15 ways to tell if you are a Microstock photographer
10 ways to tell if you are a microstock photographer
1. You know when you see a camera worthy photo opportunity if the light and composition potential is worth jamming your camera out and powering up.
2. You know the cheapest source of disposable batteries in town, the best camera battery brand to buy, and treat yourself to deluxe battery performance as a splurge.
3. You consider a day of travel without pulling out your camera once a day you might as well have spent online or in bed.
4. You know that travel is the most oversaturated microstock market, and that only location specific travel photos and keyworded images will probably be used.
5. You maintain accounts at every online gallery possible just for the sake of redundant online storage in case anything happens to your desktop and memory archives at home.
6. You have a gallery or portfolio online full of your best work to show or email potential new clients and webmasters for specific photography work.
7. You browse memory card sale prices like a new car shopper, knowing all week to week sale price variances in SD to Sony to XD.
8. Your wish list at any electronics outlet is the super-premium photo editing suite or video capture software with enhanced photo frame and image rendering functions and features.
9. You carry with you at all times a set of blank photo rights release forms for subjects and locations.
10. You have used those foil reflector boards meant for heat deflection on the dashboard and windshield area of a car in a pinch for human photography light balance.
11. You see Geo tags and keywords before you’ve even taken the picture.
12. Drugstore employees expect you when batteries are on sale.
13. When your colleague’s camera is on the fritz you send them a get-well email.
14. You go plain wrap, because you feel that pimping out your camera is pointless, it’s a tool not an accessory.
15. You can flip your camera out of your pocket one handed, press the device to on, focus, click and get another shot in before the opportunity has passed you by.
