The Microstock Microstudio
nature surprise
Microstock images with the highest ratings and usage statistics may come from very humble beginnings. Enhancements like sudden rain and snow, texture and air quality can render time sensitive opportunities for quality saleable images.
If you have a normal photo scouting route, make sure changes in light and weather allow you to visit detailed shots along that route. This can be very productive for microstock photo yield due to the fact that you have already analyzing most of the available shots. The shooting time will be very efficient. New opportunities will call out to you.
Nature will often compose the best shots for you. If you have some weather occur, some rain or snow to chase down, be aware of changes in air quality and apeparance. These visual optics can change the way normal photography turns out. Something within the everyday turns special.
The best kind of microstock photography you can take is with your own materials, in your own environment, with the best lighting you can provide. Opportunity in exterior landscapes and fine air quality doesn’t come along every day, so I put on the snow boots and wandered out.
Nature can’t always provide all the microstock photos webmasters and magazines need.
These might be quotidian images that don’t set the world on fire, but get the composition job done for a feature or article. Sometimes one simple image cropped from a snap taken casually can inspire an entire article. It’s good to remember what kinds of assignments are out there when looking for subject matter.
But a good repertoire of simple images can fill a need under deadline. The above photo was a good idea because the metal had a textural symbiosis with the bright snow and clear air. The keywords to tag this photo would be ladybug, copper, snow, landscape, exterior, natural, and garden.
There was a purity right there at the photo point, and I wondered where I would use this. I liked how the copper ladybug complimented the natural effect of the snow. It looked like nature’s creatures indeed were finding their way out after a hard storm. The mood of peace after days of snow was somehow captured by this simple shot.
Learn to fashion planned sessions to fine tune your technique. You can polish shiny surfaces, arrange perfect surfaces toward the camera lens, and remove less than perfect condition objects. Inside can have more light control at night, but exterior subject photography during the day benefits from light source as big as all outdoors.
