Archive for November 2011

23 Nov, 2011 | Posted by: st




FIRST ONE -- Microstock Expo – 'My Experience Creating an Industry Conference' – Lee Torrens: “The first Microstock Expo took place in Berlin, Germany earlier this month, produced by Amos Struck and myself. Attended by over 150 people, 20 microstock agencies, 12 traditional agencies and 8 service providers, the room was jumping!”. http://www.microstockdiaries.com/microstock-expo-my-experience-creating-an-industry-conference.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrostockDiaries+%28Microstock+Diaries%29

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16 Nov, 2011 | Posted by: st



SUNDOWN FOR MICROSTOCK? -- One opinion. AtomicGirl on Wizzley: “ Is microstock photography worth it? Everywhere you go, there are people crowing about the lucrativeness of ‘making money with your photographs’. The pitch is always the same-- just grab your camera, start submitting some great shots, and the world will be your oyster.” SOURCE: Atomic Girl; http://wizzley.com/is-microstock-photography-worth-it/
TAKEAWAY: The kind of photos that photobuyers need to buy are not the kind that will win photo contests for you. And they are not the proud photos you want to show your granchildren a couple decades from today.
The reward for microstock is the dollars. But, with more and more photographers jumping on board the online galleries, it makes for less and less opportunity to sell, and sometimes less and less money to be paid for your photos -like $1 each, or less. Something has to change. Microstock is becoming an embarassment to the field of photography. -RE



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02 Nov, 2011 | Posted by: st



DRENCHED IN SUNLIGHT -- Microstock libraries do like "bright" images. They are not too keen on "moody" "dramatic" etc. Mainly because of the markets they do best in. For example, travel images for brochures, on websites etc. need to be drenched in sunlight, with few or no shadows.
http://soundimageplus.blogspot.com/2011/10/microstock-libraries.html
TAKEAWAY: Those Microstock photos hark back to the 1930's when what the world needed during the gloom of the Great Depression was something upbeat. So...Hollywood supplied our grandparents with happy movies, and the music industry supplied us with happy tunes, and the book industry, and the magazine industry too... and the radio too! When the "drenched in sunlight" photos of microstock have served its purpose during this Big Recession, will stock photography return to realism? Will microstock fade away? -re

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