Category: Stock Photo Examples

There are many things that have impacted the earnings of stock photographers and the latest is AI generated imagery. Is this the end of stock photography?

I’ve been busier on new concepts these past few weeks, although there was one that I thought about early on and did nothing about – the online game Wordle. I knew about it, knew that it was becoming something that people were talking about, but never got round to taking a few simple photos of the screen. As it turned out, much discussion in most newspapers and many, many sites around the web. So, an opportunity missed! Increasingly, I think...

Another month, another surge in cases of this virus! I’m still getting sales of my various covid related imagery and I have some new ideas for you this month. As you will remember from previous posts, you are looking for stories that have two main strands – they will be the subject of both news and comment-type articles and posts and they will need to be illustrated by something other than a straight editorial shot. One that comes to mind...

I hope that some of you had picked up the thoughts and approaches I have been discussing in previous posts and created some Omicron images as soon as the news of the new variant was announced. I think there was some good money to be made being the first in line with an appropriate image! I’ve got to admit that I was slow to the gate on this one – a friend of mine got a very simple image online...

Interestingly, I received an email from Alamy this morning that said: We have been contacted by Merck and Co about this image. We initially explained that the images in question would be acceptable for editorial uses however Merck have responded to this to say that the images depict packaging and counterfeit medication not manufactured by them and therefore is not legitimate representation of their product, Molnupiravir event when depicted in an editorial context. They claim that this could lead to...

After my relatively poor sales in October, this continues to feel like a poor year for stock photos, I’m afraid. Although I have had some good days this month, I’m halfway through a business day and my count (on Microstockr Pro) is $10.61! Not a good sign! As you probably know, I’ve been focusing more on selling photos as prints since the summer, with efforts in boosting my presence on social media. I think this is starting to pay off...

And I’m not going to start this post by saying “Halloween”… I still read each article in both newspapers and online sources with the same thought in mind – is there something in this story that is going to become a bigger talking point in the future and, if so, how would journalists illustrate the story? Sometimes I see several things that intrigue me – other times not as many. Of course with so many articles being about the virus,...

This is going to be an article about things that I should have done, rather than images that I have actually taken! I’ve been in a somewhat lazy mood and while I keep thinking of concepts that could be created, I’ve not actually got up the enthusiasm to actually do them. And its not that sales generally have been poor – I’ve had some good high value sales this month. Just one of those things! So I’m afraid this post...

My brain must be working overtime as I have been creating some of the images that I talked about in the previous posts, and came up with some different approaches as I worked on my concepts. Along the way, I uploaded some very simple shots of butterflies captured in our tiny front garden – unlikely to sell, perhaps, but I thought they were nice and colorful! The first concept I worked on was the four day week. This doesn’t seem...