When Not to Use Stock Photos

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Website building requires select components that will impact your website’s objectives positively. Such feature of a website where this is particularly significant is photography. Stock images, indeed, are convenient for when you have no time or the cash to commission a photographer. Still, there are certain conditions when investing in custom photography … Read more

Why Images Are Important in Social Media

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Don’t you think it’s fascinating how we end up buying stuff we really don’t need because we have seen an image of it that just looks spot on? Or how are we suddenly feeling better after seeing an inspirational quote and meme? What about that time that we, as humanity, came together … Read more

Cheapest Stock Photography Subscriptions

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If you want to improve your branding, make your audiences resonate with your business and sell the right brand image you’ll need high-quality stock photography. Great stock photography not only helps tell a story but also helps set the mood and attract unique buyer personas.  The question is, where can you find … Read more

Stock Images Everyone Should Steer Clear of

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Visual material, as you’ve probably learned, increases interaction (read traffic and conversion). Visual content, photographs and videos, caused a 65 percent spike in interaction a month’s time after the launch of Facebook timeline for brands. Keeping all that in view, how certain are you that the imagery on your website will attract … Read more

Secrets of Shooting Stock Images That Sell

Stock photography offers photographers of all levels a great opportunity to monetize their captured moments. However, one thing might become a hurdle in the process; that it’s a highly competitive market where supply exceeds demand. Photographers are looking for one way or another to successfully sell stock photos. When you start selling … Read more

How to Effectively Incorporate Images into Your Website

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Images are powerful means of expression that are accurately reflected in the text. When designing your website, your images should be of the right size and resolution to affect your viewers. So, in addition to choosing the right image for your website, there are additional file format considerations you can consider as … Read more

7 Best Platforms for Selling Stock Images In 2021

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Are you a stock photographer? Do you want to sell your captured images and make money out of them? You have landed at the right spot! Selling stock photographs is a challenge for photographers as it is surely an investment of time, passion and most importantly the skills. Photographers of different ability … Read more

How to Pick The Right Stock Photos

How to Pick The Right Stock Photos

Choosing the right base image for your website is more than choosing the cheapest option to fill your quota. Websites rely on good photos to keep readers interested. After all, most readers have a short attention span, and breaking down the text and providing visual clues that clarify the point of the … Read more

Who Is a Stock Photographer?

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Stock photography is a term that has managed to make its name into the universe of advanced advertising/marketing, especially in the most recent decade. As organizations benefit from exposure to a more extensive worldwide crowd through online presence, the interest for better quality advertising materials has soared up high. Likewise, businesses that … Read more

FOCA and Jeffrey Betts

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Stock Photos Stock photos are professional quality photographs that are available for free or bought and sold for a variety of purposes. The stock photography distributor or photographer dictates the parameters for how each image can be used and retains the ownership of the images. The subject of stock photography is usually … Read more