Planning a live model shoot and planning some excellent tableaux. We’ve got four different “types” mapped out. There is an Everyman, a “Obama” type, a Las Vegas gambler, and a religious right-wing zealot. We will be doing video and I will be taking screenshots from the MP4 files.
Now that video is the hot new vending item at many microstock sites, the scope of the work turns to video. If you are a microstock photographer and you have been playing around with the video capability in your camera, here are some focus drivers to render more product results and revenue from the same device. Try your hand at video!
The Los Angeles MTA (Metro Transit Authority) has just launched some extremely edgy, hip, completely effective advertising spots. Done in black, white and silver with Terry Crews mime dancing, the black fedora (especially now and in Los Angeles)has an incredibly hard hitting impact.
Get critiques and feedback online and get the skinny on what kind of photography “survey says” you are best at. Concentrate on those market and promotion sources for revenue. Bring on the marketing plan and schedule long and short term goals. A short term goal might be one style and beauty image sold, and a long term goals might be a monetary figure for overall sales total in cash.
This might be some very valuable expertise to have practiced if you find yourself in the midst of a creative project where the ampltidue of return on a series of images can be communicated in a quick visual array. Story boarding is a marketabke skill that can be used when pitching a movie or working with producer to edit scenes and conduct meetings when story content and scene shooting is at issue or in the planning stages.