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Here is a quick mini-course on how you can take marketable stock photos.

Your best teachers are the markets themselves: magazines, textbooks, websites, books, posters, and so on. Let these markets show you what they want. Analyze their image content and style.

You'll find they consistently feature images with these primary elements:

1. Background is uncluttered.

2. Reasonably close up.

3. Bold in design, poster-like.

4. When people are in the pictures, which is 90% of the time, they are shown pictured involved in meaningful activities or dialog.

Give yourself a quick course in how to take marketable pictures by selecting a published stock photo, and then going out and taking (within reason) the same photo. If its a winter picture, and today its July, you will need to compensate. You will be rewarded with new insight into lighting, composition, and the handling of models by replicating the photo of a "pro."

You will also notice consistencies in the pro pictures. For example, are they usually close-up or medium shots? Use such observations as a blueprint in developing your own illustrative style.

Use the checklist mentioned above to eliminate errors in your own picture taking. Tip the scale in your favor by submitting pictures that are marketable.

And, of course, keep in mind that rules are made to be broken (Art is in the eye of the beholder). Just to make things more challenging, youll find that all of the above four elements wont always be present in a marketable picture.

Rohn Engh is director of PhotoSource International and publisher of PhotoStockNotes. Pine Lake Farm, 1910 35th Road, Osceola, WI 54020 USA. Telephone: 1 800 624 0266 Fax: 1 715 248 7394. Web site: http://www.photosource.com/products

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A bad credit history is like having contracted an infectious disease. At least this is what most lenders perceive. Any requests for personal loans by people with a bad credit history are generally declined. They are charged an extravagantly high rate of interest, if advanced personal loans.

What these lenders fail to recognize is that the people who are currently rated as a bad credit case were sometimes having a good credit history. Some acts of the past, which were sometimes inevitable, became the reason for theirs being tarnished with bad credit.

It will be illogical to punish the people for acts of the past. Besides there are few means to guarantee that a person otherwise rated as a perfect credit case, may default on the loan.

Lenders have slowly started accepting the fact. The growing number of people falling in the trap of bad credit has brought home the fact that they cannot do without doing business with these people.

Besides opening practically every loan for people with bad credit, more and more loan products have come up to cater to the specialized group. There are similar options for the people with bad credit, as for the people with a good or average credit.

Bad credit personal loans are used for a variety of purposes like buying a car or going on a holiday. They are also widely used in debt consolidation.

Bad credit becomes irrelevant if the person has and is ready to keep some asset as collateral. The main idea behind the refusal to the people with bad credit is that they fear that the default will be repeated. With a collateral to back the personal loan, the lender is assured that the loan would not be defaulted. The borrower knows that he will have to lose the asset, generally home, if he defaults on the loan.

The requirement of collateral can be done away with in case of an unsecured personal loan. Lenders rarely offer such loans. A good credit history is a pre-requisite in such loans. But, there are always some lenders who take consideration of your case. Lenders accept borrowers with a bad credit history because of inevitable reasons.

Bad credit personal loans normally carry a higher rate of interest. This is because of the higher risk potential in such loans. One may also be overcharged on this account. The borrowers are asked to pay a hefty charge and have to face some inflexible terms of payment.

Nevertheless, there are lenders who charge reasonably lower rates of interest. Taking a loan is not a trivial matter. It puts an important asset to stake. It also affects the financial condition of the borrower. This makes a proper search for the loan a priority. Gone are the days when searching the loan market would have raised hackles of people. Today searching has become much simpler, thanks to the power of information technology.

The selection of the most appropriate lender is not that easy a task. Though made simpler through information technology, ones mental faculties are the best resort in the selection process. Lenders generally promise many features along with the loan. Borrowers take this bait and fall in the trap. Failing to maintain an optimum balance between an immediate comfort and a future comfort also leads to this trap.

Deciding the monthly repayments and the number of installments further strain your mental faculties. An expert advice from knowledgeable people will help in this decision. Being aware of ones financial condition, the borrower can decide the various details of the loan in a much better manner. Thus, the final decision is reserved with the borrower himself.

A bad credit personal loan has a positive impact on ones credit history, provided the repayments to the loan are made regularly.

James Taylor holds a Masters degree in Commerce from JNU he is working as financial consultant for

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