Category: “How-to” articles

I’m still at this! And I did manage to get one sale this month, although it was only a coffee mug! I explained my plans in a post last month to really boost my presence on the major social media sites. I’ve been keeping this up with daily posts (using Buffer) to Instagram, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter but when I came to Pinterest, I came up against a major issue – I had no idea how that site worked. I...

OK, you have uploaded your best work to your favorite Print on Demand site and are sitting waiting for sales – where are they? How long do you have to wait? I’ve been through those anxious days and although I am far from satisfied in my results, I am starting to see a little progress. My latest sale came last week with a framed 10 x 7.5 inch print of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington DC: I’m following a...

I’ve written about this a few times, the most recent being my attempts to push my images higher up the search order on Fine Art America. I don’t know if that made the difference, but I did sell two images at the end of January. This one as a 72 inch wide print: And then this one as a coffee mug: OK, I thought – that was interesting – perhaps I should continue to add images and do a bit...

A few years back I did a presentation on Stock Photography to a camera club in Winchester, VA and put a video of it online. I updated the presentation and had a virtual zoom based session with a Northern Virginia meetup group last week and again, the session was recorded. The whole thing lasted 90 minutes including the questions, and so if you have that much spare time, you can find the video on my YouTube channel. I’ve also been...

I mentioned last month that I was trying to work on developing more traction on my Fine Art Portfolio on Fine Art America. I had around 800 images over there and as I have reported here, have had occasional sales. I tried an experiment to lower my prices, but that did nothing much at all, and so I put them back to more reasonable levels: Then, in early December, I decided to spend time trying to get more traffic to...

I got up this morning to work on my annual report of earnings from stock photography, but found that three of my hard drives were missing in Windows (and the BIOS). Back in March I built a new PC with the latest technology. However, the power supply was still in good shape so I reused that. I had some issues at the time because the new motherboard had two power sockets for the CPU and my power supply only had...

This is probably a post with a smaller following than my normal ones, but perhaps a Godox expert will be able to help! As I mentioned last month, after an unfortunate accident between my Canon flashgun and my ceiling fan, I bought a Sony specific flashgun as a replacement, the Godox V1. (affiliate link to Amazon). I bought it with the accessory kit which comprises some nicely made light modifiers that neatly attach with small magnets to the round head...

It has been a quiet month (when is it any different these days) and a few things were on my mind, and so this post is just a collection of things that you might be interested in! First up – I saw a post on the Microstock Group this morning about a search on Adobe which brings up images and videos that have never sold. Thanks to Jo Ann Snover for discovering this. The core of her post was this...