Microstock Photography

Target your niche markets surgically. If you specialize in automobile photography, register for online automobile forums. Put your website url in your profile. Somebody there might have good feedback for your shots or constructive advice about finding customers. Tap their user traffic and look into their knowledge base and pick their brains for productive direction in the niche market. The meta tags for any photos you submit will track back to your own website.

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.

How painless would it be to simply ask some online buddies for tips or warnings troubleshooting issues with your camera with people who have the same model? I am setting some goals this month finding more about the limitations and advantages of my camera model exactly. I think this will shed some light on some of my night focus and blurry image result challenges I have been having.

The Challenges at www.dpchallenge.com make it amusing to dive through your image portfolio and come up with submissions.there is a challenge for cliche images, one for perspective images from the ground up, and “Free Study” challenge options. These challenges also make quick freelance assignments for your photo walkabouts. If you happen not to have a viable community or peers for your personal photography mission, check into www.dpchallenge.com for some serious “me” time as a photography professional. Each blurb window shows how many people have submitted an image to that Challenge