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Microstock Stock Photo Ideas that Sell

By bobbigmac | Published: August 16, 2010
[Translate] 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 [...]
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Stock Photos You Really Should be Shooting

By bobbigmac | Published: July 9, 2010
[Translate] 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
[Translate] 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, [...]
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Researching “What to shoot for stock?”

By bobbigmac | Published: October 2, 2009
[Translate] I spend quite a bit of time researching what to shoot for stock, although I’m busy at the moment mostly coding picNiche and other projects, I’m slowly increasing the amount of stock photography I produce. One of the primary goals in building picNiche is to identify areas where there is currently a shortage of [...]
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202 Challenging Subjects when Shooting for Stock

By bobbigmac | Published: August 13, 2009
[Translate] When shooting stock photography, particularly for microstock, the perception often is that there exists an endless choice of subjects just waiting to be captured, and sold, Yes, for real money! “But wait…” I hear anybody who has been selling stock for a while scream, “you can’t just shoot anything and expect to rake in [...]
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