Lessons
Pre-Show
05:48 2Introduction to Microstock
19:26 3Learn What Sells
1:04:55 4iStockphoto Trends
17:07 5Model and Property Releases
09:15 6Cropping and Composition
31:14 7Shoots That Work
14:23 8JPEG vs. Raw
10:08Lesson Info
Pre-Show
how low Internet and welcome to how to make money. Shooting micro stock with Lisa Snyder here a creativelive. My name is Jim ca tetchy, and I'll be your host today. And alongside me is Krystal Welsh. Morning, Krista. Good morning, everyone. I'm great. How are you doing? Very well, thank you. Are you ready for today's class? I'm excited. Do you shoot any kind of stock photography? Not yet. Yeah, seriously To you. And with that, I want introduce Our host are Sorry, our instructor, ELISA Snyder. How are you? Good. Good morning. You're at the end of three days or you like site for today, I bet. Absolutely. This is the class that I've been looking forward to teaching for a long time. And this is a new class for creative life, this type of thing Talking about stock photography. So I'm pretty psyched as well. Yeah. It'll be fun to teach us how to make money like that. That's right. Alright, Well, for those of you out there joining us in the Internet, go ahead and jump into the chat room and t...
hat's that. Creativelive dot com slash chat and let us know where you're joining us. from when you're in there. We like to know. We like to know where our worldwide audiences. Yeah, we're gonna do a few minutes of pre show, and so make sure if you can hear us properly and see us properly, let it let us know so and then in addition to you guys out there, we also have a pretty awesome in studio audience joining us today. So I'm gonna swing over to you guys. And why don't you let everybody out there in the Internet world Nowhere where you're located, what your business is and where people can find you. Hi. I'm Megan. I'm a photographer. You can find me at making joy photo dot com and I am in the ever fantastic Puyallup. Washington. Just beautiful. Good morning. My name's Christina. I'm just getting started, so I don't have much of a website, but you can find me on deviant art as Night Song three. And I'm just looking forward to learning how to do this. So thank you, Lisa. My name is Kelly Buoy. It's KCB photography and Twitter feed. It's at key to be photography. I've never done micro stock photography with them. Super excited just to learn about it and kind of explore something out of my regular realm. So glad to be here. Happy. Too heavy. I'm Stanley McNaughton, and you can find me at flicker dot com photos standard not, And I'm from Seattle, and I'm really excited to learn about all this, so thank you very much. Cool. Welcome to all you guys here today. And welcome to you guys out on the Internet. All right, let's give us some shutout. Shall wait. All right? Okay. And through Gunther's here today, he says greetings from Poland. Manish Singh from Yeah, poor India. And skill er is back again today from Sylvia, Germany. Cool. Cool. Very cool. And in the lounge, I see Carina from Harlem, Georgia. Miley says hi from N Y fee all in Castello Miley Chad Fourfourtwo from Timbuktu. Really interesting. And then I'm gonna do one more here. Carlos Carlos Wayne from Brighton in the UK I've been there totally. I want to go there in Italy. Brighton, England? No, I don't think so. I'm in the London a couple times, but not Brighton. All right, we got Zulte from Romania. We've got C j W from Dallas Texas and David G. From sunny and warm San Diego. Morning, David, that sounds pretty nice. Sunny and warm. Sounds nice. After the last few days here in Seattle. Rainy Sherry from Whitney Texas. Let's see. And then they're still coming in. But people from India and Phoenix, Arizona, all over, all over the place. And you've been all over the place recently. I know you've been to Italy. You want to ask you about motorcycles? Tell me what you ride. I ride a B M W f 800 s t ok. Her name is Vera Blue touring, touring a sport during my sport. Touring by Cool. Yeah. So I'm not all the way forward looking crotch rocket, but that direction and you guys go on you guys right together. J actually doesn't rise. So when we take off, he chases me in his BMW car. So we zip up to Estes Park because we live right on the foothills near the Rocky Mountain National Park. So it's a great place to ride Teoh. But I have written across country several times and spent about two weeks out on the bike before. It's like an adventure. It isn't. You like you have years for your all your photo equipment. I have saddle bags. Yeah, so I have everything in there and I've got a GPS mounted on her. She's got, she's loaded, She's got an on board computer and everything. I can see what my tire pressure is for my own for computer. It's very cool. I love what's her name again, like a blue dragon from Aragon. Very Colorado. Big wide open spaces for writing. Yeah, just gorgeous. We've got a lot of twisty roads, but we've also got a lot of big sweepers. And those were my favorite. She really just gas it. Lean over that. I pretend I'm Valentino Rossi and you have your camera with you. Do you jump? Do you spot? Do you spot stock photography as you're just as you're riding along and you'll jump out and pull over and shoot something sometimes, but not usually when I'm riding my bike. Usually when I'm when I wants a periods about that, it's about that relaxing time. Also, I don't want to die
Class Materials
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Ratings and Reviews
Christopher Lawrence
As much as I love CreativeLive courses - I was somewhat disappointed with this one. What caught my eye today (11/15/17) was that the class was being broadcast for free. I made the (incorrect) assumption that it was actually being "taped" today. This material is quite old. I wish CreativeLive would put the original "broadcast" date in their materials - or, if they do, make it easy and clear to find. I also found that this instructor was not as professional as others. She frequently used words like "pissed off", etc. when talking about models and companies. She also came across as being "short" with the hosts when it came to answering student questions. I'm not a prude by any means, but when I am paying for a class, I always hope for, and expect professionalism. I am still giving this course a "thumbs up" because most of the information that I received was good, but I just wish it was a little more current. Chris
Nawalescape
For a starter, it is a good course, I am not sure if it's up to date, like what Cynthia said below, but it sure gave me a push to consider this project seriously, those saved images lying there in my hard desk should get out there with benefit.
user-038780
I really enjoyed Lesa's webinar. It gave me the encouragement and information I needed to apply to iStock. My photos were accepted on my first try, and I owe a lot of that to this class. Thanks Lesa!