Sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, always interesting keywords that people use to find Cutcaster.com!
Search Term of the Moment: Young Lovers
We’ve got that!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed
Don’t forget to refer your friends. We have an excellent referral program!
Sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, always interesting keywords that people use to find Cutcaster.com!
Search Term of the Moment: Crayon Kid Drawings
I think that might mean coloring book pages!
We’ve got that!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed
Don’t forget to refer your friends. We have an excellent referral program!
Sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, always interesting keywords that people use to find Cutcaster.com!
Search Term of the Moment: Baseball.
We’ve got that!
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and on G+ with Creative Director Cora Reed
Don’t forget to refer your friends. We have an excellent referral program!
It’s been a while since we have put out an image request update but lately, a number of image buyers have been downloading and asking us for more images of elderly people, seniors and grandparents doing everyday things. The range of activities that these mature adults could be doing include working out, dating, eating, playing with younger kids, routine medical check-ups or any type of activity that takes place on a normal day. To give you an idea for what types of images we have of elderly people doing everyday things take a look at these elderly people photo lightboxes. We thank you for your support and uploads.
To download any of the images above please visit Cutcaster.com or the seniors lightbox page which has over 200 high quality images of older people doing everyday things.
In the last year, Cutcaster has seen an incredible improvement in the quality of photos and vector artwork, which are uploaded to the site. The quality bar keeps getting raised as we reach 1 million images at Cutcaster in the coming months. With that said, we still see gaps in our collection that have created massive opportunities. Find out here about what type of images we are actively looking for and are under-represented at Cutcaster. Fill these holes and you might find yourself with a hot seller.
To expand your portfolio into an untapped arena of stock photography, we urge you to create a portion of your portfolio that really shows your “outside of the box” thinking, i.e. get granddad out there on water-skis, or place your old credit cards in your kitchen’s blender or use Photoshop to create unique situations in your images by combining different elements. Get as creative as possible. Take chances and see what works and doesn’t work. Then carefully keyword and upload your new creative shots to Cutcaster.
Here are some examples of pictures we currently have but we’d love to see more of this type of photography and illustrations:
We strive to provide our picture buyers with the unique images they seek. Thanks for your help creating more jaw dropping images that will impress our buyers and increase your long-term earnings potential!
Regards,
Your Cutcaster team.
A note from our Creative Director, Cora Reed:
Spring has arrived, and everyone is eager to get outside and take pictures of all the fresh blooming flowers. Some stock sites aren’t even taking flowers any more, but I must admit I love them.
Here are some hints for flowers:
Compose! I know it’s tempting to take shots from top down, or even just at random. A fat bumble bee on a perfect flower is nice, but a random bug on a flower, not so much. Keep those for your personal collections. Think outside the box! Look for different angles, make sure your flowers look perfect. Macros are wonderful, bokeh works great for background compositions. Send only your very best flower pictures. Really look at them carefully, and submit the pictures that make you say “WOW!”
Download these images here:
Photo of Tulipa World Legend Darwin Hybrid Tulip
That said, a word of warning for you spring and summer time shots. Here is a short list of easy shots that we really don’t want to see:
1) Common ducks, geese, and sea gulls. (Give me a nickel for every duck photo I see and I could pay down most of the US’s national deficit. Well almost.) If you must submit ducks, find the interesting pictures of ducks like this:
And as with any animals, be sure to keyword with common and scientific names of animals.
2) For those close to a beach and taking pictures of the beach, keep those WOW concepts in mind. Remember that Cutcaster does NOT accept pictures of children you don’t know and can’t get a model release for, so please do not upload them, even as editorial photos. In addition, we will not accept the backends of beachgoers without their consent or knowledge.
We are extremely excited to see your latest pictures of spring’s bounty! Get out, shoot as much as you can and keep your most exciting and best work coming!
Download the above images below at Cutcaster using these links.
Pretty young girl smiling while at the beach mother at the back
Warm Regards,
Cora Reed
Are you happy with your image agency?
What features or services do image buyers like and want from photographers or stock agencies? What gets them coming back to your portfolio or the agency that reps your images?
Today, Cutcaster is releasing the comments that some images buyers told us during last year’s survey. We took 10 of the most popular comments and arranged them below in a random order to show you what features or services they like an agency to offer. The question was actually a two-part question and was “What do you like most/least about the stock photo sites that you work with?” Later this week, we will share the things they didn’t like about their current stock image agency. The survey was completed by 344 image users who had used Cutcaster or were working on the stock image business and were mostly from the US or Canada.
Top 10 things image buyers said they liked which their stock agency provided.
1. Current and wide selection of images from international sources at reasonable prices.
2. Special picture collection pricing for royalty free or rights managed photos.
3. Stock agency websites that can show an entire photo purchase history with a simple click to avoid duplicate image purchases.
4. With current rates that image researchers get, we need to work FAST. The most important features for a stock site are direct downloading and embedded metadata. If you do not offer these two things, you are a 2nd tier vendor.
5. Picture pop-up windows to review images instead of having to use “back” button.
6. Advanced features like search filters when we need to give restrictions.
7. Love seeing Creative Inspiration.
8. Great sales help when a user encounters a problem. (From Cutcaster: Most image buyers didn’t say they needed a specific sales representative to help them use an agency)
9. High resolution comp images with metadata embedded.
10. Agencies with multicultural, disabilities, youth, and well executed food shots most cited image needs.
Overall, most image buyers stressed that they needed the highest quality images, fast / accurate search results and lower pricing which is understandable in the current economic environment.
If you are an image buyer, what features would you like to see a stock agency adopt to make your life easier?
Let us turn your words into picture perfect photos that beat your expectations and save you money and time.
We know when you do something yourself you will do it right and it is hard to trust someone to do research for you, but why not leverage our free photo research and delegate it to us for a chance to show you what we can do.
Need an extra set of hands, eyes and team members to help you find the perfect image you are looking for. Pass it on and hand it over to Cutcaster.
We can easily integrate into any team environment or unique workflow that you have. Let’s have a brainstorm session and uncover eye-popping imagery for your brief.
To save you time, we offer a free picture research service at Cutcaster, in order to help you better locate images you might never have found yourself.
Cutcaster employs a team of highly trained photo and vector researchers who know our collection better than anyone else. If we have it, they will find it for you.
Save hours in your day by letting us do some of the image research for you. We will often turn research around in an hour or less and larger ones take us less than 24 hours.
Are you interested in free photo research? Send us what you are looking for by submitting your photo requests here or email research@cutcaster.com for more help.
1. A chef creating/experimenting with food utilizing molecular gastronomy. (If you are not familiar with what this is, please do a bit of research before submitting photos…it is a very specific type of culinary preparation…and a really fascinating one!).
2. Scientists (ideally with tools) observing recent volcano (possibly Alaska Volcano Observatory?). Ideally, two people or more.
3. An object rusting outside (truck, bike, toy, etc). Prefer to see sky….which would give the idea of wet, rain or snow.
4. A way of preventing rust of an object (garage, cover, shed, etc.). To relate to spec #3 above
5. A scientist studying a pyramid (ideally Egyptian or American). The point is to have the person obviously studying the construction or materials that make up the pyramid in an attempt to determine how the pyramid was constructed.
6. Several pyramid-shaped things: a pyramid-shaped razor sharpener, a pyramid tent, a pyramid with vegetables. In fact, anything that shows an example of ‘pyramid power’ that does not contain any actual person using the pyramid.
7. An actual pyramid. Ideally, it should be without any people around it as this will be a large background image.
8. Research scientist Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, working with one or more dogs (who were the subject of her experiment). OR color photo of marine biologist/nature writer Rachel Carson.
9. Theodore Fujita, the Japanese-American scientist who did a lot of research on tornadoes at the University of Chicago, including photographing them from planes overhead and designing and creating a tornado simulator in his laboratory. OR Wayne Fish, research chemist in Oklahoma, who has worked with a team of scientists to come up with a proposal for using reject watermelons as a source for a biofuel.
10. Volcanologist working or observing – using a tool used for measuring or observing.
If you have photos you think will work or are similar enough please upload them to Cutcaster or send us an email letting us know that you have it in your image portfolio so we can add it to the lightbox we are creating for this buyer. Thanks.
Just a quick headsup that we need more “back to school” type images at Cutcaster. Buyers are looking for these images and illustrations and we are creating Lightbox to add these files to so we can send out to buyers. If you have good “back to school” related content that you haven’t uploaded to Cutcaster, please do so and add into the notes that it is for this request. Thanks in advance.
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