Borrowing a camera
trains gleaming
This shot was of a train in hot hot heat after it must have just come from the train wash. Good keywords would be train, station, railroad, car, and tracks. The way this photo looked “told” me I was going to be a photographer. It matched my mental idea of what professional shots looked like.
I was working to see how much of the train I could get in the shot, and how much perspective would alter the actual train slant. In the real, this train is “straight”, but in the picture it seems to slant.
I just adore the gleam and the mirror reflection of the platform. I was fortunate it was too hot a day for a lot of people to be out, and conditions had organized a clean train standing for my immediate photographic use.
Want to get professional looking shots? Change the tools you use and see what happens. By operating in photography mode outside the comfort zone of your favorite camera, your skills and concentration will bring focus to a new issue of microstock images.Â
Best results from a new camera will come after time and trial produce ease of use. But getting the above shot would not have happened if I would have had my old camera, because I would have assumed that the subject matter and material would overwhelm a microstock size and the probable scale of any intended site.
But who has the time to burn in a new camera? You lose the utility and ease of use of the old camera. But after a long time using one camera, the muscles needed to develop fresh looking shots may wither away. Experimentation seems less attractive with tried and true results from your habitual picture taking methods.
Not everyone has the time to absorb growing pains. So, make an appointment to borrow a camera when you know you will have weather and a likely location and time to shoot.
 For efficient camera selection and a burst of new edge to your microstock portfolio, borrow a camera from a friend or neighbor. But get a camera that plays to your weaknesses not your strengths.
Your photography skills will always be strong in a strong area, but sewing up weak loopholes in your photographic ability can tighten the desirability of your portfolio listings. A camera that needs attention to operate can reveal new vistas in your microstock productivity range.
If you excel at compisition and getting long focus shots, work on a camera with microfocus lenses and stock shots from an arm’s length away.
Borrow a camera that makes you learn the new techniques and lets you take pictures with a new and different eye. The result of your pictures and final microstock product will be interesting to note and analyze.
Make sure you have all the necessary peripherals, accessories and battery backups. This included custom sync charge up wires and power ac connectors. Check out different size memory cards with different megapixel usage volumes on memory storage .
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