Micro Video Market
Using video to grab microstock shots has been useful for grabbing limited exposure shots in the best light, then working from a screenshot or frame capture. For example, the above image was done of a restaurant with limited front of house landscape suitability for a movie shoot. I had to deliver scout footage of available venues for the producers and director to review. This place did not work because too many obscuring detail ruining the front.
Getting in the ground floor can be a nice place to position yourself for the road ahead career-wise. If you have a decent 5-6 mega pixel camera it will suffice for online small frame videos but think about borrowing or trying out a model or two from a friend. Don’t get frustrated in the field when yours skills grow to grip a challenge and your camera is not equal to it.
You’ll want a camera from the 12-14, mega pixel camera ranges for video especially. Get something simple to borrow, all that screen play can waste your time. You don’t want to ruin the photo walkabout fiddling for the right lens or setting. Many video settings are personalized on video cameras so photographers tired of a simplistic camera can specialize easily. Instead, just focus on grabbing clean stretches of video.
You will need memory storage to record about 1-20 thirty second video media files and photography, plus batteries to match, you might consider cultivating interest in more than one branch of the photography field. Don’t delete video files in the camera without screening the at the desktop first. One blurry screenshot can reduce to a quite satisfactory 250 by 250 pixel image.
Now that video is the hot new vending item at many microstock sites, the scope of the work turns from a brief moment of pinpointed clarity to video. If you are a microstock photographer and you have been playing around with the video capability in your camera, here are some focus drivers to render more product results and revenue from the same device. Surprisingly, simple stock footage has a high market value.
Video footage allows a photographer to compare multiple frames for the best shot. Some photographers have different editing skills than others, so one shot might be better enabled for their fine tuning that another one. One shutterbug may be very good at cropping and composition, but another may be better tried at blurring and graphics and beveling. Just remember to make a copy of the screenshot before obliterating the footage files.
What does a customer want a video for? Perhaps they are doing an “industrial” or a commercial organization’s presentation. Video topics like workplace safety and how to lock equipment make very saleable commodities, especially as the oens they were using have outdated equipment, hairstyles, and clothing than the current ones. Â These are typical for training films for new employees, for example.
What micro video footage will you surprise us with?
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