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The Photography value chain
In another article about the pace of change in the photography market, I discussed the current pressure on prices, and the need for any commercial photographer to adapt to the changing business environment. This time, I’ll look at the cost-side of running a photography business, as everything you do can be expressed in money. Acquisition, [...]
Merging with 36clicks
We’re proud to announce we’ve merged our portfolio with 36clicks. We will continue building the Corepics brand. Together, we can offer a wider variety of images and themes, as well as double our portfolio size. Over the next few, we’ll transfer the images from the various accounts into one. We’ll also restructure our light boxes. [...]
Dealing with a creative dip
Everyone, active in a creative profession, has to deal with it every now and then. The Creative Dip. However, there are a few very basic tricks to overcome this feared block rapidly. The situation Over the last few months, I’ve hammered through a lot of shoots for clients and for stock. Processing the results, I [...]
The Cliché competition – the first 10 days
With roughly 10 days into our cliché competition, its about time for a short update on how we’re doing. The task we set ourselves: Despite the general consensus that shooting cliches for microstock (more info after the read more link) isn’t the most sensible thing to do, we set ourselves the challenge to come up [...]
Thoughts on a changing photography market
We supply too many images to (micro)stock agencies, and there are too many photographers to base a sustainable business model on for most of us. The suppliers market seems to be over-saturated. On the other hand, microstock is rapidly gaining market share as cheap source of images for many purposes. The RF microstock pricing structure [...]
Corepics on mystockphoto.org
My Stock Photography currently features an article about Corepics, the way we work, and our current cliché challenge. With special thanks to Roberto for providing this opportunity! And what a great title! MicroRocks! Read the full article on my stock photography here, and make sure to check out Roberto’s other articles, they’re great reading material, [...]
Don’t shoot clichés? We did…
Shooting clichés is considered to be out of bounds. Numerous blogs, forums and other websites providing tips for stock photographers, discuss this taboo on clichés. The evidence is out there – the stock sites, a PicNiche article, on Mystockphoto and the microstockdiaries views on Clichés. There’s even a website containing the 101 most frowned upon [...]
Planning a photoshoot
It’ll probably be an open door for you when I say that with a decent planning, you’ve already done half the work. I believe a thorough planning is vital for any photoshoot. Whether you work with models, or go go out into the wild. Both indoors, as well as outdoors, a planning will only help [...]
Find your niche in (micro)stock – part 2
Following up on my previous post on finding your niche in (micro)stock, I’d like to draw your attention to a very useful tool in assessing if what you have in mind is a potential niche to be explored; picNiche Also, there is an interesting article for comparison on mystockphoto worth checking out (and not just [...]
