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Digital photography has created new opportunities for photographers of all skill levels to make money from the sale of their pictures. It seems like a new photography website goes online every minute and it appears this healthy market will only continue to grow. This makes now the perfect time for opportunistic amateurs to learn the secrets of selling their digital images.

The first step in forming your own picture selling empire is to make sure you take the right pictures. Since most of the people who your buyers will be using them for design purposes, it is important that your capture the popular topics. This can be things like nature pictures, tourist attractions, or action poses. Just think of anything that might be useful in publishing a website or magazine, as this is the audience you want to appeal to.

Next you need to edit your photos as necessary. Fine tune the colors and review each picture to make sure it is crystal clear and very vibrant. No one will want to buy a picture that is out of focus or dull. You may also need to crop your images to center the subjects or eliminate unwanted items in the background. You can also use the cropping feature to resize the image so it focuses on a particular subject or element.

Once your pictures have been proofed, you are ready to take them to the market. There are literally hundreds of websites that will host your images and pay you a percentage of each sale that is made through them. This could be from the direct sales of your portfolio, or even when someone clicks on an advertisement within the page your image is hosted on. The hardest part is determining which sites offer the best deal for your situation and finding who offers the largest payouts.

Once you have experimented with uploading your images to the different online marketplaces, you then need to monitor your success and try to determine patterns within the sales. Ideally you will find a specific niche or subject that seems to sell well for you. Since photography is an art form, some people take better shots of certain subjects. By testing the waters, you can improve your chances of finding that profitable niche that can generate thousands of dollars.

After you have experienced your taste of success, it is important to continue to seek new opportunities. Get involved with the online photography community and learn from the experiences of others. You can visit some of the many picture-related blogs and photography forums where people discuss the different ways you can make money in the photography market. The key is to network and always strive to learn more about your craft.

Selling your digital pictures is great way to make some extra money and subsidize your photography hobby. The learning curve for making consistent profits can be frustrating for beginners, but following the tips laid out in this article should help. The best advice is to jump right in and start gaining experience. Take tons of pictures and upload as many as you can to a wide variety of profit sharing sites. You will soon get the feel for what sells and what is a waste of time.

How to take good picture?

We are getting Photo crazy.

We are now so used to taking digital pictures, and looking at images everywhere, in advertising, shop-windows, billboards, newspapers, magazines, everywhere. In fact, we have images telling us to take images.

The danger is that images will become meaningless.

Capturing an image years ago was seen as something special, nowadays, taking digital pictures is so routine that we do it almost without thinking, and digital photography makes it even easier. We are now seeing cell-phones with 12mp cameras and built in flashes, so we could ask, is it a PHONE with a camera, or camera with a phone.

Taking digital pictures should be seen as something special, the ability to capture a moment in time, a snap-shot of life, whether it's your life or indeed someone else's, we can even look back in time. An image that can stir the emotions, of loved ones now departed, or a childhood now gone, all of these and more are held forever as an image on paper, or images on a disc, to be viewed on a big screen, or on your PC, or as prints.

Take care shooting

And yet we just click away, pointing our camera, or phone, at whatever is plonked in front of us, digital making it easy to store on a disc or card, waiting for a future generation to reveal the memories again. Well, just spare a thought of what images you want people to see, just snaps or pictures that stir the imagination and bring back vivid memories.

Yes, we can take snaps to record something quickly but we also have a responsibility to take pictures that are worth looking at, and pictures that are worth leaving behind, so that future generations can look back and have their soul stirred.

So whenever you are taking digital pictures just take that extra second to have a second look, don't be too hasty to shoot and move on, you may never return, either to the place or the person, so make the picture count.

It's not just the camera.

Taking Digital Pictures is like any art-form it starts in the imagination, and getting the shot you want takes perseverance and experience, as well as knowing how to use your camera.

Digital Picture Art

Digital fantasy art is something everyone can learn. If you love fantasy and want to create your own art you need a few things to start. There are a couple of ways to create your own art. If you are an artist using traditional mediums you can transfer your pictures onto the computer and then enhance them. If you are like many people you may want to create purely digital images.

You can start from scratch and do everything long hand or you can choose to use many of the tools available on-line to help you create your own art. If you are not careful it is really easy to run up a high bill very quickly. But it doesn't have to be this way. You can start out with very little outlay. To do this you will need to know where to get really cheap or free resources and what you will need to start. The simplest way is to start with pre created models. These can look very realistic and you don't have to fork out a lot for them. In fact you can get many for free. Then you will need clothing for them. These can range from almost any style of era. Again it is worth considering the pre made things while learning.

You may decide that in the future you want to create your own, but first you will need to learn the basics. Then you will need some form of landscape or background. Finally you will need lighting. Lighting can make or break your picture. fortunately with digital fantasy art you can save, cut and adapt your picture with relative ease once you have learnt the basics. This is not to say it is easy, to do. Like any art form you will need to spend time learning to use the tools and how to create the lighting you want. Many people create things to make your life easier so you rarely have to start from the beginning. However the more you want the more you will have to buy.

Once you are proficient at creating your art you may be happy to continue with it or you may want to strike out on your own and learn how to do the more advanced techniques like creating your own models, landscapes and skin. You may even want to do animation at some point. That is the joy of digital fantasy art, you can go as far as you want with it in the direction you prefer. Depending on your knowledge be ready to learn a lot. Most importantly remember to take a break and spend time with family and friends too.

On Fractals and Life

     "There is no man or woman who walks upon this crazy earth who is not a privileged pilgrim on a fantastic journey to the temple of their own immortal soul. There is no life cast upon the wild shores of this mysterious world which does not belong intimately to the fabric and fantasy sewn inexorably into the all. There is no separate individual who is not therefore part and parcel with the whole. For the all is without division, without futility, and within us all. We are the all that is the all. There is nothing but the everything that we are. For we are one. Amen.

     Our journey takes us from our personal myth and mystery, on to the Great Myth and Great Mystery. Our path leads from our separate body to the One Great Body.

     It is a hallowed and never ending journey to this oneness that ends as it began- in confusion; a confusion which is both the substratum of life and the very goal of life which has no end. For a goal which can be completed is of little value to the eternal Self.

     In this way existence is quite like a fractal; the more we go into it, the more it expands, the more patterns emerge from within other patterns, universes emerge from the smallest iota, solving one problem often creates many others, coming to one realization uncovers multiple enigmas, attaining one peak reveals a higher mountain range behind it, and the threads of the overself paradoxically cover and yet also reveal the limitlessness of the magnificent cosmic carpet running out ineffably before us."

A little art history

We're currently undergoing renovations at home, and I'll hopefully end up with a dedicated studio space when it's all done, but it is slowing me down a bit. Today I painted a lot, but it consisted of two coats of paint on a 40 square metre ceiling. Unfortunately I'm getting no opportunities to go out and paint landscapes.

Earlier this week I was going through some old artwork I'd uncovered so I thought I'd share that, just to keep my "weekly" blog moving.

The first of these dates back to the mid-eighties when I was a signwriter. With my background in airbrush art, I was often given jobs that involved detailed or lifelike illustrations. This beer bottle was painted in lacquer on white acrylic sheet (perspex). It was one of four that I painted side-by-side and stands around 1.2m (4ft) high.

Acrylic sheet comes with an adhesive protective sheet which peels off easily. I used this for a lot of the masking work. All paint was applied with spray guns and airbrush.

The second one comes from the early nineties, after I'd jumped ship into the world of advertising and commercial illustration.

I did a series of concept paintings for Austal Ships in Western Australia. This was in the days when computer graphics were still incredibly expensive, so illustration made sense. I worked from preliminary plans to produce the 3D image and once this was approved by the designers, I'd draw it up about 50-60cm wide, transfer a faint image to illustration board, mask it with "frisk" film then break out the inks and airbrush ready to colour it.

This one uses a photo of the ocean as a base. The boat was airbrushed on the illustration board then it was cut out and the surface layer of the board peeled off (I always hated that part). This cut-out was stuck on the photo with double-sided tape and was then photographed and printed. This print was retouched before being sent off to a commercial printer for reproductions.

I loved these concept-art jobs but I know so much more about light and shadow these days that I would do them very differently if I had to do them all again.

The next one, probably from the early-mid nineties, is perhaps my first real painting done for no reason other than the fact I wanted to do it. Prior to this, almost all the art I'd produced as an adult had a commercial purpose.

One day I walked past a travel agency and saw a brochure with a man skiing on the cover. For whatever reason, possibly insanity, I immediately imagined the man as a kangaroo. I grabbed a copy of the brochure and some others for extra reference and soon went to work with tube acrylics and gouache on a canvas board.

I didn't really know what I was doing but I was having fun at least. I think I painted that roo hair-for-hair!

May Workshop

After a very successful oil painting workshop in March, Gallery 500 have invited me to do another workshop in May.

Workshops run for around four hours on a Saturday morning and students paint along with me as I break down my process of painting sunlight into easily managed stages.

The techniques demonstrated suit either plein air or studio painting. While I paint in oils, the approach works equally well for acrylics.

If you're interested in attending, contact Brad at Gallery 500 in Albany, WA.