Easy Natural Light Photo Studio: My $5 Set-Up
Lori gives you some simple, inexpensive tools you can use to take studio quality photos right in your own backyard.
How To Break Into Travel Magazines With Your Photos
Professional photographer Efrain Padro tells us how photo-based stories are especially lucrative. Read on for Efrain’s step-by-step plan on submitting your photo-based article to an editor…
Travel Writing for Pay and Other Perks (Hershey, PA)
Everyone has to start somewhere. And reader Tanya Montgomery got her start as a travel writer with our Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program. See her story below about how she trades travel writing for free trips, chocolate and more…
What Sells as Microstock: Is It Dead Bodies, Homeless Men and a Bearded Guy Drinking Beer?
Times change fast. It’s the same with stock photography. What sold five to six years ago isn’t necessarily what still sells today. And, if you try to guess what sells tomorrow… well, you might be wasting your time there, too, says stock photographer Jerry Koch. He believes you should just shoot what’s fun and the…
Why Does This Weird Photo Sell?
What is it about this strange photo of people holding blank puzzle pieces together that makes it sell so well? I asked stock photographer Andrea Gingerich to share her expertise as a stock photo inspector. See what she said, below…
Stock Photography is Addicting: Shooting for Stock and The Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop
With stock, your creativity is endless. You start by doing one thing and the next thing you know, you’ve got a half-dozen more ideas and you don’t want to stop.
Pictures from D.C.: Shooting for Stock and The Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop
I spent some time this weekend with professional photographer Stacey Blomstrom, running through photo shoot locations here in D.C. for our upcoming stock photography workshop. See what tips she gave us…
How Small Stock Photo Royalties Add Up to Big Checks
When Jerry’s friend first told him about stock photography, he thought his photos were worth a lot more than the small royalty he would collect from microstock sites. Today, he understands that what you lose on the initial sale, you make up for in volume. Jerry’s not a salesman, so he likes that he doesn’t…
Stock Photographer Lise Gagne’s Story: From Photography as a Hobby to a Six-Figure Career
Today, Lise Gagne makes a nice six-figure income from royalties on pictures she sells through iStockphoto.com and she’s their number-one seller. If you’re thinking about making the jump from wherever you are today to stock photographer, read her story below. It’s not about what others think you can and can’t do. It’s about putting yourself…
What I Like Most about Stock Photography for Beginners
Online stock photo agencies are a great way of breaking into photography because you don’t need a lot of images to get started. You can shoot and upload as often or as little as you want. You never have to meet a photo buyer face-to-face or negotiate fees. And it’s a lot of fun to…
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