Ron Shoots

The Photo Plus “Do It Yourself Creative Research” panel in NYC last week was excellent. I always learn so much at these events! The panel, moderated by Lynn Martin (Aurora Photos), consisted of James West (Alamy), Robyn Selman (Corbis), Meg Asaro (Spark Visual) and myself.

Here’s a Quicktime movie of my presentation visuals. Enjoy!

I’ll be at Photo Plus in NYC this coming week. On Saturday, October 20 from 1-3pm, I’ll be on the “Do It Yourself Creative Research” panel. For anyone interested in the stock industry, there’s tons of great seminars every day. Drop me an email if you’re in the city, would love to say hello in person!

We just uploaded this image… in less than 10 days, the image has been licensed almost 100 times amongst all our different distributors. I like the shot. Nice composition, decent lighting, but not what I would have picked to start selling right out of the gate. Sometimes I get surprised, and then the thought process starts. Why is this image selling? What keywords did we use? What’s the concept? Do we have other best-sellers like this?

The last question, I think, provided the answer. We have a number of good selling images with the model’s hair flying. The expression of “freedom” seems to be the common theme.

Lighting was basic. Used a 22 x 26″ soft box slightly off to my left for the main light, and 1 softbox on the background. The background was actually a white sweep but I kept the power really low on the background light so the white would turn to gray.

You know, if I could only pick the winners ahead of time!