😃😆 For those who are curious, my display name is 'Miscell'!🙂

The lizol and the drone shot of hotel were uploaded as editorials? Nice video

I wish there was a way to find out what those photos were used for. Would be really interesting.

Your videos are so helpful. I'm binge watching it while taking notes!

Stellar video! I love all of your videos and really appreciate your info and personality! The WEIRDEST asset downloaded (I only do video) was a macro shot of my knife sharpener. It looked a bit like a city street so I labelled like that lol. But the camera was an OLD Nikon J1 with a pinhole cut in the lens cap and a tiny but strong magnifying glass as the "lens". The movement wasn't even smooth but I actually uploaded it as a test to see if it would get rejected for jittery camera movement. Nope. Sold it for a cool $27USD LOL....

So. I work on a medical TV series and, we belong to iStock, but we download so many medical images, and body parts! :D Those and crime scene photos are our focus (if you're wondering). If they look at all realistic, we're like, "DOWNLOAD!")

Wow! You just popped out on my KZfaq Feeds and so glad I checked this video out! Thank you for sharing your tips and also what has happened to you. My friend keeps pushing me to try it out. I've always been afraid to for reasons I don't understand. But you really encouraged me to try too! thanks so much nicole! Looking forward to more vids!!

Wow are you serious girl? I'll just go back in my laundry room and take some pictures of our big gallons of Clorox bleach and laundry soap and all , that's amazing.

Hey Nicole Glass! Love this video, love your channel! We also started youtube recently to share our monthly income from stock sites, however Shutterstock's confidentiality terms of service have just been brought to our attention.... We want to keep sharing this info - we feel it's valuable and a lot of people want to know about it - curious if you found a solution. Here's the exact quote from Shutterstock: "By submitting any Content to Shutterstock, you acknowledge that you will acquire certain confidential and proprietary information, including but not limited to royalty rates, royalty payments and earnings data (collectively, "Confidential Information"). You agree to keep Confidential Information confidential and to not disclose Confidential Information to any third party other than representatives, agents, attorneys, accountants, auditors and advisors with a bona fide need to know, who shall first agree to keep the terms confidential." Thanks for any insight!

Funny, good for you and I wouldn't think of putting images of such items up on a site. I usually junk images like that in the past, but you got me thinking.

You made me frustrated and hopeful at the same time😂

I have DSLR Nikon D5100 with zoom lens. But I mostly work by photographing something (sport) and then making a silhouette out of it in adobe Illustrator. You can see my earnings for silhouettes on shuttestock, vectorstock, dreamstime...

This is so encouraging. Now I'm really depressed I sold my 5D. My toe might not like anything less. : ) Congrats, by the way! (I hope you thanked your toe.)

Great videos thank you! So your photos of any products with brand names etc. are uploaded as editorial correct?

Did she buy more high heels with that money LOL!!

Will you please make a video on how to do photo post processing for stock sites. Please

This video as well as many more you published about Shutterstock, are extremely useful. I'm planning to open a new account on SS soon, and your videos help me a lot.

Hello nicole, did you need a model release for the hotel video?

Today, Shutterstock approved my pic of our home utensils!😃 My display name is 'Miscell'!😀 (Got 20+ pics in my portfolio)

Hello Nicole! Love your channel. I was wondering, when uploading an illustrative editorial photo, do you click editorial AND illustration when you upload or just one or the other?

Can you share you export settings for stocks photos to be uploaded to stock sites?

Can I also upload my body part photos without permission

guess a lot of guys are going to start wearing heels

Great video and awesome attitude towards stock photography. I feel like i've seen your toe photo before HAHAHAHA

I stubbed my toe recently and I was inspired by this video to capture it. Don't worry though my toe is in much worse shape! Much much worse!!

I uploaded 50 of my backlog photos to Shutterstock four months ago to test the waters and see of the stock game was viable. I've had 17 photo uses, 11 of which were the same photo of a Japanese garden waterfall and the rest were all one of uses. Only one of the photos downloaded was editorial.

New subscriber here after watching a few of your informative videos. This one is no different. It’s like practically anything is game; just need to wrap my head around that. I uploaded 10 images couple years ago and have earned .75. Haha. Thanks for the great info!

So far, I haven't gotten one photo up because of the pixel perfection required but I'll keep in mind to take some of everyday things too

LOL...An email friend in the UK just sent me a note saying that she accidentally ran a sewing machine needle through a finger last night. I immediately thought of you, and told her she should have taken a photo. : ) ... Dang, that had to hurt!

I've only sold three drone videos and all three were ones I thought would never sell. What I consider to be my best stuff has been viewed, but never downloaded. I've kind of specialized in sunrises with video and HDR pictures, but I know I need to move away from that if I ever want to make anything with stock.

That's interesting that your drone shot video was even accepted by Shutter Stock.I thought that photos and videos with Copyrighted logos were prohibited by stock agencies. Did you have owner consent to use it?

...yeh "medical" journals hehe

My highest paying shot was of a thunderstorm. The shot though was nothing special; I was basically practicing taking lightening shots. Thought "what the heck" and popped it on Shutterstock. I have sold the photo several times but highest I got was $43. I also sold a picture of an old run down house in the country I edited in Photoshop to look like it's on old crinkled paper. I got $25 for that one.

Great channel. I should dig out my pictures of my spinal fusion lol. How does the pricing work? do you put the price on the picture or video or does shutterstock arrange that?

I get 0 downloads on adobe stock >_

The weirdest photo (0,25$): I was bored and I shot a photo of the shadow of my hand with my iPhone in it. Someone from Paris bought it. The most money (80$) for one picture I got with a photo of a US Army Black Hawk... I mean I shot this photo in Austria and someone from the US bought it... WHY?! Don‘t you have thousands of those over there...?😇

Hi Nicole, Great video. I love the toe picture. There is something made me thinking.. The video that made you 180 uploaded as editorial or you had a release? Looking forward to your answer.

Was the photos and videos uploaded as commercial or editorial?

Taking photos of my messed up toes from playing soccer tomorrow lol

so what you're saying is i can make a ton of money off one my toenail that grows weirdly????

Hey for the drone video do you have your part 107? Or is that something that could come back to bite you in the end?