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Yuri Arcurs the king of stock photography video blog

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I have just watched the video of Yur Arcurs out on a shoot. Interesting video and if you are going to learn about doing the microstock thing then you have to learn from the best and Yuri is without doubt the best in the business. He will shoot 2000 photos himself in an 8 hour photo shoot and his assistant will shoot another 1000. He will have a huge base of photos to choose from from that session.

I saw that the camera he has is large and probably very expensive with big expensive lenses on also. I noticed also that he was not using a tripod much, when he was it was a monopod. I wonder if that is normal for a days’ shooting and if maybe he does photo shoots that he will use a tripod more.

Here is the video – Enjoy

Digital sketch book

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When I was an art student I was always with a sketch book. When I was an art teacher I tried to give the lowly and much misunderstood sketch book an uplift by renamiing it a Visual Studies Diary. I encouraged the student to think of the empty white pages as a recepticle for ideas and visual information that could be used later making art.

Well today I got notification that the money was received and the device would be sent to me in a couple of days. I will probably have it on Monday. I can hardly wait. What is it ? A Wacom Cintiq 12WX graphics tablet. It has a screen that I will be able to draw directly on to and should have a greater degree of control in the drawing process.

I have been using a standard Wacom tablet of the sort that you draw on while looking at the screen. So you can imagine a huge difference between how I work now and the way I will be able to work with the Cintiq.