Pursuing an amateur photography career takes drive and perserverance. But today’s online marketplace allows microstock photography to be vended online as long as the operator can realize the market value of their image files. But a reasonable amount of time must pass before the feedback can be measured.
So, you have a digital photo gallery of great optimized photo files with enhancements and resolutions per the microstock standards. But your product isn’t moving. What are your online options? Internet Marketing for Microstock Photographers involved some startegic thinking and a specialized approach to YOUR individual talents and skills. Don’t follow the model from someone else’s career. Use what works for you.
In tennis it’s considered a good thing to play with someone better than you, because it increases your focus and challenges you to bring up the skill level of your game. If you think you don’t benefit from reviewing the output of other photographer’s, I’d advise you to bring that lens around 180 degress. Not only do you see the finished result in its highly polished final form, but you can instantly see congruent images in your own portfolio in your mind’s eye that might trasnition to similar, more marketable image files.
I followed up looking at available images for a city name website. Nada!!!! Considering how choosy the Microstock photo sites are I should NOT have been disappointed to see there were no image results for the city name I plugged into the search box. If the rejection volume is what I think it is, this is a real flaw in the image acceptance policy. Shouldn’t I be the one to determine if the shots are good enough for me to consider?
Composition is the arrangement of subject matter in front of the lens before image capture. Photographers have a lot more power in this dimension of the picture taking arts than they realize. Together with an adroit knowledge of what image manipulation possibilities there are inside the raw file, the address of the lens to the shot provides for endless creativity. Yet all too often photography buffs strive to take a uniform, right angled, non creative photo!