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RAW vs JPEG

Posted in Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have been experimenting a lot in RAW for stock photography but I seem to have many of the same issues that I had with JPEG.  ARTIFACTING!  This seems to be a problem.  I have read on the subject and there are ways to correct it but none that seem simple.  The rest of the [...]

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No-Rip Nylon

Posted in Favorite Photos, Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lighting and diffusion are very important when taking pictures and for those of us that are financially limited it is difficult to buy some of the professional lighting that is available, especially the quality equipment. However, there are options… It is easy enough to make a light stand with items from Home Depot such as [...]

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Original Ideas

Posted in Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On this journey of finding what is unique and original I am finding that it appears everything has had its photograph taken from every angle and in every color. I hope some day to be proven wrong but for a person, myself that is, with no imagination it is very hard to come up [...]

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No Clear Focal Point

Posted in Favorite Photos, Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , , , , on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have had several photos rejected because of “no clear focal point”. I have a couple theories for this.
1) I know what I am looking at and what I am focussing on, the reviewer doesn’t so there may be times when this happens. 2) my computer screen sucks or my eyesight sucks so it looks [...]

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Marble Chess Pieces

Posted in Favorite Photos, Stock Photo Journey on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here I was practicing isolating a subject on white. It is much harder than I thought. Pros probably don’t have any trouble with it.

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Park Bench

Posted in Favorite Photos, Parks, Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another one of my more favorite that was turned down for stock photography. This one was because there was not a discernible focal point. The lesson learned here is I know exactly what I was focusing on but an outsider may not. The main focus is on the bench closest to the camera. There was [...]

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Autumn in the Park

Posted in Favorite Photos, Nature, Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The learning process begins… This was (is) one of my favorite pictures however it is not for the stock photo croud. The main reason this picture was denied is due to “artifacting”. I seem to get a lot of this problem with my telephoto lens. Spotting it in the photo is a [...]

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Selling Stock Photos

Posted in Stock Photo Journey, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Since I have had my Nikon D40 I have been taking a lot of pictures and enjoying, almost, every minute of it. I decided to take my picture taking down another road and have applied to a stock photo website to sell some of my photographs. After 3 attempts to get accepted I [...]

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