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.
Sometimes you close in on a shot and you thought there was something there, but the images just don’t read like a successful shot. With a little practice there are one or two tips to getting the best result when you have one location trip and and a few minutes with each payoff shot.
If you are getting into photography as something more than just a hobby, a few tips to add value and maximize future profit could make the difference between paid vacations with retroactive micropayment values or dreaming of paid photography at a turtle’s pace. Part One in a series.
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.