When you are a freelance self-employed photographer, getting to the
level of earning enough to support yourself and your family is
difficult. But you know you can do it, because you are willing to work
hard and you produce great, unique images that are better than anything
offered by the competition. Here are a few basic principles of the
photography business to remember.
This chart is designed to give the reader an understanding of the number of times images belonging to some of the top microstock photographers at iStockphoto are licensed in a given year and what that can mean in terms of gross revenue.
The Stock Artists Alliance has announced its affiliation with the
National digital Stewardship Alliance, a newly formed organization
dedicated to preserving digital collections for the benefit of citizens.
When you are a freelance self-employed photographer, getting to the
level of earning enough to support yourself and your family is
difficult. But you know you can do it, because you are willing to work
hard and you produce great, unique images that are better than anything
offered by the competition. Here are a few basic principles of the
photography business to remember.
Footage.net has announced surpassing 1 million stock video clips in its online
inventory. The most recent additions have been the libraries of
CriticalPast and DVarchive, which have also increased the size of
Footage.net’s royalty-free offering.
When I was recently
interviewed by Photonetcast, it became clear that my position on the best strategy for licensing
rights to images is misunderstood, so it is time for another
explanation. Granted, my position is radical, so bear with me.
In the last few years there has been dramatic growth in the use of
images on the Internet, a market for images that virtually did not exist 10
years ago. Some believe that the potential for growth of the Internet is
infinite, and that there will always be an ever-increasing demand for imagery.
Has the time come to take photojournalism off life-support? For the last thirty-odd years, Neil Burgess, director of NBPictures headquartered in London, has been listening to people talk about, or predict the death of photojournalism. This article, first published on EP/UK, outlines the sorry state of photojournalism today and comes to the conclusion that there is only one thing to do.
PhotoDeck is a new service that
launched out of Paris to provide photographers with e-commerce
photography Web sites. According to the company, the offering targets a
growing group of photographers who are cultivating direct client
relationships.
In the last few years there has been dramatic growth in the use of
images on the Internet, a market for images that virtually did not exist 10
years ago. Some believe that the potential for growth of the Internet is
infinite, and that there will always be an ever-increasing demand for imagery.