http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog Words and Deeds of Myerson Photo Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:32:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As much as I love to create Vetta-worthy content, sometimes we have to face the ugly truth that the portfolio needs some filler. Not bad work - I hope we never upload that - just work that is more utilitarian and less creative or artistic in nature. These are the ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/10/26/filler-up/ [caption id="attachment_127" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Stone wall texture"][/caption] I've been trying to come up with a cheap and somewhat realistic stone wall background. You may be looking to do this for your own photography backgrounds, or for theater productions, for Halloween decorations, or even for a very different kind of wall surface ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/10/05/castle-wall/ [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Cloudy Catalina Mountains"][/caption] Early morning shot of Tucson's Santa Catalina Mountains, shot from the entrance to Catalina State Park. http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/08/25/cloudy-catalinas/ 500,000 sales on iStock is a phenomenal number, and it takes a phenomenal guy like Sean Locke to get there. Congrats, buddy. http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/07/25/sjlocke-hits-the-big-500k/ One of the most common rejection reasons on iStockphoto is the "overfiltering" rejection, largely because it encompasses so many possible causes. In this new "Rejections" series, I'll look at some of the more common causes of the various iStockphoto rejections, and what you can do to avoid the most likely ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/05/13/rejections-overfiltering/ I touched on this briefly in a previous post, but after a recent conversation with a contributor, I decided to expand on this idea. When you get keyword rejections or keyword removals from your iStock uploads it's usually because of one of three reasons: The term was spam. The term was a ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/04/27/opportunity-rejections/ Sorry, this is not a post about achieving photographic focus. You and your camera will have to figure that one out without me. This is about achieving content focus in your iStock images. Content focus is, in short, the subject of your image; the content or concept that the image is ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/04/20/laser-focus/ As a commercial photographer, I try to inject a little humor into my imagery when possible. Some commercial jobs, of course, don't allow for this, but when I can - especially in my stock photography - I'll throw a funny twist into the portfolio. So when I saw this web ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/04/04/funny-business/ I don't blog about every last commercial use of my images, but I wanted to throw this one out there, because it's a fun one. And because this is the kind of product I probably would have bought on my own anyway. The original image used is this one, available, as ... http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/03/29/ninja-action/ http://www.myersonphoto.com/blog/2009/03/10/myerson-photo-sample-video/