Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This started with a discussion of what technical issues got the stock agency to accept a photo. ( the 48MB and what camera issues). Then it got to what image types sold. ATYA36 is an example. Most of the members here are amateurs. We are curious. Some may want to make money from Photography, and Stock is an avenue of revenue. But most of us ( probably really close to all) want to make images that are both or either pretty or socially or familiarly meaningful. It appears that we would take a lot of pictures and the stock agency would either reject them or would not sell. ( The word go hungry applies.) I think we find this very surprising, and maybe a bit personally insulting. We all think we take good photographs. People should want them. But for those of you that make a living .... and I do expect that you would have to work really pretty hard, and take a lot of pictures..... I am amazed. Simply amazed. I just did not expect pictures like ATYA36 would be desirable. It is the kind of picture I would normally just delete. But $270 is not chicken feed. And maybe that is the reason I am not a Stock Photographer.... I have no sense of what would sell.....None. And no desire to take a single picture like ATYA36, no less lots of them. Tina, please take no offense at what I have said nor my picking on ATYA36. You make a living selling this. To be honest, I really think your social photography ( Guatemala) is how I think of you and remember you. And they are beautiful, and meaningful, and socially welcome. If putting bacon on the table requires you to take pictures like ATYA36, so that you can do work like Guatemala, then keep it up. Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net I really don't know why everyone is so negative about stock photography. It's a way of making a living! I almost never lease any photos for commercial use. 99% of mine are leased for editorial use - usually in textbooks, sometimes in magazines. Here is a very typical one that Alamy leased today: * * **ATYA36