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Update on the Promote Remote

I spent Saturday at the Maryland Barn Storming event near Frederick where you get to visit eight historic barns in the area,including a fantastic home created out of an old barn. This event happens every year,and is well worth supporting if you are in the area. For me,this was also a great [...]

Dreamstime –losing money by uploading a similar image

I have always known that Dreamstime have the unique approach of boosting the cost of an image as it become more popular,and so after 50 downloads,an image moves into the highest price category (Level 5.) I have one of those:

Original Image

This one sells well on a number of sites,and [...]

Stock Photo Secrets

Don’t get too excited –I haven’t suddenly come across the alchemist’s dream of a way to turn a boring snapshot into a million dollar stock image. But I did come across a very interesting site aimed at explaining the ins and outs of the stock business. The site is professionally put together and focuses [...]

Promote Remote Control with the Canon 5D Mark II

I’m keen on realistic HDR images,and one of the restrictions in Canon firmware (at least in the 5D Mark 2) is that you can only take three exposures automatically,which normally means that I take one normal one,one at -2 stops and one at +2 stops. While this captures most of the information,[...]

Avoiding Blur on slow shutter speed shots

Blur,or camera shake,occurs when there is some movement of the camera (or the subject) when the image is being captured. In this post,we will ignore the subject movement and concentrate on avoiding blur in the camera. I have only tested this on my Canon camera/lenses,so I am not 100% sure if [...]

Earnings from Stock in May 2011

Well,the results are in,and…

Not too shabby,but not as good as the last 2 months that had set a roaring pace with quite a number of high priced downloads. Most of the sites performed to the normal levels,with a little growth. I added around 70 images in the month to each [...]