Thea Merrell

Start Selling Your Photography: Getting Started with Stock Photography

I'm sorry if my comments are late, this post never hit my feed. I like the style of the photos. They are warm and modern and feel personal. The lighting is moody. These could work on a blogger site.. especially if you tag words like Lifestyle, comfort, morning routine, relax... ect. I usually encourage for commercial selling to boost up the brightness. Filters and low lighting aren't used as regularly by many companies looking at buying stock images. Keeping them on the darker end with the warm moody feeling might cut out a big group of buyers. I always ask myself: who is my final buyer? Where would these images go? Overall, they are beautiful images and it is worth a try uploading them to a stock company. The only technicality I think you may have an issue with the the book. They would call it "copywrite infringement" since the book can be read and isn't blurred out.

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