Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell [Paperback]

Michal Heron (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1581154844 | ISBN-13: 978-1581154849 | Publication Date: September 18, 2007 | Edition: 1

Digital Stock Photography equips photographers with everything they need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.

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About the Author

Michal Heron has been a freelance photographer for more than thirty years. She currently works on assignment for a variety of publishing and corporate clients as well as stock photo agencies. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Allworth Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581154844
• ISBN-13: 978-1581154849
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You can sell stock photography, too., January 23, 2008

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FredM (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell (Paperback)

Microstock, Google's "Image" search capabilities, and rampant stealing of images from Shutterfly, SmugMug, or PBase have made stock photography a lot less possible, and a great deal less profitable in recent years. However, if you're good with a camera and know how to produce large quantities of salable images, you can still make money in stock photography. Just don't expect big fees, and be happy with small payments that can pile up if your work is good.

This book, published in September 2007, is up-to-date enough that it advises you how to optimize your stock photography sales in today's real world. Read it carefully, re-calibrate your expectations, and get to work.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable reference., February 6, 2008

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This review is from: Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell (Paperback)

Michal Heron has been a successful freelance photographer for over thirty years, not only selling her products to photo agencies but running her own stock business and giving lectures at seminars and workshops around the country. Her DIGITAL STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY packs in the basics of capturing digital images, from working with scans and delivering acceptable product to evaluating equipment, creating releases, handling copyright options and much more. No aspiring professional photographer should be without it: it's an essential key to understanding the routines and demands of the stock photo business, and photography as well as general-interest lending libraries catering to photographers will find it an invaluable reference.

Diane C. Donovan
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not so fast, April 13, 2008

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This review is from: Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell (Paperback)

This book was very informative and well written, but lets you know right off that getting started in stock photography will not be easy, and probably quite expensive. The equipment requirements may prove to be prohibitive for those on a tight budget. Nothing worthwhile in life is easy, and stock photography is no exception.