If you have an ALL ACCESS credential, you’re in luck. Clearly, you know the band really well, you’re working for whomever is bank-rolling the concert, you’re the offical tour photographer, or the tour manager is your best friend. Either way, All Access isn’t always “ALL ACCESS.” Further, if you’re only working at one of the … Read more
the first thing to do is, don’t sign those contracts that limit what you can do with your images. Doing so will mean that you can’t put them on your website to show you can shoot concerts, Don’t trade the rights to your photos to be given to the artist for a press pass. This’ll … Read more
So, it appears Google (GOOG) is expanding their Google Image Search into the “photo search” game beyond their images.google.com mechanism, which returns results from the entire internet, all proprietarily owned by the respective websites that display them in the first place (or those that the website has obtained them from). Enter Picassa’s “community photos” search.Now, … Read more
So, Monday 9/17 I’m off to Atlanta, speaking to the ASMP Atlanta/Southeast Chapter, and, because of serendipity, Photoshelter has asked me to be a part of their Town Hall in Atlanta, which is happening earlier in the day. For details on the Photoshelter program, which includes rountable discussions, and so forth, click here, For details … Read more
There is an exceptional article on Spec, titled “I Wish I Had Written This”, and I highly encourage you to Read The Article.“Spec” work, as outlined on Wikipedia. And check this out about spec as well.ASMP, APA, EP, PPA, and the Stock Artists Alliance published a Joint Statement (available here) that was widely distributed at … Read more
If it’s to be believed, there are rumors swirling around the internet that Google (GOOG) is going to launch their own stock photo service in the immediate future, and not one that includes the aquisition of GYI, but will instead become a competitor (albeit on the low end) to them.I posed the following questions to … Read more
Many in the photo industry are (rightly) up in arms over Getty’s self-destructive behavior, plummeting what from what amounts to a $900 image license of their RM imagery (when you add up all the commercial uses and 10 year term) down to $49, or what amounts to a 95% discount fire sale price on all … Read more
So, you’re looking to end up “behind the scenes” at a political campaign? No more shooting with long lenses, being told where you can – and can’t – shoot from? You’re looking forward to being a 17m-50mm lens user, with an all access pass. Maybe you are one of the true believers in the campaign? … Read more
After over a decade’s hiatus, the Strictly Business seminar program has made it’s return, titled Strictly Business 2. I can look back 10+ years, to when the original series visited my area, when I didn’t really have the $200 or so it cost to attend back then. I also didn’t have the $150 for an … Read more
Here’s a little “flying at 33,000 feet” perspective on asset aquisition, moved a bit into laymen’s terms.When you are a company like Getty Images, which has previously stated (pre-iStockphoto aquisition) that your rights-managed royalty-free library was generating an average image license of roughly $190 an image, that’s a metric you use as you look at … Read more
