As you will have seen from my post yesterday about what I have been up to in early April, I’ve concentrated more and more on shots that I can create at home that I think will gain some traction during the current emergency. We are able to go out (but not in any groups) around my area, and so I did take a few drone shots when the weather was nice last week, but it is cold and miserable now...
As I explained earlier, all the news and most of the magazine/website articles for the foreseeable future will be all about the virus and its impact on life everywhere on the planet. I still see sales of travel images, but since the start of April, they have been somewhat fewer than before. Of course, you can’t really take many more travel shots, but it might be a time to go back through your portfolio and see if there are images...
It is very hard to find any positives in the virus that is sweeping the world and creating havoc with every economy, and I hesitated to even write the heading above. But… one thing that is happening in our stock world is that images and videos are being sought by buyers that just never existed before. I know that Shutterstock now has 306K images with the keyword Coronavirus, but I’m still able to create and upload new images that are...
What a difference a few weeks make! Just over a week ago I was about to go to Disneyworld with my family and now we are pretty much housebound as I am sure you are also experiencing. At least, as stock photographers, we have some income still coming in and our job is to see how to improve and increase that. As I mentioned before, I ignored my own advice to create and get coronavirus images online until I really...
Talk about bad timing! I publish a post suggesting that we ought to promote each other’s work and then I find the FAA site is down for the rest of the day! But it did give me a chance to think more about this. It is probably best to promote a specific image rather than a portfolio and so I suggest that I use this post as a repository of images that you would like this community to “like” and...
I hope my title makes sense in other languages! This post is about how we can maybe work together to get more sales on Fine Art America. I don’t exactly know how they rank the images that they show on FAA, but I’m sure previously sold images will rank more highly, but I suspect that images with likes, favorites and comments must be taken into account when the results of a search are displayed. I went down into Morgantown, the...
Firstly, I have started adding “Premium” to the heading of these posts for members only so that others who see the emails about new posts on the site don’t waste their time visiting the post only to find out that they can’t read the whole thing. Thanks to one of my followers for pointing that out. It is hard to see anything in the news these days apart from corona virus stories – and quite a lot of those articles...
Yes, I know – I have talked about this already! And there are 51,609 images already on Shutterstock with the keyword Coronavirus! Looks like there are a lot of busy photographers and illustrators around the world! There are some good ones at the top of the best match sort where the photographer has used some correct blood test equipment. In retrospect it would have been good to have bought some little test tubes and created similar images! So what is...
First, my apologies for a lack of posts recently! I hope you were able to get some images online for the first part of the CoronaVirus epidemic. I did a few shots – not too many as I was away on a photo shoot/conference/vacation which slowed me down. Friends of mine have also come up with some interesting takes on illustrating the impact of this. As always, you need to be thinking about the sort of articles and discussions you...
I won’t do these every two days going forward, but I wanted to mention a few things on my mind as potential subjects. First though – check out the daily email from The Hustle. It’s a short email with interesting slants on technology and business news and often gives me things to consider as well as ideas for new stock shoots. There was a recent one about three big lawsuits building up – Google vs Oracle over open source code,...
