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In the Queue at Alamy

by Bill on September 15, 2008

I sent an initial batch of images to Alamy last night. For one large batch I automated e upsizing in PhotoShop Elements. These may not pass as I can’t choose the sampling method for batch resizing (boo Adobe!!). I then found this post over on the Alamy forum about upsizing directly out of Aperture. I gave this a shot on one additional image. Being able to export straight out of Aperture would dramatically speed up my workflow, I hope it works. I really miss the PSC Aperture plugin, exporting directly out of Aperture into PSC saved me tons of time.

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Rejections Round 1

by Bill on January 18, 2008

So far I have been rejected by iStock and Dreamstime. I only uploaded one image to Dreamstime and it was rejected for composition and poor lighting/exposure. When I look at the image again I can totally see that those reasons are valid. iStock rejected me with the old

These images are very similar in subject matter or style.

I had uploaded the elephant and 2 of my daughter. The ones of my daughter where taken at the same session and did have a very familiar feel but the trust worthy elephant shot was not. It is going to be a bit of a challenge to build a portfolio with a lot of variety in the next few months.

FYI here is the elephant shot.

I was rejected, poor little ole me.

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8 MicroStock Starter Links

by Bill on January 15, 2008

I collected a bunch of great links when I was investigating starting out in MicroStock. I hope you find them as useful as I do.

First check out what is most popular on iStockPhoto BigStock Photo and Dreamstime These will give you a great indication of what sells. Hint, people in suits with laptops! ;-) Select photos if possible to look at all the popular photos, otherwise you will see a lot of vectors.

Then read What is stock worthy

Designers are your main buyers, get into their heads with Think like a Designer

Compistion is key not only for stock but good pictures in general Really long article on composition

Get some good feedback on your images from critique forums - iStockPhoto Critique Forum and my favorite the Digital Photography School Critique Forum

I great overview on the market The Market for Stock Photos: Improvise Overcome and Adapt - New Game, New Rules

Then go show off in the OpenSource Photo Show Your Stuff forum

Finally hang out here and watch some amazing photographers show how it is done Strobist Flickr Group

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