When Flash first came out, photographers used to print postcards and catalogs absolutely loved the print-like look-and-feel of Flash Web sites. Unfortunately, they soon found out that photo buyers absolutely hate Flash functionality, which—to oversimplify—is much more restrictive than basic HTML and CSS code. Add to that the fact that Flash sites are generally rather unfriendly to search engines, and it is no surprise that most smart photographers opted for the more basic technologies. But they still love the way Flash sites looked, due in no small part to the fact that Adobe's software brought typography to the Web in a way nothing else did. Until now.
Artists who want more exposure and sales for their art will develop a
marketing program to promote their work. When that marketing does
not produce the results that were hoped for, the artist becomes
discouraged and gives up their marketing efforts. The Rule of Seven may
help to explain why an artist’s marketing effort does not create the
results that were envisioned.
A Selling Stock subscriber recently asked, “Do you have any idea of what are the actual market shares of Getty and Corbis worldwide?” A lot of guess work is required to answer that question as there are no longer any numbers publicly available to help in such an analysis.
Masterfile-owned Crestock Corp. has expanded its range of images and introduced several additional file sizes. The company statement takes a shot at other microstock providers: "One dollar means one dollar: Crestock has one of the simplest pricing models in the microstock sector."
Students and teachers needing images for research, term papers and projects can now get them from Britannica Image Quest, an online database of images sourced and provided by a London/Chicago-based Universal Images Group.
Veer has launched Free-For-All, a
series of four different one-week community challenges that aim to give
away $30,000 in prizes to participants who can try to win just by downloading free images, fonts, avatars, screensavers and wallpapers.
Many stock photography
professionals remain largely unaware of the widespread and
institutionalized practice of copyright infringement that plagues the
textbook licensing industry. The dual purpose of this article is to
provide a brief introduction to this phenomenon and, in doing so, to
help alert photographers, vendors, and other stock photography
professionals to the fact that major U.S. textbook publishers have
been—and, indeed, still continue to—systematically infringe third-party
copyrights in photographs that they use in textbooks and various other
materials. We also will explore some of the various factors that allowed
this situation to occur and go unnoticed, despite being an
industry-wide practice that has given rise to some of the most egregious
cases of copyright infringement in recent memory.
In a smart move that borrows from trend-setting technology practices of
newer image companies, Corbis has launched a contributor Web site to
provide a single pace for represented photographers to manage their
relationship with the company.
SuperStock refunds photographer royalties after purchasing U.K. agency.
I’d like to encourage you to take a look at some of the “Free Stuff”
available on this site. Click on this link
(
http://www.photolicensingoptions.com) and you find a list of Free Stuff
in the column on the right. The stories listed will give you a good
sense of the resources available on this site.
Agency professionals, service providers, photographers and those
interested in stock licensing are invited to the ASMP Meetup between
5:00pm and 6:30pm in the Javits Center Cafeteria on Friday, October 29.
Everyone interested in stock photography is invited; ASMP membership is
not required.
The president and chief operating officer of the Associated Press
recently spoke at the meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association in Austin. Although Tom Curly was addressing the news
industry, the issues discussed were identical to those faced by image
creators and marketers, particularly matters that address online and
digital uses of content.
Copyright lawyers Dan Nelson and Kevin McCulloch provide some background on how major U.S. textbook
publishers have been—and, indeed, still continue to—systematically
infringe photo the copyrights of the photographs they use in
textbooks and various other materials. They explore some of the
various factors that allowed this situation to occur and go unnoticed,
despite being an industry-wide practice that has given rise to some of
the most egregious cases of copyright infringement in recent memory.
Alamy is seeking an industry heavyweight to develop a worldwide news division.
“Our contention is that the iPad version of a magazine is part of the
rate base of that magazine,” said Condé Nast vice president of editorial
operations Richard Levine at the recent conference of the Picture
Archive Council of America. “A new strategy for acquiring content is
needed because it will be impossible to anticipate how imagery initially
acquired primarily for print use might be repurposed,” he continued.
This is not unique to Condé Nast issue, but rather a position other
publishers have already taken or will need to take in the near future.
With this article Dan finishes his five part series on the steps you need to take to become a professional photographer. Today he talks about Finding Success and
explores what it takes to achieve success in a
very tough, competitive and rapidly changing industry. The previous articles include:
Part 1- Making the Jump,
Part 2- Getting the Gear and Expertise,
Part 3- Marketing and Self-Promotion and
Part 4- The Business of Photography.
Richard Levine’s keynote address at the PACA International Conference,
“The Impact of the iPad and the Future Use of Content,” raised a number
of critical issues for the stock photo industry.
A new piece of legislation, “Combating Online Infringement
and Counterfeits Act,” is now working its way through U.S. Senate
hearings. Now is the time for anyone interested in copyright protection
to contact their senators and congress men or women.
For the second consecutive year, PicScout has made Deloitte’s annual
Fast 50 list for Israel. With five-year revenue growth exceeding 600%,
PicScout ranked at 14 overall and in third place among Internet
companies.
Photographers are primarily right brain people. We’re creative. We focus on the
subjective, the random, the visual and the intuitive. We tend to focus
on the whole picture first, then focus on the details later. That’s why
we bought cameras and chose a career that revolves around creativity. Business, on the other hand, is analytical, sequential, verbal and
it focuses on the details. These are all left brain ways of thinking.
Often times these clash with what may come more naturally to us, and the
result is that we’re just not always the best business people.