by Bonnie Caton | May 26, 2012
What are stock photo buyers really looking for? Our Breakfast Stock Club Premium Members know. I’ll share some of the photos they’ve had accepted into stock sites, in a moment… How do they know what photos to sell as stock? Simple. I send them an email every... by Danny Warren | May 24, 2012
Yesterday, professional photographer Danny Warren shared a “shoot smarter, not harder” tip to make more money from your stock photos by carefully taking fewer photographs. If you missed that issue, you’ll find a link to it below. Today, he shares another trick – how... by Bonnie Caton | May 17, 2012
Silky black… ruffled pink… cheerful, buttery yellow… Bonnie, here, exploring the Dutch countryside with professional photographer Efraín Padró and nine of your fellow readers, looking for shots we can sell to magazines when we get home. Today we... by Bonnie Caton | Apr 27, 2012
They say you should do one thing every day that scares you. Well I’m scared of this thing: Professional stock photographers will tell you not to use flash. What they mean is: Don’t use the flash that pops up on your camera. If you have an off-camera flash like the one... by Bonnie Caton | Apr 20, 2012
A few Breakfast Stock Club readers have been experimenting with HDR, so I decided to give it a try. Here are three photos I took of downtown Portland, OR, where I couldn’t get both the sky and the ground properly exposed in just one shot. If I wanted the details in... by Rich Wagner | Apr 11, 2012
Before we begin discussing nuts, bolts and how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, let’s set some parameters so we know what we’re looking for. Why do we need software that processes images? Well, if you’re as old as I am, you know that photographers have...