Stock Photography. Is it worth it?

[ClaremontPhoto]

I can't see for me it's worth €750ish for a scanner, plus maybe more computer memory, then digitizing the negs and captioning and adding keywords for such little return.

 

[RML]

I can't see for me it's worth €750ish for a scanner, plus maybe more computer memory, then digitizing the negs and captioning and adding keywords for such little return.

Well, yes, it seems a lot of work for only $750 but I know of several places in the world where $750 a year extra income makes a lot of difference. Heck, even I can use $750 extra, especially if I don't declare it. 😛 I would finally have a little savings for that 15mm I'm still longing for. 🙂

 

[bmattock]

All this information is fascinating, folks, ta muchly. I've a lot of investigating to be doing now.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[RML]

All this information is fascinating, folks, ta muchly. I've a lot of investigating to be doing now.

Keep us posted, Bill. I know I'm interested in this matter. 🙂

 

[JohnL]

I've done a bit of research on this and my general conclusion is that you can make money from stock if-and-only-if you shoot what stock buyers want, and plenty of it. To a large degree, that means creating scenarios, mostly with people in them, which means hiring (or convincing friends to behave as) models, requires model releases, etc etc etc. If that coincides with what you want to shoot, go for it. Otherwise, I doubt it'll be what you want to do.

 

[Will]

Hi Guys,

After view this tread, just want to ask a general question:

What/how much would you sell your photos for? (forgive my english)

Cheers





Will

 

[chmeyer]

licensing the use of images

licensing the use of images

Hi Guys,

After view this tread, just want to ask a general question:

What/how much would you sell your photos for? (forgive my english)

Cheers

Will

This depends on many things:
Editorial vs. Commercial use
The length of the license and expectation of exclusivity for the client.

There's a great book available at most U.S. book stores called Photographer's Market. It's updated yearly and provides guidelines for editorial use.

With commercial use, you should often expect to charge 10x editorial use.
Again, much of this depends on the situation, whether the use is a one-time license or not. Web use, billboards, t.v. should all get additional compensation.

Do your homework folks. Know your rights and keep ownership of your images.
It's not hard for anyone these days to post a web page of images. With the right marketing strategy and business plan, having fun taking photos can pay dividends.

Working for hours to get $15 out of photo only means that we are exploiting ourselves.

Chris

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

For local people I don't charge. They are neighbours I see every day and if they ask for a photo it's free, and if they insist they want to pay i let them buy me a coffee.

For exhibitions €50 or €100 to put on their wall sounds about right.

After that I don't know.

But I see images in 'Photo' for €10,000.

 

[kbg32]

You could save images in CMYK to increase the image size. So u have 4 instead of 3 color channels.

(My first post in RFF)

Bob

Agencies will not accept images in CMYK or images that are submiited more than 8 bit.