Stock Photo Shoot

Last week I set up my first stock shoot. My plan is to get some revenue going on some microstock sites and eventually build a nice enough portfolio to submit to higher priced agencies like Getty. The difficult part about shooting microstock is that what sells isn't necessarily the most exciting subject. In fact the more generic the better. For me it will be a balance of shooting what I want and what I know will sell.



Here's a shot for the sequence. I shot for about 1hour and 15 minues and probably have 4-5 shots that are worth uploading. As a rule of thumb anytime you have babies involved you get less just because it's really hard to make the little buggers do what you need them to. Overall I'm pretty happy with the shoot and feel that I achived that "stock" look.

This was shot with a 70-200 at f4ish. I had a speedlight with an shoot through umbrella off camera on right and another speedlight boucing off the ceiling on the left as fill.