How to sell Microstock Photos
How to Sell Microstock Photos by Keith JonesFirst you need a decent digital camera - this should be at least 6 Mb file size.
The most important thing though is the subject.
People pictures are what is most needed by the market to illustrate websites and blogs.
(I'm currently shooting people pictures for this reason)
Business situations and family situations are what sells best.
Interaction between the people involved is the key to saleable pictures.
They should definitely be visually interacting with each other (even if its one person standing aggresively with their back to the other. Try looking at a decent book on Body Language.
Straight smiling headshots are also useful but a model release is ALWAYS required.
Children with pets (especially very young pets sell well.
Have a look at regular stock catalogues and you'll see what I mean.
Microstock is certainly the path of the future - with the availability of cheap online pictures, I forsee huge growth in this industry. From the photographers perspective though, the subscription model companies are a really awful deal - most of these offer the photographer just 25 cents a download and that's just a waste of time for photographers - yes I know there's one lady who managed to get over 200 thousand downloads ... but who else have you heard of in a similar situation ? (She by the way specialised in people pictures - mostly of her own children - a problem for anyone who doesn';t have children or can't afford model agency fees)
Both major stock photolibraries have gone into the Microstock business and I'd expect to see their photographers being persuaded into Microstock... at the cost of a loss in regular stock sales
That's just a guess on my part though - I have no insider information about that - it's just the way big companies think !
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Microstock Photography 1 by Keith Jones
Keith's Photography is at http://www.digifotostock.com
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