Editor Talk

Advance Notes: In this Digital Age, one of the areas of concern to photo researchers is the issue of how photo suppliers should submit images. The protocols vary from one photobuyer to the next. To give you a look at the scope different buyers represent, the following examples have been culled from recent photo listings that appeared in the PhotoDaily marketletter.

Do all photo editors, researchers, art directors, and designers speak the same language? No, they don’t.
We excerpted and translated a selection of typical one-liners from some of these professionals, to compile a ‘mini buyers’ glossary.

HOW YOUR COLLEAGUES EXPRESS IT

From: Chris Henry, Editorial Image Coordinator, THE TERRITORY AHEAD
Text: All submissions should be digital files approximately 5x7 at 150dpi. (If your files are not at least this size, they will not be able to be considered.)
Translation: “Don’t send point ‘n’ shoot low-res images.”

From: Teresa Lewis, Custom Publications Editor, LEISURE PUBLISHING COMPANY
Text: Submit by e-mail or upload them at www.leisurepublishing.com/uploads.
Translation: “But be sure to know how to find your pictures in your database and be able to upload to this URL. If you are not computer literate, it’s better to send us a lightbox or individual ipegs.”

From: Sheri Arrendondo, Photo Researcher, FIRST LIGHT PHOTO RESEARCH
Text: If possible please provide caption information. Inquire only if you have this specific image requested.
Translation: “I need identification material: who, what, why, where, when -- if appropriate. I want to see only the photo I have listed.”

From: Susan Watkins, Photo Editor, HARCOURT SCHOOL PUBLISHERS
Text: If e-mailing please send in small batches.
Translation: “Don’t send a great pile of attachments. If you are sending several jpegs please send in small batches--say, 3 or 4 per e-mail.”

From: Jodi Gehrls, Photo Researcher, FELDMAN & ASSOCIATES, INC.
Text: We like to see a low-res, then call for the hi-res if we like what we see. We rarely deal with analog -- unless it’s an outstanding image, in which case we send the digital picture to our Imaging Department where they clean it up if it needs it.
Translation: “Don’t send hi-res initially. Don’t send transparencies. We prefer digital. If your scan has imperfections, and we choose to select your image, our Image Department will clean them up.”

From: Danya Bealy, Photo Editor, FORD FOUNDATION
Text: Eye contact with the camera, people essential.
Translation: “We need real-life photos. Nothing posed, no models, real people, please.”

From: Nancy Choi, SCHOLASTIC
Text: Prefer natural setting, not a studio setting.
Translation: “Please, no models. We need real-life situations.”

From: Sue McDermott, Picture Researcher, MAGELLAN VISUAL RESEARCH INC.
Text: This is NOT a contract for “work-for-hire” –any photos that you take in response to this request are “on speculation” –no promises are made or intended that any photos submitted will be published.
Translation: “Don’t consider this photo listing an assignment.”

From: Lori Epstein, Illustrations Editor, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Text: If possible you should stuff a folder of small jpegs for my review.
Translation: “Send me a lightbox.”

From: K.C.(Kathryn) Compton, Editor in Chief, THE HERB COMPANION: HERBS FOR LIFE
Text: Very high resolution, clear, uncluttered images are a requirement.
Translation: “Make your images poster-like. No cluttered backgrounds.”

From: Seth Firestone, Editorial, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE
Text: We are able to view digital or online submissions, but prefer original 35 mm slides and prints.
Translation: “We will view thumbnails but eventually will need the original.”

From: Sarah Ritz, Academic Division Photo Manager/Photographer, HUMAN KINETICS
Text: If selected we will need the original, slide, print or transparency for production. Scans smaller than 350x500 ppi will not be considered for review.
Translation: “Even though you have scanned the image, we nevertheless need the original slide or negative.”

From: Krista Rossow, Assistant Photo Editor, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER
Text: Please do not send images from the 80’s or 90’s. The more recent, the better.
Translation: “We need up-to-date, preferably current, images.”

From: Trudi Bellin, Photo Coordinator, REIMAN PUBLICATIONS
Text: Location and caption increase chances of publication.
Translation: “We need plenty of identifying captions.”

Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and best-selling author of “Sell & ReSell Your Photos” and “sellphotos.com,” has helped scores of photographers launch their careers. For access to great information on making money from pictures you like to take, and to receive this free report: “8 Steps to Becoming a Published Photographer,” visit http://www.sellphotos.com

Dennis Cox

Do Your Photographers
Need Model Releases?

Photo columnists, unaware of their First Amendment Rights, have been fanning the fires of this hotly debated question for decades. A wall of mythology has built up around the subject, and I'll make the first move to break it down for you. To give you a simplistic answer: No, they do not need a model release.

You may now get up off the floor and sit back down. I'll ask you to be open to a re-programming process. First, a few questions: Have you ever seen a newspaper photographer ask for a model release? Did the video photographer in the Rodney King case ask the policemen or Mr. King for a model release?

If the photo you are using is informing or educating the public, you do not need a model release.

And this is where the confusion comes in. Here at PhotoSource International we encourage you to follow the trail of the new generation of new media. Its emphasis is the publication trade: magazines, books, and electronic media. About a million dollars a day are spent in this category of stock photography, whose essential use is to INFORM and to EDUCATE. Photobuyers in this arena rarely require a model release, unless the photo is so sensitive that it might compromise a person in some way. Short of highly sensitive areas such as drug abuse, sex education, mental retardation, certain medical subjects, religious issues, you won't find photobuyers asking for a model release.

“How and why was I under the impression that model releases are always required?" you ask.

Most of the teaching and training in the USA for people working in the photography field, is slanted to COMMERCIAL photography, where a model release is always needed.

As stock photography grew and became more prevalent, commercial photographers switched over to media photography, and brought along with them the rules for commercial photography: i.e. a model release is needed. Since most classic stock photography is used for commercial purposes, these photographers are right, a photo needs a model release if it is being used in the commercial sector (for advertising or promotional use).
Most of the horror stories concerning model releases that you may have read about have to do with commercial photography (for ads and in relation to sales and products for purchase), again, where YES, you do need a model release.

Enter the publishing world. Stock photographers, focussing on editorial (not commercial) photographs and operating in a free enterprise society, have a powerful law on their side, namely the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment in effect says anyone can freely photograph in public as long as they are not breaking any local laws, such as trespassing. Large publishing houses, which spend $50,000 to $150,000 per month for photography, are vigilant about protecting their First Amendment Rights, and in so doing, they protect photographers’ First Amendment Rights. If Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt Brace, etc. were to require model releases for the pictures they use, they would soon go out of business, because media photographers would not put up with the chore of getting model releases for slews of editorial, “non-posed” pictures.

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DISAPPEARING Non-native species, tourism, and overpopulation are threatening the Galapagos, the archipelago which inspired British naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment

WILL COSMOPOLITAN GO TOO? Are You Ready for the Decline of Print Publications? - If you want to continue to take pictures for a living, it's time to start learning to shoot video. Why? Because newspapers and magazines, the lifeblood of professional still photographers, are beginning to move away from print and toward online.
http://rising.blackstar.com/are-you-ready-
for-the-decline-of-print-publications-2.html

DON’T DO THAT Blade Editor: Detrich Submitted 79 Altered Photos This Year - The Toledo Blade now says it unknowingly published dozens of digitally manipulated images submitted by staff photographer Allan Detrich.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/
article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571795

NO CAMERAS ALLOWED Ex-Bruceville-Eddy supt. admits to camera in restroom. Doyen pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of improper photography or visual recordings. The felonies are punishable by up to two years in state jail and fines of up to ten-thousand dollars.
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6373887&nav=0s3d6fQJ

SHOW ME DA MONEY Getting Paid- Part Two - http://www.stockphotographer.info/content/view/486/99

SPORTS PASSION Call it passion, foresight or pure instinct, something within compelled
him to focus on the battle between willow and leather, and after years of sustained excellence, Eagar has come to hold a place in the history of cricket photography; Eagar derives satisfaction from the knowledge that his work can bring people closer. "Cricket has an extraordinary power to unite. It feels good to know that I have tried to convey this through my photographs."
http://in.sports.yahoo.com/070415/32/6elm2.html

BIRDING Patience a key to bird photography. If you have ever taken a photograph of a wild bird, the chances are about 99 percent that you have been frustrated. Birds are difficult to photograph - extremely difficult most of the time. Just for starters, they seldom stay in one spot for more than a few seconds. And they are wary about letting humans get anywhere near them. But birds can be photographed. Charles Mills of Ashdown is one of Arkansas' more accomplished bird photographers. http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/
04/14/JoeMosby/341730.html

SHOULD THEY BE BELIEVABLE? Great Shots That Never Happened - It's getting hard to believe photos these days -- the distinction between real photos and fakes is getting pretty blurry. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/
article/2007/04/14/AR2007041400130.html

THE SIGN READS Your Help Is Urgently Needed - The Austin Police Department needs your help in connection with finding the killer of photographer Michael Cahill. We urge you to go to amw.com to read the accounting of this senseless killing. http://www.stockphotographer.info/content/view/485/

WHERE IN THE WORLD JOBO AG photoGPS - is a small and lightweight Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver that fits directly on any digital camera's hot shoe, just as if it were a regular flash unit, without the need for extra cables. http://shutterbug.com/news/041307jobo/

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PHOTO COLLECTION FOR SALE

After living a life of travels and adventures for 48 years, Victor Englebert has found himself chained to a computer.
“It’s the plight of many veteran photographers,” says Englebert, of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
He has photographed the world’s humanity, including more than 30 indigenous peoples in some of the planet’s wildest places. National Geographic, Smithsonian, International Wildlife, Natural History, are among his list of clients. He also has authored and published 17 photo books.
But the digitalization of photography changed his life. For nearly two years he has scanned color slides and put them through Photoshop--an exciting new discovery at first. “But the novelty has worn off,” says Englebert. “To escape the computer and buy the freedom to take my cameras back to the wild, I have decided to sell my vast collection of almost 100,000 color slides.”
If there is a museum, university, publisher, or photo agency out there that would like to have a look at this one-of-a-kind collection, Victor would welcome hearing from you. Contact Victor at Viengleb@aol.com – Rohn Engh

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