Intro To Stock Photography

Forest Photo Club member Janet Johnson talks about Stock Photography.

http://forestphotoclub.com/taking-stock

Transcript

1. Janet Johnson Forest Photo Club November 2012
2. Does it sound appealing to turn your interest in photography into an ongoing, passive stream of income? Online stock photo agencies are quite possibly the easiest, most fun way to start making money from your photos. You take the photos. Upload them. And then they start earning money for you. Even while you sleep.
3. Online Sites – for buyers and sellers Photographers apply to online sites to be contributors. They upload photos to the site and enter keywords to try to be accepted. Advertisers and Graphic Designers look for photos to use – and pay a small fee for use. May be used in magazine ads, to sell frames, as book covers, on web sites, or in the junk mail that shows up in your mailbox, etc.
4. What’s special about it? Must be CLEAN – clear focus, no noise, good exposure, good composition Review your shot at 100%! Must be DESIRED – someone has to need it, usually for selling something. Must not contain LOGOS or brand names If it contains people, must have a MODEL RELEASE.
5. Some Online Sites iStockphoto.com Hardest to get into; RGB JPG only; >=1600x1200 (2 MB) Shutterstock.com Requires 10 photos accepted in first upload; >= 4 MB BigStockPhoto.com Trickier to navigate; <= 25 MB Dreamstime.com Easier to get into; >= 3 MB Fotolia.com Easier; < 30 MB
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10. Views, No Sales (Downloads)
11. Search for Mill in Autumn, sort by Downloads
12. Search for Blue Ridge Mountains, sort by Downloads
13. Search for Youth Baseball, sort by Downloads For Photos Search You Take!