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Image trends – what advertising agencies and designers are buying right now.
Image trends are constantly changing and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. To help keep you up to date and ‘on trend’ we’ve taken a look at the activity of our advertising and design customers over the...
View ArticleHow to write the perfect picture research brief
Do you use picture researchers to help you find the images you need? We’ve worked with our team of researchers (who have over 25 years experience between them) to put together a list of do’s and don’ts...
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That’s the way (uh-huh uh-huh) we like IFTTT (uh-huh uh-huh)
We like IFTTT. A lot. It’s one of our favourite apps and we’ve got loads of apps on our phones – the beauty of this though is it helps you link all those apps up together in a smart and elegant way....
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2015 stock photography trends
We’ve all seen them. Pretentious lists from an endless amount of faceless ‘art experts’ telling you what to shoot over the next 12 months using phrases like “immersive synergy”. What? Exactly. Let’s...
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Is it safe to use Google Images?
Is it safe to take images straight from Google and use them to promote my business or on my blog? The short answer is it can be, but there are some things you need to consider… 1. How do I find an...
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Photographing Longevity
As pointed out in the Guardian recently, isn’t it weird that, in 2015, old age is a trend? We’ve all been hearing the stats revealing that people are generally living longer and on the whole fitter and...
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The Impossible Picture (and other innovations)
Spring is often the season we choose to talk about what will shape our futures. The air is fresh, and as nature, we want to renew ourselves too. As photographers it is the time we ask how to reinvent...
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Trending now in stock photography
Time to get creative! The fresh April air and the extra radiant hours are perfect excuses to drop everything and get out making new images. We had a look at the latest trends and found out what type of...
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Mission Impossible: Why ‘Tasks’ won’t replace Stock
Tasks, challenges, missions, contests; whatever they’re called there’s a lot of them about. The stock world has seen an upsurge in models that are based around a ‘task model’. A company will post up a...
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We have offices the world over…shoot for them!
We’re often asked; “What should I shoot?”, and often our advice is to make sure you shoot content with a clear idea in your head of who it will be appealing to. This keeps your shoots focused rather...
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Coping with the peaks and troughs of the photo industry
Panic! “I’m a terrible photographer”,”I’m completely wasting my time at this game”, “Alamy or (insert name of agency) are deliberately relegating my pictures for some reason”, “Someone or something has...
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A revival in lifestyle photography with a focus on family
Family photography has entered a more engaging phase. Images of families in the past have comprised of over lit situations with impossibly perfect generic models posed and arranged perfectly in a...
View ArticleSurviving creative block
Struggling to keep up with the ever-changing trends and styles in the creative industry? We’re here to help…We’ve pulled together some of our favourite blogs, YouTube channels, Twitter feeds and...
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Image trends in advertising – September 2015
Want to know what’s new in the world of advertising? We’ve spoken to some of our key commercial clients, account managers and researchers to find out what image trends they’ve been seeing over the last...
View Article7 insider tips to help you find the perfect stock photo
We asked our expert picture research team how they find the perfect image, and how they do it so quickly. They gave us 7 awesome insider tips that will help out anyone searching for stock images on...
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Back to the future – Top Alamy customer searches
With last week’s Back to the Future Day it inspired me to see what the top Alamy customer searches were back in the previous October. I couldn’t review customer searches from 1985 as Alamy wasn’t...
View ArticleA glossary of stock photo terms for image buyers
Understand the stock industry with our awesome jargon buster. We explain 15 stock photo terms you’ve probably heard, but didn’t quite understand. If there are any other stock photo terms you would like...
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Five ways with mobile photography
Five ways with mobile photography is a loose guide to getting the most from your camera phone. Not a definitive guide as there are infinite ways in which you can take and edit a photo, but based on my...
View ArticleHow to make your ‘lightbox’ stand out
When you’re putting together a selection of images for a client it’s important that your images stand out. Here’s some insight in to what clients look for and some practical advice about picking and...
View ArticleHow to make sure you’re legally covered to use an image
As an image buyer, it’s really important to understand the legal side of things to make sure there aren’t any complications down the line. We’ve put together a three-step guide to explain releases and...
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