Alamy announce a ‘Find a Photographer’ service

photo credit: Caveman 92223
Alamy have announced today that they’re going to set up a section of the website where buyers of photography can “Find a Photographer”. Hats off to Alamy for a great photographer friendly initiative.

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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 [...]

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments – part three

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
In this part of our pricing photography tutorial I am going to start to describe a system for pricing up any assignment you are asked to do based on usage of the images you produce.

Tags: Assignment Photography, Getting paid, Photography Business, pricing photography

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments – part two

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Part One of this mini tutorial showed (by way of a rather spliffy video) the way not to go about pricing up an assignment. Poor old Mark Focus (great name eh?) decided that making it up as he went along was the best policy. And with disastrous [...]

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments – part one

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Just how do you go about charging for your photography? Is there a secret to pricing assignment photography work? How much can I charge? Is there a formula?
All these questions and more are asked on an almost daily basis by new photographers and those just starting in the [...]