Talk about being prescient. On January 26th I wrote this: I’m talking about the corona virus epidemic in China. First, I suspect it is a lot worse than we know, and if it spreads in another country, it will be the subject of endless discussions as well as major concerns. I’ve already ordered some 99% dust masks for potential subjects (and potential use!) and I think you could create many images and videos around that and the possible implications. Food...
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...
I don’t know if I am happy or sad that most of my predictions in the earlier posts have come true. I hope you managed to create some suitable images and have got some traction. I must admit to a big failure on my part. I created a few using my face masks ordered from Amazon, but then went off on an overseas trip and have spent much more time working on processing those images and videos than I have...
This is probably a very specialized post and mainly of interest to existing drone users, but if you are thinking of buying a drone to sell the images and videos online, then this could be useful to you! I’ve also written a specific post on my early experiences with the drone and in getting my license in the US to use a drone commercially over on the Dreamstime blog. The obvious reason to use a drone in a beautiful locations...
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...
A short but pretty depressing month from the point of view of earnings from stock photography in February 2020! Just $2275 for the month compared with $2993 in February 2019 and the lowest monthly total since July 2017. It is hard this month to find many bright spots among the agencies, but I’ll try! This is the overall picture of earnings over the past few years: I hope this is a one off poor month, but I don’t think I...
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...
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...
