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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for April Week One## 439A |
KEY WORDS: | Photo Researchers | Hits | PhotoSourceBANK | Copyright Act | Unjust Enrichment Claims | Payment | Infringement Claim | Critique | Technical Quality | Targeted | Consistency | Style |
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Copyright Infringement Preemption-Revisited
Each month we report to you moves among, within and between: publishing
houses, stock agencies, photobuyers, photo researchers, ad agencies,
and design firms. BILL SMITH STUDIO (450 West 31st St 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10001) former contact and e-mail: Jessica Endelson, Photo Editor, jessiendels@aol.com ; current contact and e-mail: Liaht Pashayan, Photo Researcher, liaht@billstudio.com . APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB-BOOK DEPARTMENT (5 Joy St, Boston, MA 02108) former contact and e-mail: Vanessa Torrado, Senior Editor, vtorrado@outdoors.org ; current contact and e-mail: Brian Davidson, Senior Editor, bdavidson@outdoors.org . OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (198 Madison Ave 9th Fl, New York, NY 10016) former contact: Laura Nash, Photo Researcher; current contact and e-mail: Judi DeSouter, Senior Art Buyer, judi.desouter@oup.com . SWEAT MAGAZINE (736 E Loyola Dr, Tempe, AZ 85282) former contact and e-mail: Joan Westlake, Editor, editor@sweatmagazine.com ; current contact and e-mail: Glenn Swain, Editor, editor@sweatmagazine.com . USA EQUESTRIAN MAGAZINE (4047 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511) former contact: Jennifer Singleton, Production Assistant; current contact and e-mail: Sara Evers, Production Assistant, severs@usef.org . NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER (1145 17th St, NW Fourth Fl, Washington, DC 20036) former contact: Jenna Teison, Photography Intern; current contact: Gwen Norman, Photography Intern. WONDERTIME MAGAZINE (244 Main St, Northhampton, MA 01060) former contact and e-mail: Reesa Mallen, Senior Photo Editor, reesa.mallen@disney.com ; current contact and e-mail: Angelique Merolo, Assistant Photo Editor, Angelique.Merolo@disney.com . DIVERSION MAGAZINE (1790 Broadway 6th Fl, New York, NY 10019) former contact: Christine Casiano, Photo Editor; current contact and e-mail: Brian Miller, Photo Editor, djmiller@hearst.com . WHERE MAGAZINE (21200 Erwin St, Woodland Hills, CA 91367) former contact and e-mail: Craig Edwards, Creative Director, craig.edwards@wheremagazine.com ; current contact and e-mail: Stacey Rigney, Creative Director, Stacey.rigney@wheremagazine.com . JONES PUBLISHING (Box 5000, Iola, WI 54945) former contact and e-mail: Carie Ferg, Art Director, carie@jonespublishing.com ; current contact and e-mail: Stacy Ganzer, Art Director, stacy@jonespublishing.com . FELDMAN & ASSOCIATES INC (211 Waukegan Rd Ste 200, Northfield, IL 60093) 1. Former contact: Kim Kraichely, Photo Researcher; current contact and e-mail: Martha Hall, Senior Photo Researcher, mhall@feldmans.net . 2. Former contact: Deborah Becerra, Photo Researcher; current contact and e-mail: Jodi Gehrls, Photo Researcher, jgehls@feldmans.net . 3. Former contact: Nora Semel, Photo Researcher; current contact and e-mail: Barbara Barrows, Photo Researcher, bbarrows@feldmans.net . 4. Former contact: Marc Sirinsky; current contact and e-mail: Adeet Deshmukh, Photo Researcher, adeshmukh@feldmans.net . AVALON TRAVEL (1400 65th St, Ste 250, Emeryville,
CA 94608) former contact and e-mail: Amber Pirker, amber.pirker@avalonpub.com;
current contact and e-mail: Elizabeth Jang, Elizabeth.jang@avalonpub.com
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Sanjay Marathe
A Short Cut
For Photobuyers Photo researchers, art buyers, editors, designers, even everyday citizens, now use Google and other search engines to find hard-to-locate pictures, or photographers who have coverage of the subject area they're interested in. One way to locate "must find" images with the help of search engines is to utilize the PhotoSourceBOOK and the PhotoSourceBANK. HINT: To search, you can't just list a single word, like 'cat.' Searchers don't list single words because they know they'll get a million 'hits.' You can't list single or double words, --you have to be specific, with three and four words in a descriptive phrase (unless your subject is so rare that few photographers will have it, such as the name of a certain dog training school in Peru. Don't laugh -we get this kind of request all the time in our marketletter for researchers and photographers, the PhotoDaily). The PhotoSourceBANK is the electronic partner of the PhotoSourceBOOK, where photographers have entered more than 2,000,000 words and phrases describing the images they have available. The PhotoSourceBANK has been in business since 1999. Back in 1999 and 2000 few people could understand why we were building a databank of text, especially when image-based sites were becoming readily available on the net. But as the amount of images on the Internet grows, the law of diminishing returns takes effect. Searching through scores of images for a particular need can be time-consuming and hard on the eyes! The search process through text descriptions, in contrast, is automatic, immediate, and precise. We continue to build the PhotoSourceBANK and our goal is 3 million descriptive phrases referring to available images, by December 2007. TRY IT You can try it. Type (in Google) a phrase describing an image that you think would be hard to find (example: flyfishing in Sweden), and then type the word photosource, in the Google search bar. Or "vet doing eye exam on dog photosource." (Note the word photosource). You don't have to always use the quotes, but in some searches it narrows the search down quicker. Try some of your own out-of-the-way selections, the kind only you would have need for. Then try Getty, Jupiter or Corbis. You won't find such images there. (All you have to type in the address bar is search.photosource.com and the free research service will come up. (No need to type the http://www) A photo researcher will say, "Why search through thousands of woodpecker shots if what I'm really looking for is a Red Bellied Woodpecker in a hole?" So the researcher goes to Google and types in: Red Bellied Woodpecker in hole, then the word photosource. Presto! The photobuyer has found the source (the photographer) who has this hard-to-locate image, and it wasn't in Getty Images. Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/gen739.html
Note: The following might
give you some ammunition when communicating with photographers who don't
quite hit the mark. 1. ] TECHNICAL QUALITY. This means not only as applied to the content of your pictures, but also to the scanning quality of your images. Do you realize your scanned images are scratched and have dust spots? Plus, you are not sending images in the format required by our design department. Please pay attention to our requirements. They are outlined on our website. 2. ] ON-THE-MARK. The material you've submitted to us is not TARGETED. These pictures don’t conform to my photo request. I asked for pictures of waterfalls, and you submitted pictures of brooks and streams --"just in case" I might want to see them. My work schedule allows me to view only images that fit my exact need. You are wasting my time!!! ] CONSISTENCY. Your pictures are not cohesive in STYLE. Your images themselves do not have a consistent professional-looking style to them. That is, they do not look like they came from the same photographer. Some are excellent, some superior, and some –poor. Here’s a good way to test the cohesiveness of your pictures --and their professionality. Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/ed46.html Watch for developments in the field of stock photography in PhotoResearcher's PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS ````````````````````````````````````````````````````` You'll be the first to know. 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. LIFE OR DEATH OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
Just another 10 million images. Time Inc. is slated to end LIFE magazine
but keep it online NEW YORK. - Time Inc. said on Monday that it will
stop publishing LIFE, the iconic photography magazine that has been
featured as a weekly newspaper insert since 2004. Time will make LIFE's
collection of 10 million images available online, with "the most
important collection of imagery covering the events and people of
the 20th century" available for free for personal use, it said.
Note: How long will it be before they realize there’s ‘gold
in them thar images..” ASSIGNMENTS Getty Images Launches 'Orchard' to Meet
Growing Customer Demand for Boutique Assignment Photography - Customers
can choose from two distinct services: Orchard Artist Representation,
which offers elite, award-winning ANOTHER RODNEY KING CASE? Photographer facing trial
over crash pics – In this case, it’s not the police that’s
the concern but the photographer who took the picture of the police.
The photographer, Cavender, has been charged with a MIXED UP Photographers mix mediums in nature motif
"It's not photography and it's not painting," said Shana
ParkeHarrison. "It's made up of performance. It's made up of
puppetry. It's made up of photography, sculpture and collages."The
married couple incorporates these various mediums in their pictures
to communicate a naturalistic theme. ZOOMS GETS BETTER. The new universe of lenses for
digital photography means zoom lenses are no longer poor cousins to
the conventional lenses they replace. LEARNING BetterPhoto.com(R) Announces 3rd Annual
BetterPhoto Conference NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER Walking a path to beauty Falls
photographer visits parks regularly so he never suffers a `nature
deficit'. Nature photographs taken by Jim Roetzel have appeared in
1,500 magazines, calenders and books over the years. WILDERNESS PHOTOS Pictopia Launches National Geographic
Online Photo Store - Powered by Pictopia, the National Geographic
Photo Store Site lets customers purchase art-quality reprints from
the world's most amazing wilderness photos captured by the finest
international photographers. TEMPLATES StockLayouts Announces Enhanced Bundle
for Graphic Designers and Commercial Printers - The Design Kit - The
Design Kit contains hundreds of template designs for a wide variety
of business types. The five-volume design FROM PLAIN TO PRETTY Making art from tourists' digital
photos - Anderson, a software engineer turned new-media artist, has
taken tourist photos uploaded to the Web and turned them into works
of digital art. WEDDING PICTURES RE-APPEAR Stolen Camera Found With
Pictures Intact - When their photographer's camera was stolen, Karen
and Tory Nordlinder figured they'd never have keepsakes of their wedding
day. A year later the camera turned up in a vacant lot near a lake.
ROBOT PHOTOS iView Collaborates with Getty Images
to Automate Pro Photographers' Photo Submissions - "I can't wait
to use the Getty Images iView Submission Tool," said Joe Vaughn,
a lifestyle photographer. In this business, staying ahead of trends
means being first and fast." VENERABLE INSTRUCTOR DIES The Passing of a Legend
- World-renowned photographer, teacher, and long-time Shutterbug contributor
Monte Zucker passed way at his home in Fort Lauderdale, March 15,
2007. CLANDESTINE PHOTOS Each new version of Microsoft
Windows FOR TEENS Microsoft picks up UK online advertising
client CHAMP Roanoke staffer named Virginia news photographer
of the year -
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