What is Micro stock?

What is Micro stock?  What is micro stock? In the industry of selling licenses for the use of pictures in advertising, magazines etc., known as “stock photography,” there are generally two major traditions: Traditional pricing, also called high pricing, traditional marketing or “macrostock” describes an old industry that until recently has had a monopoly on

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What is Macrostock? How is it different from Microstock?

  What is Macrostock? Micro stock and Macro stock What is macrostock? In the industry of selling licenses for the use of pictures in advertising, magazines etc., known as “stock photography,” there are generally two major traditions: What is macrostock? Traditional pricing, also called high pricing, traditional marketing or “macrostock” describes an old industry that

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Crazy week for www.arcurs.com

  Update. (old post). You will find this post much more interesting. Recipe for cutting your blog’s traffic in half in a week: Step One: Malware The first whammy came when our server was hit by some malware and labelled by Google as a “virus” site (despite it being cleaned within hours of the attack).

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New tool – projected monthly income calculator

(This post is for the professional stock photographer) New tool! Projected Monthly Income Calculator I’ve created a very neat new tool to share with you. Have you ever hated the fact that you just never know exactly how much you’ll make from your photos each month? Well, using my new PMI (projected monthly income) calculator,

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Styling: Pure Hell or a place to “shine”.

Styling: Pure hell, or your secret weapon? Here goes another article about the more “in depth” considerations of a professional photographer. This article is about styling matters. When you plan a shoot, how much styling is involved? Do you think up an idea, hire a model (or beg a friend to come by), tell her

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