Pictures of flowers are currently ranked #2 and #4, and a picture of a brick wall is ranked #31 on Shutterstock's "top 50 photos."
http://submit.shutterstock.com/top50.mhtml
Hmm. Pretty darn good for "don't submit these"-type photos, wouldn't you say?
Right. That's why I waited for the right lighting and shot this brick wall the other day. It was promptly accepted by a reviewer on July 9, 2008 and has sold 5 times since then.
It's certainly not my top performer, but it brings in steady money and didn't take much time at all to compose and process. Plus, I think it's a nice generic image which will have continual appeal.
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I've also found that many of my top sellers are the simple ones, I have a photo i took of the 'mind the gap' sign painted on a railway platform which sells well. and if you can get images of flowers accepted the do sell well, as do photos of food even tho they are relatively easy to take if you set up and take many photos in one session. Street signs of well known streets and simple to make 3d renders and photo-shopped backgrounds are other examples of easy to produce images which can be good sellers The problem is that sometimes photos like the brick wall sell well and other images almost identical to it sell not at all, you just never can tell.
Hi Steve!
Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, simple certainly is the best seller at times. Would you mind providing your photoblog site address? Perhaps we could exchange links. Thanks!
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