 All right. So this is my June stock photography earnings report. I'm sorry. This is a little bit late I'm posting this is almost the end of July now, but I had a really busy month move my family over to a new house So it's been pretty crazy. Haven't had as much time for YouTube or stock photography But I'm gonna try to get back into the habit of posting these at the start of the month for the previous month So here are my stock photo sales for June. It was a pretty standard month as far as like the order goes of the stock sites Evanto was first sort of stock was second deposit photos was third. That is pretty typical Now one thing that was different this month is I meet my first sale on lobster dot media Now what lobsters is it's a site that sells a user-generated content? So what it will do is they'll look at your flicker your Instagram or your Facebook feeds And then what you can do is you can set it up to auto sell those photos So I set this up like maybe six months ago when I haven't had a single sale But I got my first sale this month. So it's a good idea in theory It doesn't look like there's that many buyers on yet or maybe there's on there But there's not buying my photos But it is promising to see you get a first sale and I'm hopefully that I'll get more sales on This site in the future one of the good things about this is you don't actually have to put any effort into setting it up Right, you obviously have to link your accounts and set it to auto sell But after that you don't have to upload your photos all the time So it's probably worth it to set it up If you do post to the social media sites just to see if you do start getting any sales So June wasn't really a great month for me for my stock photography sales If you compare it to May and may I made around six hundred and thirty dollars then June I only made 360 so that's almost half But that happens sometimes when you're selling stock my portfolio didn't change at all I just didn't get that many sales that month one of the things I noticed is is that Sometimes on one of the sites I'll make a big sale and normally that will happen like about once a month So maybe on my own website or 500 px or find out America But I didn't make any big sales on any of those sites in June Which is probably one of the reasons why June was a bit lower now another thing that could have contributed to the Low sales was I wasn't really uploading many photos on the stock sites in June So I was really busy, you know preparing for the move and getting my family moved over to the new house I didn't have a lot of time for stock photography One of the things that I did do was I went on to view bug and I submitted all the photos that I had on there over to Their stock sales section now I went through I did that which was like about an hour and a half of mindless You know pointing and clicking and taking the photos that I'd uploaded previously and then setting that to be sold as stock But it's been almost a month since I did that and they haven't even been reviewed yet So it doesn't look like view bug is really serious about selling Setting up like a stock store on their site, but maybe in the future they will be so we'll see if those get accepted And if there's any sales from them another thing that happened over the past month Was one of the sites that I uploaded my photos to went out of business and this happens all the time the stock Photography there's constantly new websites coming up and then after a year or two They then go out of business the one that went out of business recently was called we mark And it was a bit interesting in that it was a stock photography site But it was based on a cryptocurrency So there's a number of these sites that have popped up over the past couple years and what they do is they say that they're gonna Revolutionize the stock photography industry by using cryptocurrency Or you know Bitcoin like technology to sell your photos But as of yet none of them have been really successful And I've been kind of keeping an eye on them and I don't think any of them are really Set up for success here because they don't seem to be really focusing on the right things So what we mark did was they basically just set up a stock photography site with their own crypto currency But everything else was exactly the same as the stock site There was really no Advantage to the buyers to go to we mark as opposed to going to shutter stock So they really weren't able to take the money that they made from selling their crypto currency and Convert it into an actual sustainable business one of the big problems with selling your stock individually and trying to compete with shutter stock or Adobe stock or any other sites that I saw my photos on is that those sites already offer very low-cost high-quality photos And they offer them as part of a subscription So what happens is that someone can go and purchase a subscription they can get a number of different photos and then what they can then do is they can Combine the earnings over a month and send you one payout So there's only one transaction fee from PayPal Now if you're trying to sell your photos at a low cost to buyers Individually that transaction fee can really eat up a lot of your earnings So as an example for PayPal what PayPal does is it takes 30 cents off of every transaction and then adds 2.9% On top of that right doesn't sound like a lot being 30 cents But I have my photos up on pixels and if someone donates one dollar to me for one of my photos Just does a one dollar donation great if enough people did that I would add up But the problem is is that from that one dollar 33 cents of that ends up going to PayPal So those transaction fees are really eating up 33% of that revenue now One of the things that cryptocurrency is in blockchain has the potential of doing is getting rid of that transaction fee so Allowing me to sell my photos for one dollar if I wanted to and if I could get a large enough market meaning if there was hundreds of people Spending a dollar on each of my photos every month Then that's something that I might consider doing so I've been getting a lot of questions in the comments and via email And via the web for my website about what equipment people should buy to get started in the stock photography Now my answer that probably is whatever equipment you have whatever equipment you can afford One of the things to note is that by far half the revenue I make every month are from photos shot on a D 5,000 and what a Nikon D 5,000 was is that was a Nikon's entry level DSLR 10 years ago So I make most of my sales online from a decade old camera that I uploaded a long time ago My smartphone that I have right now shoots better pictures than that DSLR So it really isn't about what type of camera you have it's more about how you use it now more recently I've been shooting on a micro four-thirds camera I've got the Panasonic G9 and I really like the micro four-thirds format because the lenses are so much smaller And I like to hike with my camera. I like to carry a bunch of lenses around It's really hard to do when you have the bigger cameras So I've been really happy with the micro four-thirds and that's all I've shot with over the past year However, there are a couple of things that the micro four-thirds cameras that have the smaller center aren't that good at One of them is really low light photography. So if you want to go and do milky way shots They just don't look that good on a micro four-thirds camera compared to a full frame So if you're gonna sell them at stock, you really can't compete that way. The other one is dynamic range Now I've had full frame cameras in the past I used to have an Econ D600 and you get a lot better dynamic range out of the full frame sensors Now that doesn't matter all the time But there's certain times when I'm shooting some sunsets and really a lot of landscape for a top photography Where I would have better photos come out with better dynamic range on the camera and that's why I got this this is the Panasonic S1r and I'm gonna use this more for my landscape photography And when I'm going to places to shoot specifically landscape shots And then I'll keep the micro four-thirds camera for just kind of when I'm out during the day or when I'm going on Hikes, I'll continue to use that Now one of the things to notice that I bought that camera 100% with earnings from the stock photography sites That's the great thing about stock photography photos that I was taking seven eight nine years ago and uploaded to these stock sites They keep selling and those earnings added up And I'm now able to buy like a brand new full frame Camera with it and that was really the goal when I started to stock was to be able to purchase new cameras and lenses Without dipping into kind of my family budget And I've kind of got to that point so I'm pretty happy about it. All right Now this is my second monthly stock photography earnings site. I'm gonna keep doing this monthly So what I've done is I've created a playlist To show all of these videos where I'm doing my energy for if you want to look back at previous ones And I'll put a link to that up here If you haven't subscribed to the channel make sure you do so now because then you'll get a notification when the next Earnings report comes out and I can let you know which sites are doing well that month best luck selling your photos online