photo credit: wilhei55 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 wide [...]
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 results. He [...]
photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho Just how do you go about charging for your photography? Is there a secret to pricing assignment photography work? How much can I charge? Is there a formula? All these questions and more are asked on an almost daily basis by new photographers and those just starting in the [...]
photo credit: anyjazz65 Never in the field of internet forums has this thorny question arisen so frequently. Often asked by those with only a Royalty Free (RF) experience of selling stock images (like those coming from microstock) it is a good question. The world of Rights Managed (RM) stock selling is all very new to [...]
Rights ready image licences are a recent invention by stock photography library Getty Images. Introduced at the back end of 2006 to coincide with a new collection called ‘Lifesize’, Getty positioned this new licence type firmly between the traditional rights managed and royalty free licence types. So what does a rights ready stock image license [...]
