Keywording tool Fixed!

The keywording tool on this website is now fixed. A few problems arrived that made it harder for us to extract keywords from the popular sites. While we ...

Gear I Regret Buying and Things I Really Love

This is the don’t-make-the-same-mistakes-I-did post. Enjoy. Things I Recommend you Don’t Buy 1. Don’t buy at Canon 1Ds Mark lll Don’t buy a ...

Interview at PDN, New York 2008. State of the Art

This is a street interview where I speak with Lee Torrens of Microstock Diaries about the changes in the stock photo industry and the gradual acceptance of ...

Episode 4 – Essential gear, my monopod

Finally: First videoblog

Here is a teaser for my new videoblog. This is me. 🙂

Advanced Stock Photography Terminology- for Photographers

This guide is about the tools I use on a daily basis to make decisions about the distribution of my images. The concepts described here are powerful tools ...

Basic Stock Photography Terminology – for Photographers

When talking about stock photography there are a few concepts and terms that help to clarify the discussion. Here I have tried to put together the concepts ...

German Model Eva-Marie Tells her Story on Working with Yuri Arcurs

I saw Yuri’s photos for the first time surfing around aimlessly on a couple of stock-sites. I soon started searching directly for more of his photos. ...

Sales Over a Week

This graph is based on my income alone and may not be completely accurate. It describes how much income a non-exclusive stock photographer gets each day on ...

How long does it take to submit images once they’ve been uploaded at the different microstock agencies

Just recently I did an independent survey to find out how much time it takes to submit images already uploaded to all the major microstock agencies: The ...

What should I shoot and what sells well?

Branding Microstock is overrun with bazillions (okay, millions and millions) of images so if you don’t stand out your pictures will be completely lost in ...

Microstock Agencies – An Overview for Beginners

Stock Photography – By far the most profitable way to sell images online – One of the most popular post’s on this site by – Yuri ...

What is a model release? – Download a Generic Model Release

A model release is a formal agreement between the model and the photographer about usage of the images where the model appears. When a model signs a model ...

See how our stock images are used by our clients

Here you can see how your images are being used by our buyers. If you are a model with Yuri Arcurs Productions and you are looking for how your pictures ...

We want you!

Special groups of people we really want Some people are harder to get a hold of than others. We need groups of people from all walks of life and we are ...