Author Topic: Hypothetical 1 million dollar bet question (Read 3787 times)

mklrnt · « **on:** February 16, 2016, 04:02 »

If microstock would be your only job/income/activity, how many images could you get approved monthly without hiring anyone if only getting pictures approved would be goal? Commercial value etc. secondary just getting picture approved would be goal.

I have seen few contributors like Africa Studio and Elnur in Shutterstock who upload and get approaved around 2000 images to 10,000 images monthly (neither one of those contributors do all the job by themselves thought Elnur has other job besides microstock too).

If someone would offer you 1 million dollars and you would have to do all shooting, editing, keywording, uploading, finding models, planning the shoots, buying and finding all props etc. by yourself and would give microstock 1 year what you think could be maximum amount of pictures you could get approved if you would put all your effort and time and 1 million dollars would be reward? Just photos and reasonable amount of variation.

What you think could be your monthly average upload in one year period if 1 million dollars would be guaranteed as reward as long as you get those "maximum uploads"? With 100% effort and focus could you get 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 images per month? What would be the limit that you would find "bet" realistic to take?

Dumc · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2016, 04:42 »

sharpshot · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2016, 04:45 »

Quote from: mklrnt on February 16, 2016, 04:02

....What you think would be your monthly average upload in one year period if 1 million dollars would be guaranteed as reward and you would be able to give it 100% effort and focus?

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more

mklrnt · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2016, 05:16 »

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more

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Sorry I rewrote the original message. Idea was that someone would say if you can upload for example 120,000 pictures by yourself in one year and get all them approved with reasonable variation. Here is 1 million dollar for you.

What you think would be limit for yourself as single contributor doing all the work alone? I just saw those few contributors who can do 2000-10,000 new pictures monthly but they have more than 1 people working so those would not be counted.

PinHead · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2016, 05:41 »

Quote from: mklrnt on February 16, 2016, 05:16

For a guaranteed 1 million, I would do 1 a month, why do more

Sorry I rewrote the original message. Idea was that someone would say if you can upload for example 120,000 pictures by yourself in one year and get all them approved with reasonable variation. Here is 1 million dollar for you.

What you think would be limit for yourself as single contributor doing all the work alone? I just saw those few contributors who can do 2000-10,000 new pictures monthly but they have more than 1 people working so those would not be counted.
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I'm sorry but it's a silly question

No one can reach 120 000 images accepted ,over the year.
I'm happy if I manage to upload 200 clips per month and not talking about pictures (where the rate of rejection is huge).

Red Dove · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2016, 06:02 »

If someone offered me 1 million I'd take about 100k of that and pay several other fools to do all the work whilst I drank scotch all day on a yacht crewed by lovely ladies - oh wait that's what Oringer et al did.

panicAttack · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2016, 06:26 »

i believe about 200-300 images monthly

alone i can't make much more.

you could just ask: "if microstock is your only job/income, how much images can you make monthly without hiring anyone"

Epsilonth · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:31 »

This guy has 178558 images. http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Mrsiraphol He started in 2012 so it's 3700 monthly. It's not impossible with good weekly plan.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:39 »

I do everything myself, and I do what I think will pay off. Which is most for Stocksy and a few for micro. Why waste the time there?

PinHead · « **Reply #9 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:40 »

Quote from: Epsilonth on February 16, 2016, 07:31

This guy has 178558 images. http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Mrsiraphol He started in 2012 so it's 3700 monthly. It's not impossible with good weekly plan.

That guy has over 100 images of the same subject in different angles if someone want to build such a port...maybe it is possible

StanRohrer · « **Reply #10 on:** February 16, 2016, 08:38 »

If you come into this game with a large library of images, then the effort is to upload and check existing keywords. If you start with no library then shoot, retouch, keyword, upload will be a much different/larger effort.

mklrnt · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2016, 11:01 »

Quote from: Epsilonth on February 16, 2016, 07:31

This guy has 178558 images. http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Mrsiraphol He started in 2012 so it's 3700 monthly. It's not impossible with good weekly plan.

That is really impressive amount if he is doing that all by himself! But like Sean Locke wrote "Why waste the time there?" in real life estimating and doing only shoots that will probably be worth time and effort will be correct choice. That's why this was more of "hypothetical" question where only criteria would be amount possible to be done instead of if those pictures would actually turn into money.