Whether you create media specifically to be licensed as Stock or you simply review your existing media library for materials that are suitable for licensing, if you're not already using basic compositing techniques in your post-processing you should seriously consider doing so.
With relatively simple compositing techniques you can turn a good image into a great image or turn a great image into a top-seller, increasing both the appeal of your images and the sales of your stock portfolio.
Culling (the process of selecting the best images from a set) can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of a photographer's digital workflow, especially for event photographers.
To meet the demand for extremely quick turn-around of publication-ready images we make use of in-camera rating, leveraging the photographer's first-hand knowledge of the subject and environment at the moment of capture to communicate to the editing team which images should be reviewed first. This greatly reduces the time needed to identify qualified images before editing can even begin.
