I just came across an excellent tutorial on taking portraits on a white seamless background. It’s by Zack Arias and is a five step tutorial with pictures and great explanations of everything.
A lot of this is probably old hat to many pro photographers but for a novice the information is great. He explains how […]
It looks like this should be the month I switch over to reporting only monthly earnings. I almost doubled my entire previous earnings with 48 downloads raking in $27.85, giving me a total from microstock of $61.37. Guess I wont be getting any new camera equipment for a while. I would like to cover some of cost of the […]
I went to check to make sure my list of digital print sites was up to date and check to see if I could find some new ones. I made some additions and subtractions from the list and wasn’t seeing any significant changes until I found Artscow and their offer of 400 free prints, 200 of them are 4×6 […]
We recently returned from a really great vacation to Glacier National Park in Montana (pictures to follow). Of course two weeks before we plan to leave my Nikon 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S DX which came with my Nikon D80 decides to quit working. I checked into getting it repaired but I would not have gotten it back […]
I’ve been following Comparing RPI and STR of stock photographers with some interest. I think tracking an approximation of the RPI is interesting information, just not sure how useful it is. I say approximation of the RPI because I don’t think many, if any, microstock photographers calculate it right (me included). Unless there’s some software […]
I did okay getting some more images added to my portfolios in the beginning of June, but with preparations for and a vacation at the end of June I didn’t get much done then. Hopefully in July I’ll be getting some of the stock worthy shots from vacation uploaded.
I have been reading that the summer […]
I haven’t really done a lot in getting my numbers of pictures increased this month. My big news this month is that I finally got accepted on ShutterStock and StockXpert. ShutterStock has been doing very well for me as you’ll see in the table below, I’ll take ShutterStock over Lucky Oliver […]
Immediately after I published my previous post on April’s earnings. I went to check my email and found that I had a sale on Fotolia. It could be a good month! It was a XS but a sale none the less.
Allen
April was a really busy month but I still got to do some shooting and uploading. Even got a couple more added to most of the sites. I got a good jump in my average portfolio size, but I’d really like to do something like Lee Torrens’ Shoot Daily and Contribute […]
March was a pretty dry month for downloads, only got two from Fotolia. I was successful at getting a couple more pictures approved at most of the sites. I got some images approved on Dreamstime which is a new site for me. I’m really trying to focus on getting good […]
