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Seeing the light

Before attempting microstock photography I’d only ever worked with ambient light (aside from the occasional horrible on-camera flash), and for the first few months attempted to make stock images with only ambient light.
My consistent rejections for ‘poor lighting’ or more commonly ‘not stock material’ were frustrating, and the lengthening delays before being able to re-submit [...]

Microstock Beginnings

The lure of a passive income, and the chance to do something I really enjoy for a living were enough to capture my interest in MicroStock. From deciding to ‘have a go’ to actually selling images was quite a journey, and one more and more of us are taking.
Before considering making money from photography I [...]