Shutterstock Q&A: "Will Pexels hurt the stock photography business?"

This is a Shutterstock Q&A video where I answer some more questions that you guys asked about stock photography, the future of stock photography and how to make more money with the platform. Shutterstock is one of several passive income sources that I use in 2019.

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In this video:

• Have you ever been asked to send in your press credentials for editorial photos?
• Can I upload photos of myself taken by someone?
• Can you send the same photo to multiple stock platforms or do some have exclusive rights to your photos?
• I will be traveling to my home state later this summer and will have photos of historical buildings, barns and other similar things. Are these going to be categorized as editorial as I wont have any way of getting releases? Or can I upload them as commercial?
• Is the description important?
• Can I download images from the pexels site and sell them at the site of Shutterstock?" + how to remove stolen images
• What do you do about thieves on Shutterstock?
• At what point would you say a subject is too saturated to upload an image?
• What drone are you using?
• How do you manage your storage? Do you shoot RAW or JPEG?
• What is your thought on sites like pexels? Lots of free high quality images. Could this ruin the hard work that stock photographers are putting into it?
• I know flowers are really saturated. Do you think it's a total waste of time to take photos of flowers to upload?

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