Category: Stock Photography
Firstly – I’ve added a plugin to the site to keep Premium members logged into the site (rather than having to sign in again every two weeks which is the WordPress default). So after signing in today, you should be good to go until you choose to logout using the command in the Premium menu above. Any issues, please let me know! Over the years I’ve had various mixed feelings about iStock. It has always been harder than most sites...
I’m not sure how long I can keep this up, but ideas keep popping up for what would make a new concept for a stock photo. First, don’t forget to choose a few of your coronavirus images (if you made any) and add the extra word Covid-19 into the keywords and perhaps description. This new official name may be searched for, and not as many people will bother to do this. As always, that extra piece of work can make...
At long last I can add a new post to this website! And the lucky post is my review of earnings in January. It turned out to be a reasonable month in the end – most of the month seemed to be slow and behind what I would have expected, but there was a burst of activity towards the end that helped my results. The month ended with earnings from photos and videos combined of $2889. Not too bad at...
I’m really sorry for all the troubles that you will have had in accessing this site in the past week. I’ve been tearing my hair out with my hosting company, Inmotion, and as we got to day 6 and still had troubles, I finally moved the site to Bluehost instead. Depending on how long it takes for the internet to update the changes, you should be seeing this post on the new hosting company. Maybe I will write about my...
I’ve written before about the sky replacement capabilities of Luminar 4 from Skylum, although, of course, the program does much more than that. To be honest, I’m so used to Photoshop and Lightroom that I haven’t had the time or inclination to investigate its other features, but if you are looking for more “One-click” improvements to your images, I’m sure it can deliver! I’ve been playing with its sky replacement functions when I have either a concept in mind that...
2019 has now come and gone and its time to review how the stock business performed during the year. Overall, it was not too bad (and could certainly have been worse) as I ended up with total earnings of $35,595 compared with $35,790 in 2018. I would really have liked to continue with some growth over previous years, but the slow second half of December put paid to that. Here is the trend: As you can see from the above,...
I’m sure you have noticed some premium articles being published. I wanted to reassure readers that I will continue to post other items for general consumption as before. I’m not turning this blog into a subscription only website. I wanted to get a bit of premium content online, but I still plan to report on the 2019 annual results shortly and add more information on stock photography and videos going forward that everyone will be able to read.
For a long time I have wondered whether this blog would be more valuable to readers (and to me!) if I explained what sort of ideas I am having for new stock concepts and how I plan to explore them with still photos and videos. Up until now, I have kept those to myself and mentioned them well after I have had plenty of time to reap the rewards of my creations. The most recent example was with Juul vaping...
Taking a break from some of my other work (and I did finish all my uploads of Portugal yesterday!) and so I decided to look at some of the questions I received but haven’t answered yet. The first one was via the contact page on my site and was: Thank you very much for your website, which is very useful. I wanted to ask you two questions. Bigstock belongs to Shutterstock ?. In the list of StockSubmitter agencies are separated....
Adobe have recently started accepting editorial images from contributors with more than 1000 lifetime downloads, but what does that mean? What is an illustrative editorial image? Firstly, what is an editorial image? It is an image that is intended to be used to illustrate or help explain an “educational” or news or commentary article rather than be used to promote a product or a point of view. To take an extreme for clarity – a picture of an Hispanic person...