>This month is my third month with DT. I've got 6 sales totally. Five sales happened in this month. The images sold are very simple. I agree that simplicity sells. We all try to be simple. It is difficult. I figured out a way to do it. When I was taking pictures, I spent a little time looking at the elements before taking. I focused on the main subject and tried to illuminate the unimportant elements around it. I tried to have the background as clean as possible. One way to do it is to move around. Different angles result in different backgrounds. Move until you get what you want! The other way is that you must have a tight cropping. Spend a little time looking through your camera's view finder before clicking. Make sure the framing is clean. I don't have a high pixel camera and it is the cheapest Canon...

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I found an old picture of waterfall and submitted it. Buyer downloaded it at first sight in a few days. You really don't know what is going to sell and how long it would take. Just submit everything you have and.. that is it! Here is the lucky picture I didn't pay much attention.

I can not believe that I just woke up and turned on the computer as usual, then I saw two sales just occurred. I could not believe that people are buying on Thanksgiving day morning, even though it is a holiday in north America only (that is my knowledge. Forgive me if I am wrong). That is a real happy thanksgiving to me! Thank you buyer! Also, many images were approved today too! Thank you DT employees for working so hard even on holidays! Happy holiday to everyone!! Here are the two images just sold.

The first image's been online for a few days and sold on a second view. It is also my first Editorial sale. The second one's been online for two months. For beginners, you will get sales soon! Don't give up! Even if your images had no sales for a long time,...

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>Since DT's front page has editorial images and tap, making editorial images more available for viewers. I think that is one reason editorial images could get more views and sell faster in a short time. The other reason is that there are so many internet medias now and the demands for editorial images are much higher then before. My own experience is that I just got editorial images approved and two were sold in a few days. I did not believe editorial images could be sold better than royal free images because of of the limitation of the usages. Now it is a really wake up call for me. Beginners, don't be afraid of taking editorial images. You have to be dare to go into stores to take pictures like you are working there. You have to ignore the suspected eyes on you. You would get "caught" sometimes, but...

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