Mister Sterile asked: The process of utilizing existing photographs for various commercial, advertising and media purposes is termed as Stock Photography. Especially for individuals in various creative industries like web designing, book publishing, advertising agencies, magazine editors, graphic artists, interior decorators and those working in various creative corporate groups, the availability of stock photographs in [...]

William Lund asked: I remember back in the early 90s when my brother John called me up on the phone one day and explained that he had found a niche in digitally manipulated photography.  He said he was poised to make a good deal of money with it, but he couldn’t find any good help.  [...]

Kathy Burns-millyard asked: There are many ways to make money online with photography, but a popular and fairly new way is through Micro Stock Photography websites.Micro stock photography is simply stock photography that’s sold at deep discounts. Clients are able to license stock photos for just $1 or $2, and photographers earn money each time [...]

John M. Lund asked: John: Rick, I know you as the CEO, principle founder and chief architect of Blend Images, a young and very successful stock agency owned and run by photographers.  You have a long history in stock as a shooter, an entrepreneur and in management.  Can you fill in the details on your [...]

Rohn Engh asked: Name a photographer you remember from the past. Joe Schilling, James Whitmore, Hy Perkins, Bob Gomel, Ralph Morse, Paul Schutzer, Art Shay, and George Silk to name a few. They are of the “Unrehearsed Photography School.”Photo editors in those days respected the talent of these photographers to produce useable images for their [...]

Groshan Fabiola asked: Digital photography is often a lot easier to submit to stock photography agencies online. Digital stock photography offers you the ability to share your stock photography work with the world faster than regular photography. Many magazines and newspapers nowadays will only take stock photography submissions in .jpeg or .gif formats. The days [...]

Dan Feildman asked: tography is simply photos taken “on spec”. This means the photographer takes pictures of various objects, people, or situations, and sells them after the pictures have been taken. They are not on a specific photography assignment, instead they are taking photos of subjects they\’d like to take pictures of.Stock photography is primarily [...]