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Notes to plan, shoot, finish, and submit.

For people starting stock photography and footage, and creators keeping their work moving. Learn the tasks with free guides, then explore real sales records and shooting decisions in member materials.

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01 / Start & sustain

Take your first photograph toward submission

Start with a cup and notebook. Follow shooting, a finished JPEG, a description, and submission for review.

Start with this guideStart stock photography: take your first picture through to submission

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02 / Photograph

Prepare your next shoot

Check permission, clothing, and passageways, then work on people and backgrounds.

Start with this guideBefore a location shoot: check the place, clothing, and passageways

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03 / Film

Choose video settings and techniques

Start with resolution and frame rates, then explore support and export checks.

Start with this guideStock Video Basics: Choose Resolution and Frame Rate

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04 / Finish & submit

Finish and submit one photograph

Choose a desk photograph, check its finished JPEG, add a title and keywords, then confirm submission for review. Keep the finished file and a short note you can reopen.

Start with this guideTake one photograph through finishing, keywords and submission

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Getting started, photography, video, finishing, and submission. Read the chapters and use the checklists without an account.

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Sales records and practical shoot materials

Monthly reports about sold work, royalties, and shooting decisions, plus an English web guide and prepared eight-page English PDF for planning a two-person shoot. The free practice PDF and ZIP are separate from these member materials.

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People, saving photographs, and the path from your first picture to submission. All three articles are free, with no account needed.

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BEHIND FIELD NOTES

Photographed and written from practice.

Field Notes draws on my own stock photography and footage: the sales, source records, and choices made on location.

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