Microstock Photography

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.

Whereas on my sunny days the glare and light from the sky would backlight the skyscrapers, a cloudy, morose day made for great photographic opportunities. The buildings would have a stark mirror gloss that would show up fantastically against a uneven gray/white sky. This makes the outline complement the interior texture, and introduces image qualities beyond “tourist” scope.