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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Find your niche in (micro)stock – part 1
It’s splattered all over the various forums of microstock agents: If you want to be successful in stock, build a large portfolio. Aim for a versatile collection of images, as that ensures a wide spread interest from buyers, designers, and such, and thus realises sales and generates revenues. All very well intended opinions, shared by [...]
