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« on: December 12, 2013, 06:05 »
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I will be traveling to Maldives next month. What kind of photos should I aim from stock point of view? What according to your experience sells?


« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2013, 07:12 »
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Look at the Maldives travel brochures. I think the opportunities there might be pretty limited. Take a polarising filter with you.

« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2013, 13:52 »
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Out of curiosity - I've always wanted to go to the Maldives because the images I see look so stunning and I'm a sucker for turquoise water - I searched Shutterstock and there are just shy of 30,000 images for Maldives.

For Aruba just over 1,000, for Cayman Islands about the same, although Caribbean (which I realize is very general) has over 86,000

It's such a great backdrop but clearly fairly well supplied. For my Caribbean images, it seems that identifiable places and popular destinations do better than generic "pretty" shots.

Enjoy your trip

« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2013, 15:56 »
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Take videos if you can, much less supplied and will sell. A must : aerial view from a seaplane, choose a clear day, though. Zoom in or out from a single island, dolphin watching (you will see lots of them). If you can take good photo in really low light of stars, the night sky is amazing. I am no photographer, but got some amateur shots sold (of single island) , didn't think of taking videos then, was a big regret.  In any case, enjoy, it's a great way to spend Christmas, i am jealous :) 

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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2013, 17:23 »
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I went to the Maldives a few years ago.  Lay on the white sand, snorkel in the lagoons, scuba dive the reefs and wrecks.  Photographs?  Just a couple of snapshots for the folks back home.  Peace and quiet away from the rat race!

You'll fall in love with the place.

ShadySue

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« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2013, 21:55 »
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Out of curiosity - I've always wanted to go to the Maldives because the images I see look so stunning and I'm a sucker for turquoise water - I searched Shutterstock and there are just shy of 30,000 images for Maldives.

I was pretty astonished at these figures. I'm interested to go for the cetaceans, and don't know anyone who has been, so surprised at that amount of supply.

However, on SS that location is appended spammily, e.g.:
Maldives Seychelles: 883
Maldives Caribbean: 9,029
Maldives Hawaii: 4,357
Maldives Thailand: 3,099
Maldives Tahiti: 1,437
Maldives Bali: 1,275
...

(Some of that spam overlapping of course.)
(Just about as bad on iStock)
« Last Edit: December 15, 2013, 07:47 by ShadySue »

« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2013, 01:54 »
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Isn't that ALL spam, Sue? The Maldives are in the northern Indian Ocean, they are nowhere near the Seychelles, let alone the Caribbean or Bali.  I can only assume that anybody with a picture of a beach labels it Seychelles, Maldives, Caribbean, Bali, Hawaii and anywhere else they can think of.

I notice there are also 708 Maldives Australia and 268 Maldives Florida.

Oh, and get this, there are more than 400 pictures for "Maldives mountain" which must come as a bit of a surprise to the inhabitants (the highest point of the Maldives being 2.4metres above sea level). Judging from the height of the cliff, this beautiful girl in the Thailand Maldives must be no more than two-feet tall. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-145012711/stock-photo-beautiful-tan-woman-in-swimsuit-sea-vacation-retro-blonde-girl-sexy-bikini-model-at-beach-beauty.html?src=TLZjvOgVQilwWR6anQP63A-1-20

I guess there is almost no way to be sure of finding a genuine Maldives photo on microstock, you just get  beaches from somewhere or other.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2013, 02:05 by BaldricksTrousers »

« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2013, 02:51 »
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That sort of keywording always pisses me off. Not that I have a lot of beach images, but when I see stuff like "Yosemite" "Grand canyon", and "Yellowstone" all for the same image  (that isn't a space photo, but usually is actually one of them) it just annoys me. I bet if the sites dropped the hammer on the submitters that do this there would be a lot less of it. In fact it would be pretty easy to cull them even with a computer, although you might accidentally remove a few collages that were correctly keyworded.

I'd love to visit the Maldives, and I'd try to get some blue water and sandy beach pics while there, maybe some global warming sorts of things too, since they are pretty much screwed if sea level rises.

ShadySue

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« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2013, 07:50 »
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LOL, a -1 for pointing out spam on SS, even though I said iS was as bad.  ;D ;D ;D

Wonder how much JO paid Getty for the leftover KoolAid hardly anyone was drinking over there.  ;)

« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2013, 12:40 »
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I'd love to visit the Maldives, and I'd try to get some blue water and sandy beach pics while there, maybe some global warming sorts of things too, since they are pretty much screwed if sea level rises.

You need to hurry, it does sink slowly, and it really deserves the name they advertise as "the last paradise on Earth" . I have been to the Caribbean too and i must say, IMO, it's nothing compared to Maldives.

« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2013, 11:20 »
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Take videos if you can, much less supplied and will sell. A must : aerial view from a seaplane, choose a clear day, though. Zoom in or out from a single island, dolphin watching (you will see lots of them). If you can take good photo in really low light of stars, the night sky is amazing. I am no photographer, but got some amateur shots sold (of single island) , didn't think of taking videos then, was a big regret.  In any case, enjoy, it's a great way to spend Christmas, i am jealous :)
Can we use D90 for video stock ?

« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2013, 16:58 »
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Take videos if you can, much less supplied and will sell. A must : aerial view from a seaplane, choose a clear day, though. Zoom in or out from a single island, dolphin watching (you will see lots of them). If you can take good photo in really low light of stars, the night sky is amazing. I am no photographer, but got some amateur shots sold (of single island) , didn't think of taking videos then, was a big regret.  In any case, enjoy, it's a great way to spend Christmas, i am jealous :)
Can we use D90 for video stock ?

Cant answer that question, sorry, as i said, i am no photographer and know nothing  about camera, maybe you can ask in Pond5 forum, i have a 5DII and i use mostly automatic setting and i just do videos for fun mostly when travelling and they pay off half of expenses within a few years. If it can shoot HD it should be OK i guess.


 

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