Product Description

This comprehensive volume will equip photographers with everything they need to know in order to create digital stock photographs that will sell in today's highly competitive marketplace. "Digital Stock Photography" is full of expert insights on the style and concepts needed for saleable stock, and for preparing and organizing a shoot, as well as offering handy tips for capturing digital images, organizing digital files, and building a collection. It also includes sections dedicated to marketing stock images, 30 stock assignments designed to reflect the most current trends in photography, and advice on copyright.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86277 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Michal Heron has been a successful freelance photographer for more than 30 years. She is also the author of several books on photography.

Customer Reviews

By far the best stock photography book on the market
I have been trawling Amazon and other websites for good informative books on shooting stock photography for over a year. I have bought a few books and to be honest up until now I have been very disappointed. This book resets the balance however.

I am a semi-pro photographer and as such whilst I get a decent income from selling images I have wanted to get into stock sales for a while. When I decided to get into the stock image market I thought it was just a case of looking through your library of jpeg images and sending the best images onto iStock and Alamy and wait for the money to trickle in (I am not that naive that I though I would be making mega bucks!!). However, I still had a shock. Rejection after rejection.

I have read other books - see my other reviews, and none goes into the depth this book does explaining what stock images are and how to be successful in your approach to stock libraries. Did you know that some stock libraries give you a test prior to submission - iStock, and some - Alamy will only take large files, way above your usual jpeg images you shoot and some - Getty will not accept images unless you use a Canon or Nikon top of the range model camera. Now to be frank, I knew some of the intricate details of the stock market but was I in for a shock when I was rejected initially at all the stock libraries I went to (My images are not that bad either - Google me to see them) , but I now know where I was going wrong.

This book, if I had read it first, would have saved me time and money. Ditch the Leica film camera and use digital only. Ok I can live with that and my bank balance was swollen with the sales of my M7. Next use a top of the range digital camera - no problem and don't forget the lenses. Next find the style of the images you must take - good point and don't forget the keywords when indexing your images etc.

The book delves into the detail from the equipment you need - I have never seen that in a book like this before - to the software you need, the reasons that you use RAW but don't over-sharpen your images to, (and I think this is great), giving you 25 assignments to concentrate the mind. No just going out on a whim with your 2 meg compact firing in jpeg mode any more.

I guess you are asking why if I class this as the best stock photography book on the market have I not given it 5 stars. Well, thats due to the lack of colour images in the book and the poor standard of printing of the black and white shots in the book. I regret it detracts from the overall experience of reading the book.

The book is well worth reading. It is well presented and though its more like a text book then a picture book on stock to read over a weekend,. Maybe there is a good reason for that. Michal Heron is more about you selling images then you just buying a pretty book to put cash in her pocket, unlike some authors.

Highly recommended.