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...
I do wonder if this is “fiddling while Rome burns”, but Luminar 4 has a new update (4.2) which has added some interesting features to the base program – particularly in terms of adding things seamlessly to the sky that you may have just replaced. I’ve written about my experiences with replacing skies in previous posts. I played with it a little and added some clouds to an otherwise blank blue sky in this image (together with some sun flare...
I enjoy adding painting effects to my images and sometimes upload them as stock. I tried to learn Corel Painter a few years back but that was too complex for me and so I’ve stuck with Jixipix which has water color, oil painting and also drawing tools that are very easy to use. I bought mine when they had a 40% sale, but today they have upped that to 50%. The coupon code to use is LUCKY50 with the link...
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...
