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All around we are now talking about Christmas time and what presents to purchase. Your head is engaged with a lot of questions where to find a suitable gift and which will make a nice present for your parents, dear and beloved ones, colleagues and just friends.
Four months ago, after a couple of unexpected and rather invasive abdominal surgeries in the last year-and-a-half, I had a plastic surgeon perform an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) on me, to clean-up the scars and give me a new navel. Fun stuff! Anyway, the surgeon asked me to shoot a picture of one of his new laser tools in action. I did the shoot this afternoon.
I met a designer at a party this weekend. He says he buys a lot of stock photography…and always at iStockphoto. This brings up for me a continuing concern. By not being in the Microstock world, there are a ton of buyers who are not seeing my images.
Do you place enough importance on your keywords? If you do your own key wording do you spend enough time on the task? If your agency handles it do you check on them? I recently had an image go up on Getty's site; An image of an impossible golfing green. In the picture is a small grassy area perched atop a steep rock formation on the jagged California coastline.
One photographer I know tracks his sales closely because he primarily wants to know which models are selling best. In his experience the model makes or breaks the shoot. Another photographer has found that most of his sales come from scenic locations that he shoots throughout the world.
So, you want to make a photo book? Well, the normal procedure might be to buy an album, some stickers, some multi-colored pens, some stencils and other craft supplies and get to work. That's not necessarily everyone's favorite thing to do, though. Luckily, there's a much easier way.
