Shutterstock Best Selling Images

So many people around the world in search of image media for their business purposes. There are top ten Powerful image subjects that people frequently search and buy in stock photography websites like Shutterstock, Getty, istock, Adobe stock, Dreamstime and others. No need to think about "what to shoot? which one has more demand? which image subjects have more searches " I will share top selling topics with you all get inspired to shoot more. have a chart filled up with these topics and shoot it on day wise. that's what I do    

Top Ten topics for stock photography

Landscapes

Inspiring Motivational Landscapes that have a concept of peace, Nature, Majestic, powerful, etc.. People in search of these conceptual images for adding them in their business articles. Say for example a travel adventure organization wants to develop a website banner with inspiring motivational images like big hills, Snow Mountains, waterfalls, big trees all that tend the travel adventure people when they see that banner and start taking that decision to join the club. so inspiring landscape pictures have that powerful meaning to communicate something that is very hard to write or explaining it in words.  
       

Landscape Photography source: Shutterstock

Edited Photoshop images

Some people think like unedited images or powerful images. Images with no Photoshop editing look like raw images. But this topic is not related to Photoshop retouching. It is about changing the image to a different level.

Something like people in the fantasy world adding effects like people do crazy kinds of stuff. Showing that in crazy form using Photoshop is more possible. 

Non-Isolated Objects

A ball in a swimming pool, A hand working with the remote control. In a tailors table Fabric cloth materials kept with scissors, measuring tape and all other tailoring materials added and shot. All these photos are non-isolated objects which help to communicate better    

Non-isolated Objects

Digital Vector Illustrations

Digital Vector Illustrations have more value because it is a vector type of a file that is scalable with no pixelation problems.  if one can able to work with illustrator software he/she can make vector illustrations and designs. no idea about this software? learn some basics and start doing some simple designs and illustrations that have a unique concept like "go green", "happy mother’s day",  etc...

Vector Pattern Source: Shutterstock

Holidays and Celebrations

we can see massive sales at holidays and celebration time if we sell Stock images with this topic, Stock images that relate Christmas, Easter, new year, Diwali, etc... More people around the world were looking for images this time to make use of it. 

People's images

Stock images of a person who is happy, sad, angry, and hungry, he/she is writing, drinking water and anything with a theme is ok to sell in Shutterstock. Doctor, civil engineer mechanic, plumber, carpenter, Indian, Asian, or from any country around the world is ok. But one condition, upload the image with the model release form with the signature of you the photographer and the model who is in the photo accepting to upload the image in Shutterstock which he/she knows that the photo going to worldwide after uploading it in Shutterstock.

Boy playing in the water

Isolated objects

Stock images of any object in a plain background white or black with one condition, no brand name or logo nothing should be in the object can be uploaded in Shutterstock, Why it is isolated in the plain background so that it can be removed easily and can be used in any other location. Or some time image ready to use it with plain backgrounds with the contents placed above the plain areas

Isolated Cooking Mushrooms 

Coins isolated

Backgrounds

Backgrounds for Slides business brochures, pamphlets and for so many purposes backgrounds are needed. Anything which looks like backgrounds is ok to say something like bokeh lights, gradients, pattern designs, textures, and more. One can shoot using a DSLR camera or software like an illustrator or Photoshop can be used to make designs and textures save it as JPEG images or EPS if it is a vector file uploads it in Shutterstock.

Bokeh Backgrounds

Bokeh Backgrounds

Concepts

Shooting Stock images with a story inside or Social Issues built inside like Global warming, Plant trees, save water, etc. are ready to use images. So that it has more values. Try selling Stock images with concepts which have social messages or story inside anything small to big it depends upon the impact.    

The story of a lonely candlelight

Anything that inspires you

People living in a place that has an environment we grow up with that environment which inspires us to take pictures within that say something like tradition, culture, food habit and attitude. So this is one example for "anything that inspires you" people can’t put effort into traveling one part of the world to other parts of the world can take pictures which are around us and that is only the possible way for them anything that inspires us.

The another way of explaining this topic is getting specialized with what we can, what we love, where we are more convenient with say something like some photographers like to take portraits some like still life, landscapes, so learning everything doesn't mean to do everything. so first learn everything, explore, practice, analyze and then specialize   

Find out where our concentration goes around what we learned so far what we love to do, choose them and do it as you like it 

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