Stock Photography: Professional Images and Techniques [Paperback]

Ulrike Welsch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

This primer in stock photography will help the reader understand the business, learn the market, and take better stock photographs. Working image by image through nearly 60 photographs shot from around the globe, the author explains how she got each shot, the photographic equipment and techniques used, and how she makes all of her images earn money. Special attention is paid to creating images for common stock photography markets such as education, architecture, domestic life, medical, mixed ethnicity, children, and senior citizens.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY BY ULRIKE WELSCH: Author’s thoughts:

This is a book of some of my most favorite Black & White and Color images. The most enriching part is to read about the creation of each image, which gives insight to my thinking when I took each photograph and an understanding about STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY.

During the late sixtieth and seventieth I was a news-photographer. Yet my mission was to find mainly ‘Feature’ photographs, which means: images which can stand on their own and are positive segments out of everyday life. I grew out of this discipline and still today apply this vision of simplicity. My traveling range in this book is international even though the book is sprinkled with images from my Feature and News time.

The editor asked me varied questions to explain my photography and give the reader a more personal explanation of the stories behind the photos. I am trying to give an honest feel about my profession. The viewer can find answers regarding Traveling Equipment, as well as Darkroom Techniques, the Setting, Composition, Lighting, Printing, Releases, People Photography and of course STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY and much more.

Most images are reproduced in sparkling Black & White, some of the Color photographs were converted and lost contrast. Still the message of the images is there and lots can be learned about my easy globe-trotting style in search for STOCK images. UW

About the Author

Ulrike Welsch is a professional stock photographer who worked for 15 years as a feature photographer for the Boston Globe. Welsch is the author of Faces of New England and The World I Love to See. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093626277X
• ISBN-13: 978-0936262772
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,958,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money, June 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stock Photography: Professional Images and Techniques (Paperback)

has nothing to do with stock photography, just tell "how did she make the pictures" in a very simple way.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just Average, March 15, 2006

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Patrick Rice (North Olmsted, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stock Photography: Professional Images and Techniques (Paperback)

This book is just average. There is some good information, but the author spends too much time talking about her photos and how she took them. The information about releases is valuable.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stock Photography: Professional Techniques and Images, December 10, 1999

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Marilyn Dalrymple "MaLing" (Lancaster, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stock Photography: Professional Images and Techniques (Paperback)

Born in Bonn, Germany during World War II, author of Stock photography: Professional Techniques and Images, Ulrike Welsch became interested in photography at an early age. While working in a local drug store, she was given the duty of processing film in the darkroom. Fascinated with photography and an eager student, Welsch was taught the fine art of printing by a master printer. As the first female staff photographer in Boston at the Boston Herald Traveler, she quickly advanced to the Boston Globe. Covering the Robert Kennedy funeral, Vietnam War demonstrations and a papal visit were some of her most challenging assignments. She completed a project for National Geographic and collected distinguished awards for her work as a photojournalist. Welsch has chosen more than fifty of her most compelling images to discuss in Stock Photography: Professional Techniques and Images. Accompanying each black and white or colored image is an in-depth discussion by the author explaining settings, composition, mood and equipment and why and how each element was chosen and used. I find her willingness to discuss so deeply and thoroughly her intimate thoughts of the images and their making, refreshing and helpful. If you are a seasoned photographer this book may help you find a new way of seeing or connecting with your subjects. If you are a beginner, the insight Welsch offers is invaluable. Her revelations concerning her thinking and reasoning as she shot the image and printed it, is really a learning experience for readers. Dispersed with her disclosures about her work are facts like how to get started in stock photography, a description of a photographer's evolution and how to handle necessary technicalities such as how to get subjects to sign model releases. Welsch allows readers to see how the mind of a successful photographer works. She is willing to share everything, technically and emotionally, about her images and the making of them.