Microstock Learning Goals

March:

-Read Online tutorials
-Watch YouTube videos about photography
-Check out photography books from the library
-Research camera I need to buy and equipment I need to get started

April:

-Experiment with desired camera models in the store
-Research requirements of microstock site membership
-Continue Library reading about photography
-Decide which photo editing software I want to buy

May

-BUY A CAMERA!
-Experiment with pictures, different backgrounds, and lighting
-Find materials to make my own photo box or buy a kit
-Edit my best photos

June

-Practice taking more pictures and experimenting
-Take a class on photography with my camera
-Edit my best photos from this month
-Find a forum for peer critique or have Porter's Camera supply critique one

July

-Submit to 1 or 2 microstock sites for membership
-Take more pictures with suggestions from rejects (or hopefully I'm not rejected)
-Take another photography class

August

-Of course continue taking more photos and editing the best
-Submit to iStock (apparently it's one of the more difficult ones to get into)
-Seek advice from fellow microstock photographers if things aren't going well

September-February

By this point, I'm hoping I have gotten accepted to several microstock sites and I will try to submit 15 photos per week to each site. That should get me about 360 submissions by the time my year deadline is up. I will be successful in this business!