Fall is here and in many parts of the world leaves are turning color creating many opportunities for great outdoor shots. I plan on using the color of this season to take some photos to upload to Dreamstime.

I am going to take photos at different times of the day to see how the light plays off of the color. Hopefully I will have some new images soon!

I would like to add photos of people to my portfolio here on Dreamstime. The problem is I don't have a studio.

I was wondering where others shoot such photos without making them look like a snap shot? I have some willing models, now I just need the location.

That is the problem I recently had when I wanted to submit a photograph of a sea plane I shot while out sailing. The problem was that when I blew up the photo to 100%, I could clearly see the passengers faces in the back of the plane.

I really wanted to use this photo as there are not a lot of them on Dreamstime. To fix this problem I modified the photo in Photoshop and made it look like the plane had tinted windows. My photo was accepted and I averted the problem.

I am relatively new to stock photography and still don't have that many photos on Dreamstime, but you can learn alot from the site and increase your selected photos. I use to shoot photographs and submit those I thought might be accepted here at Dreamstime. Now when I shoot I think about setting up shots strictly for stock photography. Through other blog entries and studying photographers with large portfolios, I am learning to be a better stock photographer and I am increasing the number of accepted photos.

While my progress is slow, I am happy with my accomplishments. I now take my camera with me everywhere and shoot, shoot, shoot!