2011 May | Backyard Silver

Get Started in Stock

After almost four years in the business,I have spent the past few months creating a “how to do it”book for aspiring stock photographers. This is now available for purchase at $4.99 using Paypal or credit cards. I’ve also posted User Reviews as I notice them.

Here is the introduction and table of [...]

Adobe Lightroom on Sale at Amazon

I use Adobe Lightroom every day in handling stock images and adding keywords etc.,and I noticed that the program is on sale at Amazon for $149 instead of $299. I’m not sure how long this will last,so snap it up before it goes!!

Here is the product link if you are interested:

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Simple “Add Pop”to your photographs

I came across this simple tip in a magazine,and thought I would pass along. It also will help me remember it as well.

This tip works in Photoshop to quickly and easily add some POP to your photographs. Use with caution with iStockPhoto as they don’t tend to like over filtered images,but it [...]

PurePhoto –new site for sharing and selling prints

I saw an article in Professional Photographer last month about a new site that is aimed at creating a community of artists displaying and selling their works of art. The team behind it is quite new –it launched in January –but it appears to be very professionally created and organized. The initial membership [...]

Best selling images in May 2011

I’ll start this post early,as I have already had two enhanced downloads from Shutterstock. Last month was a record with over $800 in sales and so this month has a hard target to beat. Luckily,these two downloads from Shutterstock at $28 each,have already pushed the earnings from that one site to $110 [...]

Sales of prints on Smugmug

I have a professional site on Smugmug,which I use to host my best photos at a high resolution,and,although I keyword the images and make them available for search,I had pretty much given up any hope of selling images via the site. I had set the pricing at about 50% more than [...]

Earnings from Stock Photography April 2011

Another record month in April in selling my images on Microstock! The total in the month grew to $836,compared to earnings of $788 in March and $371 in April 2010. It definitely shows that a focus on taking more images and getting them online really pays off. This month I had a great run [...]