How to Take Stock Photos with Your Smartphone

Get out your smart phone. Stock photo agency iStock just announced that they’re accepting phone photos to sell as stock. Yep, that means your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry can now pull in stock photo income right alongside your big SLR camera. Of course, you can’t...

How to Find Out If Your Photos Will Sell as Stock

How saleable are the photos that you like to shoot most? Let’s find out. 1.Get out a piece of paper and a pencil. 2.Write down your top five favorite things to photograph. 3.Now, go to a stock photo agency website, such as iStock.com, and search for each of the things...

How to Boost Stock Photo Sales Every Fall

Ready to make some money? Stock sales tend to pick up every fall. Let’s submit some new photos and ride the income wave. For the month of September, my goal is to get 10 new photos accepted into stock sites each week. Why not set a number for yourself and join me?...

How to Include Copyspace in Stock Photos

Last week I showed you three photos that sell really well as stock — read: thousands of times each! — that all have one simple thing in common: They all make really good use of copy space. Incorporating copy space into your stock photos is easy to do, and...

Why Does This Weird Photo Sell?

Think you could take a photo like this? This photo has sold over 7,000 times on iStock! If we guess around a $1 per image download, that means it’s made over $7,000… likely more. What is it about this strange photo of people holding blank puzzle pieces together...

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