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 image file was minimized as I must always do since my twelve mega pixel Kodak establishes a poster sized image of everything. Yeah, I know I could change the setting. But you never know just when that crazy lucky shot will come through. That’s a poor time to be thinking how unwise you were to reset the default specification on your digital camera’s memory and dimension settings.This way I can see the “postage stamp” light box value, as it were.

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.

A rich shading will have associative rich keywords in associative meaning. Think about the types of color labels your Crayola set has. Those make excellent keyword and descriptors for the images. Burnt Siena, Copper, Silver, Navy, Indigo, Bronze. This neon sign appears as scarlet, lipstick red, neon red, and bright red. Someone looking for some visual excitement may even need some words describing the texture, such as pattern or words like focused, shadows, and neon effect.