This video maybe useful for you, who want to start with microstock.
Archive for November, 2011
How to Sell Photos – 25 Microstock Gurus to Follow (video)
The Stock Photo – It has to pass certain standards for submission
Below, is the standards for photo that you want to submit at stock photography agencies :
- File Type – Normally TIFF or JPEG files only (RAW files may be requested from time to time by the client)
- File Size – Minimum 48MB + (24MB minimum for reportage material)
- Bit Depth – 8 Bit (For film, scan to highest bit depth and convert to 8 bit before sending)
- Channels/Layers – Not normally acceptable
- Orientation – Please ensure that your images are the right way up when they are viewed on a monitor screen. Images that are not aligned properly will be rejected.
- Dirt/Dust/Hairs – Images must be spotless and will not be accepted if they aren’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Stock Photography of People: Model Releases
If you start sending your images to Stock photo, you will quickly learn that some people are with people in their best-sellers. And you want to be invited to make pictures with people as often as possible when you receive the income expand your photography portfolio.
There are some important things to know about stock photography with people in the pictures though, so we’ll cover those briefly here.
First and foremost: If you have one or more people in a photograph and you’d like to sell that photo through stock photography agencies, you must have a model release for each and every person recognizable in the picture.
This means if you have a picture with 5 people in it, you must have 5 different model releases for that one picture.
What is a model release? A model release is simply Read the rest of this entry »
.D-Photo – February/March 2010
D-Photo™ is New Zealand’s No.1 digital photography magazine helping Kiwis get to grips with their cameras and use them more creatively. By providing quality how-to features, product reviews, and inspirational pictures, the magazine gives its loyal and ever-increasing subscriber base the information and confidence they need to embrace digital camera technology and make photography a part of their everyday lives. Read the rest of this entry »
Three Easy Steps For Marketing Your Photography Online
As a serious amateur, or aspiring professional photographer, you are likely to know the many ways money can do with your photos. You can sell your photos to magazines, newspapers and other publications. You can fine art photography by a gallery, or even by local coffee shops, libraries and other market areas. You can offer your photography services for hire, for weddings, bar mitzvahs, corporate events and other events. And this is just the beginning.
They also know that the biggest key to the success of each of these companies is to create advertising, brand awareness and demand for your work.
The Internet is a great place to do that. Here is your basic guide for creating promotional and marketing activities your work online.
Set up a website
You need a well-organized, visually appealing website where you can take your best photos, share your story, and a presence. Read the rest of this entry »
.Related Photography Ideas for November 2011 at basedigitalphotography.com
A Hybrid Camera for New Photography Enthusiasts
Now, however, a new class of cameras aims to fill the wide gap between point-and-shoots and DSLRs. So I decided to test one of these cameras, the Olympus E-PL1, priced at $599.99, which came out in March.
The E-PL1 is the third camera in Olympus’ PEN series, a group of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. What that means [...]
Adobe releases Creative Suite 5 bundles
Adobe has released the final versions of its Creative Suite 5 software bundles that include Photoshop CS5. The five bundles contain various tools selected for use at different levels of print, web and video design and editing. Many of these tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier and After Effects are also available separately.
Adobe Ships Creative [...]
Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography
By DAVID ORENSTEIN
Scientists at Stanford pictures from digital photography with the introduction of open-source digital cameras to reinvent the programmers around the world the opportunity, software to create the new camera to teach tricks.
When enforcing the technology, the performance of the camera is no longer limited by the software that is installed by the manufacturer. [...]
Top 15 Firefox Add-Ons For Photography
For photographer, firefox, the biggest browser in the world, serve some of great add-on, which can usefull for photographer.This add-on perhaps can help them to do their work in less time. because they spend a larger time in front of computer than most of others.
So here is a very short list of 15 such Add-Ons [...]
White Balance tips – How to Set which White Balance will you Use
The stupid phrase “White Balance” comes from professional video. Filmmakers Studio to use a special type of oscilloscope or a waveform monitor in the parade mode (or a vector scope in the old days) is equal or “balance” the signals from the camera, red, green and blue channels. A balance between these three signals is [...]
What is the exposure triangle?
The triangle of exposure is a useful way to describe the relationship between the three aspects of exposure. Each vertex of the triangle represents one of the three variables, aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Adjust only one will make the picture darker or brighter and will alter the appearance of the picture based [...]
How to Photograph Sports Photography
Sport photgraphy. Most sporting activities carried out at high speed and this is one of the main factors why photographers who have in sports to specialize to be very agile and alert. In addition, sports photography requires a lot of mental activity, the best moment that made a certain image, to ensure that they should [...]