As everyone by now should know, city photography is owned by National Photographer and national photographer was set up to one-stop shop everything about photography in the UK.
While this is ‘all good’ we were looking at something for our stock photography and commercial photography.. then with a crack of the lightening bolt we put something together…
The new Stock and Social website.. Yeah a bit odd in some respects, but not really….
If Facebook was all about stock photography, buyers who become members would see images in their feeds and when they land on the page they would see new images from all the stock photographers.
People could form photography groups that dealt with particular areas of stock photography and those buyers could look in those groups..
In the groups and forums centred around these ares of photography, buyers could also post requests for certain stock images.
Each of the photographers had their own profile that had an album of images they are selling for stock…all neatly arranged..
I think I made my point here.. Modern people who buy images more than likely use Facebook socially, so how addictive is it? quite! so in the same order of stock photography can work the same way..
Being interactive with the customers who buy stock images, you can see the trends and get information from the horses mouth, see what they are looking for and even get direct requests. Save you time dumping many files on line in hope that one or two are what someone is looking for…
SEO and SEM wise..
We have the main bulk of the website which is social for photographer and buyers, we also have a gallery.. buyers and bots can go through the gallery display the images in countless ways to find just what they are looking for..
The website has two parts to it, the social and the sock, but are closely linked. A search bot can search the images directly from the stock gallery Users who are human can look at the displays on the stock landing page, (its the pre gallery entry page) The page shows slides of all the photographers work in little boxes on one page, if an image catches their eye, they can click on it and go directly to the image.
The two websites work together to provide the platform for interactivity between the images and the users of the website as well as the photographers and the buyers.
PRICE
If I said zero, you would just think I mean that it costs nothing and that we take a commission on your photos each time they are sold.. You would be wrong.. Zero everywhere for everything.. We hope that when you benefit from the using the site that you would make donations to us to keep it running, after all it would make sense..
Its a work in progress too, so we know that once you start using the website it will grow.. Its not Microstock photography either…
Quality images not snaps; Professional not pandemonium.. Payment not pisstake.
Take a hope over to the website, dig out your quality stock images, and get noticed and start selling!
http://stock.nationalphotographer.co.uk/
