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Starting today I’m going to be posting some images of mine and links to my weekly commenters to show designers and image buyers some of what’s out there in our royalty free image portfolios. 
Graphic designers: please remember to bookmark the photographers you like so you can revisit them directly.
This week’s theme is Summer!

Royalty free image: Summer sports image. Goal line of a football field as summer begins tryouts, practice.  Word theme for all ball sports.
Tags: game; leisure; field; football; ball; goal; line; entertainment; athletics; words; sports vocabulary; summer, …

 NiltoMil News         5 comments

Alamy has just busted out for me. Overnight I had $360 worth of sales. That’s more in one day than 13 agencies have done for me all time! Alamy will finally owe me a payout…

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The next step in my process is to start approaching businesses locally and trying to work on some commercial projects while also shooting some micro.  Has anyone done this?  How did you approach them?  (Flyer, in person, both, phone, email?)
Ultimately, I would really like to start shooting food for restaurants – they prep, I shoot.  Win-win for both of us.
Restaurant/commercial food photography seems like it would be a very interesting occupation as I keep shooting my own personal food photography.  I just need to figure out how I’m going to …

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After noticing the lack of roast beef sandwiches on Dreamstime and confirming with iStock the same, I decided to do a sandwich shoot.? I thought it would be my first “easy food” shoot.? I mean..how hard can it be to style a sandwich? 8 toothpicks and 2 frustrating hours later I can honestly say it’s WAY harder than it would appear.
The second part of my foodie weekend was a birthday party / dinner party.? We combined an adult-based dinner party for the family with our 14 year old’s birthday party …

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I wanted to document a bit of how we prepare for a new stock shoot.? Unfortunately I’m not shooting hot models a la Chase Jarvis so I’m not going to be live demo’ing anytime soon!
Our thought process on a new photo shoot works something like this:

Overall concept/theme/ingredient
Specific recipe
Lighting/angles/technicals
Shop
Shoot Day

1. Overall concept/theme/ingredient
We shoot two days a week – Friday and Sunday. If we shoot more that’s fantastic.? If not, oh well.? We plan those two days to have one breakfast or lunch type shoot (Friday) and one dinner/dessert (Sunday).? It’s easier …

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I’ve started to push images and get reviews.? I was pending this morning but a lot of batches were reviewed and now I’m starting to go live everywhere.? I can’t wait to see how the food images sell!
Our shooting has started off very well too – I want to get ahead a little. We have now completed 6 food shoots in the last 9 days – about 200 new photos to submit now.
We need to plan our dishes for this week – we’ve done a lot of desserts so I …

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I know a lot of readers were concerned when I said I was going into food photography. Why the change? I told you then and I will say it again – I’m OBSESSED with food now!

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During the last few months one of my major goals has been to shoot more food photography.? I am really interested in the subject, I enjoy all aspects of it, and I think I can do it well (eventually).
So my past few months have been focused on learning – studying food photos, “becoming” a foodie, learning styling techniques – I never wanted to jump straight into food but rather be a food person who knew how to photograph.? I’ve been studying food, food photos, collecting recipes, deciding on what I …

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Images are going up now – mostly stuff I’ve shot in the past because we’re moving and my photo stuff is packed.? I am working on submitting older images.? I know they won’t sell quite the way I want but honestly I need to start getting momentum back and start submitting, get into all the right habits and patterns, etc.
Once we get moved a lot of our work is going to be focused on fixing up the house, prepping the new studio locations, shooting some new images, and so on.? …