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,...
I’ve been a bit indisposed of late and hence not my normal productive self. After two vaccinations and finally a booster shot about 10 days ago, I finally caught the virus. I wish I could have thought of some smart stock photo ideas of that event, but nothing came to me. My wife was first (and we are not at all sure where it came from as we are both mask wearers in public areas) and was quite ill for...
Another month and this time a real disappointment after two months where the Adobe Stock buyout offer resulted in some nice bumps to the income. Now we are seeing the new normal in the stock photography world and it really isn’t very pretty in my view. I still earned a pretty reasonable amount – $2502, but as the graph below shows, this is well below what I have seen in the same month for the past four years: As you...
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...
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...
Different sort of heading today in my usual monthly article about how much I earned from stock photography during the month of August 2021. The reason is that Adobe really helped me hit the ball out of the park with their two purchases of my images for their free collection during this month. The second one, on August 30th, was a real surprise, and together I earned $1100 from their $5 an image offer. Very nice! Overall, that made the...
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...
I spent the weekend in bed with a fever (and a possible Covid infection for which I just received the results (negative!)) so I had time to think about many things. One was how to leave your stock photo portfolio to your heirs (which I really need to investigate), but I also started thinking about where ideas for stock photos come from – what makes a good stock photo these days? Of course, there are always needs for models doing...
It is that time of month when I stretch my brain to its limits and see what images I think might be in demand going forward. But perhaps I will start with what I have been working on, and why, and then move onto the new ideas. As you know, I am always on the lookout for something that will be in the news and discussion articles around the world, but not be “news” in the sense that journalists will...
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...
