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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“I was outside with one shoe on, banging a bottle of wine against the chimney with the other shoe when my 89-year-old neighbor, Fred, walked around the fence to give me some of his freshly grown tomatoes.” This was what my Editorial Manager, Bonnie Caton, said to me last night on the phone after risking […]
When I think of travel companions, I remember my friend Tamara. We lived together in Paris in 1996 and traveled to more than half a dozen countries together on weekends and during breaks in our work and class schedules. Tamara was a great roommate but a horrible travel companion. She never wanted to get out […]
