Category: Stock Photo Examples

Today, I have a few ideas to give you that I haven’t actually done myself, and so there are no example images. I plan to work on them in the coming week or so, but I am also focusing on getting my fine art work up to date on Fine Art America after a couple of sales this month. I mentioned the number of times that I have seen a relatively simple image of a vial for a vaccine with...

Another month goes by in our new world without travel! It seems so strange not to be packing a suitcase for another stock driven adventure and now six inches of snow have shown me that it really is winter now and time to settle down! As I noted in my normal review of earnings, I have been a bit sluggish at uploading new images with about 40 added during the month. One positive thing about the various sorts of lockdown...

If you are a follower of Alex Rotenberg’s great blog, you will probably have seen his interview a few weeks back with Aaron Amat, the CEO of Kraken Images. As you all know (and I’m painfully aware), I’m not at all good at people images, and don’t feel I really understand the market as well as I do for my conceptual and topical shots, so after reading Alex’s questions, I had some more in my mind. I put a couple...

Another month and time for some more ideas on what concepts might drive stock photo sales in the coming months. Of course the US election is showing no signs of calming down and we are headed for a tumultuous November. I don’t think I have done anything like enough to get some images online to illustrate the confusion and perhaps violence that will pervade that period – and I think there is still time to get those sort of images...

As you know, I have suggested that many themes around the upcoming US election will be opportunities for stock photographers (and videographers) in the coming weeks as the various themes of mail-in voting, voter fraud, delayed results, false claims of winning, lawsuits over ballot counting, violence at the polls (and afterwards) all come together in early November. This is an opportunity for readers around the world as the basics – envelopes and various campaign stickers can be created anywhere. The...

The concepts I am working on seem to shift depending on my enthusiasm for stock imagery. I’m sure many of you are feeling the pressure of thinking of new subjects that we believe will capture the image buyers needs – it is certainly a pressure to keep coming up with something intriguing and new! We have just had Labor Day in the USA, which is the final holiday of the summer, and so I did get out to our local...

I wrote, just three days ago, that it is a long time since I had a sale on Fine Art America. In fact my previous one was back in June. It must be magic that just writing those words caused someone to buy one of my images for their wall as yesterday I got the email saying this this image of Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University had sold as a massive 40 x 24 inch metal print: The profit...

I’ve not been very productive at producing my own new images recently, but I continue to think about what might be successful and also track my own results to see what is selling. Interestingly, Microstockr Pro has had a big upgrade over the past few days that makes it easier to see how much individual images have earned by just clicking the image in the main sales page. Before, you used to see how much that image sold on the...

I’ve discussed, in the previous post, the importance of reading the news with one thing in the back of your mind – is this subject going to get more coverage, and particularly more comment articles, in the coming months? Immediate items of news – riots or a disaster – are going to get a lot of coverage but most of the time they will use real footage or imagery to illustrate those articles. Longer term subjects (and the opioid epidemic...