The "Everywhere Girl" Phenomenon

There are many land sites where you can post your photographs for resale to corporations, advertisers, and other publishing houses of magazines, newsletters, and web content. One photographer, Stephen A. Douglas Menuez, have made a little luck with a few shots he took in 1998 and listed on Getty Images. He took some posed mental mental images of a immature woman, Jennifer Chandra, in presence of an American college, Reed College in Portland, Orgeon.

There is nil dramatic about his images, they are just an norm looking student, wearing a woolen cap, in presence of the old college building.

But those images have got been picked up and published tons of modern times by major corporations, and many other businesses, worldwide, for usage in advertisements, brochures, and web sites.

The Everywhere Girl Phenomenon was basically created by a technical newsletter, called The Inquirer, which is published day-to-day and supplies short short letters about occurrences in the computing machine and telecommunications area. One editor noticed that a photograph of the same female pupil was used by two computing machine makers at the same time. He wrote about it in a newsletter article, calling her "The Everywhere Girl", and soon people started sending in silver screen gaining controls of ads worldwide screening the same smiling face.

The Everywhere Girl is listed in the Urban Dictionary, and was listed in Wikipedia, until some techno-geeks objected and marked the article as self-serving and a campaigner for deletion.

From a photographer's point of view, there is not a batch to separate this photograph from the one thousands of others. She have a wholesome, smiling face, almost plain, and is wearing a wintertime woolen cap and a cowry shell necklace. She is posed in presence of an old college edifice and the full photograph is tilted, which many people might happen annoying. The background is out of focus, as the photographer intentionally shortened the depth of field to stress her face, which is crisp and detailed.

The photographer states there were respective other pupils in his shoot that day, but none have had the popularity of The Everywhere Girl. This peculiar photograph have been an outstanding success.

What it makes turn out is that submitting photographs to stock mental image land sites works, and sometimes works exceedingly well. And you, as a photographer, probably are not the best justice as to what will sell and what won't. The best advice is to pick your best shots, submit to as many stock photograph land sites as clip permits, and make it often.