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 [...]
December 30, 2009
The transition from one year to the next is for many a rare time when we pause for thought, taking some time to reflect on what has passed and looking forward to the coming year. In most endeavours consciously stopping to reflect and plan can be a valuable activity in improving performance and achieving better [...]
December 23, 2009
Alamy, in common with many other traditional stock photography agencies, have a minimum file size requirement for submissions. In Alamy’s case this is a 48mb uncompressed file size at 8 bit but it is often 50mb at other agencies. As Alamy is non-exclusive you may sometimes be submitting the same images elsewhere so it makes [...]
December 17, 2009
Clustershot is a new site that may interest a lot of photographers. It isn’t a stock photography agency but offers instead the potential to be used as an independent stock photo licensing solution for photographers. Clustershot are not actively working in an agency role but simply providing the technology to facilitate sales. So throwing your [...]
November 24, 2009
Bandwagons keep on rolling long after there is really any room left to jump aboard. I’m really quite surprised to find there are still new microstock agencies popping up. Sure it is relatively cheap and easy to throw a site up. However, it takes a lot more effort to build a worthwhile collection of images [...]
November 19, 2009
While Adobe Photoshop is justifably the industry standard photo editing application it does come with a price tag to match. Like a lot of software there will be many users who only really use maybe 10% of what it can do and really can’t justify its cost. I’m all for minimising costs when possible and [...]
November 9, 2009
I don’t envy the picture editors at Getty. The news that they are opening up the Getty Flickr collection for anyone to submit a test batch of ten images to is like opening the flickrgates holding back a deluge of literally millions of images. Already the call for artists pool is overflowing with images, many [...]
October 27, 2009
If you’re a photographer you have one of these. Its like a little guy who sits on your shoulder and ooohhs and aaggghhs about photo gear he knows you really need to make better pictures. He used to be a sucker for megapixels but is kind of over that now, to an extent. Wait though, [...]
October 22, 2009
Sometimes it can be a struggle to come up with new ideas and concepts to shoot for stock photography. Yes, that’s me scratching my head trying to come up with my next (who am I kidding?) big idea. Doing a bit of self portrait modelling for yourself can be uncomfortably introspective sometimes. I don’t see [...]
October 20, 2009
Following on from my previous post on the current opportunities to make money selling photos through microstock agencies here are a couple of observations that I think are worth both new and exisitng contributors pondering. A few years ago early adopters of the microstock model could pretty much throw their shovel in the air, dig [...]
January 10, 2010