Payout from ShutterStock and new gear
After a very long period of counting every download I get on shutterstock.com, I’ve finally received my first payout of $249.10. It was a great feeling as this is the first payment I’ve ever got from taking photos.
As I live in a country where you are not allowed to receive money by PayPal (they will add this option in a near future), I chose moneybookers as a payment option and afterwards transfered the money from my moneybookers.com account directly to my bank account. If I would have chosen check as a payment option it would take about a month to get the money and the commissions would also be much higher. Here’s the screenshot from moneybookers.com:
As most of the photographers I spent all the earned money on new gear. I bought a bit longer zoom lens Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO to replace my old Sigma 70-210mm 1:4.0-5.6 UCII zoom lens, which I’m going to sell in the next few days. The new lens is just avesome, now I can get closer to some wildlife, take some even better macro shots and what I love the most - shoot people from a distance, so they don’t get disturbed by me and feel natural. If you still have no tele zoom lens with this range, you should get one!