Product Description

This primer in stock photography will help the reader understand the business, learn the market, and take better stock photographs. Working image by image through nearly 60 photographs shot around the globe, the author explains how she got each shot, the photographic equipment and techniques used, and how she makes all of her images earn money. Special attention is paid to creating images for common stock photography markets such as education, architecture, domestic life, medical, mixed ethnicity, children and senior citizens.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1693401 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

From the Author
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY BY ULRIKE WELSCH: Author’s thoughts:

This is a book of some of my most favorite Black & White and Color images. The most enriching part is to read about the creation of each image, which gives insight to my thinking when I took each photograph and an understanding about STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY.

During the late sixtieth and seventieth I was a news-photographer. Yet my mission was to find mainly ‘Feature’ photographs, which means: images which can stand on their own and are positive segments out of everyday life. I grew out of this discipline and still today apply this vision of simplicity. My traveling range in this book is international even though the book is sprinkled with images from my Feature and News time.

The editor asked me varied questions to explain my photography and give the reader a more personal explanation of the stories behind the photos. I am trying to give an honest feel about my profession. The viewer can find answers regarding Traveling Equipment, as well as Darkroom Techniques, the Setting, Composition, Lighting, Printing, Releases, People Photography and of course STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY and much more.

Most images are reproduced in sparkling Black & White, some of the Color photographs were converted and lost contrast. Still the message of the images is there and lots can be learned about my easy globe-trotting style in search for STOCK images. UW

About the Author
Ulrike Welsch, a native of Germany, arrived in the U.S. in 1964.She settled first in Boston and since 1966 lives on Boston's North Shore. In Germany she was a trained druggist/chemist with a special interest in photography. When arriving in the U.S. she was enthused about ‘The New World’ - it’s scenes and faces. Her photographs soon found much admiration and she searched for employment as a photographer. In 1966 she became the first woman-photographer on the staff of the Boston Herald Traveler. The editors liked her Human Interest work and displayed it prominently. In 1971 she joined the Boston Globe, where she gained more recognition while roaming New England and searching for 'Beauty in the most Common Places'. In 1974 she was named: New England Photographer of the Year. In the years following she earned many honors including a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 with the Boston Globe Team for coverage about Boston’s School Busing. Since 1981 Ms. Welsch works independently and travels the World. Many of her photographs have graced educational Books and Magazines. She manages her own Stock-Photo Library, where she offers rights to her work for varied publications and purposes. Ms. Welsch describes her motto to photography this way: 'I like to make friends with people and photograph life. Sometimes it’s a face that speaks to me, sometimes light creating a mood and in a still life it may be a chicken foot in my soup looking like a hand. I seldom know in advance what I will photograph; I always know it when I see it. It will be reachable - a segment out of the everyday scene.' Her web-site...invites for sample viewings.

To mention some of her publications: 1974 KIDS OF COLOMBIA, Addison Wesley * 1977 THE WORLD I LOVE TO SEE, Houghton Mifflin * 1981 THE WORLD I LOVE TO SEE, second edition, The Globe Pequot Press * 1983 FACES OF NEW ENGLAND, Yankee Books * 1999 STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY, professional Techniques and Images, Amherst Media 2000 MARBLEHEAD, Commonwealth Editions (a coffee table book about a small town on New England’s coast (Color))

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Customer Reviews

waste of money
has nothing to do with stock photography, just tell "how did she make the pictures" in a very simple way.

Stock Photography: Professional Techniques and Images
Born in Bonn, Germany during World War II, author of Stock photography: Professional Techniques and Images, Ulrike Welsch became interested in photography at an early age. While working in a local drug store, she was given the duty of processing film in the darkroom. Fascinated with photography and an eager student, Welsch was taught the fine art of printing by a master printer. As the first female staff photographer in Boston at the Boston Herald Traveler, she quickly advanced to the Boston Globe. Covering the Robert Kennedy funeral, Vietnam War demonstrations and a papal visit were some of her most challenging assignments. She completed a project for National Geographic and collected distinguished awards for her work as a photojournalist. Welsch has chosen more than fifty of her most compelling images to discuss in Stock Photography: Professional Techniques and Images. Accompanying each black and white or colored image is an in-depth discussion by the author explaining settings, composition, mood and equipment and why and how each element was chosen and used. I find her willingness to discuss so deeply and thoroughly her intimate thoughts of the images and their making, refreshing and helpful. If you are a seasoned photographer this book may help you find a new way of seeing or connecting with your subjects. If you are a beginner, the insight Welsch offers is invaluable. Her revelations concerning her thinking and reasoning as she shot the image and printed it, is really a learning experience for readers. Dispersed with her disclosures about her work are facts like how to get started in stock photography, a description of a photographer's evolution and how to handle necessary technicalities such as how to get subjects to sign model releases. Welsch allows readers to see how the mind of a successful photographer works. She is willing to share everything, technically and emotionally, about her images and the making of them.

Just Average
This book is just average. There is some good information, but the author spends too much time talking about her photos and how she took them. The information about releases is valuable.