My recent trips around the world (Belgium, New York, England) have given me a lot of images to post, but I’ve also been a bit slow at posting examples of my latest stock photos on my blog. I had an objective of posting new images each week and I am probably a couple of weeks behind! This post tries to catch up with the latest images uploaded to the stock agencies. First off was my trip to Brussels. I had...
I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I had bought the RayFlash ring adapter for my Canon 580 EX, to help with getting uniform shadowless lighting in some of my macro shots – although it is also good for certain types of portrait as well. It isn’t cheap (at $199), but is it worth it? After a couple of weeks of use, I’m happy to report that I am pleased with my investment – it certainly hasn’t paid back...
I am very late uploading my usual graphs of earnings for March – I went off to England at the end of March and am only just back (with some more images to process and upload). March was a pretty good month – not my best, but only $15 below that peak. Shutterstock hit a new record of $508, and some of the other sites were fantastic – 123RF with $115 compared to a previous best of $67, and Fotolia...
I’ve been a little slow these past 10 days, mainly because of the final effort to finish the second edition of my eBook on Getting Started in Stock. However, back to the grindstone. The first was an isolated image of a ukulele (isolated with the pen tool in PS), with the sunlight shining across the wood. I love the richness of the wood grain: Up next were some more cat pictures – not too many as I don’t want to...
My first image this week is one of a series that I did on a pressure cooker steaming in the kitchen. I wanted this to look realistic rather than isolated, and show the power of the steam: The next morning I was attracted by the look of the sunlight on a small puppet that hangs in the window – it looked like it was peering outside and making you wonder what is out there: I then made the trip down...
February started really well on Shutterstock with three enhanced license downloads in the first 3 days of the month, but then it slowed up… Overall, though, the month was pretty much on par with recent months with total earnings of $1120. I worked hard in the early part of the month to get as many of my Hawaii/Kauai images online, and also took a series of macro and still life images as the month went by. That resulted in a...
I’ve been a bit lazy this last week… I did some images of pancakes – this is a tradition on Shrove Tuesday in the UK, but it was this past week in the US: Then I found some old images of plants that have been planted at the National Arboretum in Washington DC that are used for power related processing – oil, diesel, ethanol etc. I spent some time editing and then keywording them with their correct botanic and latin...
Keeping up with the New Year’s Resolution by posting yet another set of images taken in the past week. I’ve focused on macro and still life type images this week: The first one is a simple image of nail trimmers or cutters and the finger nails themselves on the edge of a sink. I had kept the nail clippings for a while until I had time to take the image! Shot 2 is one of a series of macro shots...
This short article covers a photographic isolation – setting your subject against a pure white background to make it easy to change the background or add the subject to a different composition. It is similar to blue (or green) screening but is sometimes easier to achieve without any specially colored backgrounds or cloths. A typical picture isolated against white would look like this: And after a little bit of Photoshop work, the background can be removed and replaced by a...
I have around 200 images from my Kauai trip that are now online (although a lot of them without the critical keyword “Kauai” as a result of the Lightroom keyword export bug explored in this post!), and so rather than keep posting ones from that trip, here are some new images taken this week. The first is an image of our poor bengal cat, who had an operation to remove a cyst last week. As a result, she had to...
