Archive for the 'Photography Business' Category

Did you get a jar of Vaseline with that email?

photo credit: Mulad.
Ouch! Seems that all is not well in the land of $1 images. Seems that the $1 image companies aren’t making quite as much profit as they want to and are making “some changes”.

Tags: microstock, Photography Business, Stock Photography

When does fair use of a photo become copyright infringement?

photo credit: bloomsberries
Good question.
I saw a statistic somewhere on the number of blogs that are created each week and it’s mind boggling. The number that make it to any sort of maturity is only a small proportion but its still, on a global scale, quite a few! Now imagine those [...]

10 top tips to improve your Stock Photography

photo credit: Suzie T
Shoot! The Blog over at the Photoshelter Stock Library has posted a great countdown of 10 top tips to help you improve your success with Stock Photography. I have to say that I agree with all of them, and especially Tip 1!
Get on over there and inwardly digest this [...]

Soft and lacking definition… just what do Alamy QC mean?

photo credit: DerrickT
Quick heads up for Alamy contributors having Alamy QC failure paranoia. I’ve been alerted to some great examples of Soft & Lacking Definition failures from Alamy QC over at andysmee’s blog here where he explains each type of failure with good 100% crops so you can see exactly what is being failed. [...]

Orphan Works Legislation explained….

Just what is this “Orphan Works” thing I keep hearing about. It’s all over the web now. It sounds pretty serious. Trouble is, there’s just so much out there to read (just Google ‘Orphan Works’ if you don’t believe me) and this is legislation, so its not exactly written in plain English.
But wait [...]