Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:11 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: >Yeah...don' remind me. That is one reason I have gotten Final Cut and am >about to take some video classes...our business model is shifting rapidly >and we have to change to keep up. Did you see the article in "CREATE" >magazine on the status of photography? I was one of the photographers >they interviewed for that story for the Southeast region. >-- >Harrison McClary Harrison - Just say NO to video!! Your still photos are too good! I will never switch because still photos are so much more powerful. Besides, YouTube will just take over the video market the way iStock has the stock market. It is not a good time to be a professional photographer. I'm still selling through agencies but the prices are dropping so fast for my normal markets of textbooks and editorial, that you get vertigo just look at the licenses granted and paltry sums paid. I'm not sure it's worth it to market stock photos anymore with all of the micro stock and RF agencies selling photos with a perpetual license for $2 a download. How can anybody make a living at those prices! I just have to keep hoping that nobody wants to go to the crazy places I go and take photos of people. Mine will stay RM and maybe someday microstock and RF will cancel each other out and discriminating buyers will only look at RM photos. I hope! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com