Micro Portfolio Links
The above image is one of many taken for stock purposes. Happening by a commercial building, I spied an unusual building feature. This style of door knocker can serve as a paragraph icon for text for a exterior furnishing minisite, or exist on its own to showcase styling choices when designing a home. these are the type of textural images that convey skill in presenting photographs with layers and rich interest.
This blog post entry is a wake up call to you. Yes, you out there, with the camera barely used sicne Christmas still sitting in the styrofoam insulator of the box. With the memory card with almost no grooves on it. You are guilty of crimes against photography. Lapsing inside  that branded box is another career slumbering in plastic.
Posts from this blog have urged the installation of an online gallery, by web site application or by commercial photo gallery such as Fotolia, Kodak, and Flickr.
What is your microstock portfolio link? Could you type it directly into an email or say it out loud? I just left a domainers’ online forum where the one thread asked for graphic designers for little odd jobs for banners. “Looking for banners / headers to be created. Paying $15-$25 per.”
So, why isn’t this you?
Today I browsed a magazine with wholly pedestrian photos of a project in the garden. The images of the garden hose were almost identical, except they had little uniformly formatted numbers in the lower left corner of each one on a black background. These corresponded to the caption. Step-By-Step articles and How-To photo essays are hot right now.
How many of these types of suits of image sets do you have up in your microstock portfolio? Where is that folder? if you foudn a domain name owner with multiple possiblities to make a website, what keyword images do you have tagged and ready for the customer’s review?
The purpose of this prodding is to get shutterbugs with archives full of qualified original photography to get the lead out and start putting your warez up online. If you don’t put up the for sale sign, buyers can’t buy them. So get going!
