[Leica] Stock Photography

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Howdy crew,
I have been away and this is my first morning and quite probably the last to 
looking at this kind of thing on the LUG.

For those of you  who have absolutely no knowledge nor experience or earned 
income from shooting stock!  GET LOST! If you have absolutely no experience 
in this manner of photography nor have ever been earning your life income... 
STILL GET LOST!

To those of us who "EARN OUR LIVELIHOOD " through being photographers and 
you do not...... GET LOST AGAIN!

Stock Agencies "were good income for thousands of photographers." Today some 
are like many other greedy total control of the markets paying .40 cents to 
a photographer while they make the bulk of the income. Real world great 
economic times. Thanks to the greedy controllers.

 The MASTERFILE Agency in Canada have top end stock shooters who make/made 
$250,000 and more a year and that's after expenses for casting, travel and 
whatever costs were involved in producing the material! By the same token 
they work their butts off producing photography required by agencies and 
those who want their goods and services advertised. It's not some evil 
thing, it's not illegal and when one of your photographs happens to be 
purchased for one time use for $13,500 it kind of makes you smile all the 
way to the bank! just take a moment and think about that whomever are doing 
whatever it is about stock!

Not sure what the problem is you guys are having with this topic as I don't 
have time to go back over two weeks of mail looking for whatever started it. 
However, be it as it may, it's just wasted air time if you are not directly 
involved with earning your living shooting stock or selling your images 
directly from your own office! Like get over it, go out and take some nice 
pictures!

But as Tina pointed out:
"> 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.<<<<<<<<

Yep absolutely correct! And my case I've had "stock" sold for over 45 years 
if not a few more than that.

Have a nice day!
cheers,
Dr.ted











----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: [Leica] Stock Photography


> LUG:
>
> 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
>
> **
>
>
> Go to http://www.alamy.com and put that number in the search box to see
> the photo.
> It was leased for one page use in a college textbook for $270.  Alamy
> leases about 10 to 12 a month of mine for similar use - better than all
> of my other stock agencies combined.  I lease others directly in
> response to requests.  Five years ago the prices were almost double what
> we get today but there were also fewer sales.  The internet and digital
> photography have changed everything.  I used to have to send in
> duplicate slides, wait to be approved, and then send the original.
> Everything is instant today.  Deadlines for requests are seldom more
> than one or two days from the request.
>
> The stock photos that are compared to clip art are usually micro-stock.
> Those sell for less than $1 per use and 75% of that goes to the
> micro-stock agency.  That's a different world that I would never enter.
> All of my photos are rights managed, meaning they are leased for
> one-time use.  Most of them come out of my files, but I'll also go out
> and take photos to fill requests.
>
> All stock is not evil!
>
> Tina
> www.tinamanley.com
>
>
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