Author Topic: Do you guys move every few years? (Read 7264 times)

HappyBunny · « **on:** December 18, 2021, 03:58 »

I have been living here for more than 12 years. I don't know what to take photos of here. If a photo wasn't taken by me it was taken by someone else. I have here an excellent photographer as competition who has been at all the places at the right time. Always in perfect sunny weather which is so rare here and always with the sun shining at a castle etc. It's impossible to be better than this guy even if I do use an app to find out when to be where on a sunny day. My question is, do you move around every 10 years, or even more often, to a different location, far away, to be able to shoot something new? I don't know what to take photos of here. I have been to all the landmarks and places around here that sell on SS. Food photography is also totally pointless. I recently saw a portfolio of a lady who made over 1000 Christmas backgrounds. All were very, very beautiful and perfectly done. I must have clicked on 100 of them and every time it said "Not bought yet". I didn't just go threw the first 3 pages. I gave up feeling very sad and sorry for her. Think about all the work and money and time she put into the photos and so many were not bought. They are excellent Christmas backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with them. Do you guys move after you have taken photos all around you or is it in your opinion just a waste of money because there will be another stock photographer living everywhere? I could start taking photos of every flower I see but photos of flowers I took never sold very well.

Firn · « **Reply #1 on:** December 18, 2021, 04:36 »

I am really 100% certain you will not find a single person here who just moves after he has photographed everything around him just to have new places to take photos of. That would be kind of insane. You don't need to move for that, if places is all you take photos of, just travel around? Do day trips to cities within your reach.
Also, you will pretty much find that of every location somewhat known someone has already taken photos of for stock and you will most often find that someone took way better quality photos than you. But this doesn't mean that yours can't sell. They just might serve a different purpose. His might end up being printed as a postcard, yours might end up in an article about the constant bad weather at your place.

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #2 on:** December 18, 2021, 04:43 »

Quote from: HappyBunny on December 18, 2021, 03:58

I have been living here for more than 12 years. I don't know what to take photos of here. If a photo wasn't taken by me it was taken by someone else. I have here an excellent photographer as competition who has been at all the places at the right time. Always in perfect sunny weather which is so rare here and always with the sun shining at a castle etc. It's impossible to be better than this guy even if I do use an app to find out when to be where on a sunny day. My question is, do you move around every 10 years, or even more often, to a different location, far away, to be able to shoot something new? I don't know what to take photos of here. I have been to all the landmarks and places around here that sell on SS. Food photography is also totally pointless. I recently saw a portfolio of a lady who made over 1000 Christmas backgrounds. All were very, very beautiful and perfectly done. I must have clicked on 100 of them and every time it said "Not bought yet". I didn't just go threw the first 3 pages. I gave up feeling very sad and sorry for her. Think about all the work and money and time she put into the photos and so many were not bought. They are excellent Christmas backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with them. Do you guys move after you have taken photos all around you or is it in your opinion just a waste of money because there will be another stock photographer living everywhere? I could start taking photos of every flower I see but photos of flowers I took never sold very well.

With macro photography there are still some subjects. But the amount of competing photos is indeed huge.
I haven't been on holiday for two years because of covid, so I have to have it from the environment too. The weather along the coast in the Netherlands was also very often gloomy this year. With us you have the touristic flower fields (tulips, hyacinths), windmills, beach, dunes, but there are also many photos of that. So I know the feeling.
When the weather is good I often take the bike. Until now, to my surprise, I always come across something new (renovation, working farmers, boat in the canal, open bridge,.....) but no bestsellers.
I like to be outside, to take pictures and to earn some money. If you expect to shoot to earn a lot of money, then it's less fun.

HappyBunny · « **Reply #3 on:** December 18, 2021, 05:07 »

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 04:43

Quote from: HappyBunny on December 18, 2021, 03:58
I have been living here for more than 12 years. I don't know what to take photos of here. If a photo wasn't taken by me it was taken by someone else. I have here an excellent photographer as competition who has been at all the places at the right time. Always in perfect sunny weather which is so rare here and always with the sun shining at a castle etc. It's impossible to be better than this guy even if I do use an app to find out when to be where on a sunny day. My question is, do you move around every 10 years, or even more often, to a different location, far away, to be able to shoot something new? I don't know what to take photos of here. I have been to all the landmarks and places around here that sell on SS. Food photography is also totally pointless. I recently saw a portfolio of a lady who made over 1000 Christmas backgrounds. All were very, very beautiful and perfectly done. I must have clicked on 100 of them and every time it said "Not bought yet". I didn't just go threw the first 3 pages. I gave up feeling very sad and sorry for her. Think about all the work and money and time she put into the photos and so many were not bought. They are excellent Christmas backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with them. Do you guys move after you have taken photos all around you or is it in your opinion just a waste of money because there will be another stock photographer living everywhere? I could start taking photos of every flower I see but photos of flowers I took never sold very well.

With macro photography there are still some subjects. But the amount of competing photos is indeed huge.
I haven't been on holiday for two years because of covid, so I have to have it from the environment too. The weather along the coast in the Netherlands was also very often gloomy this year. With us you have the touristic flower fields (tulips, hyacinths), windmills, beach, dunes, but there are also many photos of that. So I know the feeling.
When the weather is good I often take the bike. Until now, to my surprise, I always come across something new (renovation, working farmers, boat in the canal, open bridge,.....) but no bestsellers.
I like to be outside, to take pictures and to earn some money. If you expect to shoot to earn a lot of money, then it's less fun.

Oh yes, your flower fields. So beautiful. I had the idea to travel to Keukenhof garden to take photos but far too many of them already and far too many tourists. I did take images of renovation work, with people and without but they never sold. I haven't been on holiday for 5 years. I just wanted to go but then the virus came. I have seen images of our really lousy weather from my place but they don't sell. Maybe the weather isn't lousy enough. :-)

HappyBunny · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2021, 05:11 »

Quote from: Firn on December 18, 2021, 04:36

I am really 100% certain you will not find a single person here who just moves after he has photographed everything around him just to have new places to take photos of. That would be kind of insane. You don't need to move for that, if places is all you take photos of, just travel around? Do day trips to cities within your reach.
Also, you will pretty much find that of every location somewhat known someone has already taken photos of for stock and you will most often find that someone took way better quality photos than you. But this doesn't mean that yours can't sell. They just might serve a different purpose. His might end up being printed as a postcard, yours might end up in an article about the constant bad weather at your place.

My parents moved every 2 years because of my father's job. I have been here for 12 years. Far too long. I love moving to new places. Guess because I had to move with my parents every 2 years. It's okay if you are single. Of course nobody who is married and has children would move for stock photography. I was more thinking of the younger people who are single. For them it is also easier to get a full time job somewhere els. When you are middle aged it is difficult changing your job and getting a new one. If I could I would love to move every 2 years. I get bored living in the same place for long. I moved around even before I started doing photography.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2021, 09:04 »

I just moved back to Sydney from Canberra after near 14 years as Sydney is home to me anyway, but there was the issue of having nothing much left to photograph or film in Canberra anymore. I got sufficiently more than enough content of the landmarks and cityscapes in Canberra that I needed and now have so much more in Sydney.

Mantis · « **Reply #6 on:** December 18, 2021, 09:08 »

Quote from: HappyBunny on December 18, 2021, 03:58

I have been living here for more than 12 years. I don't know what to take photos of here. If a photo wasn't taken by me it was taken by someone else. I have here an excellent photographer as competition who has been at all the places at the right time. Always in perfect sunny weather which is so rare here and always with the sun shining at a castle etc. It's impossible to be better than this guy even if I do use an app to find out when to be where on a sunny day. My question is, do you move around every 10 years, or even more often, to a different location, far away, to be able to shoot something new? I don't know what to take photos of here. I have been to all the landmarks and places around here that sell on SS. Food photography is also totally pointless. I recently saw a portfolio of a lady who made over 1000 Christmas backgrounds. All were very, very beautiful and perfectly done. I must have clicked on 100 of them and every time it said "Not bought yet". I didn't just go threw the first 3 pages. I gave up feeling very sad and sorry for her. Think about all the work and money and time she put into the photos and so many were not bought. They are excellent Christmas backgrounds. There is nothing wrong with them. Do you guys move after you have taken photos all around you or is it in your opinion just a waste of money because there will be another stock photographer living everywhere? I could start taking photos of every flower I see but photos of flowers I took never sold very well.

There's always something you can shoot. There's tons of more abstract type subjects (close ups of things, etc.) not just nice castle shots, or whatever. When I think I am all shot out, my wife will have taken something really different of the same thing. Really is left to your creativity and imagination. For me, I mix video into the fray and also shoot some studio work. I try to really mix it up. Microstock is a dead pathway for most. it's dwindled to a small, passive income stream. I would not suggest moving just to open up shooting opportunities. I would suggest getting more creative.

StanRohrer · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2021, 10:00 »

The costs of photographing near your home is much less than the cost of transportation, hotel, food, at some far away location. So the photo sales income must be much greater, for your travel shots, to be able to make up for the extended costs. If the weather is lousy during the week of your distant travel, you may have wasted the expenses. At home you can grab the camera and head out an hour before a promising sunset, on most any day of the year. Your limited time destination photos will have to compete with photos produced by a photographer who lives in that location and has quick access to good light around the year. Your photo skills and compositions will be very similar both near and far - traveling likely won't improve that. With the very low incomes from stock photos these days, I think controlling expenses (working near home) is a key to a business plan.

So, raising your photo skill set may be more effective than travel. Approach your location as a tourist and be sure to cover the top iconic scenes, significant buildings, historic landmarks, unique events, and compelling daily scenes. Try to create unique compositions and unique lighting situations. Get single images that tell a whole/main story. Get images that only tell a part of the story (supporting images) of details and fine descriptions (the bridge on the road to the castle can be an example of craftsmanship and hard work in an article about the main castle).

Where do you find your images being used? In my case publications around travel, tourism, and textbooks. Internet searches by your name and/or agency can help the research. Likewise, Google image searches, using your high selling images as a source. Do some serious reviews of your market and what image styles and locations do you see being bought. You have to have some focus of shooting towards your market and those buyers. What do those buyers want in an image for which they pay money? Outstanding colorful images competing in your stock sales site may not be filling the story line needs of your buyers. Yes, it is wise to meet or exceed the technical and composition quality of your selling competition - but don't get hung up there without focusing on your buyer base needs.

A human interest element may be helpful within your images. Having family or friends, as models near home, is easier than hiring models and clothing at a distant location.

Your job is to find your own particular niche. Perhaps it is a location, a type of subject, a photo style or genre, lighting, compositions, models, food, or specific combinations of the aforementioned. You are looking for some combination that sells relatively well and does not have a lot of photographs from which a buyer would choose. The Eiffel Tower likely has more photographs available than there are buyers - even though there are a lot of buyers - who don't want to use the same images as other buyers. A very small town historic monument may not have any image buyers so a couple of photos are more than enough for a library if they can be captured with low expenses. If that small monument happens to gain national news attention, say, gets toppled in a protest, then a rare sales gold mine may just happen in the roll of the dice. In the end analysis, you are regularly trying to supply useful images to buyers where you are one of the limited number of suppliers. Finding your own niche takes building a library, review of your sales, creativity, testing ideas over more sales, owning your own research and processes, and business plan income and expense controls. I can't say that I've mastered the niche. But, I've had a few niches that ran well for a time and then dried up due to agency policy changes and buying market changes.

Jaggy · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2021, 13:48 »

I live in a tourist town. On Shutterstock, if you type in the name of my town, you get 22,686 photos. However, when I started to scan the pages and pages of photos, I discovered that there were quite a few things in my town that had been neglected. So I photographed those things and they have sold 168 times in two years.

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #9 on:** December 18, 2021, 14:01 »

Quote from: Pacesetter on December 18, 2021, 09:04

I just moved back to Sydney from Canberra after near 14 years as Sydney is home to me anyway, but there was the issue of having nothing much left to photograph or film in Canberra anymore. I got sufficiently more than enough content of the landmarks and cityscapes in Canberra that I needed and now have so much more in Sydney.

Oh Sydney. We were there in 2012. It is unfortunately so far away. My photos on my website ( http://www.tuin-thijs.com/vakantie-australia.htm ) are not good enough for Stock. I would love to go back one more time. Another walk around and photograph in Chinatown. Walking in Hyde Park with Ibises, Cockatoos. We had a wonderful time there.
But unfortunately had never heard of stock photography.

Quote from: StanRohrer on December 18, 2021, 10:00

The costs of photographing near your home is much less than the cost of transportation, hotel, food, at some far away location.
A human interest element may be helpful within your images. Having family or friends, as models near home, is easier than hiring models and clothing at a distant location.

Only going on holiday for stock, to earn back the holidays only works if you are very good I think.
With trips I now check in advance whether there are opportunities to photograph for stock. But I don't choose a trip just for stock. My wife wouldn't be too happy about that.
I don't have any family members who want to be a model (both my wife, children and grandchildren). I wouldn't do grandkids either if they wanted to. I'm careful with that.

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

cascoly · « **Reply #10 on:** December 18, 2021, 14:42 »

i live in Seattle, so we have beaches, mountains, urban, rainforest, rural & desert all w/in a few hrs & and I repeat trips most years w different results every time. and there is no lack of other photographers here

ms pays for 1-2 international trips each year in non-covid times. last 2 years i did a lot of macros w/o leaving my yard

marthamarks · « **Reply #11 on:** December 18, 2021, 15:38 »

Quote from: Jaggy on December 18, 2021, 13:48

I live in a tourist town. On Shutterstock, if you type in the name of my town, you get 22,686 photos. However, when I started to scan the pages and pages of photos, I discovered that there were quite a few things in my town that had been neglected. So I photographed those things and they have sold 168 times in two years.

You've described my own situation almost perfectly!

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, a 400-year-old town with many layers of Native American, Spanish, and Anglo history to peel away and tons of charming nooks and crannies to shoot, which also happens to be one of the top tourist destinations in this country.

(Europeans may not think 400 years makes a place "old," but believe me… here in the "new world" it truly is. Our iconic Plaza was laid out and some of the buildings that surround it were built in 1609, which is not something that many other American towns and cities can say.)

Living only 2 blocks from the Plaza means I can catch the snow when it frosts the old adobe buildings, or shoot videos of the dozens of flapping banners that festoon St. Francis Cathedral every year on the good saint's feast day, or Christmas decorations that mix green branches with bright-red chiles.

Somehow, every year I manage to create new images that sell, despite bazillions of competitors.

I do also travel for fun and photography, but that doesn't keep me from finding new angles on Santa Fe… a place that I dearly love and happily return to from each trip.

EDITED TO ADD: Here are the 13,281 Santa Fe photos on AS… https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=santa%20fe

marthamarks · « **Reply #12 on:** December 18, 2021, 15:49 »

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Wow, that's some * stiff competition!!!

For Real · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2021, 16:17 »

I rarely leave my indoor studio due to the pandemic and my poor health conditions thus shoot only backgrounds. Yes, there is millions of background images---I just try to make mine different than the existing ones. Recently, got one lucky background image on a Christmas background that has sold 130 times in just 10 days. If I type in the keywords 'Christmas' 'Background' in Adobe Stock search there is only 8 million images lol! But that also tells me if you can produce just one seller in a category like that you will get sales! Stay positive and think out of the ordinary...

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2021, 16:36 »

Quote from: marthamarks on December 18, 2021, 15:49

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Wow, that's some * stiff competition!!!

Yes. There are many fields near me. My ornamental onion fields still sell the best, because there aren't that many of them. https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/image-photo/field-ornamental-onions-allium-globemaster-cross-1741216022

There are also picking fields nearby. There you can pick tulips yourself and then pay at the beginning of the field. (never sold) In the distance the village of Bergen, where I live.
As you can see from the clouds there was only a little sun. I had to wait ten minutes for it.

Dumc · « **Reply #15 on:** December 19, 2021, 00:20 »

I never check if something, I plan to shoot has already been done, because you will alway find out, that there are already thousands if not tens of thousand photos of that particular subject, and some of them are going to be pretty amazing. That just gives me headaches and discouragement. I just shoot it the best I can and know, upload, and hope for the best.

Unamas · « **Reply #16 on:** December 19, 2021, 02:19 »

Quote from: Dumc on December 19, 2021, 00:20

I never check if something, I plan to shoot has already been done, because you will alway find out, that there are already thousands if not tens of thousand photos of that particular subject, and some of them are going to be pretty amazing. That just gives me headaches and discouragement. I just shoot it the best I can and know, upload, and hope for the best.

I still check, somehow the others have very nice ideas

RalfLiebhold · « **Reply #17 on:** December 19, 2021, 09:00 »

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Probably one has success with landscape pictures from Holland only if absolutely no flowers are to be seen

.
This simple landscape shot was taken in summer and amazingly sells several times a week. Last sale went to India.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/cycling-track-couple-two-cyclists-rural-2028147053

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #18 on:** December 19, 2021, 09:44 »

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on December 19, 2021, 09:00

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Probably one has success with landscape pictures from Holland only if absolutely no flowers are to be seen .
This simple landscape shot was taken in summer and amazingly sells several times a week. Last sale went to India.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/cycling-track-couple-two-cyclists-rural-2028147053

You will have earned it Ralf.

I'm a little jealous, my windmills are selling only moderately. This is my best selling windmill. A very well-known city mill in Alkmaar. https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/image-photo/high-brick-windmill-on-defensive-wall-1599885766
I also have photos of bulb fields, which are covered with plastic to allow the bulbs to germinate faster or where the tulips have been topped. Fields covered with straw, against the frost in winter, where poison is sprayed or after the bulbs have been removed, flooded against harmful insects in the soil. In the hope that a trade journal will benefit from it. But so far with little success.

Asthebelltolls · « **Reply #19 on:** December 19, 2021, 10:42 »

I'm a bike photographer. All my images are taken while cycling.
It's an excellent way of getting some much needed exercise and seeing
everything on a far larger scale. I cycle about 30 kms. a day and have
moved locally 7 times since the mid 1990s. Everywhere locally from big cities
to small towns so the subject range is very, very wide. Everything from
paramedics working on drug addicts on the street to Hereford cows grazing
in the field and everything in between. The changing seasons and weather
can also add dramatic changes to the same thing you photographed 4 months ago!
Every day I come home with about 150 snapshots and pick, what I think,
are my five best before submitting. A fun routine that I love!

RalfLiebhold · « **Reply #20 on:** December 19, 2021, 11:00 »

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 19, 2021, 09:44

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on December 19, 2021, 09:00
Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Probably one has success with landscape pictures from Holland only if absolutely no flowers are to be seen .
This simple landscape shot was taken in summer and amazingly sells several times a week. Last sale went to India.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/cycling-track-couple-two-cyclists-rural-2028147053

You will have earned it Ralf. I'm a little jealous, my windmills are selling only moderately. This is my best selling windmill. A very well-known city mill in Alkmaar. https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/image-photo/high-brick-windmill-on-defensive-wall-1599885766
I also have photos of bulb fields, which are covered with plastic to allow the bulbs to germinate faster or where the tulips have been topped. Fields covered with straw, against the frost in winter, where poison is sprayed or after the bulbs have been removed, flooded against harmful insects in the soil. In the hope that a trade journal will benefit from it. But so far with little success.

Thijs, I'm guessing that the image isn't doing well or being searched for at all because of the windmill. I think it's more the theme of cycling in Holland. That gives that simple landscape shot a theme, possibly the area also plays a role. Pure windmill pictures I also sell rather rarely.
In the past before stock photography I would have waited until the cyclists disappeared. In this case, I waited until any cyclists showed up.

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #21 on:** December 19, 2021, 12:58 »

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on December 19, 2021, 11:00

Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 19, 2021, 09:44
Quote from: RalfLiebhold on December 19, 2021, 09:00
Quote from: thijsdegraaf on December 18, 2021, 14:01

Here's the competition for the flower fields in my province: https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields 1.076 pages

Probably one has success with landscape pictures from Holland only if absolutely no flowers are to be seen .
This simple landscape shot was taken in summer and amazingly sells several times a week. Last sale went to India.

https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/cycling-track-couple-two-cyclists-rural-2028147053

You will have earned it Ralf. I'm a little jealous, my windmills are selling only moderately. This is my best selling windmill. A very well-known city mill in Alkmaar. https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/image-photo/high-brick-windmill-on-defensive-wall-1599885766
I also have photos of bulb fields, which are covered with plastic to allow the bulbs to germinate faster or where the tulips have been topped. Fields covered with straw, against the frost in winter, where poison is sprayed or after the bulbs have been removed, flooded against harmful insects in the soil. In the hope that a trade journal will benefit from it. But so far with little success.

Thijs, I'm guessing that the image isn't doing well or being searched for at all because of the windmill. I think it's more the theme of cycling in Holland. That gives that simple landscape shot a theme, possibly the area also plays a role. Pure windmill pictures I also sell rather rarely.
In the past before stock photography I would have waited until the cyclists disappeared. In this case, I waited until any cyclists showed up.

I also try to get cyclists on it when I take a photo in meadows or dunes, preferably in such a way that they are not recognizable. https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/g/Thijs+de+Graaf?searchterm=cyclist+meadows&sort=popular
Only in combination with windmill I think your photo is easier to find. And of course it is a beautiful picture!!!
I find many windmill and tulip photos edited in such a way that they are a bit kitch. But I also think that about many postcards on this subject, which are bought a lot.

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #22 on:** December 19, 2021, 13:24 »

Quote from: Asthebelltolls on December 19, 2021, 10:42

I'm a bike photographer. All my images are taken while cycling.
It's an excellent way of getting some much needed exercise and seeing
everything on a far larger scale. I cycle about 30 kms. a day and have
moved locally 7 times since the mid 1990s. Everywhere locally from big cities
to small towns so the subject range is very, very wide. Everything from
paramedics working on drug addicts on the street to Hereford cows grazing
in the field and everything in between. The changing seasons and weather
can also add dramatic changes to the same thing you photographed 4 months ago!
Every day I come home with about 150 snapshots and pick, what I think,
are my five best before submitting. A fun routine that I love!

I think that sounds wonderful and the slower pace, means you see so many things that someone driving (like me) would go past and never notice. More coverage than walking, less distractions than driving. I like it. OK and I'd say stopping to shoot, where there's no parking, whenever you decide to, is much easier also.

Back to the OP who I never answered. I bought a house in 1972, I'd still be there if it wasn't for some unfortunate events. I was there for about 20 years. Then for awhile, a guest or stayed at work for some years, and in 2013 bought an inexpensive, abandoned house. "a fixer"

Every year, something breaks and every year, something that was wrong from the start, gets repaired. Always improving or replacing.

I don't plan on moving again, ever.

Lets see? Local shot that sells? My back yard in Winter.

OM · « **Reply #23 on:** December 20, 2021, 05:26 »

Interesting that a few of those shots with windmills and tulip fields do not actually exist and are montages!

https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields

I live a couple of miles away from the windmills at Zaanse Schans and there are no fields of tulips close enough to enable taking the 'combi' shots shown there. As with all desirable/commercial photos, give the buyer what they think they want even if if it doesn't actually exist!

thijsdegraaf · « **Reply #24 on:** December 20, 2021, 06:15 »

Quote from: OM on December 20, 2021, 05:26

Interesting that a few of those shots with windmills and tulip fields do not actually exist and are montages!

https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/search/holland+flower+fields

I live a couple of miles away from the windmills at Zaanse Schans and there are no fields of tulips close enough to enable taking the 'combi' shots shown there. As with all desirable/commercial photos, give the buyer what they think they want even if if it doesn't actually exist!

That's why I said a lot of them look kitschy. By the way, I sold a photo of the Zaanse Schans for the first time!!

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