Archive for February, 2008

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments - part three

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
In this part of our pricing photography tutorial I am going to start to describe a system for pricing up any assignment you are asked to do based on usage of the images you produce.

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Creative Commons Wordpress plugin could spell big trouble for unwary blog publishers

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Uh oh,
A very large lid has just been taken off a huge can-o-worms that could have far reaching repercussions for both photographers and blog publishers who don’t realise what they may be letting themselves in for.

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Everyone is a photographer nowadays

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“My brother/sister/aunt/uncle/dad/mum/cousin/sister’s best friend………..
…………..is a photographer”
How many times have you been in conversation with someone and that line comes up? :)
It seems that everyone is a photographer nowadays.

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Stock Photography: Can you sell an image as RF and RM at the same time?

photo credit: alexanderdrachmann
Hoo boy….
There’s one “L” of a debate :) going on over at the Alamy stock photography forums (link to the debate at the bottom of this post). It seems that some contributors are placing the same image at two separate libraries with a simultaneous RM and RF license.
They are placing the […]

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‘Adsense’ style pricing license for images…….can this work?

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A very interesting new stock image licensing model has been announced. Its in its infancy and looks like the edges are still a bit rough but the concept has great promise.
It may change the way photographers sell images for web use forever..
One of the problems with the wondrous world […]

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Alamy continue to grow grow grow

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Stumbled across an editorial piece looking a the latest set of figures released by Alamy on the www.abouttheimage.com site here:
Editorial: Slicing and dicing the numbers at Alamy
I’m going to try and explain $PYPI and $RPI in a future tutorial but for now, have a read and see what’s happening at Alamy. […]

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Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments - part two

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Part One of this mini tutorial showed (by way of a rather spliffy video) the way not to go about pricing up an assignment. Poor old Mark Focus (great name eh?) decided that making it up as he went along was the best policy. And with disastrous […]

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