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(micro)STOCK
From Passion to Paycheck
This is a jam-packed guide to producing, managing, and marketing your photographs for digital distribution on the micro-stock market. There is a lot more to stock photography than uploading a bunch of pictures and hoping for the best. Learn more.
Nicole shares her industry experience and knowledge to help you better navigate the rules, procedures, and best practices to creating quality, useful imagery for the micro-stock market. She explains how to build and deliver on a successful portfolio concept, takes the mystery out of the different types of stock, like rights-managed (RM) and royalty-free (RF), and shares the ins/outs of licensing and releases.
And it doesn’t stop there! She interviews four successful stock photographers and illustrates how others are making the big bucks online. If you’re looking to grow your revenue through digital sales then building a successful micro-stock business is a great way to do it!
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I think that the title of the book sums it up perfectly. From passion to pay check. It shows that you can in fact make money from a hobbie in some respects. If you enjoy what you are doing and are making money from it, you are certainly are set up to make huge profits.
I would recommend this book to anyone, thanks Nicole.
An interesting read and like all the previous Craft and Vision books it is a great value for only $5. While not the in-depth “Master class” like The Power of Black & White, there are still some key points as noted in the comments above specifically in the area of dealing with Rejection. Consider this a primer if you are at all interested in the world of microstock. I also wrote a review of it on my blog. http://dbueckertphoto.com/craft-and-visions-microstock-review/
Hello. In my opinion, this is a book about nothing for those who knows nothing about stock photography. I wanted to find something new, but all this information You can find on almost any blog abot microstock. 4$ is not much, but why we pay for nothing?
I’m afraid this is not up to Craft & Vision standards. The images are nice but there isn’t much here beyond what you’d get from an introductory guide at any stock website. Try one of the other Craft & Vision titles.
Let me start by saying I like Nicole Young, and her stock photos are phenomenal. That being said I kind of had higher expectations for this book. It was enjoyable and had some information but fell short of being very helpful.
I am very interested in stock, and I was hoping to find a bit more technical information in this book, as in examples of lighting, and maybe even a bit about gear.
In the end it just seemed a little vague and general. But all that aside it was only $5, and It held my attention for the hour that it took to read.
Tim, you can also open it in iBooks (from e-mail, Dropbox etc.), that’s how I read all my Craft&Vision e-books!
Tim… if you have an iPad, pick up GoodReader. It allows you to load and read PDF’s on your iPad!
Is there going to be an iPad app version of this book? I see the little grayed-out link, but there’s no mention of it.
If there is, I’d rather wait for that to come out than get the PDF :)
This is a GREAT website. It’s straight-forward, to the point and getting the purchased product is almost instantaneous.
“(micro)STOCK” by Nicole S. Young has several advantages. Being an e-book, it is both short and clearly focused. It also costs only $5 ($4 for first few days) for an instant download. In my opinion, chapter 4 is the greatest strength of the e-book. It discusses in detail the typical reasons for rejections. It points what things needs to be avoided, both in shooting and post processing, to create the most marketable images. All issues are illustrated with great images, which makes it easier to understand. This e-book is a good choice for photographers thinking of
trying if their images will be accepted and sell through microstock and for those who already started, but struggle with many initial rejections.
(This is just a fragment of the review I wrote on my blog. You can read it here: http://bit.ly/jsJIg0 )
Great information in this book. It’s very true that some of the best critiques you’ll learn from are from the rejections.