Sometimes strange, sometimes wonderful, always interesting keywords that people use to find Cutcaster.com!
Search Term of the Moment: Mohawk
We’ve got that and more Alternative Lifestyle photos!
We also get some more naughty keywords?!?!? Today’s best: Asian sexy girl pose
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!
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Don’t forget to refer your friends. We have an excellent referral program!
From the Cutcaster.com Crescendo Collection.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. We have the images you need for your last minute projects, (news) letters of love, blog posts, and to freshen up your website!
Find all the above images by clicking on the links below.
http://cutcaster.com/photo/901326756-Grungy-Tulips/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100740710-Toddler-in-a-Fairy-Outfit/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/901392325-Happy-valentine-s-day/
http://cutcaster.com/vector/901376196-Grunge-Valentines-day-card/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100313572-Vintage-Valentine-hearts/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/800999118-Fantasy-happy-winter-couple-blowing-a-christmas-wish/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100041829-Water-Heart/#S126328
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100464494-Disgruntled-Cupid/#S126328
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100162042-Heart-cake/#S126328
How can you use Facebook to sell more of your images and promote yourself effectively? At Cutcaster, we have compiled a few basic steps, which will help you leverage the power of any social network but specifically for Facebook in order to effectively market your photography business:
1. If you do not already have a Facebook account you will want to create one. Make sure to fill out all the fields on your Facebook profiles so that people who visit your profile can learn more about you and the type of photography you do.
2. Sharing your images is critical. “Like” your images at Cutcaster by clicking the like button below your image’s thumbnail on any image details page. The number of times an image is “liked” at Cutcaster via the Facebook button is one factor that gives your images a boost in our search results.
3. Upload watermarked versions of your images to Facebook and make sure to highlight a wide sampling of your artwork and areas of specialties. You must always be aware of the Facebook user agreement which you should examine and why we tell you to use a watermarked version. Once you have them uploaded this is where you will want to link to your Cutcaster portfolio in the description area or specific images in your port. Make sure you use your referral links so you earn more money.
3. Ask some of your clients for permission to post some of your images to their page so other potential clients who are connected to them will see your images. In this case, anyone connected as a friend of your client on Facebook will see the posted image. This exponentially grows the group of potential customers you will reach.
4. Post updates of what you are doing professionally or shooting to the wall of your Facebook page. If you have an outside website or use a stock photo agency like Cutcaster, then use the wall to promote your other sites. If you’re about to publish some new photographs, then this is a good time to let your Facebook community hear about it!
5. It’s a great idea to create a Facebook fan page which you can use as a promotional tool for your photo or design business. Give people updates on upcoming shows, new images, new techniques you are learning, workshops you are attending or offer special deals to potential customers.
6. You need to be posting fresh new images to your Facebook pages regularly that highlight your improvement and continued education as a photographer, that highlight new areas you are experimenting with or new aspects of your work. These subtle hints will serve as reminders that your photo or design services are available.
7. Like and participate on groups at Facebook which are related to your photography work and interests. Make sure your comments are insightful and thought out i.e. not “it’s good to be here” or “nice shot” spammy. Pose questions if you want to get a response. By providing valuable information on other users pages you will be actively helping their community and growing your own reputation as the go to person for your area of photography.
8. When posting an image to your facebook page or someone elses’ fan page, you are able to change the title name which serves as an anchor link back to your image’s page. Since you are able to manipulate the title by choosing your own, you can pack it full of relevant keywords you are trying to target through search engine optimization.
Have you joined the other Cutcaster fans on Facebook? Our Facebook page highlights useful design and photography tips as well as connects our contributors with our buyers. Login to Facebook and visit http://www.facebook.com/Cutcaster to like our page.
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.
Congratulations to all of our submitters and customers who are celebrating a graduation from school this month! Now let’s get ready for summer!
http://cutcaster.com/vector/100733088-Graduation-Celebration-Grunge/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100707264-Success-cap/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100357762-Young-female-graduate-looking-at-copyspace/
We know you worked hard to get that diploma. At Cutcaster.com we are also working hard to bring you the most beautiful, useful, and timely photos and vectors.
As a graduation gift for all of our users we would like to offer you a coupon for 15% off your next purchase. Just use this discount code: RECENTGRAD at check out.
After giving thanks to all the deserving Moms last month on Mother’s day, it’s now the Dads turn to shine on Father’s Day. Father’s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in many countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother’s Day, the celebration honoring mothers. How will you be giving thanks and celebrating Father’s day 2011?
Get the stock photos above at Cutcaster by clicking on the below links.
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100364359-Father-Holding-Daughter/
http://cutcaster.com/vector/100298228-Father-and-daughter/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100229267-Father-and-Son/
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100145169-Two-men-standing-outdoors-smiling
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100086279-Dad-carrying-son
http://cutcaster.com/photo/100132689-A-Middle-Eastern-man-with-his-children
This is a list of the highest prices paid for photographs (in US dollars unless otherwise stated) from Wikipedia. Pretty amazing to see some of the prices paid for these iconic images. Cindy Sherman’s photo “Untitled #96,″ shot in 1981, just become the world’s most valuable photograph after selling for a staggering $3.89 million at a Christie’s auction yesterday (it was estimated to be worth up to $2 million). Ms. Sherman’s photo moves “99 Cent II Diptychon” by Andreas Gursky to the number 2 spot, which enjoyed five years as the world’s most valuable photo after selling in 2006 for $3.35 million.
1. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96 (1981), $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie’s New York.
2. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby’s London auction. A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby’s in May 2006.
3. Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, Purchased in February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.
4. Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), $1,750,000, Purchased in January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.
5. Edward Weston, Nude (1925), $1,609,000, Purchased in April 2008, Sotheby’s New York auction.
6. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, Purchased in February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.
7. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, Purchased in February 2006, Sotheby’s New York auction.
8. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), $1,248,000, Purchased in November 2005, Christie’s New York auction.
9. Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, Purchased in November 2010, Christie’s Paris auction.
10. Edward Weston, Nautilus (1927), $1,082,500, Purchased in April 2010, Sotheby’s New York auction.
11. Peter Lik, One (2010), $1,000,000, Purchased in December 2010, Anonymous Collector
12. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter] olympien pris de l’est (1842) $922,488, 2003, auction.
13. Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857) $838,000, Purchased in 1999.
14. Eugène Atget, Joueur d’Orgue, (1898-1899), $686,500, April 2010, Christie’s New York auction.
15. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987) $643,200, Purchased in 2006.
Not a bad days work if you sold even just one of your photos that made it into the top 15. Get a start selling your work at Cutcaster where you can sell your images for commercial or editorial usage to our picture buyers, who represent all the major industries using stock photos.
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
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