How to update Google license details on images already on your WordPress site

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 …

Alamy Sales Stats

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 …

How to License Images through Google

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 – …

Portrait vs Beauty Photography

What is the difference between portrait and beauty photography?

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. Beauty can use high-key or low-key lighting, and can include dramatic hair and make-up effects or be naturalistic. Beauty shots can also include jewellery …

Portrait Photography

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. Traditional Portraiture Traditional portrait photographs are of one person and normally …

Dance Photography

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is a genre of photography centred on capturing images of clothing or other fashion items, such as shoes or accessories. However, beyond simply depicting the colour and shape of a garment, one of the key features of fashion photography, whether for commercial or editorial purposes, is to provoke an emotional response or evoke …

Catwalk Photography

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. Catwalk Photography Styles The most common form of catwalk photograph is a vertically oriented full length image, where the model on the runway is dead centre in the frame, quite tightly …

Commercial vs Editorial Photography