Lensbaby images sell!…

If you can get them online. That’s the tricky part.

I simply love shooting with my lensbaby and actually have four of them. One for Nikon and three for my Canon. Different kinds and different effects. The lensbaby does something smart: It makes the images look VERY intentionally blurred which is the criteria for getting blurred images online on stock agencies. My lensbaby (or babies..) is one of the only four lenses I bring in my Travel bag.

What is Macro stock? – Revised

Good Question? Macrostock, also known among microstock photographers as “tradition RF” is not as clear-cut to define against it’s counterpart, microstock, as it once was. Now that Istock has launched their Vetta Collection with prices definitively in the macrostock range (70USD for high res) and this being on a microstock platform, it seems that we are entering a phase of mixed prices for stock images. Fotolia has their Infinite collection with prices even higher than Vetta and these files are also selling alongside low priced images. And in high end agencies such as Getty Images, you can now buy web res for an ultra low price of 50USD.

Hi guys. For those of you who just read the post called, "microstock photographers making big bucks" – uh, opps.

You were probably just as confused as I when that came up on my blog. The reason it went up was simple human error: a fairly new employee I just granted site access to was working on a set of google meta text and he accidentally pressed "post", so it went live. The result was a bunch of gibberish that made no sense about making money from stock…etc, a good laugh. It "only" went out to about 3000 subscribers so no big deal right..….Argh.