Tag Archives: income

How to Earn More Money from Wedding Photography

By bobbigmac | Published: September 3, 2012
There has been a lot of pressure on wedding photographers over the last few years, with the reduction in cost of equipment with prosumer-level DSLR cameras and easier access and marketing to potential customers through social media, craigslist, gumtree and other classified ad platforms. Even with people relying on their friends and family to capture […]
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Is there still money in microstock photography?

By bobbigmac | Published: August 22, 2011
I’ve been asked the question “Is there still money in microstock?” three times, by three different people in the last week alone; and have had very similar questions over the last few months so I figured what a perfect time for a blog post. If you’re one of those ‘pro’ photographers who has a hissy-fit […]
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Stock Photo Keywording in just 3 clicks with picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: January 18, 2011
You can now purchase keywording services through picWorkflow to keyword your images before distribution. The model is simple: you set how many keywords you want an image to have, and how much you want to pay per keyword. The price range is between 0.5 cents and 2 cents per keyword, which at 40 keywords makes […]
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Microstock Stock Photo Ideas that Sell

By bobbigmac | Published: August 16, 2010
This is the report of some of the best niches revealed from searches on the picNiche stock photo analysis-engine during the last month (July/August 2010). If you want your microstock portfolio to sell more images, and so make more money, you should produce some images on these topics for addition to your portfolio. All of […]
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Earn more from Microstock with the picNiche “Share” button

By bobbigmac | Published: July 29, 2010
A new version of the picNiche Microstock Contributor Toolbar was approved by the mozilla reviewers last night and should be rolling out on auto-update today. I want to highlight a new feature of the toolbar which can help you earn more from your microstock accounts by referring image-buyers: The new “Share” button. You can use […]
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Stock Photos You Really Should be Shooting

By bobbigmac | Published: July 9, 2010
If you want to be selling more microstock images, these are some of the ideas, concepts and subjects you should be shooting. For once, I’m not going to prattle on. 🙂 Here’s a list of the best stock photography niches generated by people on picNiche.com over the last two weeks. I’ll try and make this […]
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Stock Photography over Time

By bobbigmac | Published: October 29, 2009
I’ve added a very cool new feature to the picNiche rating system today. I’ve been waiting to add this one for months but didn’t have quite enough raw data to make it worthwhile until now. It’s a little more complex than usual so I figured it would be useful to highlight the key points, and […]
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