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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for April, Week Three #451C |
KEY WORDS: |
Travel Writer |
Fly-Fishing |
Photo Stories |
Freelancer |
Focusing |
Rainforests |
Canoe |
Germany |
Austria |
Copyright |
Protection |
Renew
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Be a Specialist...
in Your Chosen Subject Area...
John Longford is a freelance travel writer and has produced a course on how to break into the profession: www.FreelanceTravelWriter.com, info@freelancetravelwriter.com
Advance Note: While this article addresses travel writing and photography, the principal outlines can apply to any business.
By focusing your writing and photography (or both) on an area of particular expertise or interest to you, you as a freelancer can readily carve out a niche for yourself. This might be a subject such as scuba diving, fly-fishing, off-trail skiing, travel for teenagers or the over-50s, or a particular destination you are familiar with.
Don't think for one moment that you need to know everything there is to know about a subject before you can regard yourself as an expert. All you need is to know more about that subject than the average photographer or writer and the majority of your readers or clients.
And once you've published two or three photo stories or articles on a subject, two things will happen. Firstly, you will be regarded by others as something of an expert in that field, and secondly, you will have picked up a lot of detailed knowledge on the subject whilst researching those articles. In short..... You will be an expert!
Although one of the main benefits of being a freelancer is that you can work as a generalist and photograph or write about whatever you wish to, when you wish to, there are also benefits to focusing on certain subjects as your areas of expertise.
By focusing at least part of your work on a particular area or areas, you will command greater credibility when you approach editors with proposals. And once you've built up a reputation for yourself in a particular area, you might even find editors approaching you with assignments and commissions.
Another benefit of specializing is that once you've built up a degree of background knowledge on a particular subject, future photo coverage and/or articles will require less research as you'll already have many of the approaches and facts at your fingertips. You'll also have in your possession many fine details about your subject which are not widely known, even amongst photographers and writers, which you can use to greatly enrich your work.
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Copyright: How Long Does It Last? No. Works created on or after January 1, 1978, are not subject to renewal registration. As to works published or registered prior to January 1, 1978, renewal registration is optional after 28 years but does provide certain legal advantages. For information on how to file a renewal application as well as the legal benefit for doing so, see Circular 15 , Renewal of Copyright, and Circular 15a , Duration of Copyright. SOURCE: http://www.copyright.gov
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Robert Cranston
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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. BIG CONFERENCE COMING UP. The American Society of Picture Professionals ( ASPP ) Presents the Fifth Education Conference - The conference, in Phoenix, Arizona, April 24-27, will offer eight sessions with key panelists addressing the most pressing issues, generate robust discussions about the practice and place of photography in today's business, and explore ideas about its future. http://www.creativepro.com/article/the-american- CURVE BALL . Secret Service hates photography? The United States Secret Service asked a man outside the stadium of the Washington National's baseball team to delete a photo he took that included one of the stadium's security checkpoints. President George W. Bush was in the stadium to throw the first pitch for the team's opening day. http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70207 SPENDY PIX. Gert Elfering is selling 135 photographs from his collection, including naked shots of Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen. Elfering has spent his life moving on from reputations as fast as they are established. He studied law, turned to photography, swiftly became an entrepreneur and a buyer of pictures by Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton. It is the third auction of parts of Elfering's collection, which also include pictures by Herb Ritts, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Peter Beard. The photographs have a total estimated value of $2 million to $3 million, London-based Christie's said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ HE PHOTOGRAPHS HUMANITY. Houston FotoFest : "Independent Documentary Photography" presents the work of three photographers, Wu Jialin, Li Lang and Lu Nan, but by far the most powerful of these documentary photographers is Lu Nan. Lu works completely independently, disappearing for long periods of time in pursuit of his images. He is a humanist whose work focuses on social issues. In his artist statement, he says, "My job is caring about people." Three series of his photographs are on view at Winter Street. http://www.houstonpress.com/ DISCOVERY OF TWO CENTURIES. Historic Photo Pulled from Auction. Sotheby's auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, Sotheby's says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/ BACK THEN IN NAM . Four Vietnam War photojournalists to be interred at Newseum. Ten years ago this week, a U.S. military search team digging into a steep mountainside in southern Laos found camera parts, film, broken watches and bits of wreckage - proof that a South Vietnamese helicopter had been shot down there in 1971, an UH-1 Huey that was carrying four top-rated war photographers and seven Vietnamese soldiers. http://www.examiner.com/a-1313668~4_Vietnam_War_ NOW IT CAN BE TOLD. For the first time , iStockphoto has revealed how much money it pulled in by licensing large numbers of photos, videos, and other imagery for relatively small fees, and how much it paid out to the producers of that content. In a forum posting Tuesday, iStockphoto head honcho Bruce Livingstone said the Getty Images subsidiary had 2007 revenue of $71.9 million, and it paid $20.9 million to those who contributed the imagery it licenses. http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9 PROUD PHOTOG. Moultrie, GA resident Mike Maxwell sits among some of his award winning photography at his home. His photographs have placed in 'Open' category judging at contests in Georgia and Florida. In 2007, 18 of his 24 entries were awarded ribbons in the Georgia National Fair contest. The accomplishment also won him the contest's Sweepstakes Award. http://www.moultrieobserver.com/homepage/local_story_09 FAVORITES. What Stock Photography Sites Are Top-of-Mind with Marketers Today - The informal survey by The Marketing Executive Networking Group (MENG) generated about 50 responses, which the member was kind enough to compile and send back out for the benefit of others. http://rising.blackstar.com/what-stock-photography-sites- INDISPOSABLE RESULTS. Disposable Cameras Help Rural Afghani Students Document School Conditions - Without Internet access or even running water, the students were taught the basics of photography and created images sold at a fundraiser in Chicago. http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/5229/ HER DAD’S LEGACY. Daughter of the late A. Aubrey Bodine protective of the photography that defined her father The man she still calls simply "Bodine" died in 1970, leaving his daughter the copyright to the roughly 50,000 photographs he made in his career, but she inherited more than his work. http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bal-al.bodine06apr06,0,6461913.story?track=rss A SHARED PASSION. Photography project goes around the world photography exhibition that has its beginnings in 10 strangers who had nothing in common except a shared passion. The result is a collection of 50 pictures from 30 countries. http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/ RESPECT-FINALLY? Point, Click & Sell ...Auctions long considered the redheaded stepchild of the arts, photography has been gaining academic stature and experiencing substantial market growth. "There is less prejudice now against photography," an expert in the forum at Sotheby's said. http://www2.nysun.com/article/74268 BRIGHT STAR HIMSELF. Photographer Harry Benson makes stars shine. Although Harry Benson has also covered wars, revolutions and assassinations, the photojournalist is best known for his celebrity photos. You name the face -- Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Greta Garbo, Princess Grace, Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth -- and it could be a Benson image that you conjure up. As he sat among a retrospective of 60 years of his work at the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center, an exhibit sponsored by Architectural Digest, Benson reminisced about his work and the rules he lives by. http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/080404/5/4r6s.html
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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.
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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/
Leatha Robinson That “c” with a circle around it, ©, is the familiar copyright notice. On a photo, it alerts readers, and would-be infringers, that the photo is under U.S. Copyright Law protection. Does this symbol need to be displayed on all your photos for you to be protected? In other words, if someone uses a photo without the permission of the photographer, but the photo does not contain a copyright notice, is that person still guilty of infringing? The answer is yes. Someone who uses a photo they see in a publication, without getting the photographer’s permission (let alone paying him or her), is violating copyright, whether or not there’s a copyright notice on the photo. Under current law, photos are protected by copyright whether or not the photographer puts a copyright notice on them. However, the fact that a photo does not have a copyright notice on it may result in a lower damages award, under copyright law’s "innocent infringer" defense.
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What is a Light Box? A convenient method for photographers to upload several low-res pictures, and usually 5 or 6. These show up as thumbnails. To view them in larger format, click on the image. These images are for viewing, but rarely used for publication. (Their resolution does not qualify for general publication.) If you want the high-res (or a transparency) of the selected image in the Light Box, contact the photographer directly.
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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