Crestock has been struggling for some time with backlogged submissions and poor response times to both contributors and image buyers, so for all concerned this should be good news. The scale of the microstock sector is making it difficult for small operations to continue to offer the levels of service required for continued success. It [...]
June 19, 2010
Like it or not, Getty are certainly working hard at making the most of Flickr in terms of turning shared photos into stock photos. Last year the Getty-Flickr collection was announced and just as the number of images harvested for it hits 100,000 they announce a free for all Getty link up within the ‘Flickrverse’. [...]
May 6, 2010
Adobe don’t only produce excellent software, they are also masters at marketing their products. The release of each new version is preceeded by the calculated leaking of info on new features to create the kind of buzz that makes it hard to resist gear lust. With the build up to the release of Photoshop CS5 [...]
April 12, 2010
The rubik cube is an iconic piece of design that instantly conjurs up associations that for the stock photographer can translate into a whole host of great keywords; think problem solving, challenge, difficulty, success, skill, etc! It has great potential for creating images that will readily illustrate these concepts for potential image buyers. However, it [...]
March 26, 2010
The answer to this question is neither simple nor straightforward, but it is an important one for any stock photographer to ponder. The first thing to realise is it that a great photo doesn’t necessarily make a great stock photo. For a photo to have potential as a stock image it needs to have the [...]
March 8, 2010
I’ve been a fan of HTML kit for years for both web design work and general ftp chores; I regularly use it for image uploading to stock agencies. Having just relocated back to the UK I needed to do a quick edit of my photography portfolio site homepage and headed over to the HTML Kit [...]
March 2, 2010
I’ve written about DepositPhotos previously so here’s a quick update to report that I have started to see sales from the modest one hundred and thirty odd images I currently have on sale. DepositPhotos made an impressive late entry into the microstock market with their contributor incentives so I’d hope their pursuit of buyers will [...]
February 13, 2010
What will probably be my last photography commission in Tasmania before returning to the UK was a suitably fitting shoot for Grass Roots Magazine on Old School Beef; a real Tassie lifestyle operation. It is always great to see your work in use and getting the cover shot on a magazine is of course especially [...]
February 6, 2010
This post has been inspired by some discussion on the Alamy forums and follows on from my previous analysis of the 2009 performance of my portfolios at Alamy and Agefotostock. As Alamy is a non-exclusive agency it is common for contributors to seek out additional outlets for their images and Agefotostock is one of the [...]
January 10, 2010
While plenty of microstock photography blogs publish earnings reports there is less publicly available information on returns and trends from photographers relating to images with traditional agencies. I don’t intend to start publishing regular earnings updates because I’m too lazy that is between me, the Missus and the tax man. However, looking over some reports [...]
July 2, 2010