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Planet eARTh Fine Art
Below are a a few of the images from the Planet art (eARTh) series. Aerial photography images of the planet as art. Look for many more Planet eARTh images to be released in the coming months. Buy these reasonably priced fine art photography prints to decorate your office walls, home walls, cafe, restaurant, boardroom, waiting room or almost any commercial space. With Fast, Secure world wide shipping to your door. Wall prints are also a great gift idea. To order a print or greeting card just click on the image.
Please feel free to browse our other fine art print galleries for more fantastic striking prints guaranteed to liven and class up any decor.
These Images are also available for stock photography and non exclusive licensing. Please contact directly for a custom price quote.
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The Great Colorado Sand Dunes
Colorful Saturn on Earth Sunset
Colorado Rocky Mountain Religious Sunset
Peace Out Lightning Storm
Ridin the Storm Out
Colorado Rocky Mountains Continental Divide
Quiet Storm
Midnight Riders on the Storm
Boulder County Sunset
Rocky Mountains High
Lightning Storm Lake Reflection
Colorful Rocky Mountain Views
Photography – Longmont – Boulder – Lafayette - Louisville – Niwot- Frederick – Firestone – Photographer
 Microstock photography is a great online money making business now. You can earn much money by using this recently popular online business idea. All you need to know is the art of taking photos, the use of a good image editing software program, marketing it, and uploading the photographs to a good web site with lots of traffic.
The Internet is now allowing the people to make a lot of money online. You can be a freelance photographer, professional or amateur photographer, and even an entrepreneur to make money online in the field of photography. The benefit of doing the Microstock photography business is that there is no huge investment required like that in a physical store business. You can also spread the word about your business very easily and quickly over the Internet. There are lots of tools and resources available on the Internet which you can exploit to your own personal benefit, that will send your Microstock photography a hell of a load of traffic.
If you are planning to start a Microstock photography business, it will not take more than a few hours of your day to get the work done. You will have to research the market, get to know the tools, build your web site, and maintain it. There is no heavy investment required, no huge manpower, or even a heavy burden on your own personal time. Microstock photography businesses are easy to run and are guaranteed to make money.
Due to the increase in the Microstock photography business sector with more people turning to it daily, the prices of digital photos, computers, and registration prices for photo upload web sites have reduced. To make your business flourish, you only need to buy a good quality digital camera and then decide upon which type of photography you want to specialize in. It can be stock photography, freelance or even product photography. You can use the image editing software programs to correct and modify your images, and then upload them to your web site.
Now the marketing part is the trickiest part. The first step is to choose the appropriate tags and descriptions for the pictures. If your picture is to appear in the top search lists, the tagging must be correct. This will ensure that your page gets listed and traffic increases. Put some ads in your web site for some extra income. Slowly people will notice your web site and start visiting it regularly. So you will have to spend some daily time to update and maintain your web site to a quality standard, and it must be user friendly and appealing to a broad sector of the public.
Now this may all sound simple and it is to a certain extent, but I recommend you always search for expert advice when setting up a new online business, and to get the above criteria right from the word go, I would recommend the following resources…
If you want to learn how to take quality digital photos, then have a look through Dan Feildman’s FREE Digital Photography Report “How To Take Beautiful Digital Pics Made Simple“. If you have Photoshop and you want the very best learning system ever invented to help you produce some extremely amazing digital photos, then you should get to know David Peters. Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials that will help you dominate the Photoshop Software (any version) in no time at all, as you will soon discover in this FREE Photoshop Report. David also offers a similar package for Adobe Elements, so go ahead and take a look at some really high quality video tutorials.
So now you have all you need to take and produce quality Microstock photography material, now you need those vital marketing tips that will drive the customers you will need to purchase your photos. why don’t you get Dan Feildman’s FREE Microstock Photography Report , which reveals all of the finer details.
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Photography – Longmont – Boulder – Lafayette - Louisville – Niwot- Frederick – Firestone – Photographer
There was disturbing news this week in the art print market. *Boundless Gallery, an online art venue had been around for a several years, and also had become an important online art business retailer and a steady source of income for some artists. It abruptly announced it was closing its doors saying the business model was no longer profitable
Now, whilst I’ve not tried one of these new Giotto’s Vitruvian tripods, they certainly look quite good – what’s your opinion?
Giottos Tripods on Amazon
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Giotto Vitruvian tripod – PRESS RELEASE
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the new Giotto’s Vitruvian VGR tripods are designed to offer photographers not only a truly lightweight and compact tripod, but a fully functioning monopod and ball head too.
Continue reading Giotto’s Vitruvian tripod, true genius
Canon Software Helps Manage Administrative Processes In Photo Studios from Appointments to Image Processing In One Simple Software Solution.
Canon U.S.A. features various imaging products, from input to output, at this year’s Wedding & Portrait Photographer International (WPPI) Convention at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The REALiS SX7 Mark II Multimedia LCOS Projector has an impressive 4000 lumens of brightness and a Photo Image Mode to assist users with advanced color management and adjustments for ambient lighting conditions.
The photographic industry is one of the most challenging, difficult, and competitive for start up businesses. The statistics prove it. Take this 3 year study discovered by Dane Sanders in his book Fast Track Photographer: In the 1st year, 60% of photographers give up their business. Of that remaining 40%, another 25% will fail within the 2nd year. The ones that make it are the remaining 15% who endure through the 3rd year.
That’s a staggering 85% turnover rate.
Obviously, something is wrong with the way most photographers enter into this business. Continue reading So You Want to Enter the Photography Business?
Our March specials are here – and many are under $10! With Mothers Day and graduation coming soon, it is a great time to offer these gift items as specials to your customers and take advantage of these savings.
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The Great Sand Dunes National Park Images. Color plus Black and White
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, rising about 750 feet (230 m) from the floor of the San Luis Valley on the western base of the Sangre de Cristo Range, covering about 19,000 acres (77 km²). They are perhaps 12,000 years old.
The dunes were formed from sand deposits of the Rio Grande and its tributaries, flowing through the San Luis Valley. Over the ages, westerly winds picked up sand particles from the river flood plain. As the wind lost power before crossing the Sangre de Cristo Range, the sand was deposited on the east edge of the valley. This process continues, and the dunes are slowly growing. The wind changes the shape of the dunes daily.
There are several streams flowing on the perimeter of the dunes. The streams erode the edge of the dune field, and sand is carried downstream. The water disappears into the ground, depositing sand on the surface. Winds pick up the deposits of sand, and blow them up onto the dune field once again.
Digging a few inches into the dunes even at their peaks reveals wet sand. If the streams were to dry up, the dunes would disappear; in fact part of the motivation of turning the Monument into a National Park was the extra protection of the water, which Colorado’s cities and agriculture covet. (source: wikipedia)
Buy these reasonably priced fine art Colorado nature landscape photography prints to decorate your office walls, home walls, cafe, restaurant, boardroom, waiting room or almost any commercial space. Fast, Secure world wide shipping to your door. Wall prints are also a great gift idea. To order just lick on the image.
Please feel free to browse our other fine art print galleries for more fantastic striking prints guaranteed to liven and class up any decor.
These Image is also available for stock photography and non exclusive licensing.
Photography – Longmont – Boulder – Lafayette - Louisville – Niwot- Frederick – Firestone – Photographer
Photographer sitting around looking glum.
This story I’m about to pass on to you is common place and yet many photographers in the early days of their careers make small mistakes they could have avoided. I’m guilty of many of these little learning curve events. None more common than the customer or client exclaiming that you hadn’t told them it was going to be this expensive.
The Ugly Scenario
I was recently contacted by a subscriber who had produced magnificent pictures for their client’s wedding. Really went out on a limb and used an assistant, ladders, extended rods/poles, pre visted the church and reception locations and planned everything down to a detail etc. There was only one thing missing…
The photographer (remains nameless) visited the customer with proofs to discuss how many and which photos, enlargements and so on. I might add this photographer is a really nice, friendly and passionate photographer. Some might describe her as too meek, caring and forgiving for her own good.
The client waited for the presentation to end and said they were disappointed because the photos were average, would not present them to others from the wedding and rudely demeened her in front of their family by stating the photos were a rip-off! Why were they not told the prices before hand!
The Rude Self Centred Client
It’s true that many hard working photographers who make an above average effort enjoy a more than reasonable income from photography but you will not enter a career in photography without eventually crossing the path of a rude, shrude, nasty customer. Get ready for it if it hasn’t happened to you yet. Similar things have happened to me over the years.
The case above eventually moved to the customer showing their hand by making a stupid and unreasonable offer ie. less than half of the asking price of each shot. This resulted in the photographer being brought to tears and was left sobbing as she quickly walked to her car and drove off in a state with the customer calling out behind her “What about my offer cry baby?”. Remember, she went the extra mile for these people.
The Problem
As it turned out, she hadn’t discussed the prices clearly and not presented them with a list of fees and package options. I learned early on (due to this kind of thing) you must always get their signature verifying they understand the prices and their options. There should always be a minimal cost too!
The Solution
When I received her email (same day as the altercation). I suggested she learn from the incident but keep all the images because there’s still a chance to receive compensation. I have also learned that if you are holding the only wedding photos and the customer has seen them (and they’re good) you are by default in a position of negotiating strength in instances like this.
I suggested she write a polite letter (yes, polite) immediately indicating the photos were being held until such time as the customer felt they were ready to pay and pick them up. Rather than leaving it there. I also suggested a negotiated 5% discount would be considered but no more. The levels (bullet pointed) she had gone to attain these wonderful shots and how wonderful they would look as enlargements. There was no retribution, mention of poor behaviour or lack of integrity.
The Outcome
The customer did return and purchased more than what was expected. Why?
- Because the customer had time to think on the fact that there was only one source for the photos
- The photographer had not retaliated with insults and threats but instead avoided confrontation
- The polite strategic letter allows the reader to read it a few times and get the message without distraction
- The discount offer from the photographer still allowed the wedding couple to ’save face’ and be more comfortable in paying a reasonable price (they got 10% discount)
My 2 cents worth – If you do go through this type of painful dilemma, make sure you only do it once!
Roy.
PS. The photographer in this story now has strategic, well written documentation pre printed for signing for every future wedding shoot.
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