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Stock Photo Agencies Biography
Do not ever think that you’ll earn lots of money by selling your snapshots or tourist-like photos. This is not a get rich quick scheme. Your photos must be commercially in demand and highly usable for art directors or designers. You can take a look at the most popular files once you’ve signed up to an agency to get an idea of what is selling. You can also review other professional sites like GettyImages, Corbis, and Comstock to get some inspirations.You need to find out whether a website will be worth your while by logging on and having a look around. Views the types of images stocked, and determine whether yours are on par with their quality and style. You can check how many visitors (traffic graphs are available below) and the number of times each image has been downloaded. You can also join the community forum usually available on the agency and ask the other members regarding their selling/month, etc. Use this information to answer the question: How likely is it that I will actually sell my images through this website?Usually you have three ways to upload your photos to the agencies. The most common one is using the web upload form which is available on all stock photo agencies. Then you have the ActiveX/Java uploading system which available only on some of the agencies. The last one is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software which I think is the easiest way of uploading your photos as what you need to do is to drag and drop your files from your computer to their server. You can also schedule your upload anytime you want (I usually do my uploading at night just before going to sleep). Unfortunately, one of my biggest money maker agencies (ie. Istockphoto) does not have this option available, instead the agency has its own uploading software where you have to pay to get the pro version.
To be able to transfer your photos via FTP you will need an FTP Client such as CuteFTP and FileZilla for Windows users or Cyberduck for Mac users. You can go to software repository sites such as download.com or tucows.com to find your FTP client program, read the user reviews, download & install it to your computer.Dreamstime has been online since 2000 as a Royalty-Free stock photography website, selling CD imagery. The concept has been redesigned, upgraded and adapted to the market’s need, evolving into a powerful and active community in March 2004. Your commission is .50 for each photo downloaded, but I believe your commision would increase as more people donwload your photos. Please visit their site to check the detail of their royalty figure.Some stock photography sites offer low-resolution photography free for the purpose of preparing advertising comps to demonstrate a design. If the advertiser decides to use the image, the rights to use the high-resolution image then can be negotiated or purchased directly from the website.
Professional stock photographers place their images with one or more stock agencies on a contractual basis, with a defined commission basis and for a specified contract term. Some photographers fund their own photo shoots, or develop imagery in cooperation with an agency, while others submit photographs originally produced as part of editorial (magazine) or commercial assignments.After immigrating to Canada in 1981, my first journalistic position came as editor of the bilingual weekly newspaper, The Gleaner, which has served Huntingdon County, Québec (Lower Canada) since 1863. I worked there until 1993 with occasional freelance contracts for Canadian Geographic, Harrowsmith, and other magazines.
Two investigative writing/photography pieces on a mysterious dieback of sugar maples (1983, 1985) earned National Magazine Awards and helped trigger an international debate on the forest effects of acid rain. In 1986, I toured central Europe to document a similar phenomenon known as "Waldsterben". Many of these images were marketed through Valan Photo Agency which I joined in 1987.
Another article, one which exposed the smuggling of illegal immigrants between the USA and Canada, won the annual award of the Quebec Community Newspaper Association. The border was again my subject for a 1992 Canadian Geographic assignment, honored by the National Press Photographers Association. I then covered the USA-Mexico line, photographing night arrests by the US Border Patrol and poverty in Tijuana.
Two years were spent as photojournalist for another French-English weekly, Le Soleil, in my present hometown of Chateauguay, Québec. From 1996-2002, I worked at Montreal's English language daily, The Gazette, as sales administrator of the photo archives. This involved research for outside publishers and film producers. During those years delivery of images went from traditional film/print/Fedex means to completely digital/Internet.
Stock Photo Agencies Biography
Do not ever think that you’ll earn lots of money by selling your snapshots or tourist-like photos. This is not a get rich quick scheme. Your photos must be commercially in demand and highly usable for art directors or designers. You can take a look at the most popular files once you’ve signed up to an agency to get an idea of what is selling. You can also review other professional sites like GettyImages, Corbis, and Comstock to get some inspirations.You need to find out whether a website will be worth your while by logging on and having a look around. Views the types of images stocked, and determine whether yours are on par with their quality and style. You can check how many visitors (traffic graphs are available below) and the number of times each image has been downloaded. You can also join the community forum usually available on the agency and ask the other members regarding their selling/month, etc. Use this information to answer the question: How likely is it that I will actually sell my images through this website?Usually you have three ways to upload your photos to the agencies. The most common one is using the web upload form which is available on all stock photo agencies. Then you have the ActiveX/Java uploading system which available only on some of the agencies. The last one is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software which I think is the easiest way of uploading your photos as what you need to do is to drag and drop your files from your computer to their server. You can also schedule your upload anytime you want (I usually do my uploading at night just before going to sleep). Unfortunately, one of my biggest money maker agencies (ie. Istockphoto) does not have this option available, instead the agency has its own uploading software where you have to pay to get the pro version.
To be able to transfer your photos via FTP you will need an FTP Client such as CuteFTP and FileZilla for Windows users or Cyberduck for Mac users. You can go to software repository sites such as download.com or tucows.com to find your FTP client program, read the user reviews, download & install it to your computer.Dreamstime has been online since 2000 as a Royalty-Free stock photography website, selling CD imagery. The concept has been redesigned, upgraded and adapted to the market’s need, evolving into a powerful and active community in March 2004. Your commission is .50 for each photo downloaded, but I believe your commision would increase as more people donwload your photos. Please visit their site to check the detail of their royalty figure.Some stock photography sites offer low-resolution photography free for the purpose of preparing advertising comps to demonstrate a design. If the advertiser decides to use the image, the rights to use the high-resolution image then can be negotiated or purchased directly from the website.
Professional stock photographers place their images with one or more stock agencies on a contractual basis, with a defined commission basis and for a specified contract term. Some photographers fund their own photo shoots, or develop imagery in cooperation with an agency, while others submit photographs originally produced as part of editorial (magazine) or commercial assignments.After immigrating to Canada in 1981, my first journalistic position came as editor of the bilingual weekly newspaper, The Gleaner, which has served Huntingdon County, Québec (Lower Canada) since 1863. I worked there until 1993 with occasional freelance contracts for Canadian Geographic, Harrowsmith, and other magazines.
Two investigative writing/photography pieces on a mysterious dieback of sugar maples (1983, 1985) earned National Magazine Awards and helped trigger an international debate on the forest effects of acid rain. In 1986, I toured central Europe to document a similar phenomenon known as "Waldsterben". Many of these images were marketed through Valan Photo Agency which I joined in 1987.
Another article, one which exposed the smuggling of illegal immigrants between the USA and Canada, won the annual award of the Quebec Community Newspaper Association. The border was again my subject for a 1992 Canadian Geographic assignment, honored by the National Press Photographers Association. I then covered the USA-Mexico line, photographing night arrests by the US Border Patrol and poverty in Tijuana.
Two years were spent as photojournalist for another French-English weekly, Le Soleil, in my present hometown of Chateauguay, Québec. From 1996-2002, I worked at Montreal's English language daily, The Gazette, as sales administrator of the photo archives. This involved research for outside publishers and film producers. During those years delivery of images went from traditional film/print/Fedex means to completely digital/Internet.
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