Archive for March, 2008

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments – part four

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.

It’s stock Jim but not as we know it a.k.a. Are Photoshelter having a laugh?

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 [...]

Is my income from selling stock photography tax free?

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 [...]