Photographer Toolbox

Here are a few tips that will help you become a better, more effective and successful stock photographer. This is the voice of wisdom speaking. Listen closely and learn!

  1. Whenever you can, shoot in the RAW format. Then interpolate to 300dpi, and save your file as a TIFF or PSD. This will give you the most flexibility when working with your images and the highest image quality retention.

  2. Spyder from ColorvisionInvest into a color-calibration for device for you monitor. This will make sure that both you and the rest of the world (i.e. us here at Obsidian Stock) see the same colors. We can recommend the Spyder from Colorvision, available around $70.




  3. When shooting stock, always take a vertical and a horizontal shot – even if either doesn’t necessarily make the most perfect composition. Reason being that designers often find the perfect shot, with the perfect colors and content – only it’s a vertical and they needed a horizontal. So double your sales potential by flipping that camera 90 degrees!

    vertical image orientation     horizontal image orientation
    example of vertical and horizontal image orientation