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A Wild and Crazy Time
The stock photography field is in violent turmoil now, with digital photography the root. Not only do digital cameras make it easier and cheaper for just about anybody to take pictures, the Internet allows just about anybody to submit photographs to any number of stock photography websites. If you're interested in making money from stock photography, the ride will be bumpy — but also exhilarating, challenging you to capture the very best images possible, merely to stand out from the crowd.
About Stock Photography
Where to Go to Learn More
- Selling Stock
- from the website: "This online newsletter reports on the worldwide Stock Photo Industry with an emphasis on the U.S. market. The coverage is focused on issues of interest to stock photographers as well as archive owners and their employees."
- Getting Started in Royalty-Free Digital Stock Photography
- Once digital cameras passed the image-quality threshold that allowed them to compete with film, it opened the field to anyone obsessive enough to produce results. This site documents the ongoing efforts by one such digital stock photographer: me!
Stock Photography Agencies
- OnRequest Images
- from the website:
"OnRequest Images teams with creative, talented,
professional photographers around the world.
Our photographers bring originality and fresh perspective
to their work, as these selected portfolios show." - Norris OnBrand
- CEO of OnRequest blogs: the RSS & atom feeds are not activated
- Getty Images
- from the website: creative, editorial, film, on assignment
- Getty Images Blogs
- Creative & Sports Images: the RSS feed doesn't work.
- Corbis
- Creative & Editorial
- Picade
- from the website: "We are an international group of talented, passionate photographers of all ilks - commercial, editorial, conceptual, journalistic, fine art - who have have come together to form a professionally managed company where great images, smart editing, digital technology, and good old-fashioned customer service combine to not only make your job easier, but fun again!"
- GoGo Images
- Multicultural, ethnically diverse, everyday settings & clothes
- EyeCandy Photography
- Targeted to markets in Asia, Latin America & Middle East.
- Juice Images
- from the website: "...a new RF stock image production company being developed by Ian Lishman, former owner of London-based picture library Powerstock. Our aim is to supply top quality, relevant, contemporary and truly creative images of Lifestyle and Business subjects to the global image market. No fuss; no fancy hype; just great images which speak for themselves."
StockPhotoTalk
from the website: "Andy Goetze on Stock Photo Industry, Picture Business, Photo Agencies, Professional Photography, Portals, Technology, Footage"
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byThoughts of a Bohemian
Paul Melcher
Founder of Melcher System and named by American Photo as one of the "50 most influential individuals in American photography."
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPhotography Business Blog
Dan Heller
The photography world - the business, the culture, the art, the politics, the technology.
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Websites Run by Professional Stock Photographers
- Ron Chapple
- from the website:
"Hi, I'm Ron Chapple. I shoot images that are licensed as stock photography. This blog is about adventures on the road with tons of production info for aspiring shooters."
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