Online Photography Sales: Do It Yourself!
© Paul Mozell 2010
Selling your own photographic prints and licensing your work is now a do-it-yourself imperative! The photography marketplace is overflowing with online providers of print production services and increasingly, options for posting and selling licensed images on your own, without the help of a stock agency.
When the bottom fell out of the stock photography market about four years ago, largely due to the success of micro-payment or micro-stock agencies, a number of entrepreneurial small players stepped up and said to photographers, “we’ll give you the tools to sell your own work. Go for it!” You can waste your time uploading hundreds of thousands of images to iStock, Shutterstock, et al who will sell your work for peanuts, Read more
Wedding Photography: Designing the 60 Second Spot
My workflow for this “ad”: Export images from Lightroom as jpegs. Import to iPhoto. Import to iMovie HD (I loath the new iMovie). Add a public domain soundtrack from Garageband. Export movie file to desktop and then upload to Youtube.
Jennifer & Shawn
The Wedding Dance © Paul Mozell 2009
The constant heavy rain on this wedding day made the outdoor ceremony impossible, as well as the seaside venue for the couple’s portraits. But everyone made the best of it and this couple’s joy was evident every time they danced that night.
The dance floor was very dark and most of my shots were done with flash. This image was shot at ISO 3200 with available light, in color, and converted to monochrome and tweaked in Lightroom.
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