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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 […]
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Stumbled across an editorial piece looking a the latest set of figures released by Alamy on the www.abouttheimage.com site here:
Editorial: Slicing and dicing the numbers at Alamy
I’m going to try and explain $PYPI and $RPI in a future tutorial but for now, have a read and see what’s happening at Alamy. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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Since the advent of digital more and more people are making images. That’s a good thing. The downside is that the explosion of photo sharing sites like Flickr and PBase have created a ready made amateur market for business savvy publishers to exploit.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re not doing anything […]
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 as […]
Rights ready image licences are a recent invention by stock photography library Getty Images. Introduced at the back end of 2006 to coincide with a new collection called ‘Lifesize’, Getty positioned this new licence type firmly between the traditional rights managed and royalty free licence types.
So what does a rights ready stock image license […]
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 […]
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 […]
