Trying to make some cash with stock photography business

GETTING INTO STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

I have been reading a lot around corners of internet about stock photography. I always have been interested about it but it always seemed that you only get pennies for all of your hard work.
After reading a lot about that topic I made my decision to try and get in that business.
After all now my beautiful masterpieces are just "rotting" in my hard drives and being in social media feeds somewhere, in stocks I can earn even a dime time to time from those pictures.

Lofoten, Norway from air.

I been uploading some of my photos to Adobes/Fotolias stock for a start in this industry, because it is so easy to do so when you have an account in Adobe and almost anyone doing photography do, I think. In Adobe stock you can upload directly from lightroom and it is so effortless and then their algorithms even picks up up to 25 keywords from scanning your picture and it is amazingly accurate most of the time!

They have been accepting almost all of my submitted photos and some are in review mode still. It usually seems to take about two days to get approval or rejections. Rejections for me usually has been from intellectual property as some small logos in cityscapes and stuff needs to be removed in photoshop.

STOCKSY MIGHT BE WHAT IS MISSING IN STOCK MARKET

My second stock site to try is Stocky which is kinda new in business and different from those other microstock sites. They started 2013 I think but the founder is from Istock, which is huge on stock photography field.
Stocksy pays better to photographers and only takes 500 new photographers in a year and last two years they didn't take any, so now is my change to try get in! You need to submit 25 to 100 photos to get accepted in. I posted 27 and what I read it takes one to two months get conclusion.

If you get in Stocksy, they want exclusivity to your photos that gets approved for them, so that means if I get accepted in I will post my best photos to them first and photos that they will reject, will go to other microstock sites.

Stocksy wants quality over quantity and pays real money instead of cents.
It's kinda like premium stock site as my opinion.

DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET

Third stock site I just like ten minutes ago posted my 10 pictures to get in is one of the most famous one, Shutterstock. For them you post 10 quality images from different topics or what ever you want and if they accept them, you're in, but if they reject you, then you can try again after 30 days.

I'm pretty sure to get in and when I do, I can start contribute more images and hopefully make some euros from them.
Shutterstock they have this these tiers, so after making specific amount of money from your stock photos you get to second tier and make more money on every tier.

This is from their webpage:

Your Lifetime Earnings as a Contributor*	Monthly Subscriber Image**	On Demand Image** (Sml/Med)	On Demand Image** (Any Size)	Custom Image / Enhanced License Image**
$0 - $500	$0.25	$0.81	$1.88	20% (up to $80)
$500 - $3,000	$0.33	$1.07	$2.48	25% (up to $100)
$3,000 - $10,000	$0.36	$1.17	$2.70	28% (up to $112)
$10,000+	$0.38	$1.24	$2.85	30% (up to $120)
*As your lifetime earnings increase, the amount you earn per download increases, too. This might seem little confusing at beginning but it all makes sense when you dig in to it. If you read this and have some thoughts or experience from stock photography, please feel free to leave a comment for your experience or opinion of the matter! Like somebody wrote somewhere "It takes a hole different mindset to take a photo and think that I will sell this for 1$ 100 times than I will sell this photo 100$ 1 time" I will get back about this topic when I will get some more experience from it and maybe even make my first sale at some point.