As I mentioned in my last post, I think that it’s vital for your inital submissions to stock agencies to include at least one shot of people. This is the most in-demand kind of shot from marketing types. As I’ve been sorted through my photos to decide which to submit, here is what I was going to use as my people shot:

This shot has some nice stylish aspects and leaves good room for ad copy. Additionally we’ve got both dreadlocks and tattoos going on – and tattoos are a surprisingly highly searched keyword on stock sites, so I’m hoping that a reviewer would look at it and think “Hey! We can sell this – we always need more tattoo and punked up looking shots!”

Only one problem: no Model Release.

In fact, I don’t have a model release for any of my people shots. Sure I’m going to try to track down this model – but it’s been a couple years and I’m not couting on it. So I’m also setting up a quick emergency shoot of a person to have something that I can actually include in my initial submission. My schedule requires me to submit to the first stock site on Monday — and I gotta have a shot of a person to include!

Fingers crossed that the shoot works out!