Stock Photo Free Biography
Source(google.com.pk)When I first started my photography business a few years ago…there was no such thing as an answering machine! Nor did individuals have fax machines…I remember being very excited about getting a fax machine…because now an Art Director could send me a layout without using a bike messenger or Fed Ex!. Now, here I am shooting without film, digitally enhancing my images on a computer and delivering them via the internet.
For twenty years I shot assignments. A huge part of the business was marketing myself to ad agencies and design firms. After the dot com bubble burst I found myself without assignments for a couple of months…but it didn’t matter because I was making plenty of money with stock photography. One gig ended and another took over. Of course, today that industry is in turmoil…first royalty-free stock photos impacted the business…and now micro-stock. I even see pay per click ads that cost the advertiser money…advertising free stock photos! I guess I don’t have much to worry about now…because the prices can’t go any lower than that!
I remember when it took a week and buckets of money to get a good print from a photo lab! Now, if I want to print a funny animal picture I just hit command-p on my keyboard…and get almost free prints that are of far better quality than anything I used to get from the lab! I can make fine art prints that are even more archival than what the labs could offer…and these prints are in my hands in just a matter of minutes.
A few years ago I bought a house…a beautiful house on a hillside overlooking a valley. I was surrounded by horses, deer, wild turkeys, and even bobcats and coyotes! I planned living in that house till the end of my days. A close friend cautioned me though, that I should not count on living there forever. “One day you will sell that house” he said. I laughed. As I write this I am planning on selling the house in the Spring.
My greeting card business was growing like crazy. Each quarter my royalty checks were getting larger and larger. People loved the cards…the company was thriving and I was their number one greeting card artist. Still, a business consultant friend suggested I create a worst-case scenario plan for my business. It was difficult because I could not see any worst case scenarios on the horizon. Eventually the planning stalled and faded away.
Fast forward five years…the greeting card company no longer exists. It was purchased by a venture capital firm that made some bad decisions. I am now with a different greeting card company and we are slowly rebuilding the business. One thing is different this time…I no longer assume that the greeting card business will be around forever.
Two new 35mm digital cameras have just been announced…one by Nikon and one by Canon, that both shoot, in addition to extremely high quality digital stills, HDTV motion.
Who was it who said the only constant is change? That is so true…but I do have a method for coping with all this change. My secret…a good attitude and continuously reminding myself of the need to stay open and flexible.
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n the Information Age with all of its technological capabilities, stock photography images can now be bought and sold digitally in all corners of the world. Magazines, book publishers, interior decorators, home architects, website developers, service companies, and marketing companies all have a need for stock photography at some point in time to enhance the marketability for their company. Sometimes having the right visual media is just what is needed to add that extra touch increase sales.
hat presents an opportunity for any photographer. If you are prepared to learn the ins and outs of the stock photography business, then it’s possible to do well.
Here you can find 8 sites that accept stock photography submissions, as well as some of the higher paying micro stock photography websites.
Big Stock Photo
With BigStockPhoto.com, you will earn $0.50 cents for every credit that a customer spends on your image, up to $3 per download. If you choose to provide additional usage rights to allow customers to print your image on a poster, greeting card or any other product, you will receive a special licensing commission at 35% of the sale. Contributors may request a payout when their balance reaches $30.
Shutter Stock
With ShutterStock.com, you will earn $0.25 cents per download of your image until you have reached $500 in lifetime earnings. The reason that the royalty rates for images at Shutterstock.com are lower than other stock photography sites is because they sell subscriptions to customers who download many images. When your earnings are $500 to $3,000, you will earn $0.33 cents per download. Contributors may request a payout when their balance reaches $75.
IStock Photo
With IStockPhoto.com, you will earn a royalty rate of 15% for each download of your image. If you have had at least 250 downloads with a minimum 50% approval rating, you can choose to make IStockPhoto.com your exclusive agent so that you will get a higher royalty rate of 22% to 45% per download. IStockPhoto.com also accepts audio and video contributions. Contributors may request a payout when their balance reaches $100.
Alamy
With Alamy.com, you will earn a whopping 60% royalty fee on all of your images. This company is among the better ones in terms of paying the highest royalty rates to its contributors. Alamy.com also does do not force you to give them exclusive rights of your image, so you are free to sell your image through other stock photography resellers.
Submit Stock Photos
With SubmitStockPhotos.com, the unofficial monthly earning average is about $1 per image. This is assuming that clients who have purchased a subscription have downloaded your image 10,000 times in a month. SubmitStockPhotos.com allows you to keep 100% ownership rights on your images so that you can sell your photos through your own website or other sources at any time.
Fotolia
With US.Fotolia.com, you can earn about $0.30 cents per image download by the site’s monthly subscribers. When your image is sold as a single-image download, you could earn 25% to 63% per download. Contributors can request a payout when their balance reaches $50.
Veer
With Veer.com, you can earn a substantial amount by selling different sized images. You can earn as low as $0.35 cents for every image that is downloaded. As the size of your photo increases, so does your earnings. Extra large photos can receive an unbelievable $5.25 per download! Contributors can request a payout when their balance reaches $100.
Hopefully that gives a few budding stock shooters a place to get started. Stock photography isn’t an easy way to make money (top micro stock shooters work damn hard), but it is an opportunity that is there if you want to grab it.
Born in New Jersey in 1961, Sam D’Amico recalls always being interested in photography. Some of his earliest memories are of his family gathering to view home movies, slide shows or albums filled with photographs held in place by photo corners. He can recall his family being connected through the memories and emotions that the images evoked.
When he was a young teen, after expressing an interest in photography, his parents gave him a 35mm SLR. “I wanted to photograph the people, places and things that I saw but I lacked the patience to teach myself the technical skills needed to work the camera. Sometimes my pictures would come out the way I imagined and sometimes they wouldn’t. I found photography difficult and frustrating and sold the equipment a few years later.”
In the mid-1980’s, approximately a decade after selling his camera, Sam was given a used 35mm SLR which was found while helping family members to move. According to Sam, “That gift reconnected me to my interest in photography and I’ve been examining that interest since.”
In 1986, after studying two photography courses at a community college, Sam left his job as a telephone operator and began working as a free-lance photojournalist.
From 1987 through 1991 he worked as a staff photographer for two newspapers. After being laid off from a staff photographer position in 1991, D’Amico continued to free-lance until 1997.
From 1992-1997 he photographed over 500 assignments for the New York Times as a free-lance Photojournalist.
Sam left photography again in 1997 due to what he viewed as “intolerable working terms”. Frustrated and disappointed, he worked at a variety of non-photography related jobs. During this time he began attending meetings of The New Jersey Photography Forum. Some of the members of the group encouraged D’Amico to begin to exhibit his work. “If it wasn’t for some of the members of the New Jersey Photography Forum, I probably would have given up on photography completely”.
In 2002 he moved to Washington, DC and began to work as an instructor at the Washington School of Photography in Bethesda, MD. Sam enjoyed working as a photography instructor and as a result, in 2003, he began developing curriculum for his own series of workshops. His first workshop was held at ‘Teaism Restaurant at Penn Quarter”, a Tea House in Washington DC.
Currently Sam continues to free-lance with clients who “treat photographers fairly” and continues his work as a photography instructor in the Washington DC area.
Sam’s visual sense and approach to making pictures have been influenced by his life experiences, his teachers and other photographers such as Andre Kertesz, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mary Ellen Mark, Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin just to name a few. “I seem to be most influenced by Photographers whose approach seems to be just simply observing and recording with minimal influence on whatever is being photographed. Observing and waiting for the moment when things come together in the viewfinder to make an interesting form then instinctually making an exposure, not only showing the viewer what the photographer saw, but also showing the viewer the photographer. These photographers seem to have transcended the craft of photography by evoking emotion and thought in the viewer”. Please visit samdamico.com to learn more and to view Sam’s Photographs.
Tim first went to the rain forests of Borneo in 1987 and the Asia-Pacific region has been a major focus for both his scientific research and photography ever since. His pioneering research in the rain forest canopy in Borneo led to a PhD from Harvard and his first National Geographic article in 1997. Since then, he has pursued his passion for exploring wild places and documenting little-known and endangered wildlife by becoming a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, where he has published twenty-one feature stories. Tim has also published more than a dozen scientific articles related to rainforest ecology and birdlife, and is a research associate in the Ornithology Department at Harvard University.
Tim has developed somewhat of a reputation for being able to come back with shots from the wild of nearly impossible subjects like gliding animals in Borneo, displaying Birds of Paradise, and some of the most critically endangered birds in the world such as the Nuku Hiva Pigeon and the Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill of the Philippines. He relishes such challenges, and firmly believes that promoting awareness through photography can make a difference for conservation.
Tim’s work has garnered numerous awards, including the highest honor of the North American Nature Photography Association in 2009 – their annual “Outstanding Nature Photographer” Award. Ten of his images have won recognition in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards, and he has won several prizes in the Nature’s Best International Photography awards including first place in the underwater category.
Tim’s collaboration with Edwin Scholes on the Birds of Paradise is his most ambitious project to date. He has recently completed the first comprehensive photographic coverage of this extraordinary family of birds in the wild. They are the most spectacularly ornamented birds in the world, but inhabit rugged and remote regions of New Guinea, where they are an extreme challenge to locate and photograph in their dense rain forest homes. He and Ed spent over eighteen months doing fieldwork in the New Guinea region over the past eight years on this project, with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Conservation International, and the National Geographic Expeditions Council. The project has now come to fruition as a major photographic book (BIRDS OF PARADISE: REVEALING THE WORLD’S MOST EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS), published by National Geographic Books. In addition, this work is featured in a National Geographic Channel documentary, new National Geographic magazine article in December 2012, and a major travelling educational museum exhibition, all in the hope of spreading awareness about the Birds of Paradise and the rain forest of New Guinea.
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