Results tagged “stock photographer” from jay reilly photo blog

Hi Everyone,  The long anticipated release of Aurora's green collection is now live.  I was happy to see two of my shots featured as green images, the one of my son in his tie-dye rolling in the grass and the other Emy's green flip flops in green grass.

Most of my selected images were not at all conceptually intentional as green, but good to see them in there and perhaps will shoot more green in the future.

to see the collection, go here: http://auroraphotos.com/greenhub.shtml

hi everyone!  had a small mention in this months issue of PDN.  i always look forward to the stock issue...find out what people are doing and who else is out there...  in an effort to find a second agency beyond aurora, i first signed with jupiter/workbook which has been good, but wanted to keep my options open.  i have always been a fan of uppercut images in the stock world and when they expressed some interest, it all fell into place.  upper cut has been super easy to work with and look forward to future shoots and submissions.

the article is about who agencies are signing and why...wish that i had this article to read about 3 years ago.  it is a pretty interesting read if your interested in this niche of photography and if there is interest enough from this blog readership i would shed some insight on how to get an agency contract. 

so with much success with my aurora collection of images licensing on getty and corbis, i felt like experimenting a bit.  the only big agency that i was unrepresented on was jupiter.  so i thought i would push a smaller collection of people/lifestyle images images direct with jupiter though workbook.  all agencies are a bit different on the expected return and the time it takes to make it happen.  but after about 8 months from the time i signed paperwork, to today, i am happy to say that the first license with jupiter was a great one!   also very interested to see what images do well.  it is very hard to presume one image is going to do very well and another one is not... and if i posted all my big sellers, you might laugh!  certainly not portfolio gems;-)

but the funny story behind the first image license with jupiter is that the image was from an editorial stroy shot for riviera magazine where next to nothng was paid to me for producing the image.  it was one of those smaller stories that does not really have much of a budget, but i agreed to take it as i felt the images might be marketable beyond the editorial.  here are a few but the bottom right image made me $4500 this month!  yehaa!

hi all, as you may or may not have remembered from a blog post about 3 months ago...i was invited to join in on a 15 year celebration of Aurora Photos in photography.  The concept is a pool of Aurora photographers was selected and a chain reaction of inspiration is created by shooting a self assigned session based in concepts, ideas, color, subjects or whatever from the previous photographer image.

so i patiently waited until my turn, which came up 48 hours ago.  so with out much more info than that...here was the image that Logan Moc-Bunting created as a screen capture off the aurora15.com site:




I love this image.  tons of character, concept, color, shape and tone.  so i had a lot of work with but honestly very little time to create.  so i was going to hit it at a 3 concept level, the dog, aviation and color and shape.  here are the 3 images that i create in about 15 mins.



so which one did they pick?  you tell me!  you be the editor!  in the comments below...pick: blue sky, pilot portrait, or lucy and ice cream.  the winner will get...

a 5x5 inch fine art book from aurora photos
and fast portrait session by me...if you live in san diego, must be  shot in carlsbad or oceanside, as if you want that..

so vote away!!  you only have till the image posts on aurora15.com...about 45 hours.  all the winners will be dropped in a hat and one winner picked.  you have to be present to win, just kidding!

good luck!

some quick ones of the kids having fun.  will be shooting here in about 2 weeks where we will be producing a video of the shoot, sorta some equipment info and shooting underwater tips, so check back! 

well, not yet, but i am excited to announce that i have a steady stream of rights managed images hitting corbis.  no surprise that the first set of images that hit are a surfing series.  one nice benefit with the aurora photos relationship is that i know that when i am still asleep in the west coast, on the east coast there is someone up bright and early trying the get the images in distributed in the right channels and that is appreciated.  thanks aurora.

very proud to announce that i have been invited to participate in aurora photos celebrating 15 years of creating images.  aurora is one of the best boutique stock agencies specializing in action, adventure, travel, sports, lifestyle, people, portraits and having a special niche in editorial and photojournalism. 

the action:reaction concept is creative and I think really will show off the talent of this organization.  i am excited to be a part of the creativity.

www.aurora15.com

here in Baltimore md shooting some fitness images.  for what we were looking for, Baltimore is great for backdrops.  have a nice run down feel with some cool urban scapes.  fortunately i had my brother andrew reilly producing the shoot and he knows all the great places to shoot in Baltimore.  thanks to mark for the modeling.

on the technical side, these are all shot with very light weight speedlights.  the lighting kit we have is not very portable so the fast set up and breakdown of the speedlights work pretty well.  for the most part all of the shooting was in pretty deep shade so it made it pretty easy for the speedlights to over power the ambient light.

ABOUT JAY

hi everyone, this is the place that i get to tell you how fantastic i am.  actually, not really, my big pet peave is photo blogs with more photos of the photographer than photos they shoot;-)  so i will keep this simple. 

a little bit about me
i am a commercial, advertising, editorial, stock photographer based in oceanside, ca, in between san diego and la.  i shoot in studio and on location assignments for almost any reason you might want images.  i would say i specialize in shooting catalogs, portraits, editorial and lifestyle.

to see more work
you can see more commercial work at this location: http://www.jayreillyphoto.com

my upcoming stock shoots
here you can find out about upcoming stock shoots that the studio is producing: shoots

models wanted
a models wanted section is posted for both upcoming commissioned and studio produced stock sessions.  you can see all the model wanted  listings at this location: models wanted

my contact information

212 north coast highway, suite e
oceanside, ca 92054
760.525.5172
jay@jayreilly.com