Stock photo examples – January 28, 2012

Well, my new year resolution to post every week got forgotten last week! But I did have an excuse – I had to go to a conference in Hawaii and tacked a week’s working vacation (taking photographs) in Kauai onto the trip. Over 1400 images later, I am struggling to go through and edit the ones that I think have potential as stock images. I also had my first attempt at a time lapse movie during the week, taking a sunrise over the Hanalei Valley in Kauai with one shot every 15 seconds. I’ll post a link to it once it is finished (and post an article about how to make a time lapse movie.)

Images for this week’s post are pretty easy – I got up before dawn each morning to try to get some good sunrise shots, and kept my eyes open for images that illustrated the beach without showing people or identifiable articles. Some of the shots I decided to upload as editorial – it is just too hard to remove identifiable marks from buildings and get rid of people in a panorama of Waikiki, and so if a buyer wants to use in a commercial way, they can take the risk of any problems.

Hawaii Panorama

Hawaii beach surf boards

hawaii canoe at dawn

Sunrise in Kauai