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Articles about stock photos including lifestyle, ethnic, animal, humorous, conceptual, and other stock image topics.

                                        
     
Kitten having breakfast in bed postcards

Diversify Your Stock Photo Business - Selling Photos on Mugs, T Shirts, and Printed Merchandise!

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In this article I will share a strategy for getting your images seen, for getting effective distribution and for strengthening your business through diversification.

     
Stock photo of a hand with a green thumb Beginner Photography Tips - Understanding the Role of Aperture

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Aperture refers to the size of the opening through which the light can reach the film or sensor.  The wider the opening, diaphragm or hole, the more the light and therefore the faster the shutter speed you can use.
     
Funny animal stock picture of father and son (cat

Beginner Photography Tips - Five Quick Tips For Great Pet Photography

 

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If you can keep the three following tips in mind while photographing your pet you can almost be assured of a satisfying result. You can use these tips as a springboard to ever more sophisticated and creative pet portraiture.

     
The clever pets are teaming up to pilfer a cake from the refrigerator in this funny pet and animal photograph

Animal Antics Line of Humorous Greeting Cards - Funny Pictures of Animals Doing Wild and Crazy Human Things!

 

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John Lund's Greeting Card Line "Animal Antics" has possibly the world's funniest animal photos and certainly the cutest most adorable animal pictures on the web. Pictures of animals doing crazy human activities!  Purchase them online now!

     

Turning Doctor Visits Into Hot Selling Medical Stock Photos

 

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A few years ago I had to have the meniscus cartilage in each knee operated on.  On my left knee I had a meniscus repair; that is the tear in my cartilage was sutured back together.  My right knee simply had the torn portion of the cartilage removed.  I asked the surgeon if it would be OK if I had my assistant photograph the operation.  He agreed and I ended up with some good medical stock photos without having to pay models or location fees.

     
Stock photo of cows rear end

Selling Stock Photos to the Largest Market of All

 

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The largest market for stock photography is the consumer. Tapping into this huge market can be done with a simple three-step process.

     
concept stock photo of a cyclist riding hard a bicycle with square wheels

Creating A Successful Concept Stock Photo

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In this article I will take you through the process from idea to completed image sharing my process for coming up with ideas, my criteria for a successful stock photo, my shoot methodology, and an overview of my post-shoot digital imaging techniques.

A woman scientist holds up a beaker with a controlled explosion (fusion?) inside indicating experimental energy sources

Choosing the Right Stock Photo for Your Small Business

 

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Finding a picture to advertise or promote your business can be distilled down to a three step process.  First, determine exactly what your goals for the picture are. Second, find the image you need. Third, complete the transaction.

Making A Living At Stock Photography

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To make a good living at creating and licensing stock photography you need two things.  You need a body of high caliber images that are relevant to the market place, and you need effective distribution.

     
Funny picture of a patient laying in bed in a recovery room in a body cast and with his head bandaged

Choosing the Right Concept Stock Photo For Your Business

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When was the last time a page of type caught your eye? Whether in print, on a billboard, or on the Internet, getting people to stop and read your message is paramount. Photographs provide a quick, universal and powerful message. 

     

Adding Motion Footage to Your Stock Photography Shoots

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Why shoot motion for Stock? The primary reason, from a business perspective, is that motion is a growing and lucrative segment of the stock photography market

     
massage-cat-photograph Massage Cats: Journey Of A Funny Cat Picture

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The finished massage image was used for a birthday greeting cards (with the copy “Paws & Relax…Its Your Birthday!”), as a framed matted print, on coffee mugs, tote bags and in calendars.
     
Knock Your Socks Off is the perfect caption for this stock photo of a pair of socks Long Tailed Keywords and the Future of Stock Photography

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Long tailed keywords are keywords, or rather phrases, that people do Internet searches on that are combinations of three or more words.  As people become more and more Internet savvy they are doing more and more long-tailed keyword searches.  Such searches help narrow the results down to what someone really is looking for. 
     
Animal Antics - Happy birthday card featuring funny animal picture  

 

Multiple Income Streams for Photographers

 

The changes that are going on in the world of professional assignment and stock photography are astounding. Mid-range DSLRs shoot HD video, Getty is promoting Flickr over the collections of their professional contributors, iPhone photos are being showcased in the New York Times and the list goes on and on. In this time of change, challenge, and, yes, opportunity, you might want to utilize the proven strategy of investors over the ages.  That strategy is diversification.
     
Funny Cat Picuture wall art - Massage Cats  

Wall Art for Bathrooms

John has a wide variety of images available that make for great wall art for bathrooms or any room.  Whatever your bathroom theme might be John has an image to go with it.
     
Eight hands reprsenting men, women, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Caucasians Reach out towards each other  

Handshake Photos and Pictures

Pictures of handshakes are ubiquitous. They are one of the most common of business concept stock photos. And most of those handshake photos are to put it gently not exactly scintillating. But images of handshaking fills an important need in the business communications world.
     
Lighthouse Beacon Photos - A lightouse keeper stands at the rail and looks out over the stormy sea  

Beautiful and unusual Pictures of Lighthouses and Lighthouse Images with Beacons and Stormy Seas

Boston Lighthouse is an unusual lighthouse because, as the oldest light station in the United States, Congress has declared that Boston Lighthouse always be staffed.  Boston Lighthouse is the first lighthouse built in America, on Brewser Island, in Boston Harbor.