HOLD IT! -- Ad Agency Guide To Photography Usage Terms - All questionable negotiations have historically defaulted in favor of the artist. Technically, even minor modification of the art requires the artists’ permission. You are RENTING, not buying an image unless explicitly stated on the contract.
http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/02/05/ad-agency-guide-to-photography-usage-terms/ GENERATE SALES -- Tips for Using Coupons to Market Your Photography - Coupons work because they create a new, urgent reason for you to buy something. Many PhotoShelter members tell us that coupons are an important part of how they generate sales of their photography and market prints and products to new buyers. A new feature inside of PhotoShelter lets photographers offer promotions.
http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/10-tips-for-using-coupons-to-market-your-photograp.html GET LINKS -- Why People Aren't Linking To Your Photo Website - Ten SEO Tips To Get Websites To Link To You.
http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/02/ten-ways-to-get-others-to-link-to-you.html WHERE ARE YOU? -- Nystrom Herff-Jones Education Division is looking for the following photographers: Adrian Masters, Ann Bancroft, David Robert, Dennis Hallinan, George White, Jacques Jangoux, Michael Hoare, Gines Quinero Santiago, Richard Simpson, Robert Buffington, Steve Elmore, Sydney Freelance, and Sylvain Grandadam.
If you have information about any of these photographers/artists that you would like to share, contact Chris Nelson, editor, at ccnelson[at]herffjones[dot]com or 773-279-3297.. WHAT’S YOURS IS OURS -- In the UK: The Digital Economy Bill ( Section 42 sections 16a, 16b, 16c enable ad hoc regulation ) is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which - unless amended, which HMG says it will not - will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
TAKEAWAY: Should you start watermarking everything? No, instead deal in a narrow niche of photo needs where you are making pictures of a subject matter that appeals to you. You'll find matching publishers out there. If your photo collection is deep enough, you’ll be partners with that publisher for a lifetime.
This message above is correctly shouting to you that now it is more imperative than ever to stop considering stock photography as an arena where you snap away at generic stock pictures with no game to market them somewhere except your favorite image gallery where you reside with millions (soon to be be billions) of other images. You should instead focus on a niche of your choosing and find buyers that match your topic area of interest and hook up with them. That’s the answer and it’s a cozy way most successful stock shooters operate. Quit making ‘stock schlock’ generic photos. Period. -RE
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/uk-gov-nationalises-orphans-and-bans-non-consensual-photography-in-public Microstock Money Shots – Book Review - Ellen Boughn’s book will be released later this year. It’s called ‘Microstock Money Shots – Turning Downloads into Dollars with Microstock Photography’. Lee Torrens is honored to be a small part of the book and the first to publish a review.
http://www.microstockdiaries.com/microstock-money-shots.html
Beijing: Behind the Scenes (July)
Chinese culture through your photography. Join Sean Justice for a behind-the-scenes, upclose and personal tour of Beijing, an urban powerhouse and city of many charms. Our host, the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, is a contemporary gallery and research institute devoted to photography as a fine art.
Instructor: Sean Justice
Dates: One-Week Workshops7/5/10 - 7/15/10
International Center of Photography
Education Department
1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
212.857.0001 | http://www.icp.org
ref: http://photoworkshops.shawguides.com/
In 1963 Andy Warhol gave Billy Name a 35-millimeter Honeywell Pentax camera, and he became the resident photographer and documentarian of The Factory days... at least for 7 years. He stopped in 1970 partly because of the businesslike attitude Warhol was adopting. But the NY Times reports that Name is now missing his archive of negatives! The photographer, who lives in Poughkeepsie, told them they're "in ghost land, man."
TAKEAWAY: More than fifteen minutes of fame lost.
http://gothamist.com/2010/01/09/billy_name.php NOTE: It’s up to you if you want to enter any of the contests we list on this page. It’s well known that some photo contest sponsors ask for free commercial use of the winning entries (or sometimes all of the entries!). You don’t have to guess who the winner of that contest is. Don’t give up any of your rights. If your photo is good enough to win a national contest, it’s good enough to earn many dollars for you in the future. So, enter photo contests keeping this in mind.
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