eXposure is the New Online Magazine of OneModelPlace.com

One Model Place would like to announce that it is partnering with eXposure Online Magazine to offer a new quarterly edition for OMP members. This will take the place of SNAP! monthly magazine. The first OMP issue is scheduled to go online November 1st, check back often for updates and previews...

Webmaster Brett Cramer says, "The addition of eXposure Online Magazine is a great resource the OMP Community. Each edition will feature industry news and interviews, technical advice, and some of the best photography on our site."

If any models or members of OMP want to submit articles or images for review, please send them directly to Editor Flemming Kroll (OMP Member #233499) at fkr@exposureonline.dk

You can also check out past editions at www.exposureonline.dk

And you can find archive editions of SNAP! Magazine here: http://www.onemodelplace.com/newsletter.cfm

OMP Main Image -- NOW IN 3D!

Your Main Image on One Model Place says a lot about you as a model, a photographer, a designer or artist. But if one picture saying 1,000 words, how many words can you get with 500 pictures?

Now you can highlight your whole portfolio, a particular category or all your Showcase images by going to the Preferences option on the far right of the Manage My Portfolio Bar and choosing Portfolio Preferences and clicking on 3D Wall/Main Image Options. From there you can choose how many or what category of images you want displayed.

Once you save your choices, your Main Image window will be filled with all your best work. Remember though to keep your Main Image PG13 if contacting minors, since the Main Image you select will still appear in email and next to your portfolio comments and image comments.

NOTE: You may need to select "Enhanced Portfolio Option" in the Portfolio Style Selector section if you haven't already.

Portfolio example courtesy of TroubleShooterImages.com -- www.onemodelplace.com/troubleshooter

Fun with PhotoShop

CityRag.com is featuring a gallery of celebrity photos where the stars and their kids' heads are switched in Photoshop. The above example is an eerily accurate version of Tom Cruise and daughter Suri trading places.

Just goes to show that editing photos can sometimes have silly and/or scary results!

Check out the full gallery at:

http://www.cityrag.com/main/2009/08/celebrities-are-big-babies.html

Image courtesy of www.CityRag.com

And You Thought Your Family Took Embarrassing Photos!

If you took any embarrassing family photos over Memorial Day weekend, here is the best place to post them for all the Internet to see: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Image courtesy of AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com

Micro Stock – Can it increase your revenue?

Report from Dave Crowther of Legacy Images (OMP #78597) http://www.photoincome.com

As a photographer on One Model Place, I am always looking for opportunities to increase my revenue.

One of the ways that I have found that works for me is submitting images to an online micro stock agency. My portfolio is featured at http://istockphoto.com/legacyimagesphotography.




The popularity of the internet has changed the world of stock photography. Twenty years ago, the typical way you became a stock photographer was to have a portfolio of thousands of slides (with releases) which enabled you to be signed at an agency like Getty Images. Today, you could have a handful of images available and be an active stock photographer at a micro stock agency.

For me, the opportunity of joining iStock was to get some of the images that I took for fun that I thought were pretty good off my hard drive and make them available to be purchased. The beautiful thing is that there is a market (however small) for almost every type of image. It could be nature, food, landscape, flowers, even brick walls or wood floors. Some markets are much more lucrative than others.

Most magazines you look at will contain images that were probably purchased from a stock agency. That is also true for book covers, corporate brochures and reports, websites, even billboards.

Stock photography has changed the way that I approach photography. The type of images that I am shooting today is different than the images that I used to shoot. I am constantly trying to maximize the potential revenue that I can make off of each shoot. I think to myself, is there a market for this (besides to my portfolio or the model’s portfolio)? What are the most profitable types of images and markets for stock photography?

I am more conscious of image quality (lighting, focus, eliminating distracting elements, using depth of field and other techniques to center focus on the subject of the image, eliminating artifacting in my post processing, etc.) I am also much more conscious of copyright issues and obtaining model releases and property releases (i.e. You can shoot a model sitting on a statue in a park and publish it for sale if you get a release from the model and a property release from the statue artist).

Micro stock photography is not for everyone. You maintain ownership of your copyright to each picture, but you don’t make a lot for each image that is licensed (the revenue is definitely volume based). You also don’t have control over where or how your images are used (only that the images cannot be used in a way that is pornographic or defamatory).

But, for me, stock photography is working as an additional photography revenue source. I have had pictures used on Forbes.com and the Antiques Roadshow homepage from PBS among many other places. I have been submitting for about a year and a half and it is addicting. Every day, I come home from work and go check out my portfolio to see how many images were downloaded that day. I maintain a journal of ideas and thoughts that I have of potential stock shoots that I think will be lucrative and fun.

Stock photography definitely has helped me to make more revenue and has helped me to become a better photographer.

See more images by Dave Crowther on his One Model Place Portfolio OMP Member #78597