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Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell
 
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Digital Stock Photography equips photographers with everything they need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.

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An invaluable reference.
 
Review Date: February 7, 2008
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI USA
Michal Heron has been a successful freelance photographer for over thirty years, not only selling her products to photo agencies but running her own stock business and giving lectures at seminars and workshops around the country. Her DIGITAL STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY packs in the basics of capturing digital images, from working with scans and delivering acceptable product to evaluating equipment, creating releases, handling copyright options and much more. No aspiring professional photographer should be without it: it's an essential key to understanding the routines and demands of the stock photo business, and photography as well as general-interest lending libraries catering to photographers will find it an invaluable reference.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Better Info than Booklet That Came with My Camera!
 
Review Date: July 24, 2008
Reviewer: Yorkie Girl, USA
Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell

I originally bought this book to learn more about the business of stock photography, which I did. However, I learned more about digital cameras and how to use them than I did from the manual that came with my camera (I have had SLR and 35 mm cameras for several decades). Sure, the owner's manual said to go online for questions, but when you are out in the field, it's nice to have a reference book to rely on. Also helpful are the types of photos to have in a portfolio, obtaining permission from models and property owners, and what NOT to show in a photo. Excellent book for the novice photographer as well.
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Review Date: June 10, 2009
Reviewer: KeyboardKeys, IN, USA
I have found this book very facinating. It has all the info I could ever hope for in one book. It seems to cover literally everything, including needed forms for releases, etc. This is exactly what I was wanting to get started in digital stock photography and didn't know where to begin--Michal Heron to the rescue. I looked on Amazon.com and found this with the access to read some pages and knew I had to have this one. I looked at some others and they were no comparison. I would highly recommend this to anyone who doesn't know where to begin, but wants an education in this area at a very reasonable price without having to take a college course to get it.
digital photography :how to shoot and sell
 
Review Date: March 19, 2009
Reviewer: William Goodwin, TX usa
This book is a must read for the first time microstocker.Its full of usefull infomation everything from how to select photos for your submission to how to run your stock company.
Easy to read - step by step information
 
Review Date: August 24, 2009
Reviewer: J. M. Sullivan, New Zealand
What a great little book. It is very informative and a awesome starting point to give an overview of stock photography from it's start to the current digital age.

It is well written, easy to read and is also very easy to understand if you are new to professional photography. It doesn't matter in what country you live, this book covers topics that are the same the world over. Basically, it covers everything you need to know about setting up your own stock photography business. I particularly loved the assignments given as a starting point on which to build a stock portfolio.

This book is great value for money and I would recommend it to everyone who wants to embark on a career in stock photography.

PS. The stock photography agency that I hope to work for in the future recommended the previous version of this book however I chose this version as all my work is now digital.

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