Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images and Vectors - Shutterstock Top 10 sites to sell your photos online | Autographer Blog For an even more comprehensive list of stock-selling websites, check out this post afterwards for more suggestions and ways to sell photography, and make money from photography online. Many of our customers have been asking us where they can sell their Autographer Wearable Camera images online to make money, so we’ve put together this ultimate list of online sites best for turning your creativity into cash. So, which websites are our top choices for turning creativity into cash? Keep reading… iStock Photo Sell your images through iStock Photo and you’ll earn a royalty rate of 15% for each download, or become an exclusive contributor and earn up to 45% instead. SmugMug If you’re looking to build a sleek, professional looking online showcase for your work that also facilitates selling your photos, check out SmugMug’s ‘Pro’ option which gives you a beautiful storefront and one-click shopping with ecommerce-optimised galleries. Alamy Flickr Collection on Getty Images Fotolia Dreamstime
Popular Photos Welcome, log in using your 500px account Now Shipping Worldwide Popular Photo Workshops-Digital Workflow Photography Workshop by Zack Schnepf & Sean Bagshaw April 5 & 6, 2014 Join two of the Pacific Northwest’s top outdoor photographers and photography educators for an intensive weekend seminar learning their digital image developing techniques. During this classroom based workshop Sean and Zack will alternate teaching duties, each sharing his personal workflow, his philosophy behind developing a photograph and the specific techniques each uses to master his images. Teaching sessions will be interspersed with work sessions in which participants will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned on laptops with guidance from Sean and Zack. Both instructors will walk the class through post production of several images, covering an assortment of topics including: Raw adjustmentsColor balance and contrastExposure blendingCreative adjustmentsPreparing for print or web output Saturday & Sunday Schedule: 09:00am – 5:00pm, with lunch break We have technical issues with this page. Participants:
Photographers: How to Keep Going When You’re Ready to Give Up If you’ve made the transition, or are planning on making the transition from photography as a hobby to photography as a job, you’ll invariably come to a point where you’ll just want to throw your hands in the air and give up. These bouts of self-doubt and frustration will likely occur many times and seem to appear not only during your lows but even at the highs. These feelings are normal, and it is those that rise above them time and again that end up successful. I recently hit one of these rough patches myself and strangely enough it came at a time where everything was seemingly going well. I was riding a wave of success and had tons of photography and retouching work coming in. You’re a business owner, not a photographer Remember, it was your decision to start making money from your craft, and the day you did was the day you went from being a photographer to a business owner. Embrace Uncertainty Most of us shy away from uncertainty and cling to the familiar. Savour the Small Victories
12 Pics That Will Satisfy Your Obsessive Compulsive Disorder This series of photographs by Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli are strangely satisfying. These are guaranteed to satiate your obsessive urge to tidy things up and arrange them in an orderly fashion. Ahhh… Wasn’t that satisfying? This artist was recently featured in a whimsical appearance on TED, and has gone on to tidy up countless works of art. His work is the kind of art that everyone with even a hint of OCD can appreciate. 5 Ideas to Kick Start Your Photography Again A Post By: Darren Rowse Image by Eric May Last week I was speaking with an amateur photographer who told me that he’s been struggling for photographic inspiration and ideas lately. He reflected that he felt like he’d become something of a lazy photographer and was in a bit of a rut – always photographing the same things in the same ways. I shared a number of ideas from my own experiences of seeking photographic inspiration (some of which I’ll share below) but it struck me halfway through the conversation that a lot of the ideas I was suggesting was actually about him limiting himself in his photography in some way – in order to find inspiration. Let me explain by looking at 5 photography ideas that I shared with him. Note: by no means am I suggesting that these are the only ways to get inspired – they’ve just helped me at times. 1. I wrote about this recently in a challenge here on dPS. Variation: another option for this is to choose a lens that you may not have used much before. 2. 3. 4. 5.
How to Use Ultra-Wide Lenses August 2008 Nikon Reviews Canon Reviews Leica Reviews Pentax Reviews Introduction Ultrawide lenses are the most difficult lenses to use well. Ultrawides rub the viewer's nose in your subject. Ultrawide lenses are for getting close and bringing the viewer into the photo, not for fitting a subject into a photo. Ultrawides are not for the faint of heart. Most people use ultrawides too sheepishly, and get crummy results with tiny subjects dwarfed in the middle of an open frame. Ultrawides require you to get very close and personal to anything you are shooting. If you use them properly, you'll be rewarded with dynamic images. My 17-35mm zoom always seems to be shot at 17mm, my 16-35mm always at 16mm, and my 14-24mm always seems to be at the 14mm stop. Your taste will vary, but this is how I see the world. How Wide is Wide All this becomes more important as your ultrawide gets wider. 28mm and 24mm lenses are still pretty normal as wide lenses go. What is an Ultrawide Distortion Getting it all in
What is RAW photographyPhogropathy Update: This post has been updated to include a video that I think clarifies the RAW vs JPEG confusion as best as I can. The original post still exists in its entirety below so feel free to read through if that’s more your style. Enjoy! I’m sure most of you already know what the RAW format is and what it is used for, but according to a recent poll on dPS, 15% of their reader base claims to not know and therefore there’s still quite a few people out there searching for the answer to the question – What is RAW? Admittedly at first I was surprised by the results of this poll. I realized that even today most point and shoot cameras, and certainly all camera phones, both of which account for the vast majority of every-day photographers, only offer you JPEG formats. So anyways, this leads me into this post, about my take on the RAW format and why I personally shoot exclusively RAW. RAW Photography Explained So then, what is a better comparison to the RAW format? So What Can RAW Photos Do?
How to Photograph the Stars A Post By: John Davenport Photography in general is easy – right? You pick up your camera, point it in the direction of what interests you, and depress the shutter button. However, there are many levels of photography, and I’m sure many of you are aware of the basics. Today I’m going to focus on something a bit more advanced, photographing the star filled sky, also known as astrophotography. For astrophotography you will be delving a bit deeper into the use of some of the manual controls of your camera like shutter speed, aperture, and ISO control. Let’s Start With What You’ll Need Tripod – We’re going to be dealing with exposures in the tens of seconds and I don’t care who you are, you’re going to need something to stabilize your camera.A Camera With Manual Controls – Manual control of your ISO and shutter speed are going to be essential for photographing the stars.A Wide Aperture Lens – You’ll need a lot of light and f/2.8 seems to be the butter zone for astrophotography.