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 [...]

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.

Tags: Alamy, Assignment Photography, Comment, copyright, find a photographer, Getting paid, licences, licenses, Photography Business, pricing [...]

Alamy announce sympathies for the plight of the UK Newspaper industry

photo credit: Yukari*
If I could embed an mp3 of a violin I’d do it.
In a 6.30pm email to all contributors yesterday (March 18th) the CEO of the Alamy Stock Library, James West announced that the mainly editorial stock agency may well have to succumb to a subscription based model based upon unlimited downloads [...]

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

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Welcome to the final 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 license extensions for re-use of your images in a real world example.

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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