Alamy Measures primer: The individual Pseudonym and CTR % screen

photo credit: lumaxart
Delving deeper into the meat and bones of the rather handy Alamy Measures tool PP explains the individual Pseudonym screen, what the columns on this screen mean and how to read them.

Tags: Alamy, Alamy Measures, Photography Business, Statistics, Stock Photography

Alamy Measures primer: Understanding Views, Zoom and CTR

photo credit: lumaxart
Those of you contributing to the Alamy stock library may have started exploring the Alamy Measures screens and may be confused by all the talk on forums about CTR and what it means.
This mini-tutorial is for you.

Tags: Alamy, Alamy Measures, Photography Business, Statistics, Stock Photography

Five types of Professional Photographer - which one are you?

photo credit: William Hook
As we wend our way gleefuly into the abyss (only kidding folks!) that is the ever growing, ever increasing pool of “professional photographers” (cough splutter) chasing less and less work, I took a look around an identified five types of photographers working in my area today.
Which one are you? […]

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments - part four

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Welcome to the next part of the tutorial on pricing up assignment photography. This part is going to show you how to apply your base usage rate (BUR) to assign a license in a real world example.

Tags: Assignment Photography, licences, licenses, Photography Business, pricing photography, usage

How to effectively delete an image off Alamy straight away

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Here’s a small tutorial on how to effectively delete an image off Alamy straightaway. If you submit to the Alamy stock library you’ll be aware that when you request an image to be deleted you have to wait a full six months for that image to completely disappear from the […]

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

Creative Commons Wordpress plugin could spell big trouble for unwary blog publishers

photo credit: cell105
Uh oh,
A very large lid has just been taken off a huge can-o-worms that could have far reaching repercussions for both photographers and blog publishers who don’t realise what they may be letting themselves in for.

Tags: Comment, copyright, credit lines, flickr, Photography Business, releases, usage, wordpress plugin

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 the […]

‘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 […]