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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for November Week Two # 446B |
KEY WORDS: | Monetary Reward | Editorial Photographer | Art Director | Commercial Photographers | Long-Term | Sold And Re-Sold | History Markets | Future Annuity | Short Shelf Life | Day Rate | One-Time Use | Reprint | Promotional | Talent | Within Budget | Keywords | Captions | Search Program | Google | Amazon | Stock Photo Collection | Locating Pictures | Text | Web Crawlers | Traffic | Photosourcebank | Self-Assignment | Highly Specific Photos | Photo Researchers |
NEWSWORDS: | Is He Back? | A Helping Hand | Foto Fiction | Artistic License | Like Magic | Make Your Own Porn? | What’s With Imagestate? | Yard Sale | Kids, Kids, Kids | Fantasy Enters Photography In Digital Art Exhibit | Smithsonian Images |
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From the best photographer. . . .
Getting The Best Prices
Advance Notes : Your photo suppliers are photographers with cameras who usually choose lifestyle over monetary reward. That's why most editorial photographers live in small towns or rural areas. Our subscriber address list shows this. They'd rather shoot ten pictures for $200 each for a book-in-progress, than one fashion shot for $2,000.
One big factor for the editorial photographer who likes to work with book and magazine publishers is that there's no art director hovering over them dictating how they should shoot, as is usually experienced by commercial photographers.
LONG TERM ADVANTAGE
A long-term dividend for editorial stock photographers is that most of their editorial pictures can be sold and re-sold for years, to specialized or history markets. The pictures can serve as a future annuity for the photographer's family. Fashion images, and most commercial images, in contrast, have a short shelf life.
Do photo editors set a photographer's day rate? Most do. If the day rate set is not a fee (plus expenses) that a photographer feels they can work for, there are concessions you or the photographer can make.
CONCESSIONS
Here are some of the things you can say: "I will use the resulting photos for one-time use. You are free to incorporate them into your stock file, provided they will not be published by a competing organization within two years. For any reprint of our publishing project, domestic or foreign, we will re-license the photos at______ (dollars)."
You could also say, "We will send you ten copies of the (project) for your promotional purposes." And/or, "Since our focus is South America, the next assignment project we have in that region, we will put you at the top of the list to photograph for us there."
Since you value the talent and work ethics of this photographer, it's to your advantage to invent ways to keep within budget, yet entice the photographer to want to take on your publishing project.
Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and publisher of “PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter,” has provided on-line targeted information for photobuyers, photo researchers and editors for two decades. No other newsletter brings photobuyers such up-to-the minute, practical intimately familiar with both sides of the stock photo desk. For more info: https://www.photosource.com/photobuyer/ .
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Total Recall... Hello Keywords, Goodbye Captions Advance Notes: If you use a search program like Google, you already know the benefits. Why spend time in a reference library searching hours for information that you can find in seconds on the Internet? If you need hardcopy, well, then you can visit the local library. Or, you can buy the book through Amazon.com. Rumor has it that Amazon.com is now developing a process to upload all of the world's literature and have it available for research. And, naturally, Amazon will have the hardcopy available for sale. Does this give you a clue on how a stock photo collection of the future should be archived and keyworded? TWO METHODS Photobuyers usually have two classic methods of locating pictures. If they need a picture that illustrates a concept, they visit an on-line picture library and choose a picture that comes close. If they need a specific "needle-in-a-haystack" image, they choose to search for it on a text-based system, because it's fast and easy. Increasing numbers of photo researchers are using text ("keywords") as the method of choice to locate specific images. If a photographer includes keywords (what we used to call "captions") along with the images that they list or display on the Web, their chances to make sales have vastly improved, because the buyers are able to quickly pinpoint the source of a specific, hard-to-locate photo. BUILDING BLOCKS The amount of sales a stock photo collection makes will be based on the attention the photographer puts into providing complete text descriptors for each of his/her images. (This no longer means just "captions.") Web crawlers such as Google periodically go through the world's websites to gather information about images. If a photographer has definitive descriptions of each of his/her pictures, photo researchers can locate the source of images on the photographer's personal website and negotiate sales. This eliminates much of the formerly needed and dreaded paper work. Rather than depend solely on their own websites, which may not enjoy a lot of traffic, a quicker way for photographers to succeed through this method of research that is now coming of age, is to place a collection of their text descriptions in a service such as the PhotoSourceBANK here at PhotoSource International. Sites like the PhotoSourceBANK offer photographers high traffic volume. Photographers are provided with their own pages on the site, where they can enter 3,000 words or “long-tail keyphrases” (multiple keywords) describing specific photos available in their files. Each day hundreds of photobuyers check into the PhotoSourceBANK to search for a source of photos they need.* Each time a photographer comes back from a trip, vacation, self-assignment, or assignment, they should add keywords to their Internet presence. These keywords are the "building blocks" for sales of images in their photo collections. The possibilities for finding highly specific photos via the Internet are reaching new heights for photo researchers. Rohn Engh is director of PhotoSource International and publisher of PhotoStockNotes. Pine Lake Farm, 1910 35th Road, Osceola, WI 54020 USA. E-mail: info@photosource.com. Fax: 1 715 248 7394. Web site: http://www.photosource.com *In your browser’s address bar, type: search.photosource.com (no need to type the wwww)
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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. IS HE BACK? Pennsylvania hunter's images stir Bigfoot debate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_fe_st/odd_big A HELPING HAND. Campaign by photographer frees Iraqi interpreter - An Iraqi journalist and interpreter who was imprisoned without charge for almost 1,000 days has been dramatically freed following a campaign by photographer, Gary Trotter. http://www.epuk.org/News/733 FOTO FICTION. Fantasy Enters Photography in Digital Art Exhibit. An artist turns to digital photography to present realistic but imaginary images. The pictures aren't fake. They're more elaborate than that. They're complex works of photographic fiction painstakingly constructed from hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of individual analog photos in her personal archive. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139209-pg,1/ ARTISTIC LICENSE. Artist goes digital for photos that deceive - German artist Beate Gutschow's photographs are a study in extremes -- and deception -- as nothing is what it seems with every photo constructed using a computer. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071102/tc_nm LIKE MAGIC. Online photo retouching service - Fotofix is a new online photo enhancement service giving the general public the ability to upload snapshots and, after a brief wait, receive retouched, magazine-quality photos. http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/17365/ MAKE YOUR OWN PORN? Art teacher charged with voyeurism, surreptitious photography after his victims told police he had videotaped them while they were changing clothes. http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2007/11/05/update/ WHAT’S WITH IMAGESTATE? Stock Photographers Say Imagestate Is Ignoring Them - The Stock Artists Alliance, which has an ombudsman who works to solve problems on behalf of its members, says it has gotten no answers from Imagestate. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/ YARD SALE. Photojournalism on the Rise as an Art Form - Most photos by professional lensmen and women today are relatively affordable compared to other art forms. http://rising.blackstar.com/ KIDS, KIDS, KIDS. The many faces of children, in photography"Kids" showing at the Bell gallery, reflect the late 20th-century trend of using digital techniques to remove photography from its association with reality, essentially creating constructed images. Part fantastical and part realistic. http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/ FANTASY ENTERS PHOTOGRAPHY IN DIGITAL ART EXHIBIT. A German artist turns to digital photography to present realistic but imaginary images. The pictures aren't fake. They're more elaborate than that. They're complex works of photographic fiction painstakingly constructed from hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of individual analog photos in her personal archive. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139209 SMITHSONIAN IMAGES. A Photography Exhibit As Beautiful as Nature. Nature's best prize-winning photographs are up for viewing at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
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What’s a long tail search? Here’s an example of a long tail search for a specialized photo: Problem: You need this particular picture: Old City Jerusalem laundry in snow Solution: Go to Google, or another popular search engine. Type in: Old City Jerusalem laundry in snow photosource Notice the difference? Try it! You’ll discover the source of hard-to-find photos this way. Contact the photographer and you’ll find he/she usually has a deep selection on the subject you are researching. For more information: 800 223-3860 Or fax: 800 PHOTOFAX
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Subject: not needed: retyping When you send in photo-listings, now you can be free of repeatedly having to enter your address each time. How? Register just once at https://www.photosource.com/ Another way to find this page: go to our Home Page: www.photosource.com and on the upper right (blue) click on ‘search.’ The registration page will come up. Fill out the form. It will remain there next time you call up the page. You can change any of the info anytime you wish. –re
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Let Google find your stock photos for You. Scanning through dozens of off-target images can be time-consuming and eye-wearying, not to mention frustrating. A better way In the Google search bar, type a phrase or several words that best describes the picture you’re looking for. Then type a space and then the word photosource. And click. You’ll arrive at the PhotoSourceBANK. Your selection will appear (in text) on a page with the name and contact info of a photographer whose files include coverage of the subject matter you request. Contact the photographer to receive a lightbox selection of target images for you to review for consideration. Or, if the photographer is also a member of PhotoSourceGROUP, an icon will appear, that when you click on it will take you to an immediate view of the target photo or photos, ready for downloading.
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Edward Wallowitch. His outstanding editorial photography inspired yours truly in the early 70’s to enter the field and begin selling images to book publishers. Wallowitch passed away some years ago, and his heirs have now decided to offer Wallowitch’s entire collection for sale, to a private collector, museum, or stock library. 3 of his photos appeared in the PBS TV series on Andy Warhol. For more information, contact John Wallowitch, 411 East 51st Street, #1, NYC 10022 (212) 753-5748; wallowitch@juno.com – Rohn Engh
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