Although I have been an amateur photographer for over 15 years, i have never thought about making money from it. Few years ago, I got into stock photography, which is the opposite end of artistic photography.
Although it was a struggle in the beginning, I was able to make it a nice hobby that pays for my new cameras and accessories, as well as enough to put aside for a nicer retirement. It is nice to collect royalties long after the image is taken and processed.
But this image (below) was one of the glorious moments of my photography in the past few years :)
I took this image with a black background and after looking at it at 100% resolution (it was taken at 6Mp at the time), I realized that my finger and my hand (which is the whole object in the picture) is blurry. My first thought was "OH MY GOD, there goes a good idea), and shortly after I deleted the image.
Few minutes later I decided to retrieve it from my recycle bin, and decided to invert the colors. I realized that my hand looks much better in blue than its original color :)
Then an idea strike me. If the hand is in focus, something else can be in focus. I quickly draw a box around the finger and typed "ACCESS GRANTED" as if I meant to have my hand blurry, where the focus is in the text.
I had a concept picture that i never thought about while I was taking the picture. And in the stock world, the concept sells better, much better, than nature images.
The bottomline is that, this image is my highest selling image and I collected hundreds of dollars on this image.
The funniest part, is that I pulled this image from my Trash Can :) I guess, my creativity paid off, when i turned my trash into my own gold.
Contrary to the common beleif of One Man's Trash is another Man's Treasure, this is my trash and my treasure :)
Let me know if you have something similar
Met Dilsiz
http://www.fnd.net/
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