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creating new business opportunities,
expanding your portfolio, reinforcing business ties, experimenting
with new equipment or techniques.

Place to capture additional notes

Doesn’t force priority codes -

More attractive to you than repelling

Easily accessible

Portable for on the go access -

Ability to assign a due date

Yep…color calls out the context

For natural history images, for example, it should include the common and scientific names of any organisms pictured, as well as location information, and additional information about what is going on in the image. Other useful information may be included as well if it is relevant. For micrographs, magnification is critical: please express it as a magnification AT A SPECIFIC SIZE, for example, 500X at 5”x7”.

Having complete informationwill make sales.  This cannot be overemphasized—the clients for whom caption information is critical will NOT purchase an image if they cannot confirm what is important to them, most often a species or location or magnification.

Proper captioning and keywording are critical to making sales.

That said, here are our size guidelines for digital cameras:

it is crucial that you shoot in RAW mode and use your camera manufacturer’s software or a program like Adobe Photoshop to upsample the image when opening the RAW file.

Digital Cameras::

The larger the image size (assuming acceptable quality)
the more sales possibilities an image has; a larger image may be used larger
(museum or zoo exhibits, for example, or double page spreads) or cropped
without degradation in quality. While this size will continue to remain
our absolute minimum acceptable size (2550 pixels on the short side)
we now have a series of recommended sizes, depending on the source of the
digital image.

Oversharpening is one of the MOST COMMON reasons a digital image is rejected.

Some photographers prefer to send low res images initially for review. This is NOT the fastest way to get images on our site, as it will involve 2 separate review processes by our editors.

due to the huge number of images we receive regularly,

In October 2005,
almost 3 months after purchasing his camera, Hamad sold his first
photograph.

Positive feedback from
peers
pushed Hamad to learn more about photography

obsessed outdoor junky.