Microstock Photography Stats – Senior Couples Indoors vs. Outdoors
Posted on May 13th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
As I mentioned in my earlier post, couples were the most popular theme for active senior images. I was interested in the setting for the images (indoors vs. outdoors) and decided to analyze the impact on downloads and downloads per image.
I found the difference is very interesting. Even though there are over three times as many pictures of active seniors in outdoor settings vs. indoor settings, the downloads per image are significantly higher. Indoor shots perform 28% better in terms of downloads per image.
The average for all couple shots is 781.3 downloads per image, so indoors are doing better there too. I think it would be worth adding some indoor compositions to your portfolio if you’re shooting active seniors.
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The indoor image is a far more natural and spontaneous moment than the outdoor one and not surprising that it sells well…interesting that after doing a Tin Eye search I found that the outdoor image is no longer available on Getty and is available on iStock but that particular images is listed as having 3 downloads…where are you getting the download figures in the several hundreds from? The indoor image is from a series of 162 images and at an average of 944 downloads per image the total becomes 152,928 yet the artist has had a total of 18000 downloads. I'm confused.
Hi Paul,
These were two representative images for the set of indoor vs. outdoor. The aggregate data refers to data collected from the Top 60 (top 20 on DT, FT, IS). Sorry if this was unclear. I'll be more careful in the future.
The stats are not stats for those images; but rather for all the indoor images of couples in the Top 60 images.
Hopefully that makes more sense.
Rahul
Apologies for an incorrect figure…the artist has had 180,000 downloads, but I still can't figure out how you get such figures for an average per image