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...
Perhaps the funny “featured image” will give the game away, but after buying a drone in December (a Mavic 2 Pro), I’ve been working on a double track – learn how to fly it safely and take some interesting photos and videos and secondly, learn all about the law and regulations around flying a drone commercially in the USA. Using the images and videos from a drone on stock agencies is definitely counted as commercial use and while I’m sure...
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...
At long last I can add a new post to this website! And the lucky post is my review of earnings in January. It turned out to be a reasonable month in the end – most of the month seemed to be slow and behind what I would have expected, but there was a burst of activity towards the end that helped my results. The month ended with earnings from photos and videos combined of $2889. Not too bad at...
I’m really sorry for all the troubles that you will have had in accessing this site in the past week. I’ve been tearing my hair out with my hosting company, Inmotion, and as we got to day 6 and still had troubles, I finally moved the site to Bluehost instead. Depending on how long it takes for the internet to update the changes, you should be seeing this post on the new hosting company. Maybe I will write about my...
I’ve written before about the sky replacement capabilities of Luminar 4 from Skylum, although, of course, the program does much more than that. To be honest, I’m so used to Photoshop and Lightroom that I haven’t had the time or inclination to investigate its other features, but if you are looking for more “One-click” improvements to your images, I’m sure it can deliver! I’ve been playing with its sky replacement functions when I have either a concept in mind that...
I think I’m already a bit late with this one, but I have a feeling (and a big worry) that it will turn into the biggest story of 2020. As such, it could generate a demand for a whole range of illustrative images and videos. 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...
