Portraits... I'm confident that as long as there is a shutter button it will be clicked for the sake of recording the moment of a person's life and yet another new portrait will be born. People simply love looking at people. :)

It comes to no surprise that the majority of best seller stock images are also of people. Yet, what do you do if people just aren't your thing, but you'd love to learn how to photograph them in a way which they will love, you will like, and others will remember for a long time...? Well, call me old-minded, but I'd go to the bookstore. I've written blogs on two landscape books, which have been very helpful (and still are - even after the n-th reading). This time it's about a portrait book, which is called The Portrait Photographer's Guide to Posing,...

No, this brief article is not about the first sales altogether and how they make you jump up to the ceiling and blow the windows out with screaming... ;) My goal is to point your attention to one of the statistic numbers which, as it seems, is often being neglected.

The Number. The number I'm talking about you can find on the Earnings page (http://www.dreamstime.com/earnings) right above the table with downloaded images - at the right corner. It's the one which states how many of your on-line images actually make up for the number of sales you've had.

Why is it important? Well, when I think of this number I am always reminded of the Pareto Principle ([link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle]click here for Wikipedia...