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 | Getting Started in Stock This is a question we all ask ourselves,having spent hundreds (thousands) of dollars on our hobby! I asked myself that question over 3 years ago,and decided the answer was to sell my images. After a slow start,I have increased my income to a run rate of more [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Well,my new year resolution to post every week got forgotten last week! But I did have an excuse –I had to go to a conference in Hawaii and tacked a week’s working vacation (taking photographs) in Kauai onto the trip. Over 1400 images later,I am struggling to go through and edit the [...] I’m keeping up with my resolution to take and post new images every week! Good shot This first one was a real joy to produce. I saw a video on PhotographyTalk forum which showed how to get a shot of wine flowing from a bottle. His example was one where the wine appeared to [...] Last week I started with a New Year resolution to post once a week with some example stock images taken that week. I did this partly to keep the pressure on myself to take more images and I also hope it will be helpful to give you some ideas. This is the second week,but [...] I’ve been doing some analysis of my portfolio to try to work out if the earnings have risen because of the number of images online,or if other factors are coming into play. The answers are fascinating! Although there is a lot of doom and gloom in the stock industry,with the common view that [...] A question that I am often asked is how you can find out where your images are being used online. I use the Google Images search to do that –and here are the steps: 1. Although Google Image Search works with any size of image,it takes quite a time to upload the full [...] One of the interesting challenges in stock photography is to identify the next set of photos to take. When the weather is pleasant,exterior shots can be taken,but on cold rainy days,what better than to relax with a nice glass of wine? The Demon Drink This came from a misguided attempt to [...] |
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