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Stock Photography Recent Trends
My Images with the most sales over the past 6 months.
I have been selling stock photographs for almost 15 years now. Trends come and go, but you can often gage what to upload depending on the time of year. For example, Christmas, Easter and Halloween. If you are a graphic designer, or product photographer then this is easy, setting up scenes or creating images from scratch and uploading them at the right time will hopefully rack up a few sales.
In the past, most of the photographs that I have uploaded to stock sites have been travel related. I love taking pictures of new places, but I have not travelled since 2019, so I needed to come up with some content to keep the algorithms working in my favour.
I decided to start walking around my home city, documenting the pandemic mostly, closed stores, empty streets, etc. Surprisingly, these images have been very popular and are slowly becoming some of my best-selling images.
Some photographers work exclusively on one platform, or on a just a couple of sites. I choose to spread my images across multiple sites, mainly because different images sell on different sites. I currently sell my images on Shutterstock, iStock, Adobe Stock, Dreamstime, Big Stock and I have a few images on 123RF and Pond 5.
