Archive for the 'Stock Photography' Category

It’s stock Jim but not as we know it a.k.a. Are Photoshelter having a laugh?

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 [...]

Is my income from selling stock photography tax free?

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 can hardly [...]

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 [...]

‘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 wide [...]

Alamy continue to grow grow grow

photo credit: PPDIGITAL Stumbled across an editorial piece looking a the latest set of figures released by Alamy on the www.abouttheimage.com site here: Editorial: Slicing and dicing the numbers at Alamy I’m going to try and explain $PYPI and $RPI in a future tutorial but for now, have a read and see what’s happening at [...]