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photo credit: Jeff Kubina

Doom mongers and naysayers have been predicting the collapse of the stock photography industry almost as long as Nostradamus has been predicting the end of the world.

So who is right?
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photo credit: lumaxart

Delving deeper into the meat and bones of the rather handy Alamy Measures tool PP explains the individual Pseudonym screen, what the columns on this screen mean and how to read them.

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photo credit: lumaxart

Those of you contributing to the Alamy stock library may have started exploring the Alamy Measures screens and may be confused by all the talk on forums about CTR and what it means.

This mini-tutorial is for you.

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photo credit: Daquella manera

Hmmm….not sure what’s going on here.

Went to log on to www.dpreview.com forums area just now and got a response saying I’d been banned. I try and log on a couple of times a week and as those of you who read this blog who also post there know - I rarely post outside the ProTalk forum, where I try to give positive and constructive advice on the business aspects of photography.

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photo credit: William Hook

As we wend our way gleefuly into the abyss (only kidding folks!) that is the ever growing, ever increasing pool of “professional photographers” (cough splutter) chasing less and less work, I took a look around an identified five types of photographers working in my area today.

Which one are you? Which one would you like to be? One thing is for sure. Once you’ve made your bed as one of these types you sure can’t move up the ladder. You can try but the evidence of your past shoot ‘n’ run exploits will be all over the net like a bad rash. Oh dear.

So, prospective pro’s out there (and buyers of photography who can’t seem to understand that they’re hiring a photographer and not a camera operator ;)) - lets have a look at the contenders.

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photo credit: DetroitDerek

I’ve lost count of the number of times this one comes up. Usually in photo forums. I wrote this post today on a forum. Thought I may as well copy it here for posterity!

So you think you want to be a Pro? All fast cars and naked girls? Yeah right….
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photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho

Welcome to the next part of the tutorial on pricing up assignment photography. This part is going to show you how to apply your base usage rate (BUR) to assign a license in a real world example.

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photo credit: Mzelle Biscotte

As I’m sitting here typing this, my other monitor is displaying a slideshow of contemporary images from the Photoshelter stock agency. Photoshelter is a new agency that launched in November 2007, promising a fresh take on traditional stock to their image collection.

So why are so many professionals who post on their forums so discontented?

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Here’s a small tutorial on how to effectively delete an image off Alamy straightaway. If you submit to the Alamy stock library you’ll be aware that when you request an image to be deleted you have to wait a full six months for that image to completely disappear from the Alamy system.

So how can we limit the saleability of an image we no longer want to be on sale?

Here’s how to do it.
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photo credit: Joshua Davis (articnomad)

A few days ago I happened to post some advice on the Alamy forum in a thread where a person had just sold their very first image. Overjoyed though they were, I pointed out that among other things they had better save some of the money for the…the…I can hardly bear to type it….the tax man!

Today I got a message from another contributor who asked me about my comment. They were under the impression that income from selling their photos on Alamy was not subject to tax. This prompted the following reply which I’ve expanded here.

Is money you earn from stock all yours? read on…..

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