Dining out with Corepics

Last week, Restaurant Dijkers called us, to tell us about a full page ad for the Diner Jaarkaart in De Pers, a national newspaper, featuring one of our images, taken at the restaurant in Haarlem. After a quick call to Dinner Jaarkaart, to thank them for using our image, they kindly sent us the original [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Buyers guide to microstock
Corepics is represented by the following agents, where you can buy our high resolution stock photos. The agents below are listed in random order. Dreamstime Featurepics Fotolia Crestock iStockphoto 123RF Stockxpert Bigstockphoto Shutterstock If you do not have an account with these agencies , then please register for a free account using the links to [...]
Shutterstock Jackpot

Nothing to brag about, and with only the 10 initial images approved in our portfolio, it is not so much of a surprise. Nevertheless, it is a nice sight seeing a Shutterstock Jackpot (a hattrick for British citizen) on our first day with images online anyway.
Stocksite Analysis: Shutterstock 2008
Shutterstock is the largest subscription site for royalty free images around. Shutterstock is typically a high volume site – sales wise – with only a few pennies for the photographer. Due to the high volume sales, the total revenue from Shutterstock rates amongst the highest in royalty free sites. Shutterstock remains one of the sites [...]
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