http://www.OzImages.com.au/Blog.asp?Show=Photographers Recent News Updates for freelance photographers. OzImages is the no-commissions stock photography library that lets independent stock photographers sell their photos without giving up control. en-us Copyright 1999-2012 OzImages Stock Photography Library. All Rights Reserved. 20 http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=1007 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:07:01 GMT Think your point-and-shoot camera can't hack it out with the big guns? It's not all about fancy, expensive cameras when it comes to great photography. Have camera envy no longer and improve your photos immediately with these easy photography tips.Follow these 10 steps to enhance your photography skills:Consider the weather. Sunlight can create unwanted shadows on the face, so position yourself such that the light is flattering to your subject. When it's overcast, your pictures... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=1003 Tue, 8 May 2012 09:08:10 GMT In my review of the Trick Photography package the other week, I mentioned that I wasn't sure how 'commercial' some of the techniques were. Well I got an answer to that question in the post today, with one of the same images appearing on the cover of a magazine I subscribe to. The May issue of  New Internationalist has the image of a man's face superimposed on his hands for a cover of their issue on mental health. It was one of the images/techniques I was particulary... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=1000 Thu, 3 May 2012 18:29:59 GMT As much as I complain about the various web browsers when I'm doing web design & development work, I've got to admit that in terms of functionality they really have come a long way in the last few years. And a lot of the big advances have come in the form of add-ons - small third-party applications that allow you to complete additional tasks from within your web browser. Here's a short list of some of my favourites that should be useful for... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=990 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:25:05 GMT If you've been paying attention, you'll know I'm a big fan of video marketing for photographers. It's a visual medium perfectly suited for our work and it gets results. For most photographers it's a simple matter of creating a video slideshow and then publishing it on YouTube, to direct visitors to your website. For a few minutes work, you can get some good exposure for your business, but the truth is, it's barely scratching the surface of what you can do... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=957 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:11:45 GMT Google's been at it again, announcing some major changes last month that are going to impact anyone doing business online for a long time to come. They're calling it Search plus Your World and it give searchers the option to combine their traditional search results with results from various social media connections. The catch is, the so-called social results will be shown first, so if you're not connecting with your buyers, there's a real chance they aren't... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=894 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:42:48 GMT The doors are open on the first ever photography giveaway event, this weekend only. We invited a number of photography-related businesses to take part and put up one or more free gifts for photographers, to show case their products and services. It's kind of like an online-photography-expo, and looks like being an annual event from now on.www.PhotographyGiveaway.comPlease check it out, register and grab anything of interest. You'll have a couple of weeks to download your gifts but you... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=878 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:53:27 GMT If you're posting your images to various social media sites, here's a survey that you might find useful. It checked 38 of the main social media / photo sharing websites and how they handled uploaded images.In particular, they were checking whether your embedded copyright information would remain intact. In 16 cases, it was stripped from the file ... so if someone downloaded you image they'd have no idea who the image actually belonged to. The message is simple. If you're... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=854 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:48:31 GMT We've just published a simple plugin for anyone with their own WordPress Blog. It displays random photography quotes (over 200) under each of your blog posts auttomatically, for a bit of additional interest for your readers.This is a free download for anyone interested ... please grab your copy below and tell your photographer friends or colleagues about it. You'll find full instructions on that page for installing and customizing the plugin. Download Photography Quotes PluginOne way... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=840 Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:36:43 GMT If you talk to a lot of photographers about where to sell photography the standard suggestion is probably going to be that you sign on with one of the Microstock libraries. However, if you're serious about selling photographs online, you'll usually find the best returns are made when you stop following the crowd and think outside the box. The demand for stock photography has increased dramatically in over the last 20 years, starting with the advent of desktop publishing... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=808 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:46:33 GMT Travel photography is probably one of the most misunderstood fields of commercial photography. For most photographers, the only requirement for shooting travel images is for them to be somewhere new, but the reality is quite different. The good news is, this mass misconception means there's great opportunity for the photographers who do get it right. Travel photography is as commercial as it gets. Travel photography buyers desire images that actively sell the... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=806 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:25:51 GMT Selling photographs online has become big business in recent years: digital SLRs keep getting cheaper and the images they produce keep getting better. It seems everyone on the planet must own a camera by now. Given the recurring financial crises of the last few years, it's no surprise that more and more camera owners are looking to sell photography online for some extra money. For professional photographers trying to make a living selling photography online all this... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=749 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:12:24 GMT I was shocked to discover recently that 2.5 percent of the visitors passing through GlobalEye & OzImages are using mobile phones. That's over 500 hundred people a month, trying to view a stock photo library website on a 2 inch phone screen! To be honest, we'd looked at the idea of setting up a mobile version of our website a couple of years back, but we pretty much decided it wasn't necessary ... surely anyone serious about searching for photos would... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=744 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:31:29 GMT Anyone who's been around GlobalEye-OzImages for any length of time will have heard me go on about 'backlinks'. After your basic on-page SEO it is the most important factor in getting good listings in the various search engines.  So for a photographer with a presence on a photographer portal site such as GlobalEye, where you have limited control over the on-page SEO factors, building backlinks is a simple and effective way  to increase your exposure right across... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=738 Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:04:08 GMT On average I look at about 25 new photographer applications every month and I've been doing that for almost 10 years now ...  that's about 3000 photographers and 36,000+ photos. I also spend a lot of time each month watching the new images being added to both our stock libraries. Again this amounts to thousands of images each and every year.I can tell you, in amongst all those images there have been tens of thousands of photos that could have been great stock photos... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=720 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:38:22 GMT Sometimes it seems the Internet was made just for photographers. On a social level it lets us share photos with friends and families, we can get together and talk camera gear and photographic technique, and it helps a lot of us overcome the isolation that often goes hand-in-hand with a photography career. On a professional level, it provides the means to showcase our work to Clients, access new markets and conduct the entire stock photography sales process without leaving our desks. It... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=639 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:07:10 GMT OK you should have a small list of urls by now. Make sure they are 'complete' and include the http://. Some might have an XML suffix others an RSS suffix, but it's could be just about anything. As an example, here's a few from my Globaleye list:... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=613 Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:22:42 GMT Finding you haven't got a lot of RSS feeds to work with?Here's a little trick to help you automate and leverage the process using a blogging site called www.Posterous.com The short version is you can post to your Posterous Blog by email, and once you set it up, it will automatically repost those items to a host of other social media accounts There's currently 26 different services listed and you can actually have multiple accounts in several of them, so in... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=612 Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:06:09 GMT If you have any sort of photo web site - whether it's your own photographer website or simple a presence on some other sites - then chances are you already have all the ingredients on hand to take advantage of one of the most overlooked and most powerful web marketing tools. RSS Feeds are pure gold for anyone trying to promote a website and they are particularly useful for photographers. The best past of it is, most people don't understand them, so it's a great way... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=23 Tue, 3 May 2011 11:32:01 GMT I've had a few questions lately about filesizes and camera specs, and what's the minimum required for stock, so I thought I'd run through it briefly for everyone. First up I'll make the disclaimer that I'm dealing with hundreds of photographers, each with different makes and models of camera, so I don't make any attempt to keep up with the latest specifications for any specific model. Life's far too short to even try! It's also worth noting,... http://OzImages.com.au/BlogDetail.asp?ID=22 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:22:20 GMT One simple thing every photographer can do ... and should do ... every time you make a sale, is ask for a backlink as part of your photo credit. This won't work for all situations, but these days a huge proportion of sales do have some sort of online component, so these links could really add up to something significant, if you make it a condition of using your photos online. You only have to look at the stats for the likes of Getty and iStockPhoto ... they have 73 million and 25 million...