Author Archives: Matt Brading

Through our photography agency, I often look at roughly 25-30 new photographer applications each month. I’ve been doing that for well over 10 years now so that is about 3000 photographers and 40,000+ photographs. I also spend a lot of time every month watching the new images being submitted to both our stock photography libraries. Again this adds up to many more thousand pictures each and every year. Continue reading →

This is the second installment of our look at the three most important habits I see in the most successful, professional photographers who pass through the GlobalEye Photo Agency each month. We covered Lighting and Patience in the first installment — if you missed that, you can check our sell stock photos blog — otherwise we’ll dive back in and look at technique. Continue reading →

Occasionally too much choice can be a bad thing and stock photography is an excellent example. For years plenty of the household-name stock photo libraries would promote themselves as being the largest and having the biggest collections. If you’ve been paying attention more recently though, you could have noticed that isn’t such a unique selling proposition any more and plenty of the bigger libraries are now busy looking for alternative ways to differentiate themselves in a crowded market. Continue reading →

Anyone who’s been battling to sell photos online for any period of time will know that photographers have been getting a pretty poor deal recently. High competition has meant that most photographers are getting significantly less sales than in years gone by and those sales they do pick up are typically at much lower prices. Continue reading →

Often it seems the Web was made solely for photographers. On a social level it lets us share photographs with friends and families, we will get together and talk camera gear and photographic technique, and it helps a lot of us overcome the isolation that commonly goes side by side with a photography career. Continue reading →