Archived Newsletters

Sponsors of this blog

Digital Camera Reviews

Earnings from Stock Photography February 2012

February started really well on Shutterstock with three enhanced license downloads in the first 3 days of the month,but then it slowed up…

Overall,though,the month was pretty much on par with recent months with total earnings of $1120. I worked hard in the early part of the month to get as many [...]

A opportunity to obtain some unique jewelry

OK,only vaguely related to stock photography –although there are photos on the site! I finally put the finishing pieces on my wife’s jewelry site today. She makes silver wire wrapped pendants and necklaces/earrings and my job was to create a site with some good photographs,a shopping cart and an ability to browse [...]

Stock images 27 February 2012

I’ve been a bit lazy this last week…

I did some images of pancakes –this is a tradition on Shrove Tuesday in the UK,but it was this past week in the US:

Pancake in pan

Pancake on plate

Then I found some old images of plants that have been planted at [...]

Weekly examples of microstock images February 20th

Keeping up with the New Year’s Resolution by posting yet another set of images taken in the past week. I’ve focused on macro and still life type images this week:The first one is a simple image of nail trimmers or cutters and the finger nails themselves on the edge of a sink. I had [...]

Isolating a subject against white background

This short article covers a photographic isolation – setting your subject against a pure white background to make it easy to change the background or add the subject to a different composition. It is similar to blue (or green) screening but is sometimes easier to achieve without any specially colored backgrounds or cloths. A typical [...]

Ideas for Stock Photos –15 Feb 2012

I have around 200 images from my Kauai trip that are now online (although a lot of them without the critical keyword “Kauai”as a result of the Lightroom keyword export bug explored in this post!),and so rather than keep posting ones from that trip,here are some new images taken this week.

The [...]

Lightroom Keywords not exporting to JPEG

Alamy is one of the sites I upload to,and I’ve been bemused for a time when I’m adding some main keywords that major keywords seem to be missing. My recent trip to Kauai brought this home as the keyword “kauai”was missing on the uploaded files. At first I thought I had forgotten to [...]

Stock Photo Examples 7 February 2012

Much of the past week has been occupied with processing my images from Hawaii. All told,I have around 1500,but 250 of those were the timelapse movie images that I discussed a few days ago. Amazing how long it takes to review and then process all those images as I always work in Raw [...]

Timelapse movie of Hanelei Valley in Kauai

As mentioned in a previous post,I’m still working through my 1400 images from a recent trip to Oahu and Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. One of my experiments this time was a timelapse movie that I will upload to a few stock video sites. The steps are not that complex if you haven’t done [...]

Earnings from stock photography January 2012

A new year starts in a pretty reasonable fashion with total earnings of around $1150. It isn’t just good enough to keep me on track for my 2012 target of $18000,but there are still plenty of months and plenty of images to upload between now and the end of the year! I added around [...]