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 […]
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Here’s a small tutorial on how to effectively delete an image off Alamy straightaway. If you submit to the Alamy stock library you’ll be aware that when you request an image to be deleted you have to wait a full six months for that image to completely disappear from the […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Holy schmoly, we all gulped, gasped and said “huh?” when Getty Images, the world’s most famous stock library, went and bought out the microstock retailer istockphoto a while back.
Microstock libraries like istockphoto sell RF images for as little as $1. They have definitely had an effect on the sales of traditional RF priced photography as […]
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 […]
At some stage during your new stock photography career you’ll progress from shooting landscapes, your cat, small objects on a white background and begin submitting people shots. These are the money spinners, the real sellers.
At first the prospect of hiring professional models will seem daunting. So many people cut their teeth by shooting […]
Following on from my last post about the licencing types that offer buyers rights protection and exclusivity on the usage of your images its important to understand how to add restrictions so that the image is ‘locked’ and unable to be sold for the exclusive rights to other would-be purchasers.
Hang on…. why would anyone […]
