Photography: Markus Merz If turning photography into income has a downside, it’s this: it doesn’t always work. You’ll pitch for jobs you won’t get, enter competitions you won’t win and submit images to stock companies who will send them back encouraging you to try again. Dreamstime, for example, receives an average of 100,000 photo submissions a week [...]

Selling your Photos as Wallpaper
Photography: Vlad Gerasimov (VladStudio.com) Wouldn’t it be great to shoot a picture that you love, have thousands of people pay to own a copy and know that they’re going to see it, appreciate it and enjoy it several times a day before coming back to pick up another one? That’s not likely to happen through gallery representation, [...]

Bert Stephani: Mo’ Bounce to da Ounce
I am in the air all day today, flying back from Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Bert Stephani is across the pond, pretending he is in L.A. So I will leave you in his able hands, as he invades a public beach with a California Sunbounce Micro and a kickin’ pair of ND-8 filters over his eyes.(Seriously, I love Bert’s videos.)See stills from the shoot on Bert’s blog. More info on the CSB here.-30-This is a full RSS feed post from Strobist.com. Click the post title to see the full post and view reader comments. This month’s feeds are sponsored by:

An Open Access Photo Library
Microstock might have hit the stock world like a kick to the shins, but it carries one big advantage and one giant disadvantage. The advantage is that anyone can now earn from their photography. Photographers no longer need to be professional full-timers to license their photos and they’re free to upload as many or as [...]

You and the Failure of PhotoShelter
On October 10, 2008, PhotoShelter will close the PhotoShelter Collection, its stock outlet. In an announcement on the company’s website, Allen Murabayashi, PhotoShelter’s CEO declared: “We believed that we could create a more democratic system - a marketplace for stock photography where virtually any one could participate. And a few months later, The PhotoShelter Collection was [...]

Ad Men Seek Flickr Photos and Flickr Members
Photography: juliebee What do Flickr members want? To chat to other photographers and swap stories and tips about where and what to shoot, maybe. To make the odd print sale or win a new client, perhaps. To improve their photography, often. It’s all of those things, of course, but mostly Flickr membership tends to be about showing your [...]

When Pictures Hurt Websites
Is it possible that an entire marketplace is wrong? Could it be that the biggest buyers of low-cost photography aren’t just wasting their money by buying images but actually damaging their own earnings? And if it is the case, is it possible that we can keep this to ourselves so that they don’t find out? The [...]

Art Photography - How to Create an Oil Painting from a Photo with Corel Painter
Today we’re talking Art Photography as Bob Nolin from Digital Image Magazine shares some tips on creating an oil painting effect from a photo. Imagine you had a magic paint brush, and when you painted with it on a blank canvas, it changed colors for you all by itself. You wouldn’t have to try [...]

Shooting and Selling Through a Recession
Even during the last economic boom, times have been hard recently for professional photographers. The price of digital equipment might have fallen, cutting expenses, but with high-end cameras now within reach of amateurs the result has been an increase in the supply of photographers and of images too. At the same time, the Internet [...]

When it all Goes Wrong
Photography: Behrooz Nobakht It seemed like a good idea at the time. We liked it. Judging by the level of activity on the site, lots of photographers liked it. And seeing as they were the ones who poured their money into the plan, 8020 Publishing, producers of JPG Magazine, liked it too. The only people who didn’t [...]

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