My definition of a professional photographer is figuring out a way to get paid to take pictures. It sounds flip, but it’s not meant to be. Making a living from photography means thinking differently about the business. You’ll be trying to break into an industry where the traditional avenues of making a living are fairly [...]
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Making Money In Photography
Posted by chris on June 29th, 2011
Stock Photography: Taking Health and Fitness Images
Posted by Rowena on April 30th, 2010
Keep Fit and Diet images are hugely popular with stock libraries because the industry is so big. With more and more people becoming overweight all over the world there are plenty of people who are looking for images of health and fitness. Companies who may look for these pictures include magazines, newspapers, research companies who [...]
Stock Photography Tips: Still Life
Posted by Rowena on January 15th, 2010
Still life images are very popular on stock libraries purely because they are useful for publishers. Still life images feature in books, magazines, websites and promotional materials. You don’t need to go out and buy lots of expensive things nor do you need any special set ups to get some useful shots. You need to [...]
Stock Photography Tips: Lifestyle Shots Part 2
Posted by Rowena on January 13th, 2010
What kind of genres and types of images should you try to take when photographing models for lifestyle shots? Here are some more ideas on areas that are tried and tested. 1. Families Another popular genre is having the family together. You should for example show different generations – from children to grandparents doing things [...]
Stock Photography Tips: Lifestyle Shots Part 1
Posted by Rowena on January 11th, 2010
Have you ever noticed when reading a magazine or flicking through a brochure, how many of the images are ‘lifestyle’ images? Photographs of people doing things, talking to each other, sitting in the gardens, exercising, eating and reading together etc. These kinds of photographs may seem contrived and a bit corny, but they have an [...]
How to Make Money With Stock Photography
Posted by melissa s on November 17th, 2008
Many people wonder how a stock photograph is defined. The answer to that is that it is not. Every business needs photographs for reports, projects, publicity and so on. They place they go to get them is stock photo agencies who have a huge amount (maybe millions) of photographs in their stock. The stocks could [...]
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