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Get-Started Tip #2: Know What Stock Photo Agencies Want

If you'd like to sell stock photos of your pets, here's a tip directly from a photo buyer... Make sure your pet is wearing a collar and tags before you get out your camera. Pet shelters buy stock...

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How to Think like a Stock Photographer

To make loads of stock photo sales and get that dream life we’re all reaching for, we need to start thinking like stock photographers every time we shoot. I’ll tell you what I mean in a minute. But...

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How Did They Take These Photos?

Did you ever see a stock photo and wonder how the heck the photographer took it? Take this hot-selling shot by stock photo superstar, Lise Gagné: The hair blowing in the breeze… the even lighting… the...

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Three Reasons Photos Get Rejected from Stock Agencies

In stock photography, sometimes the smallest thing can get an otherwise perfect photo rejected from an agency. Last issue, I sent you some photos that BSC Premium members submitted to their “Everyday...

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No Rejections at this Stock Photo Agency

Last issue, I told you three reasons that photos get rejected from stock photo agencies, and how to avoid them. If you missed it, you can read it here. It takes time to practice shooting and making...

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Photos from the Maui Stock Photo Workshop

What a great small-group stock photo workshop we had last weekend in Maui! We did a LOT of shooting, and a lot of review. I’m so proud of the photos that everyone took there. Here are a few of my...

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Can Macro Photos Sell as Stock?

While our eyes are better than our cameras in some ways, our cameras can sometimes allow us to get in really close and capture a whole new world that can’t be seen with the human eye. That’s the magic...

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Which Photos Sell Best to Online Stock Photo Agencies

Let’s start with one of the most popular types of images: ** 1. Images on white. Images on white are not necessarily images on a pure white background. They are images with bright colors, in a white...

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The Secret to Big Success in Stock Photography

Yesterday, I sent you a list of stock photos that sell well, right now, from one of the stock photo industry’s top sellers, Lise Gagne. Lise told me that there’s another kind of image that sells very...

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An Inside Look at Best-Selling Stock Images

I asked a few of our stock photography experts for copies of their best-selling images and am including them below. A few of our Breakfast Stock Club readers also sent in their best-selling images so...

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Christmas in August: Shoot Seasonal Stock Photos Now

Summer typically means slower sales for stock photographers. But that doesn’t mean you should stop uploading. And if you’ve never submitted any images for sale, it certainly doesn’t mean you should...

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The Top Three Microstock Sites and How You Can Make Money from Each

When I decided to try my hand at stock photography, I was intimidated to get started. Now I contribute to five different online agencies and I’m having a lot of fun with it. There are a lot of...

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Should You Go Exclusive? The Advantages of Selling Your Photos to a Single...

I have been a contributing photographer with iStockphoto.com since the spring of 2002 and was still learning the ropes of being a photographer when I joined. Since then, iStock was purchased by Getty...

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