I love to photograph people - but my stock collection is mainly small stuff photographed on a table with a 100mm lens. I like that too :) but I also wanted to know what to do with people. I have had two people come into my life that are both top stock photographers and it has been so great learning what they do - Kati Molin in Finland who is so talented with 'the small stuff on the table' and Erik Reis in Portugal who is so good with people. Thank you both :). I know myself I'm more of an 'artist' than a stock photographer, but one of my goals this coming year is to grow my stock portfolio to a size that keeps ticking in the background when I concentrate on my other projects :).
Also after just using Bridge and Camera Raw to edit my raw files I'm now using Lightroom (finally :)). I really like it and now after talking with my designer Pedro Reis and Erik my workflow and filing are a lot better as well. The amount of large image files going through my computer is going to be a big mess if my filing system is even a bigger mess so it feels like I've cleaned my house after 'cleaning' the way I work.
With Photoshop I've always been the 'natural girl' :). I've done basic adjustments to colour and lightness and contrast in Bridge (and now Lightroom) and saved as tiff's or jpeg's and maybe cleaned the image a bit in Photoshop. I always do what I feel that invidual image needs, I very rarely use preset actions made by someone else. I usually like my images warm and colourful :). For studio work I asked for Erik's advice for cleaning up the white background images and here are a few tips a learned from him:
... And I have a new blog on the way :). This one I started in Australia, on the Sunshine coast so will be nice to get a new nice blog :). I will keep you updated :).
These images are already selling at Shutterstock, visit my gallery here.
