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Articles about stock photos including lifestyle, ethnic, animal, humorous, conceptual, and other stock image topics. |
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Starting a Stock Photo Career
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I firmly believe that now is the most exciting time ever to be a photographer, and to be shooting stock. There are more tools and more opportunities than ever before. |
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Filling Small Business Needs in Stock Photography |
Conceptual shots are useful for businesses that deal with such hard to illustrate themes such as financial services, insurance, banking and various non-product oriented businesses. |
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Stock Photography - Creating Stock Photos with Strategic Alliances |
In the last four years I have done many group shoots with other photographers to create great stock photos. |
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Photography Tips from a Pro on Shooting in Low Light |
When shooting in low light situations there are a number of things to consider ranging from equipment options, to ISO settings, to improvised camera support. |
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The Power of Positive
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I’ve heard it said that if you believe you will succeed, or if you believe you will fail, you are right. There is a lot of truth in that. |
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Funny Pictures - Funny Pics of Animals and People
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That funny picture got me a contract with a greeting card company and my own line of greeting cards “John Lund’s Animal Antics”. Soon we were selling over a million greeting cards a year! |
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Stock Photos - Bumbles, Blunders and Bad Luck! |
I backed away about a dozen feet and watched in horror as the train sucked my camera and tripod right into it. When the train finally passed I recovered the pieces. |
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Crowd sourcing, Micro Stock and Money |
In the last year more video content has been made available over You Tube than in the previous sixty years of material created by the big three television channels. |
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Stock Photos: Creating a conceptual image! |
As with so many of my images it has taken two years from the inception of my idea to the final execution. Why so long? I wish I knew! |
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The (Information) Road to Stock Photography Success |
The number of stock photos, free and otherwise, is burgeoning and is only going to increase. The more photos there are, the longer it is going to take to find the one that is right for a given use and client. |
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Photographers - Use Your Photo Shoot Estimate as a Selling Tool
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Your estimate is an opportunity to help you get better jobs, to do a better job on each assignment, and to put your career on the fast track to success. |
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How to Generate Effective Ideas for Stock Photos |
Increasing both the quality and the quantity of stock photo ideas begins with intention. I can read the newspaper and possibly come up with an idea, or I can clearly set the intention to come up with an idea from that newspaper and it almost becomes impossible not to come up stock ideas. |
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Blend Images - A Modern Day Stock Photo Success Story |
In September of 2005 a new experiment began in the stock photography industry. A group of the industry’s top shooters got together and founded Blend Images. This new agency specializes in producing images celebrating ethnic diversity. |
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Taking Pictures of Backgrounds For Producing, and As Great Stock Photos |
There is something very simple you can do to increase your stock photography sales. If, like me, you engage in digitally composited photos, you can even enhance your entire business immeasurably! That simple thing is to photograph backgrounds. |
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How to Shoot Successful Lifestyle Stock Photos |
Despite the glut of images in the world of stock photography, there is still a huge and ongoing need for well done, relevant, lifestyle stock photos. |
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