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Digital Stock Photography is a comprehensive how-to manual with everything you need to know to create digital stock photography that will sell in today’s competitive marketplace.

Stock photography is no longer a matter of posting ‘anything you have on file’ to a library, and these days the best stock is almost always shot with a buyer in mind. So this book covers everythnig from organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again.

Sections cover capturing commercial quality digital images, working with scans from your film originals, digital delivery of images to buyers, equipment, organizing your digital files and more.

Other sections cover how to market, how to negotiate and quote prices, and tips on managing a business, obtaining model releases and protecting your copyright.

It includes 30 self-assignments, designed to get you thinking stock and understanding the latest trends in the industry, all while building up your collection with quality images of commercial content.

This is the long-awaited follow up to How To Shoot Stock Photos That Sell and it totalyl delivers. If you’re new to the business of stock, this is possibly the best $20 investment you could make in your new business.

Digital Stock Photography: How to Shoot and Sell

This is another great primer to really get you thinking about ‘why’ photo buyers use specific images. It covers a broad range of photo uses, and provides many insights into that photo buyers are actually paying for.

It covers the elements you should be working into your compositions and the styles & moods that really sell. All up a very handy book for anyone getting started in stock photography and wanting to target their efforts and start shooting more marketable photos.

Photos That Sell: The Art of Successful Freelance Photography

This is a book we’ve been recommending at OzImages Photo Stock Agency for quite a few years now … so long in fact that it’s actually gone out of print in that time.

You can usually find a copy on Amazon if you dig around a bit, and if you do it’s probably the single best investment you could make in your stock photography business.

The information is timeless, and it includes a series of self-assignments to really get you thinking ‘stock’ while you build up your collection.

There is a fair emphasis on working with people and the right way to incorporate human activity into your iamges for better sales potential. While a lot of nature/landscape shooters prefer to avoid this, when you include people you automatically increase demand and lower competition, so you should always be open to these possibilities.

All in all, if you only ever buy one book on ‘stock photography’ I’d recommend this one without hesitation!

How to Shoot Stock Photos That Sell