Comments on: Fight for your right to licence your pixels for a proper fee http://www.thephotographybiz.com/comment/fight-for-your-right-to-licence-your-pixels-for-a-proper-fee/ tips, tricks, tutorials, comment and insight on the business of photography Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fine art photographer http://www.thephotographybiz.com/comment/fight-for-your-right-to-licence-your-pixels-for-a-proper-fee/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 Fine art photographer Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:44:29 +0000 http://www.thephotographybiz.com/?p=184#comment-1517 Totally agree. These days an advertising company can make more money from a small resolution web banner than from a high-res print if done right. RF pricing is an outdated model and RM prices must be adjusted according to potential profit from the use. Totally agree. These days an advertising company can make more money from a small resolution web banner than from a high-res print if done right. RF pricing is an outdated model and RM prices must be adjusted according to potential profit from the use.

]]> By: Libby http://www.thephotographybiz.com/comment/fight-for-your-right-to-licence-your-pixels-for-a-proper-fee/comment-page-1/#comment-1448 Libby Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:40:23 +0000 http://www.thephotographybiz.com/?p=184#comment-1448 I keep a little photoblog of my city and store some of the shots on Flickr. They're throwaway shots. I'd never post any good commercial work on Flickr. Time and time again, I am contacted by those Schmap people who do the travel guides. I just reply every time saying "show me the money" and never hear back from them for the image in question. As I shot sort of "off the beaten path" I seem to get contacted by them a lot. Around photoblog world, there are tons of new shooters who are absolutely thrilled to be "published" on Schmap with a paltry credit line. The problem is that for every shooter that says No to companies like this, there will be 10 others that will. Melcher said "Stop being afraid of losing clients, afraid of tomorrow, afraid of big corporations, afraid of your own decisions." I stopped the freebies long ago and haven't looked back. I keep a little photoblog of my city and store some of the shots on Flickr. They’re throwaway shots. I’d never post any good commercial work on Flickr. Time and time again, I am contacted by those Schmap people who do the travel guides. I just reply every time saying “show me the money” and never hear back from them for the image in question. As I shot sort of “off the beaten path” I seem to get contacted by them a lot.

Around photoblog world, there are tons of new shooters who are absolutely thrilled to be “published” on Schmap with a paltry credit line.

The problem is that for every shooter that says No to companies like this, there will be 10 others that will.

Melcher said

“Stop being afraid of losing clients, afraid of tomorrow, afraid of big corporations, afraid of your own decisions.”

I stopped the freebies long ago and haven’t looked back.

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