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Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Allworth Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581154844
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581154849
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 6.1 x 9 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsYou can sell stock photography, too.
By FredM on January 23, 2008
Format: 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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn invaluable reference.
By Midwest Book Review on February 6, 2008
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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.

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4.0 out of 5 starsNot so fast
By J Mack on April 13, 2008
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFull of useful information
By J. Varza on November 28, 2007
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Looking for ways to market my photos I found this book full of useful comments. There is major difference between what one "likes" to shoot, and what "sells" in the marketplace. This book teaches you to shoot for the marketplace and develop your eye for those concepts.
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5.0 out of 5 starsBetter Info than Booklet That Came with My Camera!
By Yorkie Girl on July 24, 2008
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Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell

I originally bought this book to learn more about the business of stock photography, which I did. However, I learned more about digital cameras and how to use them than I did from the manual that came with my camera (I have had SLR and 35 mm cameras for several decades). Sure, the owner's manual said to go online for questions, but when you are out in the field, it's nice to have a reference book to rely on. Also helpful are the types of photos to have in a portfolio, obtaining permission from models and property owners, and what NOT to show in a photo. Excellent book for the novice photographer as well.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood starter book.
By Ric Trexell on February 7, 2016
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I have two other books by Ms. Heron and the one is the old film version of this book so I knew she was an experienced author in what she was writing about. I started looking into stock photography years ago and mainly learned from the materials of the late Rohn Engh. His approach was that this is something that can be done by yourself and not through a stock agency so much. I emailed him several times on his bulletin board and got answers from him as well as other stock photographers. I even talked with him on the phone once. I think the first thing that I noticed about this book is that she is always telling you to have your assistant do this or that. For the person starting out, affording a person to file your photos and make back up copies is not going to happen most likely. The book is a little outdated when it is talking about technology such as she tells you to have a laptop computer to down load your photos to. Yet in the front of the book she is talking about 2 Gb memory cards and telling you to get 4 Gb cards so you don't run out of space. With memory cards many times that now, I don't think a laptop is all that necessary. Rohn Engh encouraged you to specialize, but she doesn't go into that from what I can see. That is he felt you were better off shooting helicopters and after having a bunch of them, then switch to horses or cars for example. That way you are known as a horse photographer or helicopter guy. There is a lot of information in her book on selling that I didn't know about online. I'm glad I purchased it and it is a good place to start. I no longer recommend Rohn Engh's books even though you will find some useful information in them. The business has changed so much due to digital and even though his last book dealt with it, it is a little out of date.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMy Take
By KeyboardKeys on June 10, 2009
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I have found this book very facinating. It has all the info I could ever hope for in one book. It seems to cover literally everything, including needed forms for releases, etc. This is exactly what I was wanting to get started in digital stock photography and didn't know where to begin--Michal Heron to the rescue. I looked on Amazon.com and found this with the access to read some pages and knew I had to have this one. I looked at some others and they were no comparison. I would highly recommend this to anyone who doesn't know where to begin, but wants an education in this area at a very reasonable price without having to take a college course to get it.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

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Published on December 1, 2011 by ChileDog11
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat for someone with questions on how to start

This review pertains to the KindlePC version. I find this book to be excellent for my purposes. It contains 25 shooting projects with 1,2,3, steps which I need in order to become... Read more

Published on July 4, 2010 by John J. Mcgeough
1.0 out of 5 starsMaybe it's a total beginner book, maybe it's something else...

This book was for me a total waste of time. It's a string of nice metaphores and a lot of generalities. Read more

Published on December 26, 2009 by Sidd Artha
5.0 out of 5 starsEasy to read - step by step information

What a great little book. It is very informative and a awesome starting point to give an overview of stock photography from it's start to the current digital age. Read more

Published on August 23, 2009 by J. M. Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 starsYou want answers!

This book has everything. Answers questions I didn't even have. I enjoyed Michal's writing also, easy to follow and very informative. Thanks for a great book.

Walt

Published on May 11, 2009 by Walter W. Paholak
3.0 out of 5 starssimplistic

Book arrived as staterd. The back is broken but still readable.
The book is geard for amatures of which I am not.

Published on April 10, 2009 by W. Michael Minor

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