Microstock Photography
66 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win FIGURE 4.2 “Summer Poppies.” © Douglas Freer guide when composing your image. Imagine a gr ...
FIGURE 4.3 “Rule of thirds” grid. © Douglas Freer FIGURE 4.4 “Green Field and Tree.” © Slawomir Jastrzebski/iStockphoto THE “RUL ...
68 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win FIGURE 4.5 “Young Woman Relaxing.” © Douglas Freer/iStockphoto Do not blindly follow the r ...
With “crop factor” digital SLRs, where the sensor is smaller, something around 60 mm is ideal. If you are using a zoom, set the ...
70 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win FIGURE 4.6 “Golf.” © Mikael Damkier/Fotolia ...
FIGURE 4.7 “Peppers Red Yellow Green and Orange.” © Douglas Freer USE THE BEST APERTURE AND SHUTTER SPEED COMBINATION 71 ...
72 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win FIGURE 4.8 Spices and dyes on an Arabian market stall—another image where color is the obj ...
available light. Simple cameras have “scene” settings. These prioritize either the shutter speed or the aperture, depending on t ...
74 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win Next, with a longer focal length lens or using the telephoto setting on your compact, try ...
FIGURE 4.10 A high depth of fi eld. © Douglas Freer.jpg photographing the subject from a normal standing or sitting position, ge ...
76 How to Make Sure Your Pictures Win specialized lenses can be expensive to buy. They’re worth considering but not essential. A ...
Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins before They Kill Your Pictures Good subjects and careful composition will be entirely was ...
78 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins The Microstock Inspection Process The microstocks have to review and assess many thous ...
within a $100–$250 price range. They are simple to use. You’ll be amazed the difference a properly calibrated and profi led moni ...
80 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins can be mapped to 16 bits when converted to TIFF format by software used for raw conver ...
using Adobe Camera Raw, it was possible to almost completely recover the sky, even with such extreme overexposure. Usually you w ...
82 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins when the shot was taken, and all other data were discarded—so major white balance chan ...
to contrast and levels. The histograms are still even with no “combing.” The image on the right is a copy of the fi rst image bu ...
84 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins generally, the higher the quality of the image. Most cameras have a base ISO of betwee ...
The 100% Rule Finally, before we get started on some practical examples of problem images and solutions, let’s agree on a simple ...
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