Fearless Microstock Habits
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This image was taken on a cloudy day on Hollywood Boulevard, a busy and challenging set of conditions for photography.
5 Things the microstock photographer should be considering every time he/she takes a photograph.
1. Composition
Composition is the arrangement of subject matter in front of the lens before image capture. Photographers have a lot more power in this dimension of the picture taking arts than they realize. Together with an adroit knowledge of what image manipulation possibilities there are inside the raw file, the address of the lens to the shot provides for endless creativity. Yet all too often photography buffs strive to take a uniform, right angled, non creative photo!
 2. Lighting
Eradicating shadows in the editing process and introducing them for visual interest is a huge time absorber. cut the porcessing time to market of your micropayment image in half by angling the shot in perspective to various light sources.
 3. Black & White
 Learn to transform the potential of any shot to the drama of black and white. Be alert to exreme perspective, multiple intersection of lines and forms, and regularly view the image in the editing process to review the black and white potential. Landscapes and still lifes can introduce drama to “dull” images because they enrich the spectrum of black and white and render those extremes the clors of interest in the finished black and white image file.
4. Change Perspective
Accept what is going on with perspective and angle the lens and camera placement accordingly. the traditional “set up” shot might be manipulated in the end run with some clever file management. if it’s a tricky fit to get the whole thing in one shot, take two or work with panorama uses. Don’t leave a shot without attempting a “random fly pass”. The capture might have better color and light and shadows than your “up-front” conventional lens address technique images.
 5. Micro Photography in Crowds
Micro photography on the hoof means being in the way, sometimes in a sea of pedestrian faces in the crowd turning the other direction. Get used to people turning to watch what you are photographing, learn to answer politely when people ask you for directions, and be able to hold your camera angled and in focus with one hand on Hollywood & Vine while a swarm of excited children stampede for the Disney theatre while your arm is extended two feet in the air holding for the image capture of the Hollywood sign about a dozen len magnifications in.
