Posts about the photography industry as a photographer
As detailed in the post How to License Images in Google, in June 2020 Google added the facility to mark images as being licensable so they can show up in Google Image Search with a licensable badge, and that post shows how to add the required IPTC tags in Lightroom to enable this. But what… Read More How to update Google license details on images already on your WordPress site
Can you make any money supplying images to Alamy? Alamy has around 125 million images, and its ~45,000 photographers add another 100,000 a day from 173 countries. The stock photography company used to blog about it’s “$100,000+ club” – photographers who have made over $100,000 of sales on the site, and in 2017 there were… Read More Alamy Sales Stats
What is a Google Licensable Image? In June 2020 Google added the facility to display licence details on images returned in Google image search results. Licensable images will be overlaid with a “licensable image” badge, and under the image the text “Get this image on: <Licensor URL> | <Licence details URL>” will be shown –… Read More How to License Images through Google
What is the difference between portrait and beauty photography?
What is Beauty Photography? Beauty is a genre of photography that covers commercial and editorial imagery, as well as portraits, usually cropped in tight to include the face only, or head and shoulders.
What is portrait photography? Portrait photography, or photographic portraiture, is a form of photography that aims to convey the personality, character or emotion of the subject, usually a person or sometimes a group of people, where the face or expression is the dominant feature.
Fashion photography is a genre of photography centred on capturing images of clothing or other fashion items, such as shoes or accessories.
Catwalk photography, also known as runway photography, is a niche sub-genre of fashion photography, where photographers capture the looks at a catwalk fashion show.
Rob Sheppard 