The New Way - Digital Stock Photography Tips
This article depicts the new age of buying stock images and showcases the world of digital stock photography. Whether you are a photographer or a photobuyer you’ll want to read this one.
…not only the traditional print media: magazines, books, textbooks, and catalogs, but also the pioneering electronic media — the communication companies utilizing television, video processing, CDs, and new concepts like digital video, cell phones, desktop image delivery, screen-touch educational tools, and on-demand picture retrieval.Many of the latter elements are poised to explode into wide use, with the rapidly increasing familiar-ity of photobuyers and photogra-phers with the marketing advantages of the Internet.
Classic commercial stock photography (the familiar scenics and generalized “situa-tion†shots) as we’ve known it over the past decades will continue to be in demand, but the overwhelming supply of these gen-eralized stock shots, available now from discount sources on-line, will dimin-ish their value — and price tag.The New Generation Media mar-ket is so vast that it utilizes what has come to be known as “micromarket-ing,†the ability to isolate special-ized markets and respond to them efficiently.Micromarkets are specialized (niche) markets.
