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PhotoRESEARCHER |
PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for September Four # 444D |
KEY WORDS: | Hard Drive | Corporate Executive | Hoaxes | Photoresearchers | Royalty-Free | Higher-Ticket Image | Subscription-Based Model | Vertical Markets | Curtail Freedom | Video | Zombie Computers | Security | Viruses |
NEWSWORDS: | Who Took Those Photos? | Under The Cover of Darkness | Fotoquote Helps Out | PACA Punch | Framed | Real or Unreal | Good Stuff | Un-Budge |
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Goodbye Big Brother; Hello Peer-to-Peer... a forerunner
of what’s to come...
Straight From The Hard Drive
ADVANCE NOTES: They said it would come. We wrote about it back in '95 and '96. It’s royalty-based picture-selling. No, not royalty-free, but Royalty with a capital R. MP3 music files, remind us that selling direct to photobuyers may eventually be the distribution system of choice for freelance stock photographers (and photobuyers).
W e all know that big business dictates to musicians what music they should be writing and performing. Ask Tony Bennet, Angus Young, and Fergie. Unless musicians cooperate with the big label companies, who control the purse strings, they have little chance of enduring in the mainstream of commercial music. An upstart has little chance to go to the top of the charts without an infusion of promotional dollars from big business. The overall result is the production of mediocre music that the gurus at the big label companies believe appeals to the masses, the common denominator.
Too bad for the creative, inspired music that never sees the light of day. With very rare exceptions, stifled musicians either bow out of the game, or make compromises to at least part of the time toe the line set by music company executives.
THE BYPASS
Move over, executives. Hard drive to hard drive is here. Downloading MP3 files, through today’s technology, is easier than ever. No corporate executive is at the toll-gate dictating the content and style of the product.
What’s so important about all this for stock photographers and photoresearchers?
This distribution process paves the way for the possibility of an entirely new delivery method for photographers, artists, game makers, musicians, and writers, who have historically been at the mercy of middle-men to promote and distribute their work. It’s called peer-to-peer. Your hard drive to my hard drive, without going through the Web.
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CHANGES Each month we report to you moves among, within and between: publishing houses, stock agencies, photobuyers, photo researchers, ad agencies, and design firms. RESPONSE MAGAZINE ( 475 Riverside Dr #1501, New York, NY 10015) former contact and e-mail: Dana Jones, Editor, djones@gbgm-umc.org ; current contact and e-mail: Barbara Wheeler, Editor, bwheeler@gbgm-umc.org. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE ( 1101 Forteenth St NW Ste 1400, Washington, DC 20005) former contact and e-mail: Mary Selden, Photo Editor, photobuyer@defenders.org; current contact and e-mail: Peter Corcoran, Designer, photobuyer@defenders.org. AMERICAN FITNESS MAGAZINE ( 15250 S Ventura Blvd Ste 200, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403) former contact: Bonnie Lee, Co-Managing Editor; current contact: Kevin McGuire, Co-Managing Editor.
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Edward Ewert
Watch
for developments in the field of stock photography in
PhotoResearcher's Newsletter Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL. WHO TOOK THOSE PHOTOS? “Apparently an unknown press photographer took it upon himself to re-present well-known pictures made by known photographers of the past for his own benefit and glory. He took credit for others' photographs in writing and during interviews. This was not a mistake of memory; it was intentional.” http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0708/the- UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS. Nighttime Digital Photography With Adobe Photoshop CS3. Book. Have you ever looked at some nighttime images and wondered how they were able to achieve such good results? http://blogcritics.org/archives/ FOTOQUOTE HELPS OUT. PhotoShelter Launching Community-Based Stock Site - The service will create a searchable, edited image library. It will pay 70 percent royalties to participating photographers when images sell. Contributors will set their own prices, with guidance from the built-in fotoQuote software. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_di PACA PUNCH. PACA's New Site Packed With Critical Resources - Redesigned website brings interactive information to stock photo businesses. http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/ FRAMED. Criminal checks for photographers? - Criminal Records Bureau checks for photographers working with models could become compulsory reports. SkyNews. http://www.epuk.org/News-snippets/684/criminal-checks-for-photographers REAL OR UNREAL. Outrage as amateur fakes prize-winning photo - Derek Stein told The East Lothian Courier that he digitally added the massive trees to his prize-winning photograph of Aberlady Bay to "enhance and balance the photograph". http://www.epuk. GOOD STUFF. Shutterbug Learning Center - The Shutterbug Co-Op is a compilation of resources gathered by the Editors that allow you one-click access to an array of free trial software, how-to tutorials from a variety of manufacturers and other information of interest to photographers. http://shutterbug.com/news/09110 UN-BUDGE. Getty Offers Slight Concession In $49 Pricing Program. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/
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The Video Shows You How See exactly how a photobuyer finds pictures by using the PhotoSourceBANK. Check out our brief video that shows researchers and photobuyers the simple and quick system that leads directly to photographers who have the pictures they need. Finding a specific content photo using the Internet. ####################
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#################### PhotoResearcher, get a handle on this easy way to post your photo needs and get fast results, from a select group of professional photographers. Check out our brief video that takes you through three simple and quick steps to locate the photos you need. Finding a hard – to – locate photo using the Internet.
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#################### For photo researchers, the Internet has finally matured... Easy Photo ResearchSay good bye to long, harrowing, frustrating searches when you need an EXOTIC, UNIQUE, HISTORICAL, CELEBRITY, SCIENTIFIC, HARD-TO-FIND photo. Now you can use the Internet to quickly locate the source of a hard-to-find image, and save yourself tons of labor and time. And it's FREE. Here's how: Step 1: Using the popular search engine, Google, type in the words or phrase that describes the picture you need. Step 2: Then type a space (on the same line), and then the word, photosource. (We have a million and a half text descriptions of available photos.) Step 3: The source (or sources) of the photo you need will appear on your screen. You can be sure you will be dealing with a qualified photographer. Click on his or her name. When their page comes up, scroll down the page of text until you see your request highlighted in red. Step 4: Phone, fax, or e-mail the photographer and request a digital sample (or lightbox) to view the image choices. You deal directly with the photographer for payment for the use of the photo. No middleman fees. For a fast check on how this works, go to Google and type one of the following phrases into the search bar: To locate a particular town or village: Summerland Key , Florida photosource To find an exotic weed, or flower: Ageratum houstonianum photosource An historical event: Emperor Haile Selassie Lighting Bonfire photosource To find a geographical location: New Hampshire covered bridge photosource - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We’re seeing that the Internet can be a powerful tool for quick and easy photo research.
#################### HOAXES AND VIRUSES Computer viruses are like colds. You usually don't know where they come from and you don't know (usually) if you're passing one on to others. Most computer viruses arrive in attachments. If you receive an email with an attached file from an unknown source, it's simply best to delete it. As for hoaxes, they're scare messages that are sent out by mini-hackers to get their jollies. For a list of now familiar hoaxes, go to: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/
#################### TRAVELERS ABROAD Photobuyers: Watch this column. For the e-mail address, phone or fax number of the traveling photographer, call the PhotoSource International office and ask for Rohn Engh (1 800 624-0266). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers. Pamela York Shawn McGrath
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