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Buy a Shutterstock Subscription

As a buyer of stock images, I would automatically buy a Shutterstock subscription if I knew that I would need a lot of stock images to work with. Since I am a photo stock contributor as well as a blogger I use a lot of stock images.  I don’t take each and every photograph used […]

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Stock Photography Software

So I just started delving into some stock photography software that should make selling photographs online a little bit easier.  One of the reasons I actually stopped uploading to some of the less profitable microstock sites is the large amount of time involved in uploading and keywording.  It stopped making sense to me to spend […]

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Free Paper Textures

We finally got our scanner working, and I spent most of the day making high res scans of some decorative paper I’ve had for awhile. Most of this paper was hand-made in India.  I’m finding these images to be truly awesome textures or backgrounds. Since I am really pressed for time, and don’t have a […]

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Nature and Wildlife Stock Photography

Nature and wildlife photography is one of the most popular stock image site categories.  It is also one of the most competitive, since most stock image sites are already very saturated with these types of images.  In order to get your nature photographs accepted, they  truly must be unique and exceptional.  Also, since customers of […]

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Vintage Stock Photos

Personally, when I think of vintage stock photos, I see images which were actually taken a long time ago.  Of course, there are modern stock photos with a vintage effect added to them in Photoshop or of models wearing vintage style clothing.  Still, since almost all of the images available on premium stock sites found […]

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Stock Photography Sites

There are these days countless stock photography sites to choose from, either as a contributor or as a customer.  However, these stock sites are not all created equally.  It is generally agreed upon that the top stock photography sites are as follows: Shutterstock iStockphoto Dreamstime Fotolia BigStock 123RF Now, here are my personal best stock […]

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