Do Digital Rights Matter?
We think so and so do our users. Over a 1,250 Scoopshooters from all over the world completed our 2015 digital rights survey, answering questions about user rights on social media platforms. The results, although dramatic, came as no shock to us, with 70% of respondents claiming they are worried about how social media platforms use […]
Quaker Oats’ Thermo-Active Campaign
Brrr-ring on the chill-factor. Unfortunately for Quaker Oats we had a rather mild winter in the UK this year. As part of its winter themed ‘Thermo-Active’ campaign, Quaker Oats was after frosty weather photos from the UK. To source frosty photos, Scoopshot geo-targeted users in the UK, based on weather forecasting data, to provide on-demand photos, delivering hundreds of […]
Scoopshooters’ #oreoeclipse
We work with top brands and publishers, to help them source creative user generated content (UGC) from Scoopshot’s community of 600,000 amateur mobile and professional photographers. Oreo, a Mondelez brand, worked with us to enhance its real-time advertising campaign #oreoeclipse, around the 2015 solar eclipse in Europe. As part of its multi-channel #playwithoreo marketing campaign, Oreo wanted to […]
5 Top Travel Photography Tips
If there’s one time of year you’re bound to take photos it’s while on vacation. To turn those picture perfect landmarks and landscapes into postcard worthy photos, here are a few tips and tricks to help you improve your travel photography. 1. Create a photo story Using a series of frames you can create a photo […]
How To ‘Selfie’
There’s an art to creating the perfect selfie, a simple point and press won’t do, just ask Kim K, the queen of the selfie and all round mirror lover. Kim recently revealed her selfie secrets to online publisher The Daily Mail. Kim’s number one tip was to get in front of a mirror, there’s no […]
Micro Stock Photography — Photos That Sell
Using Scoopshot to showcase your artistic photography is a good way to be discovered, while protecting your image rights (you keep the copyrights to your photos and videos until the point at which they are sold). If you want to make some moular from your photos, channelling your inner artist isn’t likely to bring in […]
Photography Copyrights Demystified
Copyright is a fancy name for ownership, thought up by a wisenheimer legal person, and you don’t need to include the copyright symbol © for copyright to exist. If you take a photo you own it and you have exclusive rights to it (unless you’ve been employed by someone to take that photo), which means no one can reproduce […]
How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse (Safely)
What’s the most important thing we’re ever told about the sun…? Don’t look directly at it! Just looking at the sun for a few moments can burn the back of your eyes, leading to blindness. When a solar eclipse occurs, even when the majority of the sun is covered by the moon, it is still very […]
Photography Tips: The Golden Hour
The ruler of all light and the magic time that makes your photos look all warm and happy. Golden Hour. Golden Hour is the magical time that occurs twice each day, an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset. Obviously this is dependant on where you are in the world and what season it is. The general rule […]
The Art of Portrait Photography
Get creative with how you take portrait shots and mix it up a bit! Here are our top tips; 1. Alter your perspective Looking straight on to the subject is totally fine, but it can look a bit, well, dull. So move around, get up high and look down at your subject, or get down […]