Understanding multiple revenue streams in today’s economy can give you a leg up over other photographers competing in your industry. Over at the Virtual Photography Studio blog, the writers posted an interesting article on expanding your photography income so you are not relying on only one source of income to pay all your living expenses [...]
Photographer Lissy Laricchia recently photographed a series of different fairy tale characters getting sucked back into their respective books while flying through the air. We are digging the concept and dream-like atmosphere that the images give off. Check out the “Get Back In Your Book” by Lissy Laricchia over at DJ storms blog and watch [...]
Just read over at Pitchfork that the spaced out looking woman on the cover of Vampire Weekends last album titled Contra is claiming that the signature on the model release was forged and not hers. Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal asked Vampire Weekend‘s Ezra Koenig who the girl on the cover of Contra was last October, when [...]
We all wonder what to shoot next. Some have it down to a science and do a ton of research. Some just shoot and hope to get lucky and grab that perfect shot. Determining what the next trend will be is never easy but Soren Breiting at www.stockphotonews.com did a great writeup on the expected [...]
* JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group) – pronounced ‘jaypeg’ and you will sometimes see it shortened to just JPG. This format is ‘lossy’ in that the more you compress the image and thus reduce file size, the greater you will lose clarity and detail. JPEG graphics can render in full colour and are ideally suited [...]
So Google has changed up their website and now displays a background image on their white homepage. Want to get a great images for your Google background? Find amazing background images, photos and illustrations for Google. Spice up your Google homepage with one of our background images. Search over 600,000 royalty free images and illustrations [...]
A lot of times when you find an image online that you want to use it might not be that clear what you need to do in order to legally license the image and use it for your creative project. Whether there are questions surrounding the license type, the usage, any restrictions, who the actual [...]
Thanks to Tyler Olsen, the fearless leader of the rowdy forum for microstockers called Microstock Group for publishing their Microstock Survey – 2009 Results. 413 market research panelist respond to the survey, giving a relatively small sampling of microstockers creating remarkable imagery today. Tyler explained where the participants came from. The majority of respondents came [...]
A ‘comp’ (short for complimentary) is a free, low-resolution, watermarked version of Cutcasters’ images. Buyers will generally download comps to evaluate an image’s suitability in a particular creative project or to evaluate varying page designs. ‘Comps’ may also be used by photo researchers or photo buyers who are doing research or purchasing images for a [...]
Here are just a few examples of how Cutcasters’ stock photos and stock illustrations have been used by some of our photo buyers. Just so we are clear, Cutcaster’s license covers your photo and illustration usage with regards to its use on websites, advertisements, commercials, mobile applications, invitations, set designs, multimedia presentations, displays for trade [...]
