Since my last post was all about stock I just had to tell you about this website: www.awkwardstockphotos.com the name says it all but really, some of these pictures, what were they thinking…
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Photo by BlueLotus
Today’s post is all about stock. First off a disclaimer: I’m not an expert on stock by a long shot. My focus is on commissioned work and although I have a few images in stock I’m no expert. For a while I had a bunch of images with a really big company (whose name starts with “G” and ends in “etty”) and made a few good sales early on, however their umm business model changed and the value of sales plummeted. When I saw my share of a sale amounting to $6.30 (I kid you not) I pulled my images. Clearly I’m no stock photography success story but here’s a guy who is, my good buddy and talented photographer Stephen Kennedy. Stephen’s business is built on stock (although he does a bunch of commissioned work too) and what makes Stephen a bit different (and I don’t mean his sense of humour) is that he runs his own stock site. If you look down at the bottom of his site you’ll see “Powered by Photodeck” which brings me neatly to the subject of this post, which is how to sell stock yourself and why you should use Photodeck [click to continue…]
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This month we are going to hear from long time Hasselblad (and prior to that Imacon) shooter Monty Rakusen on his experiences with the H3D50 (Monty has since sent it off for upgrade to H4D50). The images dotted through this post are from a recent trip Monty made through Andalucia in Spain. Oh and I just know Monty’s going to hate the headline but I have a history of comedy headlines to maintain…
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In the true tradition of blogging I’m going to err borrow a post from Hot Wire Digital, (hi John!).
First off a quick plug for Hot Wire and specially John Williams who I had the pleasure of meeting in Orlando last year. John runs a top notch Hasselblad dealer near Atlanta/Georgia but I hear he travels around a bit too, highly recommended. The following is a story on a bit of the niche area of photography that is multi-shot. I’ve been using multi-shot backs for 10 years now and am a huge fan, if you’d like to know more about the technology or practical use of it feel free to leave a comment below or indeed get in touch with John at Hotwire.
Hasselblad H3DII-50 Multi-shot
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