Collaboration

This week I am going to give you some insight into the world of Crowdsourcing and Collaboration. Crowdsourcing is a lot like outsourcing... it involves every day people, like yourselves, using the internet to create content and solve problems. Crowdsourcing also involves a website I touched on briefly last week, iStockPhoto. Like stated before, iStockPhoto is an online stock photography website where you can sell your photographs to people who need them for a reasonable price. iStockPhoto has a few competitors, including Shutter Stock, and Dreamstime. Businesses use these websites to crowdsource some of their work for a cheap price. This provides an opportunity for you to make some money and have your photographs shown in a professional environment; whether in a company's office lobby or on their website. Furthermore, there are websites available for you to discuss stock photography with other photographers, such as the Stock Artist's Alliance.

Collaboration is also a big part of online photography. If you remember the social networking site I mentioned a few weeks ago, Picture Social, that is a great way to collaborate with other artists. Perhaps photography isn't your strongest suit, but Photoshop is. Picture Social is a great way for you to find photographers who perhaps are better at the act of taking the pictures than the processing necessary afterwards. This allows you to collaborate with those other artists and combine your strong suits to come up with some amazing photographs. Don't be afraid to try new things!! You never know, but helping someone with what they are weak at may in turn help you improve your weak points!