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Dealing with a creative dip

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Everyone, active in a creative profession, has to deal with it every now and then. The Creative Dip. However, there are a few very basic tricks to overcome this feared block rapidly.

The situation

Over the last few months, I’ve hammered through a lot of shoots for clients and for stock. Processing [...]

Planning a photo shoot

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It’ll probably be an open door for you when I say that with a decent planning, you’ve already done half the work. I believe a thorough planning is vital for any photoshoot. Whether you work with models, or go go out into the wild. Both indoors, as well as outdoors, a [...]

Find your niche in (micro)stock – updated

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Following up on my previous post on finding your niche in (micro)stock, I’d like to draw your attention to a very useful tool in assessing if what you have in mind is a potential niche to be explored; picNiche

Also, there is an interesting article for comparison on mystockphoto worth checking out [...]

Find your niche in (micro)stock

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It’s splattered all over the various forums of microstock agents: If you want to be successful in stock, build a large portfolio. Aim for a versatile collection of images, as that ensures a wide spread interest from buyers, designers, and such, and thus realises sales and generates revenues. All very [...]