I have been doing a little bit of Microstock here and there for a few years but never really applied any analytics to it. Four months ago, I set out with the goal of tracking my progress and quadrupling my Microstock income purely by spending four hours a week in the first month, two hours [...]
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The Microstock Challenge – Which sites make you money and which ones don’t
Posted: 31st January 2012 by Svenler in Stock PhotographyTags: 123rf, Analytics, Dreamstime, Earnings, iStockphoto, Microstock, Money, Photography, ShutterStock, Statistics
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Another Stock Photo Mix-Up: Quebec Woman appears in ads for two opposing parties
Posted: 25th April 2011 by Svenler in Stock PhotographyI’ve said it before and I can not stop stressing that unless you are a small blogger or just want to illustrate something minor, it’s a pretty bad idea for you to choose a stock photo. What happened during the elections in Quebec was that both the Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois decided not to [...]
How to create proper Separation / Isolation Lighting
Posted: 7th December 2010 by Svenler in Education, Lighting, Photography, Stock PhotographyTags: isolation, lighting, Macrostock, Microstock, Photography, separation, technique
Some call it separation lighting, others prefer the term isolation lighting, but both mean the proper lighting technique to separate your subject from the background. While this technique is applied just about everywhere in photography where a subject is the main focus, this technique is a particular for Stock Photography, where the proper separation technique [...]