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16.02 // 0 komentar // Lisa Stanford // Category: freelance photography , Images , Photographs , Stock Photography , stock photography part //What is stock photography? Simply put, it is taking a group of pictures, putting them in a library in the hope that at some time in the future, picture, or many others will be purchased or licensed by someone. Here is your challenge as a photographer, what subject? Who knows? I am a licensed images that I thought would never be of interest for everyone and the ones I thought were never viewed or licensed.
confusing, my advice, you must have extensive library and database of stock images on topics that you know. My current library exceeds 60,000 images of the Southern United States. After twenty years in business publications that I did know that this is my specialty. I get emails almost daily from various publications asking for pictures from travel sites, events, or nature to call home in the south.
What does it mean to you? Specialized, if not, you will lose millions of other generic images that are located anywhere on the World Wide Web!
Here are a few questions, you will need to address. Will you shoot for commercial, editorial market, or both? Do you plan to offer their images as royalty-free or rights-managed? How is your work flow? How do you market?
Specialization - Is it the case that you consider yourself an expert or have a good job or knowledge? If so, then maybe this is an area that needs focus. Go to your local bookstore and scour through magazines, check out the ones that match your interests. Can you give some type of images found on the site? If not, then work on your style or composition.
commercial - If you plan to provide images for the commercial market, then you have to have adequate public. Personal or property releases are a necessity. Carry a pocket public with you. You can not be shy, you will find that most people, when you explain what you do for a living are more than willing to sign release. So far I have never had anyone refuse to sign one. Maybe offer them a copy of the picture as a form of compensation.
By the way, public places are a kind of no mans land. Really there is no right to privacy, while taking a shot in a public place. Walking down the street, large public events where they gather the crowds, fill free to shoot. But if you need to stop in front of the restaurant and take pictures of people sitting inside, then guess what, you will need to publish.
Editoria l - Out of editorial images basically used to tell a story, inform, and is used in textbooks and other publications of this nature, releases are rarely needed. I've had a couple of situations in which publication is requested release.
The best advice if you are out of the photo to have an understanding of who you intend to offer a picture.
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