Yup, my first attempt at a stock photography image was messing around with a Lego pirate and a toy fireman. Why i had them i don't know. Either way they were terrible. It wasn't that i was expecting super sharp, professional looking images, i just wasn't expecting them to look as bad as they did.
One of my justifications for buying the camera was the microstock photography market. Signing up to a site such as iStockPhoto who will sell your images very cheaply, royalty free and give you maybe around 40p per sale. I thought that maybe after a few weeks of getting to grips with the camera, i might be able to do exactly this, making a few quid a month to start replacing the hole in my funds.
A month after i got it, still hasn't happened.
I tried a few times to take a few "stock" style images with the typical bright white background, but without the right lighting this proved harder than i first thought. Even with the camera's white balance correctly set, getting a pure white background to look brilliant white with normal indoor lighting was tough. And at this stage i didn't even have any editing software to hep me apart from some really basic free stuff such as Gimp and Picasa.
If stock photography wasn't going to work until i splashed out a few bob for some daylight lamps i figured that for the time being i would just experiment with some more creative stuff. At first i just tried out some indoor shots, self portraits and macro shots of household objects -
Nothing majorly exciting but it gave me a good idea of how to use the camera more quickly and efficiently.
Next I'd venture outside.
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