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Shutterstock Portfolio critique needed. Thanks in advance.
cicerocastro:
--- Quote --- Some of your protest stuff is OK but awful captions and key words: "Manisfestation against Brexit and Trump." The word 'manifestation' means something completely different in English. As for keywords, you need to really think harder about what buyers will be searching and "donald", "life" "up" is just spamming.
The sailing and concert are quite niche but technically seem OK. The fact that you failed to put the full name of the singer as a keyword is quite disappointing but you can still go back and insert, if you wish.
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Hi Alex,
I will follow your suggestions and to change or add better keywords.
When you said that the sailing and concert photos are quite niche but technically seems OK, what do you really want to mean? Can you explain me?
cicerocastro:
--- Quote from: xenupy on July 29, 2017, 17:56 ---How cool is this, im from Madeira :)
And i ask for a photo critique yesterday...
You have a nice portfolio, i am a noob to send you the right way, but im guessing that you are doing something right in order to sell editorials ;) i never sell one...
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Hi xenupy,
Are you from Madeira? Really nice to find people of Madeira in microstock :) Until this moment I thought that I was the only one :P (laughing).
Would you like to take some shoots together?
Brasilnut:
--- Quote ---When you said that the sailing and concert photos are quite niche but technically seems OK, what do you really want to mean? Can you explain me?
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It means that you're appealing to a very small demographic of buyers. Sometimes that's great because if the images are rare then your image is more likely to be selected. However, for both events perhaps there were press photographers already at the events with better angles.
Technically OK means you did a good job with the composition, lighting, focus which isn't easy in low-light conditions at the concert and on a moving boat.
Brasilnut:
--- Quote ---You have a nice portfolio, i am a noob to send you the right way, but im guessing that you are doing something right in order to sell editorials ;) i never sell one...
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I speak on my blog quite a bit about selling editorials, I trust you'll find the information useful. The key is that if you don't have a model or property release it's not so easy to turn it into an editorial and submit...it needs to tell a story.
Like most of my images, a small percentage make a large percentage of revenue (20:80). I travel quite a bit and I'm often shooting at airports (careful that security don't harass me)...these tend to do quite well. Here's an example from Heathrow Terminal 5.
Otherwise look out for what's happening in town. If you're in London you would do well to photograph London's biggest Asian food hall, which opened on July 10th -
http://www.bangbangoriental.com/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/first-look-at-londons-biggest-asian-food-hall-a7854461.html
I'll probably be in London soon and will check it out but probably too late! :) I do love Asian food though so won't be a waste of time.
cicerocastro:
--- Quote from: Brasilnut on July 30, 2017, 07:13 ---
--- Quote ---It means that you're appealing to a very small demographic of buyers. Sometimes that's great because if the images are rare then your image is more likely to be selected. However, for both events perhaps there were press photographers already at the events with better angles.
Technically OK means you did a good job with the composition, lighting, focus which isn't easy in low-light conditions at the concert and on a moving boat.
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In both events I was one of the press photographers with media credentials because Shutterstock ask for press credentials for some specific events.
About the photo techniques, I agree with you, it is not easy to shoot in low light conditions and to focus when a boat is always going up and down or moving because of waves.
And what about my still product photography? What do you think?
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