Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Howard! We are on a boat touring the Norwegian fjords right now. We spending a month in Norway and Sweden searching for the Northern Lights. Good luck with Alamy. I still make enough from their sales to pay for trips like this ;-) Tina On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:48 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote: > Great, Tina. Thanks for the lead. > > (I notice you?re 6 hours ahead of us here in the New World. Off to > someplace exciting this time? Africa? The Svalbard Is.? Safe travel!) > > ?howard > > > On Jan 28, 2018, at 3:35 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Just say ?NO!? to Shutterstock and all micro-stock agencies. They have > been the ruin of stock photography. If you want to sell your work, look at > Alamy. Their prices have fallen because of the micro/agencies, but at least > you get 50% of the sale. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:20 AM, Christopher Crawford < > chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > >> > >> Sites like shutter stock are awesome if you love making other people > rich > >> by giving your work away for pennies. > >> > >> There is a lot of money being made by stock sites like Shutterstock and > >> iStockphoto, but very little of it goes to photographers. > >> > >> -- > >> Chris Crawford > >> Fine Art Photography > >> Fort Wayne, Indiana > >> 260-437-8990 > >> > >> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > >> > >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > >> Like My Work on Facebook > >> > >> > >> > >> On 1/27/18, 10:53 PM, "LUG on behalf of Howard L Ritter Jr" > >> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf > >> of > >> hlritter at twc.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I was listening to an NPR show today where an interviewer spends 20 or > 30 > >>> minutes speaking with some innovator or another. One of the subjects > was > >>> the creator of Shutterstock. This got me interested in the possibility > of > >>> trying to sell some of my images through a service like this. > >>> > >>> This may have been discussed on the LUG previously and I don?t recall > >>> anything about it because it wasn?t relevant to me at the time. So I?ll > >>> just ask for comments/observations/advice about Shutterstock: Thumbs > up, > >>> thumbs down, neutral, alternatives? > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks for any comments from voices of experience! > >>> > >>> ?howard > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html