00:00so you love to travel you have a phone or a camera love to take pictures and
00:06videos so how do you make money from this thing and not waste your time what
00:11do you shoot well that well that's a great great question and what we're
00:15going to talk about in this video is I want to give you a bunch of ideas so 10
00:18big tips on what to take photos and videos of when you're traveling to make
00:24money from microstock okay so the number one is why capture these moments when
00:30traveling and make extra cash number one is this it's a lot of fun it really is
00:35it's like hunting but you don't have to kill anything plus you're already
00:39traveling you already have you know a good camera or maybe a phone so why not
00:45right it's really a pretty cool thing to do so the number one tip is you want to
00:51shoot both photos and videos okay photos sell faster but videos sell for more
00:58money okay why not do both double your chance of the sale maybe somebody wants
01:03both and a great another tip too is when it comes to both of them you like a video
01:08should be 6 to 15 seconds right and a horizontal is better this way okay for
01:16videos this way is better okay it also depends on what you're shooting if it's
01:22like a skyscraper then obviously this could be be better but generally speaking
01:26horizontal is better okay all right next one it really comes down to supply and
01:34demand okay like most things in life so you want to shoot things that other people
01:41don't shoot okay for example a lot of people are shooting you know land uh landmarks
01:47like the eiffel tower right so it's gonna be hard to get noticed if there's so much
01:50of the eiffel tower on on these microsoft platforms so you want to be something
01:55different okay uh and that's gonna be better so you want to think outside the box and
02:01that's what we're gonna give you this well i'm gonna give you in this video all right
02:04number one is everyday street scenes right uh capturing normal people going
02:09throughout their daily life sells better than stage stuff uh it could be people
02:15walking shopping uh if you're listing the photo or the video uh and there's people
02:21in there and you can recognize them then with editorial photos and videos you don't
02:26need a release but if the person is recognized and it's for commercial you do need a release
02:32that's how they both work hopefully that makes sense so if there's like a brand or a person
02:37in there then just do editorial or you have to get them a sign a release which is trickier
02:43there's an app on your phone where you can do that you can ask somebody if you want but
02:46it's more work but generally commercial sells for more money i hope that makes sense um all right
02:55so you want to think outside the box so some great things at a park right uh job site you know those
03:02are great for business a hospital doing something strange like street yoga if you're you know
03:08traveling you see that you see something strange take a photo of it take a short video of it boom
03:13upload it you never know eating exercising getting off the bus stuff like that okay
03:20uh another great tip is off the beat places i love doing this when i'm traveling is going
03:27like you know strange alleyways you know not at dark time of course you don't want to be safe when
03:32you do it but like less visited temples right you know some small rundown towns unconventional
03:40travel methods you know close-ups of exotic flowers you know like family-run businesses like bakeries
03:47and tailor shops you know everyday life in small villages you know something like that anything
03:53strange like this video this is pretty strange look at this cat what the hell is he doing and
04:00now obviously i gotta point this out you don't want to overdo this and go crazy this is just a fun
04:05little hobby that we can do and make some cash out right this is not like every second taking a
04:10photo or video going nuts at this okay you just want to space it out you see something kind of cool
04:15you take a photo of it right you take a video of it that's it you know it's not too complex
04:20lifestyle and travel concepts are great ideas too a couple holding hands a travel with a backpack and
04:26a camera someone fishing you know someone's setting up a tent or cooking a meal boom while camping
04:33these just give you some ideas that kind of get you know brainstorm on what you should take photos
04:37and videos of when you're traveling you know a close-up of hands holding a passport uh ticket or boarding
04:43pass you get the idea all right um next up is architectural detail yeah like uh vintage street
04:52signs uh unique old-fashioned mailbox in fact i just discovered something today of a really cool
04:58mailbox with some art on it and bam i took a photo of it you never know right it's pretty cool um old
05:05water fountains uh alone lamp pot lamp posts on dusk or dawn uh you know iron balconies with some
05:14unique flowers a street graffiti is great i took a lot of street graffiti uh photos as well videos i love
05:23that stuff uh okay cultural festivals and events these are great because it gives you an excuse to get out
05:30the damn house right um and it's sexy you know anything different and unique that people aren't used
05:35to you know a little while ago i went to a pirate festival and of course there's a lot of stuff content
05:40right there boom pirates street parades music festivals uh garden festivals you know sports tournaments
05:49uh religious proceedings and pilgrimages all that kind of stuff it's all real cool go and check it out
05:57take some uh photos and videos of it okay nature and landscape here we go just like you know when
06:04you're a kid you ever do this when you have the scavenger hunt you have the fine weird crap you know
06:10uh but with this we can make money from it there you go uh unique things in nature right uh give me
06:17force you to go out there and take a hike uh back a long time ago i did the pacific crest hike through
06:23oregon that was such a painful experience i walked across oregon
06:27one time i ran out of water on a mountain you know i saw some couple i'm banging them that's the
06:35water man because i'm the water it was so painful my first day i sprayed my ankle on that thing i just
06:43kept going i just lived in a hammock just lived on outdoors but here's some ideas right you know like
06:50uh you know mushrooms are funky in the forest right you know cool stuff uh i feel the grass
06:59powerful waterfalls you know uh rivers you know the details of a spiderweb covering in the morning
07:06dew close-ups of insect life you know stuff stuff like that you can kind of mix it up what you want
07:12to do with these platforms and what my goal is is you want a variety of content out there so you have a
07:18lot of fishing hooks like fishing but you don't want to spam the same thing over and over again to
07:23these platforms like the same exact tree like just from a different angle right you want to mix it up
07:30a little bit so you have more variety out there and you have more of a chance to make and sell
07:35all right uh business settings are great it's something i need to work on
07:40you know uh and they have a lot of appeal more appeal than other things so when you're traveling you
07:47know be on the lookout for you know a stylish dress business person a local vendor at a market
07:54interacting with somebody you know uh close-ups of currency credit cards person at the atm you know
08:00when appropriate right you know a delivery person on a moped right stuff like that uh here's some ideas
08:08all right uh another one too which i even talk about is medicine that's the one very weak area
08:16of mine which i would love to take more i was actually at the hospital you know uh i had a family
08:21member go how all this content all around me in the hospital i could easily captured it you know
08:28and i was learning about like the ekg monitors and i was like reading about it wow that's crazy shit
08:34how this thing works you know boom you're gonna look out for it just some you know as you're going
08:40up throughout your day right so the hardest part about all this is really just uploading the content
08:46and the cool thing is is what i do is i do like 10 at a time because you want like batches to make it
08:53easier and i use ai to do all the heavy lifting you know it'll come up with tags for you and stuff
08:59you can steal what i'm using and i've been uploading to these platforms here and there's more
09:03but i don't try to go too crazy at it and there's services where you can pay to upload as well but
09:09they get a cut of it um and what i've been doing is when i upload it is i've been just you know
09:15listening to some rock music or a good podcast or somebody's this this youtuber has these scary
09:21stories so it's not too bad you know a little bit now and then you could do it and the time flies by
09:27and one last thing i want to talk about is equipment and i've had the shittiest phone in the world and
09:33i still made money at this thing so i mean obviously some of my works got rejected because of the light
09:38quality so a better phone or a better camera is still a good idea if you can do it but don't let
09:45the perfect equipment be an excuse not to do it um and there's that and uh you know microstock photos
09:54and videos is a great little hobby where you can actually you can earn some extra cash but just
09:58remember you know keep your standing it should be fun if you're not having fun doing then don't do it
10:02right uh so don't go too crazy don't get stressed out that you missed a shot or you know whatever uh
10:08you know travel enjoy life upload photos and videos and i kind of killed two birds with one stone
10:16so if nothing sells i still i still have a blast doing it okay that's my mentality all right so
10:23hopefully this video was a little bit helpful um i made another video too that has a lot more tips
10:28on microstock platforms and and really you know how to make money from it if you want to check out that
10:33video i'll put it at the link somewhere in here you can click on you can check it out and i'll put it
10:38down below as well if you want to view it so it has a lot more tips on on submitting content to
10:44these platforms and how to make money from it from your photos and videos and all that kind of
10:50stuff so even more tips okay all right well hopefully this was helpful you have a wonderful
10:53rest of your day and you take care bye
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