5 stock and photography business do’s and dont’s for 2010

photo credit: Crystl
And so the turkey is eaten, the beer is going flat, the Xmas jumper has been dutifully worn and thoughts turn to the New Year and the hopes and fears that may bring. Here’s PP’s handy guide to the 5 things you really do and don’t want to do if you [...]

Fight for your right to licence your pixels for a proper fee

photo credit: Vinay Deep
But it’s the web! It’s just a web image. It’s cheap. It’s not worth as much as print usage. It’s only 300 pixels wide. It’s small. It can’t be worth anything like a full page in the magazine. It’s just our electronic version. Nobody reads it online [...]

Friendly advice from “Dear Photographer”

photo credit: CoCreatr
Back in March PP posted some tips for new photographers advising on what NOT to do if they were to have a successful business. You can see “12 easy ways NOT to succeed”here.
Meanwhile a new site called simply “Dear Photographer” has emerged in a similar vein with some really great tips [...]

5 reasons to always use Photo Meta Data

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object [...]

Are Photo Awards worth the effort?

photo credit: evelynishere
Reading one of my favourite blogs this morning “A Photo Editor” who references a piece in Advertising Age by Jeff Goodby on the relevance of Awards in advertising. Jeff asks his audience if they are becoming “award-chasers” rather than producing relevant advertising material that can really impact how people think.

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