Microstock Photography

The geo site domain name market is heating up as always, and as new domain name owners for predominantly geographical appeal site domain names start mounting their websites and minisites, photography for would-be geo portals like www.TigardHome.com need photos. Banner creation and feature story accents as well as avatars and forum footer images can be made from micro stock image files captured at geographical locations, then vended to the domain name owner whose website bears content of the same locale.

Imagine being able to finally grab an image confidently with the tulip lens setting without cowardly dependence on the SmartScene Kodak lens adjustment. Baby’s first steps as a micropayment photojournalist are when the tulip camera setting yields money shots like the one above. This image is exactly the quality and definition, composition and resolution the microstock galleries want to vend.

Getting peer feedback and review for your work is essential. But if so far the only person listening to your tunnel of silence regarding your Microstock progress, it’s time to find some support at the peer level. Join a forum and have some other members check out your online gallery for some community career growth and advice.

I have actually been accused of being a better photographer than I am. The reason being is the feature on the camera that decides lens settings and ideal shot capture whenI press the button. I notcied something troubling when i repeatedly pressed the shutter switch and the jittering camera box action actually forced a blur result. This happened a few times before I realized this was a physical hardware issue.

Micropayment photography is not an industry title designed to bring hordes of image submissions. But that’s exactly what happens every day at websites like Fotalia, Istockphoto, and others. The volume of people throwing image files at the wall to see what sticks is part and parcel of competing with other online for sales and business. The volume of submissions may be high, but the volume of what is accepted will not correspond except where quality occurs. That factor evens the playing field.