Are you an amateur or professional digital photographer who loves taking pictures? Stock photography is a possible source of additional income! A stock photographer shoots a variety of images and then sends them off to their stock agencie to display on their websites. When magazines, businesses, ad agencies, textbook companies, etc. need photos, they often purchase existing images from a stock agency to save the expense of hiring a photographer. When the stock agency sells a photo, the payment for the sale is shared between the photographer and the stock agency. All aspects of the stock photography business will be presented. Topics will include: determining what kind of images will sell, the equipment needed to shoot them, adding metadata to your pictures, the key wording process, using a digital asset management program, types of stock agencies, and everything else necessary to set up and run your own stock photography business.
You will receive an informative, complete handout that covers the topics presented in class.