Hey this is Jim Harmer and you're listening to the Improved Photography

podcast episode number 232. Today we're talking all about stock

photography and to talk about this I have the guy who wrote the book on getting started in stock

Steve Heep on the line. Hey Steve how are you? I'm great great to be on the show

well welcome I have read your ebook.

You have an ebook on Amazon.

You can get it on the Kindle,

called Getting Started in Stock.

And I read through the whole book.

It's a quick read, but it's just kind of like all the no-nonsense

stuff that you really need to know and none of the obvious stuff that you really don't need to read through.

So I really liked it. I've actually read a couple books on stock photography, but I liked yours best. I think it was just kind of right to the detail, so that was great.

Okay, thanks. Well, I have a ton of questions to ask you about stock photography.

Maybe I'll just give a very quick introduction of stock photography to those who aren't familiar

with it.

I guess mostly what we're talking about today is micro stock.

This is where you're selling a photo, you put it up on an agency

that will be like eye stock or shutter stock,

that will then make it available to anyone,

somebody who's writing a blog post about cats and you have a

picture of a cat and they want to use that photo in there or it could be a

photo of a you know off-road in car or whatever it is that your photo is about people have

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