Whenever I stumble across a big photo competition I approach with caution. The bigger the promoter(s) and prize(s) on offer the greater my caution. The first port of call is always the terms and conditions where depressingly often you’ll find some legalise along the following lines; grant us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual right and [...]
April 30, 2011
Free images, on the face of it, appear to be a great deal for photo buyers users and a kick in the teeth for working stock photographers. Or is there a way free could actually work for photographers seeking to make money from their images? Making a reasonable return from stock photography in the current open and competitive [...]
February 2, 2011
DACS, the organisation in the UK that looks after artists rights and works to translate copyright into cash for producers of images, is currently participating in two important consultations which affect visual artists: the UK government’s independent review of copyright and the European Commission’s consultation on the implementation and impact of the Artist’s Resale Right. The digital [...]
January 19, 2011
The new year is, of course, a time for review and reflection. However, there’s not too much point making resolutions before considering what has and hasn’t worked in the past! I had a spectacularly unproductive 2010 in terms of adding images to my stock collections. With the exception of Alamy, where I grew my collection [...]
December 13, 2010
If anyone has been waiting (extremely) patiently for the follow up to my post on building a passive income from stock photography then this PDN article on timeless images that have sold countless times over many years will be of interest. Having a few of these in your collection will obviously help create that passive [...]
October 20, 2010
Since posting my tutorial on how to interpolate an image for Alamy submission the minimum image size requirements have been lowered. While Alamy still officially recommends upsizing images to 48mb in order to maximise “sales potential” the minimum that is now required is only 24mb. This effectively removes the need to do any interpolation on [...]
October 16, 2010
Or maybe not? If you’re into licensing your images for publication here’s something a little out of the box. While the pricing model of microstock still places it on the periphery of many stock shooters operating ‘box’ Redgage, in terms of pricing at least, is way out off the field. Redgage isn’t a stock photography [...]
September 17, 2010
A passive income is a beautiful thing. Money that flows to you without any or minimal effort on your part. It is something of a holy grail amongst many Internet entrepreneurs. I suspect there is often too little appreciation of the work that goes into creating such a happy situation; a passive income is usually [...]
August 5, 2010
DACS – The Design and Artists Copyright Society – is a not for profit organisation in the UK that collects fees for the photocopying of copyrighted material; including photographs. Each year it distributes £3 million of Payback royalties to visual artists, and if you’ve had iamges published in the UK you could well have a claim [...]
July 2, 2010
Crestock has been struggling for some time with backlogged submissions and poor response times to both contributors and image buyers, so for all concerned this should be good news. The scale of the microstock sector is making it difficult for small operations to continue to offer the levels of service required for continued success. It [...]
May 26, 2011