Stock Photography: GOING DIGITAL - How You Can Sell Your Digital
Stock Images Online Today
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_Here's where you can get all the up-to-date information you need to
sell your stock photo images online today..._
Stock Photography:
GOING DIGITAL
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Dear Photographer,
The number of visitors coming to this site since it first went
went up in 2003 shows me that thousands of photographers would like to
sell their work online and want to know how to do it.
But if you check Amazon, there probably hasn't been a printed book
done on the subject since Ron Engh's _SELLPHOTOS.COM_, which was
written a few years ago and was pretty much outdated, even then.
There is just too much of a time lag between writing a long,
physical book and getting a printed copy into the hands of the reader.
Far too much, with the way things have been changing in the world of
stock photography. And frequent revisions of a limited interest print
title are just too costly.
While it still offers some good marketing strategy,
_SELLPHOTOS.COM_ was at best only half-way there, with the Internet
viewed as a marketing tool but not as a viable delivery system for
stock images.
I've been photo freelancing since 1969--I began in college--and
there is almost no resemblence to what a freelancer did to sell his
work then to what is being done today.
At one end there was an 8X10 black and white glossy, processed in a
darkroom, sandwiched between cardboard, and sent to an editor through
the mail. At the other, there is a TIFF from a digital camera,
processed in Photoshop, and FTP'd as a JPEG to his Internet server at
the push of a button.
Yes, things have really changed as far as taking an selling stock
photos goes, AND I LOVE IT.
The Internet and digital technology have opened whole new vistas
for the stock photographer in...
* How stock images can be taken
* How stock images can be processed
* How stock images can be delivered
* How a stock image business can be conducted
The use of 'image' or 'images' for photo or photographs and
'imaging' for photography are all reflections of some major changes in
the industry, and from my 35+ year perspective on shooting and selling
stock photos, it all looks extremely good.
Consider that applying today's digital technology:
* Beats developing film
* Beats turning out 8x10 glossies
* Beats breathing chemical fumes in a darkroom
* Beats the increasingly long wait for those precious Kodachromes to
come back, sometimes scratched and dirty, from the last remaining
Kodachrome processing lab at Fair Lawn, New Jersey
* Beats souping your own Ektachrome for the sake of speed and
safety, while knowing the chemicals are pollutants
* Beats costly FedExing of overnight packages
* Beats putting original transparencies at risk
* Beats having to produce costly promotional materials
* Beats the time-consuming pocess of preparig these for mailing
* Beats the added expense of mailing them
Yes, life has gotten so much easier for the stock photographer,
especially the stock photographer who markets his work himself.
But working with agencies has become easier, too.
And new photo agencies that no longer want physical prints or
transparencies but solicit and sell digital image files, excllsively,
have come online, giving stock photographers new outlets for their
work while their prints and transparencies, if they have any, remain
safely in their own possession.
If you're new to stock photography, you're at a perfect starting
point. Much of the transitional confusion is clearing away and some of
the tentative solutions of the past few years appear to be taking
hold, including the increasing use and acceptance of work form digital
cameras that can meet some required standards.
If you're an old hand at stock photography, there are things you
may need to relearn, and _STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY: GOING DIGITAL_ will show
you what you need to do to sell your digital--or digitized--images
online, today.
_STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY: GOING DIGITAL_ will show you
* HOW TO GET STARTED - What you need to do to begin--or continue--in
stock photography, today.
* CHOOSING YOUR MARKETS - Where and how to find photo buyers the
easy way. How to let them know about your stock photography services.
How to get them to take a look at your work. How to cultivate their
continued interest in what you do.
* HOW TO MARKET YOUR STOCK IMAGES - The marketing process. Benefits
in marketing your own work as well as why you might choose not to do
it yourself and work through an agency, instead.
* WORKING WITH AGENCIES - What they expect. How they operate in a
digital world. How you can work with them online. Information about
the agencies I've used to market my work.
* YOUR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE - Why you need one. What your site
should and should not be. How to use your website in your marketing.
Where and how you can get your own "agency" webspace if you don't want
to create and maintain a website of your own.
* DIGITAL CAMERAS - Why you may want to semi-retire your film camera
and concentrate on shooting with a digital camera, instead. The
criteria your next digital camera should meet for your work to be
better accepted among photo buyers.
* SCANS & SCANNING - Why you need a film scanner if you have stock
images on transparency film. How to clean up and improve your scans.
Interpolation, file types, file sizes... how your scanned images
should be handled to meet the needs of most markets.
* AND MUCH MORE...
This is not a fluff-filled tome that you'll lay aside in boredom,
but a fact-filled practical guide that will quickly lay out the
subject of how you can be part of expanding market for digital stock
photography, today.
As I see it, if you're interested in stock photography and the
direction it is taking there are three things you can do:
* You can scour the search engines and find little or nothing of
worthwhile use on the subject.
* You can waste countless hours in forums and discussion groups
hoping to catch an occasional tidbit from someone.
* You can buy my guide, save your time, and get started tomorrow.
I think you know what the smart money would do!
So click on the order button and you can be reading the information
you need within a few minutes.
Much success!
LARRY STEPANOWICZ
Larry Stepanowicz
PS - The price of this newly updated guide is $27. Buy it now and
you will also receive all future updates, FREE. Take it from someone
who's doing it: you won't find information as current or valuable in
any book on stock photography that I'm aware of. Print books just
haven't been able to keep up with the changes!
You can be reading this Windows format guide in just a few minutes!
Yes! I would like to download
_Stock Photography: Going Digital_ - NOW!
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