What's wrong with this picture? Hey, what's wrong with your pictures? Look, I've got news for you if you're a photographer trying to sell your photos online. There's some things you really NEED to do in order to sell more photos. So read this article. It's about to give you a few digital photography tips on how to tweak your photos just right so that buyers absolutely love them...
Firstly, if you've already been shooting some pictures, I want you to take a good hard look at them. Then I want you to visit some of the top stock photo websites and see what type of images are popular. Keep your mind open to ideas here. The stock photo world is HUGE... And there's always a need for good 'art photography' as there is for travel, close up, people, animal photography, etc.
Now as you observe some of the more popular stock photographs, you'll see that the photographer not only captures a stunning image, but often there's a lot of 'use-able space' in the image. What I mean is that, more often than not, a good stock photo is composed of not only a beautiful image, but also enough space so that a photo buyer, or art director, can add some specific text or a headline to the image.
In fact, try this. Go to Cnn.com or Time.com and look at the photo based advertisements that run on these sites. See how a lot of the photo advertising uses words (headline or text, inside the photo) to explain the story further? The photo gets your attention... and the words 'pull' you in. So, when you go to shoot stock photos, not only do you want to capture a great image, but you want to leave some 'space' in there so your photo is attractive for advertisers too!
Thus you discover that many of the good stock photos have a careful composition to them. Think about the photo buyer for a minute. Think about how your photo can help 'sell' or promote their product. Are you creating photos with enough space or room to move? Study this stuff. It's one photography tip you can take to the bank, believe me!
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