If you are interested in shooting stock photos for PhotoEdit Inc, please contact us at submissions@photoeditinc.com or give us a call at 800-860-2098. The steps to audition for the agency are as follows: submit 60 recent photos (keep in mind that they should be the types of images we are looking for), and our imaging department will review your photos for content and quality, after which someone from PhotoEdit Inc. will contact you. 75% of your photos must pass the quality inspection in order for you to be accepted as a contributing photographer. For a more detailed list of the kinds of photos that we want to see, please scroll down to the section titled "The Kinds of Images We Want," which should give you a better idea of what do and do not like to see during the audition and contribution processes.

• We prefer that you use a professional digital camera that yields, at very least, 11.0 mega pixels (11 million pixels).

• Please do not manipulate the images in Photoshop. This does not include negotiating an f-stop, color correction, or applying settings to meet the above requirements save for interpolation. We are not looking for f/x images at this time. For information and tips on acceptable digital manipulation, please click here.

• Please save images with proper orientation that do not need to be rotated. Horizontals should be horizontal and verticals should be vertical.

• Submissions must be delivered via CD or DVD. Once you have been signed to the agency you will be provided with our FTP login information.

• Please provide caption information within the file info of each image. If you are not working with Adobe Photoshop, please send an accompanying file with image info including ethnicity, ages, location, and the like.

• Please add MR to all image names that are model released.

• Please add MR in your jpg name for Model Released, or NR for Not Model Released.

• Please do not use caption information as the naming convention for your images.

For example: LahainaAquaticCenter.jpg is fine as opposed to ThecommunityaquaticscenterinLahainaHawaiiatdusk.jpg

What We Want

Education: We are always looking for images of Kindergarten through College age students in an active learning environment. A recent PhotoEdit, Inc. client survey indicated that the most wanted photos are: science experiments, Geology, Archaeology, school field trips and students in science labs. Other popular photo researcher requests include mainstreamed handicapped students, students or teachers using iPads as a learning tool, students using the latest model computers to learn difficult subject matter, and teachers interacting one-on-one with students. Lastly, any interesting images of Charter schools using innovative curriculums to teach students are welcome as well.

Politics: We would like to see more images of national and state political candidates for any major upcoming elections. The candidates or serving political leaders should be speaking at major conventions & minor local events or simply campaigning in their local constituencies. In addition, any images of popular (or unpopular) domestic and international political & social protest movements and people voting on electronic polling machines have been frequently requested. Also portrait images of all nine Supreme Court justices and the Supreme Court building (interior and exterior) would be greatly appreciated.

Environment: Popular image requests among our clients are the visible effects of global warming such as the declining arctic sea ice, shrinking ice sheets, glacial retreating, sea level rise, global temperature rise and warming in the oceans. Other popular requests include oil spills and their associated clean-up efforts, water and air pollution around the world, machines and vehicles using new energies such as hydrogen, biodiesel, liquefied natural gas, electric, ethanol or methanol. Also, if you have recycling photos, we want them! ”Green” is a growing trend, so you have photos of renewable energy technologies (such as solar power) or other environmentally friendly products, please send them.

Health and Medical: Our researchers indicate that photos of doctors’ visits and science labs top the list in the health category. Other specific topics mentioned are also modern medical technology such as MRIs, CAT scans & EEGs and emergency & hospital room activity, apparent drug overdoses, out-patient medical procedures, and people receiving flu or immunization shots. Also included in this category are images of people of all ages exercising, eating healthy, and participating in proper daily hygiene.

Miscellaneous: There are a wide range of images that PhotoEdit finds useful almost daily. In particular, we get many requests for animal photos; if you have good shots of animals in nature that would work well in a natural history book, we want them. Also, we are always looking for photos of the following: volunteering, children or teens doing chores, public speaking, crime scenes or crime labs using modern technology, law enforcement, and poverty. If you have a range of these shots, we invite you to submit them.

What We Don't Want

Generally, please do not submit photos of the following: sunsets, weddings, flowers, flags, shots of people from the back, boats, crops, crowds, museum exhibits, parades, American tourists, general crows shots or multiple shots of the same image. We welcome a set or series of a photo shoot but please do not send your bracketing results/similars with no obvious varition, so please self edit and thoughtfully select your photos before you submit them. When unsure of which shot is needed, your best horizontal and vertical of that particular shot in the series will suffice when possible. This will ensure a faster turnaround time when we go to review your images.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.