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Build a digital stock house from the ground up—and make money!
Digital Stock Photography equips photographers with everything they need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.
• Thirty assignments let readers build their own digital stock house
• Detailed digital photography tips and techniques plus business, marketing, and legal advice
• Includes model releases and other business form
Digital Stock Photography equips photographers with everything they need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.
• Thirty assignments let readers build their own digital stock house
• Detailed digital photography tips and techniques plus business, marketing, and legal advice
• Includes model releases and other business form
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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I have been trawling Amazon and other websites for good informative books on shooting stock photography for over a year. I have bought a few books and to be honest up until now I have been very disappointed. This book resets the balance however.
I am a semi-pro photographer and as such whilst I get a decent income from selling images I have wanted to get into stock sales for a while. When I decided to get into the stock image market I thought it was just a case of looking through your library of jpeg images and sending the best images onto iStock and Alamy and wait for the money to trickle in (I am not that naive that I though I would be making mega bucks!!). However, I still had a shock. Rejection after rejection.
I have read other books - see my other reviews, and none goes into the depth this book does explaining what stock images are and how to be successful in your approach to stock libraries. Did you know that some stock libraries give you a test prior to submission - iStock, and some - Alamy will only take large files, way above your usual jpeg images you shoot and some - Getty will not accept images unless you use a Canon or Nikon top of the range model camera. Now to be frank, I knew some of the intricate details of the stock market but was I in for a shock when I was rejected initially at all the stock libraries I went to (My images are not that bad either - Google me to see them) , but I now know where I was going wrong.
This book, if I had read it first, would have saved me time and money. Ditch the Leica film camera and use digital only. Ok I can live with that and my bank balance was swollen with the sales of my M7. Next use a top of the range digital camera - no problem and don't forget the lenses. Next find the style of the images you must take - good point and don't forget the keywords when indexing your images etc.
The book delves into the detail from the equipment you need - I have never seen that in a book like this before - to the software you need, the reasons that you use RAW but don't over-sharpen your images to, (and I think this is great), giving you 25 assignments to concentrate the mind. No just going out on a whim with your 2 meg compact firing in jpeg mode any more.
I guess you are asking why if I class this as the best stock photography book on the market have I not given it 5 stars. Well, thats due to the lack of colour images in the book and the poor standard of printing of the black and white shots in the book. I regret it detracts from the overall experience of reading the book.
The book is well worth reading. It is well presented and though its more like a text book then a picture book on stock to read over a weekend,. Maybe there is a good reason for that. Michal Heron is more about you selling images then you just buying a pretty book to put cash in her pocket, unlike some authors.
Highly recommended.
I am a semi-pro photographer and as such whilst I get a decent income from selling images I have wanted to get into stock sales for a while. When I decided to get into the stock image market I thought it was just a case of looking through your library of jpeg images and sending the best images onto iStock and Alamy and wait for the money to trickle in (I am not that naive that I though I would be making mega bucks!!). However, I still had a shock. Rejection after rejection.
I have read other books - see my other reviews, and none goes into the depth this book does explaining what stock images are and how to be successful in your approach to stock libraries. Did you know that some stock libraries give you a test prior to submission - iStock, and some - Alamy will only take large files, way above your usual jpeg images you shoot and some - Getty will not accept images unless you use a Canon or Nikon top of the range model camera. Now to be frank, I knew some of the intricate details of the stock market but was I in for a shock when I was rejected initially at all the stock libraries I went to (My images are not that bad either - Google me to see them) , but I now know where I was going wrong.
This book, if I had read it first, would have saved me time and money. Ditch the Leica film camera and use digital only. Ok I can live with that and my bank balance was swollen with the sales of my M7. Next use a top of the range digital camera - no problem and don't forget the lenses. Next find the style of the images you must take - good point and don't forget the keywords when indexing your images etc.
The book delves into the detail from the equipment you need - I have never seen that in a book like this before - to the software you need, the reasons that you use RAW but don't over-sharpen your images to, (and I think this is great), giving you 25 assignments to concentrate the mind. No just going out on a whim with your 2 meg compact firing in jpeg mode any more.
I guess you are asking why if I class this as the best stock photography book on the market have I not given it 5 stars. Well, thats due to the lack of colour images in the book and the poor standard of printing of the black and white shots in the book. I regret it detracts from the overall experience of reading the book.
The book is well worth reading. It is well presented and though its more like a text book then a picture book on stock to read over a weekend,. Maybe there is a good reason for that. Michal Heron is more about you selling images then you just buying a pretty book to put cash in her pocket, unlike some authors.
Highly recommended.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
You can sell stock photography, too.
23 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
Microstock, Google's "Image" search capabilities, and rampant stealing of images from Shutterfly, SmugMug, or PBase have made stock photography a lot less possible, and a great deal less profitable in recent years. However, if you're good with a camera and know how to produce large quantities of salable images, you can still make money in stock photography. Just don't expect big fees, and be happy with small payments that can pile up if your work is good.
This book, published in September 2007, is up-to-date enough that it advises you how to optimize your stock photography sales in today's real world. Read it carefully, re-calibrate your expectations, and get to work.
This book, published in September 2007, is up-to-date enough that it advises you how to optimize your stock photography sales in today's real world. Read it carefully, re-calibrate your expectations, and get to work.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
An invaluable reference.
7 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
Michal Heron has been a successful freelance photographer for over thirty years, not only selling her products to photo agencies but running her own stock business and giving lectures at seminars and workshops around the country. Her DIGITAL STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY packs in the basics of capturing digital images, from working with scans and delivering acceptable product to evaluating equipment, creating releases, handling copyright options and much more. No aspiring professional photographer should be without it: it's an essential key to understanding the routines and demands of the stock photo business, and photography as well as general-interest lending libraries catering to photographers will find it an invaluable reference.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Not so fast
13 April 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book was very informative and well written, but lets you know right off that getting started in stock photography will not be easy, and probably quite expensive. The equipment requirements may prove to be prohibitive for those on a tight budget. Nothing worthwhile in life is easy, and stock photography is no exception.
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