Stock Photographer Gift Ideas
“What do you want for Christmas?” It’s hard to answer this question when as a stock photographer, what you want for Christmas includes a bigger camera, a faster lens, and a nice photographic vacation somewhere exotic. Since Black Friday is coming up in less than a week, here are a few ideas for your…
Why and How to Register Your Copyright
At our recent stock photography workshop in Delray Beach, Florida, we received a lot of questions about photo copyright. While photo copyright isn’t fun or glamorous, it’s an important thing to consider as you start earning more and more money from your photos. Professional photographer, and former lawyer, Efraín Padró gives you all the details…
10 Quick Tips for Great Panoramics
We’ve been talking this week about fun and unique ways to photograph cities. Yesterday, we talked about how to take great reflection photos. You’ll find that issue here. Panoramic photos (though we don’t spend a lot of time talking about them in this newsletter) are a great way to capture iconic skylines of cities, wide…
Photographing Reflections
It’s time to get creative. Photographing reflections of buildings, nature, or people can give a whole new perspective and feel to your photos — and earn you extra income, too. Reflections surround you each and every day. From puddles in the street to the windows on your office building. Once you start looking, you’ll be…
How to Win a Photo Contest
Yesterday we announced our 2010 Grand Prize Photo Challenge Winner. Congratulations again to Miles Morgan! He won this year’s $2,000 Grand Prize. Did you enter? You should know that photo contests, if you’re not careful, can be tricky. Some (not ours) make you give up all the rights to your photograph just to enter. It’s…
How Much Will You Earn with Stock Photography?
“How to Make a Million Dollars in Microstock” was the title of stock analytics site Lookstat’s blog issue last month. They crunched some numbers over at Lookstat, and it turns out that if you make $4 per image, and you add 400 new images to your portfolio per month, you’ll be a millionaire in less…
November Photo Challenge Theme: Orange You Glad
I was so busy with last week’s Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop that I not only forgot to announce November’s Photo Challenge Theme… I also forgot to close the voting on this year’s Grand Prize Winner! Every October, we bring back the first-, second- and third-place winners from last November through September and automatically enter them…
The Best Professional Photo Light — For Free
Do you need a photo studio to take and sell stock photos? Readers have been emailing this question to me a lot over the past two days, since half of the photos from our two Ultimate Stock Photo Workshop attendee successes were taken in our workshop studio shoots. But the answer is no — you…
Three Time-saving Stock Photo Shortcuts
This week we’re talking about selling your travel and family photographs to online stock photo agencies. In Delray Beach this past weekend, workshop attendees at our Ultimate Stock Photography Workshop photographed over 30 different models — both in the studio and on location in places like a local restaurant, a local cigar bar, a mansion…
Strange Travel Tip: Travel Uses for Mouthwash
Mouthwash is a surprisingly versatile travel tool. I take a small bottle of the stuff with me wherever I go. Here are just a few things it can do: TRAVEL USES FOR MOUTHWASH ** Antiseptic — You can use it to disinfect small cuts and scrapes. Pour a little mouthwash over the cut and let…
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