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After six long months of effort, this article will outline how I went about trying to boost the sales of my “Fine Art” photos as print sales on Fine Art America and how successful I have been at that. I wrote about the plan for using Social Media as a way of driving traffic and buyers to my portfolio back in March, and really put the details into three articles in May. The first one was Using Social Media to...
There is a new contest on Fine Art America for 20 images that will be placed by FAA on large billboards in some large US cities. The decision on which images to show is a two step process – step one is to get at least 250 votes for your image and then step two is that a jury of experts will look at those images and choose the ones they like. We can’t obviously influence the second step, but...
If you are still with me after Part 2 of this series, when I dug deeper into Pinterest in particular, I’m taking a wider view this time with my efforts in trying to boost engagement on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Pinterest is involved as well for extra measure, plus a dose of Twitter! I decided that I wanted to post just one photo every day with some words about what the photo meant to me, or how I approached the...
I received a question in the Ask Steve a Question post about my workflow for video. I’m not sure if I have ever written about this, so here we go. First, the question: I know you dealing with both photography and Videos …and you mentioned that you use Ligthroom as your main program for photos – viewing and sorting ect – my question is how do you treat video ?? I mean do also use LR for viewing video ???...
I’m always pleased to see sales on Fine Art America. Not just because of the profit that comes with each sale, but more importantly to my ego, the feeling that someone appreciates what I do and is willing to pay good money to hang my art on their wall. So I was very happy to see two large sales in the past weeks. The first was one that has sold in the past (and one I have on my wall...
Update: I’ve updated this post with new information and some photo improvements. The new version of the 10 best photo opportunities on Kauai can be found here on BackyardImage.com I’m just back from a trip to Kauai (yes, again) and here are my top ten locations that you must visit and photograph if you are lucky enough to visit the island. Think of it as my top 10 instagrammable spots on an island full of them! Kauai is the oldest...
I create quite a few stock photos and videos in what I laughingly call my home studio, but what does that entail? Do you need a lot of gear to make excellent images and videos? I think the answer is no! Basically, I have a room (at the top of the house which keeps me in shape) that is my computer room, TV room and studio. I’ve moved recently to a stand up desk arrangement with my two monitors and...
2018 is behind us and thank goodness December has gone! This was one of the worst months for sales for a couple of years and I ended up with $850 less than in December 2017. Total earnings for December 2018 turned out to be $2350. A bit disappointing after all the effort in getting new images and videos online. Still, it is what it is and I need to look forward now to a great January! As this is also...
Way back in 2015 I did some research on the pricing of images that had sold on Fine Art America. I’ve stuck with that pricing ever since and I have had sales as I report here, but am I leaving money on the table? So I decided to repeat my research and see how pricing of a representative sample of images that had sold this week on FineArtAmerica had changed. What I found was intriguing!
The earlier posts on this subject have covered the basics of what stock video is, and then more detail on the sort of clips I have been producing. Now I’ll focus on some details about how I go about getting the clips taken, edited and uploaded to the five agencies I support: Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Pond5, Storyblocks and iStock. The first step obviously starts in the camera. I’ve been choosing to shoot in the PAL standard of 23.98. There are...
