Microstock Frustrations
Microstock Frustrations
The list of things in life that frustrate the Microstock photographer are short but very precise. The above shows one of them. This fabulous mosaic had plenty of expanse for e to grab an image, but no matter how I shifted the angle it looked flat.
Location Microstock:
Speed radar machine installations kill me. These orange grilled monsters that bleep with their little protective grid of orange safety cones make my teeth grate against each other. Got up at dawn on a clear day to wrest the image of the park from the Earth? The City got there before you. Have fun standing on a car or curling up on the ground to get the right vantage angle.
Fountain Microstock:
Waited for that beautiful clear day to snap the city’s new public fountain? That’s the day the schools let out or take a special trip and orange buses are everywhere. People and kids everywhere, and perhaps even the fountain is out of order or dirty. If it is a clear day, various people will be sitting three deep on the lip of the fountain, loathe to move. By the time the coast is clear, the light will wrong, or your batteries will die. If a perfect balanced composition with linear shadows is available, it’s because there is no more room on your memory card.
Lens Microstock
Microstock lens disease strikes when an action or light window breaks open an opportunity for an incredible shot. Just as your hand comes up, clicking the on button, the lens mechanism spiraling out in perfect gymnastic flair, memory card inside and roomy, fingers outta the lens frame, the lens focus starts to flicker with indecision. The smart frame shudders between tulip town and medium aperture. Sometimes only after you press the button. Delightful.
Botanical Microstock
A picture sometimes maybe worth a thousand snips. That’s right, that beautiful garden or bed of roses just ready to pop into bloom, the ones you’ve been waiting to grab on camera? Yeah, the day you suspect sunny weather and spin around the corner for some fantastic herbaceous color, your petal values will have been whittled to nubs.
Hooky Microstock
Sometimes a fabuous venue for shots opens up that may never come your way again. A friend of a friend organized something. Private view of a newly decorated office. A resort visit with stunning views. A luxury car with no plates. Ifyou call in sick to work, you will actually be sick when taking thephoto.
Murphy’s Law for Microstock
If you catch sight of something very interesting and full of color, the hunger to get the best shot will take over. Trying to get the right angle capture for the image will elude you. You’ll take dozens of snaps out of focus, the wrong way, out of frame, get hand aches just trying to nail the picture down. No matter how you try and grab it, the right composition, angle, light and focus won’t merge.
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