Stock Photography - Why you should be submitting editorial content.

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Stock Photography - Why you should be submitting editorial content.

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In stock photography the difference between commercial and editorial photos can be confusing. I will try to un-complicate the subject in this video 😁
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@philliphickox4023 8 ай бұрын

Currently I am submitting stock photos to 4 sites, downloads have been 50, 65 and 70 and 1, basically all sites generally have the same images, except for the site I only made one sale on, and I submit more images to them than the others sites. So until recently I made One dollar, and just last week had two sales for a total of 62. So I am stunned and it was editorial.

@wollertz 8 ай бұрын

Awesome! Congratulations! Every once in a while get sales like that, it is motivating 😁 Every agency has that potential, but one more than the others, the sales arent as frequent but usually when you sell something it is for more $$$! Best of luck and thanks for sharing!!

@philliphickox4023 10 ай бұрын

With Adobe to be able to submit editorial, a person has to have had 100 sales in commercial subjects. With my Adobe I have had 159 images accepted and so far 57 sales, one image has sold 10 times and a few others 5 times. What I am finding with Adobe is they are taking so long to process with QC, I have 20 waiting for approval, one I submitted 4 months ago and others 24 days ago with the Halloween theme.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

thanks for clarifying!

@mirovrlik 10 ай бұрын

Nice video Charles, I am not sure if official press pass exist for every event, if I am correct for many you must be approved by organization making event, but is helpful in NYC for many event. It was Catch 22, you must approve you have sold and publish 3 images, but you do not have PP for did this.I do not have it, but I know few photographers in city who have it. I cover many events in city, and I must ask for approval same like my friends with PP. Easiest way is if you work for press :)

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

This is true, most large organizations have to approve of the photographer even with a pass, but there’s still many other opportunities for simple editorial images that sell. Thanks for the clarification, great info!

@mirovrlik 10 ай бұрын

@@wollertz Absolutely yes, very helpful on streets event like Thanksgiving parade, rally, demonstration....

@DMTGAMEHUB 10 ай бұрын

Best educational ❤

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@mattfowlerkc 10 ай бұрын

This is good information. I barely submit any commercial images anymore. An interesting fact about editorial images is they do not use them to feed the AI.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

I did not know that! Thanks for that tidbit! Very useful!

@sharvo6 10 ай бұрын

curious ... do the AI engines filter out editorial? Or do the agencies somehow prevent AI from scraping the editorial?

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

You have to select that the photo is an editorial when you upload, then I'm sure there is some type of algorithm that checks the description, if it is not done correctly it gets rejected right away for bad caption, then I'm positive it goes to a reviewer @@sharvo6

@sharvo6 10 ай бұрын

@@wollertz Got it, thx! Maybe I misunderstood the Mattfowlerkc post, I was assuming he saying that the AI large language learning bots somehow avoided editorial images when they scrape the internet for data/images to be in corporate into the various AI apps results.

@Wisedennis-de9lw 2 ай бұрын

Thanks man fast🫡

@wollertz 2 ай бұрын

🙌

@ChooseAdventureCaliforniaStyle 10 ай бұрын

Great info! Would've liked to see the leaf blower though 😂

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

😂 Thanks!

@rolfkarlsson9439 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Charles. I have only uploaded commercial photos until relatively recently, but editorial ones sell too I have noticed.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff! Thanks for sharing

@ivanmaguire2277 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. You advised me a while ago that with my equipment, I should shoot more editorial images. This has made things easier, and it has meant more of my images are accepted

@ivanmaguire2277 10 ай бұрын

One thing I forgot to mention is that Alamy will only accept illustative editorial if you have at least 100 downloads

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for that, I didn't know that! Someone else said the same about Adobe Stock.@@ivanmaguire2277

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thats great more photos accepted means more sales! best of luck!

@ivanmaguire2277 10 ай бұрын

I am so stupid, I meant Adobe

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

It happens! Too many to keep track of 😅. I was going to look into it, I’m glad I haven’t had time 😂

@dukemarius8691 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks for sharing such useful info.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! And I hope it helps, editorials are great earners! Best of luck!

@sudipmitra9 10 ай бұрын

Nice video. Nice tips, keep them coming. Have you explored selling your photographs through Instagram? If you have done it can you make a video on it.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! To be honest I didn’t even know I could sell photos on Instagram 😅 I’ll look into it, my 10 “real” followers might be interested 🤣

@pauldarville3843 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Charlie!!

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Thanks for all the coments! They are very helpful!

@kigabuma 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Any time!

@basilboris 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for a very interesting video. One problem I (and many others) have with Adobe is that they won't allow you to upload illustrative editorial content until you have sold 100 pictures. In the last 18 months I have sold 332 images on shutterstock but only 19 on Adobe for that very reason. It's really hard to upload pictures that have NOTHING identifiable in them to conform with Adobe's sub 100 upload requirements. At this rate it'll take me another 8 years just to hit the 100 mark, then I'll be able to upload thousands of images. For someone with less than 100 sales, it's very VERY frustrating. I have emailed them and explained that I have a large collection of images that are editorial and could they make an exception, but they have not responded.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the clarification ! I did not remember that. Sales from Adobe have been pricking up, hopefully you can start doing those editorials soon!

@mikephotos225 6 ай бұрын

Charles, can you develop a video talking about Shutterstock. I recently started uploading to them again after an absence of a couple of years. (I regularly upload to iStock). I had a group of 16 travel photos in the first group I uploaded. Eight were accepted as creative and eight others were accepted as 'data licensing'. It appears that that is a new category where images are made available for machine learning but not available for sale as creative. I can't see why any individual photo was selected for creative v. data licensing. I turned off data licensing but now I'm not sure if the photos will be submitted to the creative portfolio or if I have to delete and re-upload them. Thanks. I've gotten back into stock photography with renewed interest because of your videos.

@wollertz 6 ай бұрын

Data licensing is a way to use photos that otherwise would have been rejected for one reason or another, usually quality issues or similar images, you can turn it off, but that applies to new uploads, whats up is already up, you can try removing those and uploading again. Shutterstock has been making so strange changes and unfortunately some agencies... have been sending emails about talking about them on youtube... it is in their contract and they could delete accounts so I have to be very careful about how o say things about specific agencies on youtube now 😅. Hope this helps!

@ChooseAdventureCaliforniaStyle 10 ай бұрын

Can Bambi really slam a revolving door! Isn't that impossible 😳

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

She can also make fire by rubbing two ice cubes, and she doesn’t even have thumbs!

@ChooseAdventureCaliforniaStyle 10 ай бұрын

@@wollertz most impressive 👏 wow! 🤣🤣

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

🤣

@GregKelton 10 ай бұрын

Great Video, I Didn't Know About Adobe Illustration Editorials and Also About Events. I Do Have a Press Pass, But How to You Tell That To the Stock House?

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! If I remember correctly when you upload images most agencies have notes for the editor, and you can say you have a press pass, also Shutterstock and Getty used to have an option when setting up your profile, these are the two that are the most picky about this sort of thing, I haven’t done this in years, once upload it it was good for a while 🤷‍♂️ Try notes to the editor, and definitely check your profile and make sure all the info is up! Best of luck!

@philliphickox4023 10 ай бұрын

Events can be complicated issue, depending on the country. As a rough guide line, if people have to pay an entry fee, you need a press or media pass. Complicating matters even further is the media policies of local councils and National parks. In Australia I can take images in a National park for my own use, if however I wish to commercialise them I then need a media permit and with that public liability insurance in order to get the media permit.

@azudevcr 2 ай бұрын

Hello thanks for the video. So, if my thing is to create photo montages from things around my environment, that would be commercial??? I recently started at this and feel a bit confused. Thanks

@wollertz 2 ай бұрын

Sort of. It all depends on the usage of the photo, how it is used determines if the license is rf or editorial, a RF commercial photo can be used as an editorial (used to share information or a particular event or place) but a photo with an editorial license can not be used as a commercial photo. Think about editorial photography as photo journalism. Documenting a point In time, you have to include that in the caption, and RF commercial photography can be everything else, or almost everything else

@azudevcr 2 ай бұрын

@@wollertz Thank you very much

@georgenorthcutt6774 6 ай бұрын

Do I need a model release if it’s a self portrait? I can’t find a direct ‘yes’ when I’m searching online.

@wollertz 6 ай бұрын

Yes you do!

@wollertz 6 ай бұрын

The agencies want to protect themselves also.

@georgenorthcutt6774 6 ай бұрын

@@wollertz oh, ok. Thank you for telling me!!!!!!!

@larryglatt2548 10 ай бұрын

How do you get Adobe Stock to accept a photograph as Illustrative Editorial? Thank you

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

I have been corrected in the coments, you have to have 100 downloads before the option is available

@larryglatt2548 10 ай бұрын

😮 that sucks. Thanks for the quick reply.

@larryglatt2548 10 ай бұрын

@@wollertz Repeat on the question; is that 100 accepted uploads of images or 100 downloads by clients of images? And, what does it mean that an image is not supported by Adobe Stock? Sorry for so many questions.

@mariuszomelanczuk5431 10 ай бұрын

what is the definition of 'recognisible'?

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Its supposed to be faces, but now, some photographers had had difficult situations when they use the backs of people because they can recognize their clothes. 🤷‍♂️ I haven't had any trouble with backs of people, maybe i've been lucky 🤷‍♂️

@philliphickox4023 10 ай бұрын

@@wollertz I took a picture of Cowboys hat and they would not accept it, other images even with people who are a dot in the landscape, they won't accept. I even tried just using my hands in a video and they still would not accept it without a model release.

@wollertz 10 ай бұрын

Wow, that hasn’t happened to me for a long time, I usually use a MR when ever posible, but not always 🤷‍♂️