Comments on: The Secret Sauce of Shooting and Selling Travel Stock Photography

By: blog articles selection about selling photography | My Stock Photography

blog articles selection about selling photography | My Stock Photography — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:34:28 +0000

[...] The Secret Sauce of Shooting and Selling Travel Stock Photography (June 5th, 2009 by Jack Hollingsworth @photojack), a guest post on microstockdiaries.com about travel photography that sells [...]

By: Digital Photographer

Digital Photographer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:36:46 +0000

Wow, just found your site. I love it subscribed to the feed. Now I have a lot of reading to do to try and improve my photos. I really like the couple with the musician.

By: Shannon Hudnell

Shannon Hudnell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:08:48 +0000

I think it’s time to book a cruise! Even if I wasn’t doing the photos for stock, I would be taking pictures on the entire trip because that’s just the way I am.

By: DonS

DonS — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:20:56 +0000

Would it be too churlish to wonder how the receipts from photographers paying for cruises compares with sales from the micro portfolio?

I’m sure such a cruise could be very enjoyable and worthwhile, but at the same time I can’t help thinking this public move into micro could simply be good business acumen aimed at generating money in other aspects of the business.

On a separate note I’m pleased to see the reference to macro. I was just checking out the Insight Guide to The Silk Road (2008) only to find one of the images credited to istock with just one download. I wonder if it was a subcription deal.

By: Zbynek Burival

Zbynek Burival — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:50:06 +0000

Interesting:) Im interested how you solve those trouble caused by insanely law restrictions – nowadays botanical gardens are claiming releases on plants, ZOOs on animals – I just wonder when will our Land Bureau start to require property release on trees from publicly accessible forests… Ppl are even more problematic, where I see the problem is that eg. US MR would be in many points illegal by local law here in central Europe, not to mention Asia or Africa. And in most cases I would argue validity of MR in english when most asian or african folks definitely do not understand what they signed.

By: Karin

Karin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:20 +0000

Fantastic! I hope Jack’s adventures into the microstock world shake things up a bit in terms of creativity. Some of the sites simply refuse to accept candid shots that have a hint of blur or shadow, even though it’s those very elements that turn the picture into a story. One of my motion photos was rejected four times by one site before a reviewer finally recognized the intention of the blur and accepted it, and then a few months later it was featured in another site’s blog as a great example of a travel shot. A little leeway with creativity and candid moments in microstock would be awesome.

By: AUGUSTO

AUGUSTO — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:39:50 +0000

I’ve done a huge trip in Europe in 2007/2008. 3 months travelling.8 countries visited and over 30 diferent cities.

Sad fact: all I had was my cell phone to tak pictures. SO I have over 500 photos from really amazing places but all in not ver good resolution… good enough for Facebook anyway…LOL

By: marlene ford

marlene ford — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:19:40 +0000

CaptainPhotoJack – love the name. Fabulous pictures, would love to do that trip, I imagine I would learn so much from such an fantastic and personable photographer. Great post Lee.

Marlene

By: mystockphoto

mystockphoto — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:44:17 +0000

“CaptainPhotoJack” respect! Hope you and all your guests could enjoy the italian stages!

By: Josh Hodge

Josh Hodge — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:22:11 +0000

As the first poster said.. ‘thanks for your delicious and enchanted post..!’ Nice one, Cap’n Jack