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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
