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When do I need property or model releases?

As long as people or someone else’s property is part of your image try to get a release. As simple as that.

Across many Microstock agencies the rules are sometimes very different also making it confusing whether you should have a release for an image or not.

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Copyright Infringement – Step 3 – It's time for a lawyer

Any questions? © Carsten Reisinger

So you’ve gone through Step 1 and Step 2 after discovering copyright infringement of your image(s) with no success.

Getting a lawyer to solve the situation [...]

Image rejection reason: Noise

What is noise?

Some cameras “produce” noise more than others. Noise is a “by-product” of the physical process of taking an image with a camera. It’s always there and your goal is to minimize it as good as you can.

Please check the following links to get [...]

Canstockphoto

Canstockphoto is a small but quite old Microstock agency. They usually don’t generate a lot of income for you BUT they have an affiliation with www.fotosearch.com.

Fotosearch is a Meta-stock image search engine that crawles dozens of stock agencies.

Many advertising and marketing [...]

Looking for lighting tutorials?

Green lights © Carsten Reisinger

There are tons of lighting tutorials out there online and especially on Youtube which give you some insight into specific situations.

If you want to understand the principles of light and how you can easily manipulate it even with as [...]

How do I register copyright for my photographs?

It is very important that you register copyright for your images. It provides strong legal leverage once you need to make a claim for copyright infringement with a third party.

Step by step tutorial how to register copyright for images at NatureScapes.Net by Carolyn E. [...]

Which camera should I buy?

Mostly it will depend on your budget. Ideally, you should invest into D-SLR camera that allows you to change lenses.

Even if you can’t afford a new digital SLR you might be lucky on ebay to get a used package to get started.

Compact cameras are not [...]

Somebody stole my idea!!! Can I sue?

Every now and then you will discover that other contributors will look at your most successful images and copy them. By copying I mean they re-create the image themselves adding their own personal touch (sometimes) and upload them as their own.

While this sounds unfair, it actually [...]