Stock industry mainstay Ellen Boughn has penned a book that offers a perspective into microstock that is informed by 30 years of traditional experience. Though Microstock Money Shots targets primarily the photo enthusiast, it may help traditional photographers evaluate the creative differences between micro and macro.
Uniquely, Boughn is revered almost equally on both sides of the macro/micro divide. She has been an agency owner (After-Image, now part of Getty Images), has held executive-level posts at numerous agencies (Corbis, UpperCut, Artville, Punchstock and SuperStock) and, most recently, served as director of content at Dreamstime, which she says is the third highest-grossing microstock agency. Beyond a bookwriting career, Boughn currently dispenses wisdom via a free blog and pay-for consulting services.
Microstock Money Shots covers image subjects, models, locations, themes and a range of less straightforward aspects of shooting microstock images that sell with minimal production costs. The foreword was written by one of the leading microstock shooters Andres Rodriguez. Lee Torrens of Microstock Diaries, featured on the book’s cover, offers a more in-depth review.
The book becomes commercially available this summer and can be pre-ordered.