In my previous I failed to mention this list of stock sites. It is the source I plan to use for doing more research into other options that work for me. There are other non-stock links there that might prove to be valuable as well.
Down the road, Stockmodels.com could come in useful for locating models. (NOTE: Be warned that some images on that site might be NSFW.)
Showing posts with label stock photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stock photography. Show all posts
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Stock situation
Well by now everyone knows the Photo Shelter Collection news. It leaves lots of people like me wondering where to turn for selling stock images. I've been doing a bit of searching the net and found a few resources that can be helpful.
There's also some good advice on this post. While I agree with most of those sentiments, I'd like to avoid microstock altogether.
Personally I think the closing of PSC leaves a bit of a void for options. I'd love to join something like Digital Railroad but the cost of using their service wouldn't allow me to ever get out of the red. The Independent Photography Network not only has high costs, but qualifications I don't meet.
Almay seems to be the only real option for non-microstock with no subscription fees (although I'm looking for others and I suspect they are out there). Too bad, as they are not US based, which I feel can sometimes influence what will sell. It's nice to have as a compliment to a US based company, but don't think it should be my only avenue.
With a smaller collection like mine, one thing I really liked about PSC was their stock requests feed. Rather than try to put pictures into the cloud that is searched by stock buyers, it was nice to see exactly what stock buyers have for immediate needs. A service like that is specifically what I'm interested in finding now. I've found a few that were subscription based, but nothing else yet that is free.
More to come.... If you have information to share I'd love to hear it.
- Stock imaging forum
- The Photo Shelter Collection Flickr group
- numerous other stock groups on Flickr (some of which have NOTHING to do with stock photography
There's also some good advice on this post. While I agree with most of those sentiments, I'd like to avoid microstock altogether.
Personally I think the closing of PSC leaves a bit of a void for options. I'd love to join something like Digital Railroad but the cost of using their service wouldn't allow me to ever get out of the red. The Independent Photography Network not only has high costs, but qualifications I don't meet.
Almay seems to be the only real option for non-microstock with no subscription fees (although I'm looking for others and I suspect they are out there). Too bad, as they are not US based, which I feel can sometimes influence what will sell. It's nice to have as a compliment to a US based company, but don't think it should be my only avenue.
With a smaller collection like mine, one thing I really liked about PSC was their stock requests feed. Rather than try to put pictures into the cloud that is searched by stock buyers, it was nice to see exactly what stock buyers have for immediate needs. A service like that is specifically what I'm interested in finding now. I've found a few that were subscription based, but nothing else yet that is free.
More to come.... If you have information to share I'd love to hear it.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Blogs to follow
As I've said before, I like keeping and eye on the Chase Jarvis blog, and Strobist.com. Tonight while I was trying to do some research on PhotoShelter vs. Alamy I came across Cycle 61 Photography and the links associated with it. One that looks very interesting is Stock Photo Journey. I'll be adding them to my Google Reader asap... in fact, you can now just look at the blog links included in the blog.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
More Stock Photography
I've recently heard of another stock photo site called Alamy. I'll try to upload some images there too, and those images will reside here.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Stock Photography
I've been thinking of trying out stock photography for some time now. I started an account at iStockPhoto.com (because one of the guys from the LightSource podcast is an image editor and mentions them all the time), but haven't uploaded any images yet. While checking out a new podcast series by Chase Jarvis, I came across one of his presentations, which happens to be for the PhotoShelter group. I decided to give them a try.
Check out my stuff and buy some pictures!
Check out my stuff and buy some pictures!
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