Posts Tagged ‘Digital Photos’
July 23rd, 2010
The photo helps the users to cherish memories, milestone events, everyday magic and crowning achievements with others. These vibrant images take back to most fun-filled days of the life. While scrolling pages of the photo album, one remember all his or her mischievous and funny acts, which brings smiles on the face even after so many years. With Online photo sharing technique, the person can narrate the story about his or her adventurous trip to friends anywhere in the world. This technique of sharing photo through the mode of Internet is easy and safe. It helps the users to share numerous images and videos across the world.
Photo sharing is defined as publishing or transferring of digital photos Online. It enables the users to share the pictures with others publicly or privately. This functionality is provided via websites and applications or both, as it facilitates the upload and display of images. The term can also be applied to the use of online photo galleries which are setup and managed by individuals including photoblogs.
The first photo sharing site was originated during the mid to late 1990s, initially from service providing online ordering of prints (photo-finishing). But many sites came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralised access to the still photos and video clips too. The image sharing technique became popular with the outcome of digital camera and Internet. The photo sharing provides long-lasting photographic memories and it has resulted in different approaches to revenue generation and functionality amongst service providers.
Desktop photo-management applications for instance include photo-sharing features or integration with sites for uploading vibrant images. There are desktop applications whose main function is sharing photos and generally they use peer-to-peer networking. The basic photo sharing functionality can be found in applications that allow the users to e-mail photos.
Uploading of memorable photos and sharing them with a wide list of people offers various benefits. First and foremost is that one can share photos, images and videos with family and friends globally. This online photo sharing is comparatively inexpensive and affordable. Moreover, this technique is safe, as one can place the photos on Online album. It also helps the users to low down expenses such as posting photos to multiple senders by mail. Moreover, this technique offers a massive storage capacity to the users for their photos.
Secondly, the photo sharing concept is not only restrained to web and personal computers. As a matter of fact, portable devices such as cameraphones can be used to automatically transfer photos on the Internet. One can take the pictures to desired sharing sites and photoblogs.
The photoblogs tend to display images in a chronological view of user-selected photo size. The most online photo sharing sites provide multiple views such as thumbnails and slideshows. Moreover, the users can classify photos into albums and add annotations such as captions or “tags” and comments. Some image sharing sites provide complete Online organisation tools similar to desktop photo-management applications.
To bring into your notice, this sharing is also made possible even with the help of multimedia messaging service or MMS. The camera focused phones with wireless networking and sharing functionality can be used for uploading or sharing the images, video and albums on the web. The increasing popularity of Online photo-sharing sites have seen the emergence of many successful Internet brands in the “new generation”web 2.0 sites.
To conclude, the concept of photo sharing sites is gaining importance among both professionals as well as amateur photographers.
May 28th, 2010
So you want to make a living from your freelance digital photography. A way to earn extra income that has been showing a lot of promise is selling your freelance photos to stock photography sites like Fotolia. Say you love shooting pictures with your digital camera but never considered making a good amount of money from it. You couldn’t describe this as a job quiting opportunity just yet, but if you dedicate enough time who knows. Doesn’t matter what age you are just as long as you have some extra time to shoot and upload photos. This is just a way to distribute your freelance photography onto a stock photo site that will sell the pictures for you. If someone buys your freelance photos you will get paid, it is a pretty simple concept. Although the concept is simple enough there is a few methods that need to be learned in order to ensure successful picture sales.
Taking good digital pictures is obviously an aspect of getting good conversions. You don’t have to use all the most expensive equipment or know the trade secrets of taking great digital photos. Buyers of stock photography need pictures of almost anything, and that’s what you can give them pictures of anything and everything. The colors in your digital photos have to be neat, balanced and not too dull. You cannot have any signatures, logos or marks on the pictures to define there ownership. Your photos have to be in focus and not have any noise. Lastly it should not look like you were a tourist and you had a more creative outlook.
To help your photos sell you need to photograph things that are useful to buyers. You really have to think like a buyer, because the people who are buying stock photography are marketers, advertisers, website makers, magazines, and graphic designers (to name a few). You need to attract your buyers with keywords or proper picture categorizing. Learning to pick the popular, low competitive keywords will improve your sales dramatically. And will bring a large amount of traffic to your freelance work.
Here are the things you need (or) need to do to get started
-Have an Internet Connection
-Buy a Digital Camera
-Learn about proper keywords, conversion, uploading, stock photography companies (read an Ebook)
-Sign up with Stock photo companies
-Take hundreds of digital photos
-Upload you pictures, make conversions/sales and make a profit
-Repeat what you are doing correctly in order to start make double, triple and yeah you got it
If selling your digital photography to stock photo sites something that interest you, learn more about how to get started at my site Freelance Digital Photography Careers and Job Choices
October 29th, 2009
raphy your hobby or passion? In either case you can easily start minting money if you pursue this passion. All you really require is a digital camera, access to good software programs on your computer and Internet. Mentioned here are a few ways on how to sell stock photos:
Internet contains a plethora of web sites where you can stock your photos. There are micro stock agencies, which deal in providing with low cost pictures to the customers. There are many people who browse these sites and are willing to pay good price for the photographs. Simple images of a budding flower or an abandoned building will attract enthusiasts.
It is significant that you decide on a theme for clicking photographs. For a photograph to sell, it should be appealing to the customer. So your perception should be worthy as an illustration and should benefit the customer. Basically people are looking for crystal ideas or illustrations that cater to their company’s image. For example a lady with red lipstick in one hand and a cherry in other will sell more than a baboon jumping trees.
Are you a novice in this field? Clicking photographs as a hobby is completely different from clicking on them from a professional point of view. Your friends might give you advice on how to shoot photos, but it would be better if you obtain some serious advice. There are several e-books that can guide you to sell stock photos, but the Turn Your Photos Into Cash blog is the ideal place to get started. It has clear instructions on how you can actually start getting great results in digital photography by following a few guidelines.
Yet another web site LearnElementsNow.com comes from an erudite in photography – David Peters. His e-book has step-by-step instructions on how to master your skills in Adobe Photoshop Elements in just 2 hours! – These new skills allow you to sell even more stock photos
Once you have mastered the skill and taken a few photos, you have to follow certain instructions to upload your pictures in the micro stock agency sites. Primarily the picture should be in JPEG format. Ensure that the picture you have uploaded is 100% clear and unambiguous and does not have any granules. Even if it does have, remove all these before submitting. The photo should never include any names of the labels or brands. This will be copyright infringement. Try removing these with the help of Photoshop.
One of the most important parameters that people often overlook is indexing the photograph. Try to name the photo by including appropriate keywords. For this you have to conduct good research. You can even use synonymous words in case your competitor has used a similar word for his photograph. Try looking for these words online with Google search…
Finally the most important part – your payment! Once some of your stock photos have been sold, you get bulk payments. Sometimes agencies take 50% of the money as their fee.