Archive for the 'Licensing' Category

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Selling on Alamy: Royalty Free or Licenced?

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 [...]