Photography

You don't have to be a pro to take photos like a pro – we here at Crestock.com convinced the world’s top selling stock photographer, Yuri Arcurs, to share with us his top 8 secrets – a clear-cut guide to being successful as a photographer

Read enough photography forum critiques and you will start to believe that blur is bad. In fact there seems to be a cult of sharpness ...

One phrase that often irritates me when I show people my photographs is "You must have a great camera" This implies the camera did all the work, I hardly even needed to turn up!

Two trends you will have noticed over the last couple of years. The first, every other person you meet now has a digital camera. As a consequence, the second trend is at least half of these people want to learn more about their new-found photography passion.

Hundreds of websites and blogs are out there hoping to satisfy this demand but some stand out as shining beacons amongst the seas of recycled claptrap and copy and paste mediocrity.

As we saw in my last post, the first part of becoming a stock photographer is getting some pictures approved and available for sale. It can be frustrating but if you follow these simple tips you can have a much easier time of it. Today I will show you some of the common problems stopping your pictures getting approved and what you can do to avoid them.

What is the first step many wannabe stock photographers make? I would say for most of us it is to upload some old pics and see how many make it. Read on to see how my first step turned into a stumble, and what I learned from it ...

I'm on a mission, dear readers. I want to get to know you better. Don't worry, nothing romantic – I want to get to know you in a "stock photography" context!

I want to know who you are, what you are interested in, if there are things you need help with, things you would like to know about ...

We phoned up Nico Smit, the winner of the first prize in the Crestock Photo Contest 2007, to break the news to him.

The Crestock Photo Contest 2007 is now over and we have a winner of the final round! Find out who made it to the list of runners up here.

We realize that we have a lot of photos and images in our collection that would make fantastic desktop wallpapers. So, after getting permission from the owners of some of these images, we're now offering the very best of them to you here as hi-res, gorgeous wallpapers – entirely for free!