Stock Photography Guru – How to make a full time living with stock photography

Step #5-B Your POST SHOOT Stock Photography Workflow

Now that you have shot your images, what are you to do? This video shows you how to manage your post shooting workflow by giving you step by step instructions on how to download, catalog, rename, backup and store your images. To be able to organize your images, you want to make sure they are read more »

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Step #5 Your Initial Stock Photography Workflow

Step #5a – Work Flow Now that you’ve set your camera properly and taken some pictures, what do you do with your images now? You are probably going to need to store them somewhere and back them up! You should store and backup your images on two separate drives either on a CD, DVD, USB flash drive, a hard read more »

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Step #4 – Available Light – Why and how to use it in Stock Photography

Step #4 – Available Light Here at Stockphotoguru.com our goal is to get you on the path of creating residual income from microstock photography, and making this goal obtainable to anyone, regardless of finances. So, you don’t need to run out and purchase tons of lighting equipment. One of the easiest things to shoot is read more »

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Step #3 – Model Releases and Property Releases – What you need to know

You need a property release when you are shooting people where their identity is visible. It is hit/miss when dealing with bodies, but always with faces. Feet/hands, etc. you are probably safe to not have a release. Most microstock companies will accept a signed model release from another agency, however we discovered that Dreamstime did read more »

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Heavy Metal Photo Shoot for istockphoto.com SUPER FUN! BTS VIDEO!

What a crazy ride on the crazy train. Ryan J Lane and I (fueled by Black Sabbath) decided to do a 80′s heavy metal shoot and it all came to pass this March 2012. Tim Newman (check out his istockphoto.com portfolio by clicking HERE) shot this swell Behind the Scenes video for us. This video read more »

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Residual Income Stock Photography Step #2: What Gear Do I Buy for Microstock?

Today at stockphotoguru.com we show you exactly what gear you should purchase and or use to get started on your stock photography business. And what gear is that exactly you ask. You need a DSLR camera (a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera) and a 50mm 1.8 lens. The DSLR should be AT LEAST 6MP and read more »

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Residual Income Stock Photography Step #1: Why MicroStock?

Today at stockphotoguru.com we are going to take you into the world of microstock photography and tell you why you should, and how you can get involved with microstock. This video is your introduction into how to put together a professional portfolio and submit it to stock agencies. First and foremost, with the advent of read more »

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Making your own CHEAP wallpaper backgrounds for your Stock Photography

In today’s video I will teach you how to make a cheap background for use in or out of the studio that looks great for your stock photos It’s really easy and you can pick up supplies on the cheap at your local hardware store and thrift store. For this project we will be using read more »

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Top 6 Getty image categories for stock submission – thus the essential top 6

Ok, so this is not really anything NEW or Fancy, but I stumbled upon this list of the top 6 stock categories that Getty Images is looking for. NOW, I also suspect that since Getty is looking for these then, they are somewhat universal. Getty is on the cutting edge of imaging and one of read more »

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Stock Photo Guru Podcast Episode 1 – Kevin Russ

I was blessed to talk with Kevin Russ, an exclusive iStockphoto.com stock photographer. Kevin has a massive and impressive portfolio of over 11,000 images. He is a kind and gentle person who is loaded with wisdom and advice for anyone interested in stock photography. Here’s a link to Kevin’s iStock page. Take a peek.

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