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• Stock Photography from A Designer’s Perspective (via Torch Designs on Dreamstime)

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  I came across a great post by Torchdesigns on Dreamstime which talks about what designers are looking for from stock photography. It’s a great post and well worth your time to read but the summary is they are looking for: Something specific High quality Harmony with the other elements When I have ...
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• Microstock and the Long Tail

  
  Microstock Diaries — Authority: 108
  The long tail theory applies to microstock in many different ways. Let’s take a look at a few and see what we can learn to help us sell more photos. What is the Long Tail? In popular media, such as movies, music and books, a small number of products achieve a high volume of sales.  They’re ‘hits’ and ...
  2 days ago

• Smoke gets in your eyes

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 118
  There is more to the story than just numbers. Much, much more. And the official media ignores it. But what the photo industry is currently experiencing is much, much more than just a few layoff.What we are seeing is the disappearance of  knowledge. Most of the photo editors being let go from magazines, newspapers, ...
  4 days ago

• US Demographic Trends – College Graduation & Enrollment

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  I analyzed and plotted the latest projections for degrees conferred from the U.S. Department of Education to show gender related trends. The graph below shows historical and projected data by gender for all degree types (Associated, Bachelors, Masters & Doctoral) from 2000-2015. More Women than Men ...
  5 days ago

• Search Trends – Valentine’s Day

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  While playing around with Google Insights data for Valentine’s day trends , I was somewhat surprised to find that there are on average 6 times as many searches for ‘valentine’s gifts for him’ as there are for ‘valentine’s gifts for her.’ I guess men just stick to flowers, chocolates & jewelry ...
  1 week ago

• Microstock Photography Analytics – Easter Earnings per Image Trends

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  As part of my analysis of seasonal trends, I looked at LookStat ’s 2008 data for images tagged with ‘Easter’ as a keyword. In addition, I did some quick search keyword analysis to see if there were any useful pieces of data. 2008 Royalties for Images Tagged with ‘Easter’ Easter was on March 23, 2008 ...
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• Halfway back and rolling

  
  NiltoMil is a microstock blog for photographers looking to make money with their photos and learn more about the stock photogra — Authority: 104
  Images are going up now – mostly stuff I’ve shot in the past because we’re moving and my photo stuff is packed.  I am working on submitting older images.  I know they won’t sell quite the way I want but honestly I need to start getting momentum back and start submitting, get into all the right habits and ...
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• Of Hills, Peaks and Valleys

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 118
  Is creativity limitless? Can we go on and on creating new pictures that have never been seen or are we going to reach a point where we will start going into circles and re-shooting the same things over and over again? Is there a point where nothing will be new ?Creativity is the lifeblood of [...]
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• Microstock Photography Analytics – Thanksgiving $/DL & Print vs. Online Uses

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  When analyzing the data for Thanksgiving image sales, I was intrigued by how close to the holiday the sales peak was. I assumed that the early increase would be print sales and that online uses would prevail closer to the time of the holiday. My hypothesis was that if I dug into the earnings per download ($/DL) data, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do not feed the animal

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 118
  The current photo industry and newcomers apply a completely flawed logic to licensing images. It is too often believed that if an image is largely seen, it will be licensed. The thinking come from primeval logic. It goes like this:- if an image is not seen, it will never be sold. (which is a truism). [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Microstock Photographer Lands Book Cover for $3.82

  
  Photopreneur - Make Money Selling Your Photos — Authority: 404
  For most photographers, seeing their photo on the cover of a book should be a highlight of their career. It’s the cover that does the selling so when a publisher decides that their image is powerful enough to attract attention and pull in buyers, it’s a sure sign that they’ve take a great photo. They’ll be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microstock Photography Analytics – Thanksgiving Images

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 411
  One of the things that interests me around seasonal holidays is the timing of changes in sales velocity of microstock images associated with those holidays. The goal is to identify when to shoot & upload images in order to benefit the most from the seasonal spikes in interest. The chart below shows a 7-day moving ...
  2 weeks ago

• Collision or collusion ?

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 118
  Getty Images advertising on Splash News photo agency’s blog today. Is this the result of blind advertising or a sign of things to come ?Unrelated : amusing that Getty would use “Small is powerful” as a slogan considering who they are.
  2 weeks ago

• Micro Winter Tips

  
  Microstock Photography — Authority: 120
  The trick to grabbing great shots in winter is finding the plants that open up gratefully on a warm day after a chilly set of mornings. These plants are moistured up and ready to release all their full tones for the birds and the bees, so to speak. Make sure the highest point of light is toplit and background infills ...
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• Micro CCD 101

  
  Microstock Photography — Authority: 120
  The editing decisions you make when using photo editing software like Photoshop can only work as well as the basic picture that was taken. If there was too little light the contrast will stay low. If there was too much aperture in the lens, the compass will be too wide for the telephoto shot. If there is not enough ...
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• Microstock Earnings Report October 2009

  
  Microstock Diaries — Authority: 108
  Not a great deal of excitement in October’s earnings report. My earnings were slightly down on the previous month, but still surprisingly high given my upload drought continues. Jack’s results reflect his uploading performance quite closely with a noticeable increase in earnings. Jack’s Results The earnings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Getty Images Announces A Call For Photographers

  
  Virtual Photography Studio - Digital Photography Business Guide To Resources, Products and Information — Authority: 124
  Getty Images has been scouring Flickr for over a year now looking for photographers that can add to their portfolio. Now they’re taking it to the next level, and are putting out a formal call for artists . If you are interested in becoming a stock photographer, start by uploading 10 of your best images to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• This ain’t Wal Mart

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 118
  One of the premises for the acquisition by Getty images of Istockphoto was that customers of the microstock site would eventually migrate to the higher priced imagery placed on the Getty images site. Instead, it has been a growing cannibalization of high end, full price paying customers to the micro priced site.From ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microstocks are for scientists too

  
  Freelancing science — Authority: 108
  Money is rarely directly discussed on science blogs, but rarely science bloggers say that they don’t care. Quite a number of them run advertisement or affiliate programs on their sites, trying to monetize the traffic they generate. And while I don’t know specific numbers, my estimate is (some time ago I did run ...
  3 weeks ago

• Micro Shoot Repair Notes-Miranda Otto

  
  Microstock Photography — Authority: 120
    I am writing today to share some notes on some editing I have had to do on portrait photography. Working with commercial images would seem to be easy. Often the pictures taken in a given photo shoot are merely fodder for later retouching. But rarely does published photo work need micro editor resampling and ...
  3 weeks ago

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