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October 1, 2007
When life hands you lemons...
Create a stock photograph out of them! 
Confused? OK, for those new to my blog I shoot stock photography in my
spare time. I shoot a lot of technology related stock photos, partly
because they are good sellers and partly because I'm a computer geek and
surrounded by the stuff. Over the weekend I was going to shoot some stock
photos using my laptop. Since I have 4 cats I have a bit of a problem with
cat hair... everywhere! It particularly likes to collect in the crevices
of my laptop keyboard. Well, I had the bright idea of trying to vacuum it
out of those crevices with my handy-dandy shop-vac. This turned out to be
a mistake. Yep, I managed to suck the "G" key right off the
keyboard. 
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Hmm, this certainly appeared to put a stop to my plans... or so I thought! I broke out one of my favorite stock photography props... some miniature model railroad figures painted to look like construction workers. I arranged them around the missing keyboard key as though they were diligently fixing the problem. Viola! Lemonade... so to speak.
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These little figures can be really fun to photograph and are great for concept imagery. Click on the link below to see some more examples of my stock photography shots where I've used miniature railroad figures. Sorry for the annoying watermarks folks, I've gotta protect my work from evil internet picture stealers.
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Warning : Shameless plug below
For those of you who just stumbled upon this blog post and would like
to know where you can purchase my stock photography please go to the following
links!
My
iStockPhoto portfolio
My
Shutterstock portfolio
My Dreamstime
portfolio
My Fotolia portfolio
Posted by pixelbrat at October 1, 2007 9:53 PM
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Amy, 10 points for creativity! That's an excellent idea and you've executed the shots very well. They must sell well, these shots.
-Lee
Posted by: Lee Torrens at October 2, 2007 3:11 PM