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Mystery, Fantasy & Facts
Digital Photography: Stock Photography
The proliferation of royalty-free stock
photography sites such as Big Stock Photo and iStockphoto offers
a possible micro-revenue source that fits my profile, with a
bit of effort of my part to upgrade the quality of the photos I
want to shoot anyway for my online
store, and a broadening of my
understanding of photographic subject and style.
After spending a couple of months
pointing cameras without rhyme or reason, I decided to invest
time in a more organized assault on improving my stock photo
portfolio. For me, that
For my purposes, the chapters on
suggested stock photo assignments and how to manage them are
the most relevant and important, and stand up well to the
assault of digital photography.
As a novice, I don’t want to use
models (other than volunteers) until I have more technical
expertise. The selected assignments will help.
This section will document my attempts to
take on stock photo assignments suggested in the book, and
subsequent attempts to take lessons learned and apply them to
“Subjects Wanted” as listed at Big Stock Photo
and iStockPhoto.
From the book:
Although in its third edition, the book
needs a fourth edition to reflect the enormous turmoil and
change, specifically digital photography overtaking film
photography in almost all areas of consumer and professional
photography. As it stands now, the book was written just as the
quality of digital photography was edging close enough to the
threshold that made it interesting and useful for
professionals, and the cost was sinking low enough for consumer
hobbyists to take note.
