Video Supply Grows

By Jim Pickerell | 535 Words | Posted 4/20/2012 | Comments
Alamy reported this week that it is moving into stock video with an initial offering of over 100,000 video clips from some of the most respected stock video agencies and videographers around the world including: Corbis, Blend,  Image Source, Rubberball, Specialist Stock, DV Archive, Spotmatik, Wave Break Media and Aqua Geo Graphic.

Aurora Multimedia Workshop

By Jim Pickerell | 232 Words | Posted 4/19/2012 | Comments
The Aurora Multimedia Workshop designed to prepare photographers for creating effective multimedia projects will examine the challenging new world of visual storytelling from May 29 through June 1, 2012 at the University of Colorado campus in Bolder.

Keynote Speakers At CEPIC

By Jim Pickerell | 321 Words | Posted 4/19/2012 | Comments
At the CEPIC Congress in London on 16 through 18 May each day will begin with an inspiring key note address. The speakers are listed here.

World’s Most Downloaded Man

By Jim Pickerell | 517 Words | Posted 4/18/2012 | Comments
Everywhere Brazilian photographer Ferando Martins, head of Brazil’s Câmera Clara Photography Studio, looked he kept seeing the same face. Jesper Bruun, a native of Denmark, was everywhere. He was a tourist in Australia, a rockstar in France, a family man in Bolivia.  He and a young woman were customers for Banco do Brasil and he is also pictured as a call center worker for Deutsche Bank. Martins’ customers seemed to prefer using images of Bruun rather than images Martins could produce.

PicturEngine: New Portal

By Jim Pickerell | 1738 Words | Posted 4/17/2012 | Comments (1)
A new search engine called PicturEngine is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere. It has recently been released in Beta after four years in development. The founder, Justin Brinson, also owns two agencies: Corner House Stock Photos and Picturesque.

PDN Outdoor Photo Expo

By Jim Pickerell | 285 Words | Posted 4/16/2012 | Comments
The second annual PDN Outdoor Photo Expo (OPE) will be held in Salt Lake City August 1-4, 2012 and registration is now open. Outdoor Photo Expo is the only educational conference and trade show dedicated to outdoor photography, including adventure, landscape, nature, outdoor sports, travel and wildlife.

CEPIC Congress

By Jim Pickerell | 409 Words | Posted 4/13/2012 | Comments
The CEPIC Congress, the premier international event for those who license rights to stock photography is only a little more than a month away.

Corbis Announces Partnership with LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph

By Jim Pickerell | 295 Words | Posted 4/13/2012 | Comments
For the second consecutive year Corbis will be the exclusive media broadcast partner p with the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va. from June 7-9.

Alamy’s Novel Use

By Jim Pickerell | 744 Words | Posted 4/12/2012 | Comments (1)
Back in 2008, in an effort to try to compete with microstock, Alamy introduced its Novel Use licensing model. This strategy allowed the company to license RM and traditional RF images for very limited small uses without risking loss of revenue when these same customers wanted to make larger uses of the images.

What Value Exposure?

By Jim Pickerell | 780 Words | Posted 4/11/2012 | Comments (2)
Publishers are asking for free pictures more frequently. Usually they argue that the recognition a photographer receives from having his or her pictures appear in their publication is all the compensation the photographer should expect. Often they don’t even publish a byline.Thus readers have no way of knowing who took the picture.

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.