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5 stock and photography business do’s and dont’s for 2010

photo credit: Crystl
And so the turkey is eaten, the beer is going flat, the Xmas jumper has been dutifully worn and thoughts turn to the New Year and the hopes and fears that may bring. Here’s PP’s handy guide to the 5 things you really do and don’t want to do if you [...]

Fight for your right to licence your pixels for a proper fee

photo credit: Vinay Deep
But it’s the web! It’s just a web image. It’s cheap. It’s not worth as much as print usage. It’s only 300 pixels wide. It’s small. It can’t be worth anything like a full page in the magazine. It’s just our electronic version. Nobody reads it online [...]

5 reasons to always use Photo Meta Data

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object [...]

Are Photo Awards worth the effort?

photo credit: evelynishere
Reading one of my favourite blogs this morning “A Photo Editor” who references a piece in Advertising Age by Jeff Goodby on the relevance of Awards in advertising. Jeff asks his audience if they are becoming “award-chasers” rather than producing relevant advertising material that can really impact how people think.

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How to deal with clients who want your photography for the cheapest possible price

photo credit: PetroleumJelliffe
I was sent a link to a video on YouTube this week by a friend who laughed and said “this always happens to me”. I don’t know who made this video but it shows the kind of problems many photographers face on a daily basis. Especially in this current recession.

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