It started out as a few hundred images that I had shot over the course of a few years travelling around the country and overseas. Not all of them were up to scratch for microstock. Even more annoying was that the vast majority of my work was all on beautiful slide film (anyone remember Velvia?), as I started my career prior to digital photography being the norm. These slide images have yet to be scanned (cost vs. benefit - still unsure), thus I had far fewer images to start with than I should have.
Since taking stock photography seriously, I have been working at building up my portfolio into something substantial. I quickly leaned that if I wanted stock to become my main source of income I would need a few thousand images to make that a reality. My aim each month currently is to add somewhere around 100 images to each of my agencies. On top of this I am trying to build up some vector content, and much more recently, video footage as well.
Some have wondered what sort of gear I use for my stock work. I have always been a Nikon man, beginning with my much loved F100 film camera. Since then I have had a Fuji S3 Pro (Nikon mount body), Nikon D2X and currently a Nikon D800, which produces incredibly detailed images. Of course it also shoots high definition 1080p video, which is a real plus. On the post production side of things, I use Apple Mac all the way, combined with the ubiquitous Adobe Creative Suite.
Thanks again for taking a look at my work, and I really hope Microstock Man has been useful for you.
