Thursday, September 30, 2010

Making A Name For Myself

Sooooo...... I am trying to get into iStock. One of my goals is to spend the winter building my portfolio for stock with the help of my amazing niece and nephews. We are going to dress in costumes, go play in the snow, run the streets of Chicago and Indianapolis and much, much more. I have quite the list going... I am teaching myself to shoot specifically for stock; to come up with a list of ideas that I don't see out there in  the photo stock market and do everything I can to portray that in still imagery can be quite challenging. . In the last 3 years I have mostly been shooting Portraits and Weddings, which I love and still do on a regular basis, but stock is a different mind set.   You have to be aware of details in the image that otherwise would be null and void.  My friend Forest Woodward walked me through some of my possible stock shots and gave me an idea what will and won't work, he has become a bit of a rock star in the iStock world these days.  I am going to resubmit to iStock and see what happens, maybe i too can become the next Janis Joplin of iStock.  I will keep you posted.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

come hang out with us in Tokyo then...

Anonymous said...

You are brilliant. You will only be successful. It's not a choice.

Anonymous said...

Rock on Janis! (somehow it just loses something when a middle aged woman like myself says it...) Anyway, I am so impressed with how many real Pros, like Forest - and like you Eileen - pour into others. Bless your journey! Shari D