Tuesday Tips #261 : Moving Into Microstock

Generally consisting of thoughtfully placed fruit, gone are the days when stock photography was ever given much a second look. With the dramatic increase in lifestyle blogs and a movement towards more approachable branding for large companies, the interest in more thoughtful and artistic photojournalistic photos has taken a sharp increase.

Whatever genre you shoot, the beautiful thing is that for the most part, the photos you are already creating are likely to find a home in the microstock market. Before submitting your photos for review to a site, explore the most popular microstock market sites. Consider the esthetic of the other photographers that house their photographs there and take note of the most popular photographs purchased to see how you and your photographs may fit in. While you want to the site’s style to align with yours, you also want to make sure that your photographs will stand out from the pack!

“Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.”
― Don Roff