http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog a microstock endeavor Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:05:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well went through a descent dry spell for stock photo sales. The last photo I sold in 2009 was a couple of days after thanksgiving 11/29, the first sell i had in 2010 was just 2 days ago 1/19 that made me a little nervous but since then I ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=167 Well 2009 was personally a rough year for me. But I'm glad I have pulled out of it, but before I did 2009 let me know where i stood and I did generate a single sale for the whole month of December for any of my stock photo sites. ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=165 I was at the local Polar Bear Plunge annual event that is put on by the Bellefonte YMCA. It was a great event and I had a blast taking photos during the middle of a wonderful winter snow storm. The snow was just right when it comes to ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=158 In a previous post, I talked about submitting some sub-par images to the microstock agencies and how I feared it would be a mistake. Out of the 12 images that I submitted to each of the agencies here are the totals. Agency Number of accepted images iStockPhoto 4 Dreamstime 6 fotolia 6 StockXpert 12 BigStock 4 I haven't gotten very many views out ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=149 I submitted images from the previous post, to my stock photo agencies. These obviously are not my best work and i have heard that you should only submit your best. I also heard that you should not submit several images of the same subject, I submited 12 images ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=144 I was using one of my hours to shoot some stock photos of some simple construction photos. A drill screwing in a screw, a hammer driving in a nail, and honestly they weren't living up to my expectations. Now granted I was trying out some new modifiers, a boom for ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=132 I'm going to start dedicating an hour every evening to stock photography. Now an hour a day really doesn't seem like much time. But I don't have a lot of time either. I get home around 6:00 or 6:30 at night where I'm immediately swamped with the love and affection ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=128 It is very difficult for me to come up with what to shoot for my stock portfolios. When someone presents to me a subject for a photo I typical have very little problems coming up with some creative and unique ways of shooting that subject. But I get brain locked ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=124 Stock photography and more specifically micro stock photography isn’t going to make me rich, it’s not the high end top of the mountain work of Joe McNally. It’s not the cool work of Chase Jarvis, and it’s not the kind of work that will fill the empty black hole ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=122 We will be doing a photowalk of Boalsburg on May 21st starting at 6:00 p.m. This is the Thursday before Memorial Day, and what better place to do a photowalk than the birthplace of Memorial day, Boalsburg, PA. We had a photowalk at this time last year and I think everyone ... http://studiobrad.com/PTPBlog/?p=112