So, a colleague forwarded me a promotional e-mailing for commercial photography services, promoting a case study of their “83 locations one week” project for UPS. From the mailing:Assignment: UPS 100th Anniversary Tour For the Centennial Global Tour, UPS marketing agency The Spark needed photographs from around the globe for a traveling exhibit showcasing exceptional employees … Read more
I’ve been fortunate that my name’s not John Smith or John Doe. The last name of Harrington is, relatively speaking, unique. I have friends that are Chris Anderson, Chris Morris, Patrick Johnson, and there’s more than one of them that are professional photographers. Heck, even Kevin Gilbert, of Bluepixel fame has someone – also in … Read more
Today’s Speedlinks.Top Ten Lies Told to Naive Photographers – “Well, the job isn’t CANCELED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two”, and 9 more! (Plus insights/responses!This is Just Getting Stupid – Daryl Lang’s Take on “Retouching” of Celebrities, over at PDNPulseJimmy D’s PrettyGirlShooter – This *NSFW* site has … Read more
With Digital Railroad launching their Marketplace in beta 9 months or so ago, and entering v1.0 back in April, I thought I’d take a look at how they’re doing, based upon my own experiences, client experiences, and so on. I’ve broken down the piece into several pieces, as it’s rather lengthy.Digital Railroad – All Aboard?Digital … Read more
Back when DRR launched their Marketplace, I wrote about it on April 11th, 2007 (The Marketplace is now Open). I had previously uploaded a collection of my archives to them – all analog scans from my film days, as well as some of my more current digital imagery, Keyworded, properly captioned, and so forth. I … Read more
So, how do those buyers know that the Digital Railroad Marketplace even exists? They, of course, have a blog. They also are making outreach to photo editors with stories of fresh/unique content via their marketing resources which go out multiple times a month – their August Buyer Newsletter can be seen here. They also have … Read more
I wrote previously about Digital Railroad being the provider of the back end capabilities for the New York Times digital archive in my article on July 30th (“Reelin’ in the Big Fish”), and that trend seems to be continuing.For nearly 60 years, DDB has been at the forefront of the advertising game, and I have … Read more
When they launched, I was a believer in the concept of paying a monthly fee to have my images online, and downloadable. As with my website, which was originally designed not “to be found”, but rather, as a URL I could provide to prospective clients to look at my work, rather than ship my portfolio. … Read more
Digital railroad of course, must serve it self (and it’s investors). However, that turns out to be a byproduct of serving up images (mine, and many others) that generate revenue for photographers. And we, in turn, get to serve up services that meet client access needs, as well as serving the secondary market for these … Read more
I have great respect for my colleague Jim Pickerell. So much so that almost about a decade ago, I hired him as an expert witness. Yet, I’m going to have to disagree with his example of a microstock success – Erik Reis: Microstock Success Story, over on Black Star Rising.I responded, in parts:“microstock photographer Erik … Read more
