Photographing real people is a pain, you can never get them to sit still or even find the right person and then it’s tricky trying to persuade them or finding the money to pay them to sit through your photo shoot.
So my solution is to switch from photographing real people and start photographing real small objects. The good thing about this is there are so many small objects lying around the house, waiting to be photographed. They don’t move, they don’t need to go to the toilet.
Bliss.
Also, stock photo sites loves small objects as very few people do them really well.