One guy, one year, one thousand dollars in stock
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Finally got through the Alamy QC process and I am good to go. Going to start uploading more images this week. I am not thrilled with the keywording process, lots of different levels of keywords which are pretty confusing. Right now I am using PhotoShop to resize the images which seems to work out fine, I just need to automate it a lot.
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The day I have been waiting for has finally arrived, the released of the new 5D MKII. Dpreview has a good writeup here.
There are many cool things about this camera. I am really excited to shot some HD video with some L glass or even just convert my 10-22 EF-S lense to mount on the 5D MKII like this guy did. Also shooting on my plastic 50/1.8 should produce some cool footage.
The downside is 21 MP, good god I need to get a lot more storage, but no upsizing for Alamy! I am also a little concerned with the tight clustering of the AF points. I like to shoot wide open when I take kid shots and the focus and recompose method is a bit too slow when you are trying to capture kids running around the yard.
Bottom line though is that I am 99% sure this is my next camera.
They also released the new Canon G10, which looks like a great walk around travel camera.
Looks like I need to start actually selling some images now!
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This is a great tutorial on building your own seamless white studio setup. If you shoot stock you know e seamless white look is the de-facto standard for studio shots. With a few gels you can easily make this white background any color you want.
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In case you want to find some of your old PSC friends hop over to this Flickr group.
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Judging by reports in the forums and my own stats things are starting to happen at Photoshelter. In the past few weeks the number of “I made a sale” post on the forum has increased dramatically. Other reports (and my own stats) show a good uptick in lightbox adds as well.
I can’t imagine how hard it must be to startup a stock agency, kudos to the PhotoShelter team for all there hard work, looks like it is starting to pay off.
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My Nature Photos at PhotoShelter
My Childrens Photos at PhotoShelter
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Amazingly good time! The models where great and the fellow photographers where awesome. Here are the pics I took that made the cut. I was fighting my ghetto wizards all day, really frustrating and it pretty much cemented my desire to get some Radio Poppers.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
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My name is Bill Pennington and I entered the world of digital SLRs this past Xmas with a Digital Rebel XTi. I have decided to set a goal of grossing one thousand dollars in microstock sales in 2008.
A little bit about my photography background. I was a photo major in college but only ended up taking a couple of photo classes before I dropped out. I shot a ton of skateboard photos, made a few skatemags and ads. I also assisted a photographer doing some studio work and a whole lot of weddings at place called Heaven on Earth in Missouri City, TX. This was all between 1989 and 1992. My gear at the time was a Nikon FM2 and a YashicaMat 124g.
Since then I pretty much gave up photography to focus on my tech career. I watched the digital camera revolution unfold and finally decided to jump back into it last year. I have had point and shoot digitals during this time but was not that serious about the images I got out of them. I also watched the microstock revolution unfold and decided the stars had finally aligned and it was time for me to jump back in with both feet.
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