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Stock Libraries
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Do any of you use stock libraries to sell images? I read something about sites like fotolibra etc in a magazine and was wondering which are the best sites to use.
Any help appreciated.Ross
Just been reading a post on another forum where the library gave them 2 dollars per pic, the explanation given in the post was that the Stock Libraries are basically spoilt for choice with so many pics avaliable to them from all kinds of people.
I suppose 2 dollars is better than nothing. :(
$2 sounds like a very good rate. I have a number of images on istockphoto, don’t think I’ll ever make a living out of it though :)
Mark wrote:
$2 sounds like a very good rate. I have a number of images on istockphoto, don’t think I’ll ever make a living out of it though :)
Think I’ve made about 20 dollars omn there… shame they don’t pay out until 100! lol
If I had no job, maybe I could make a living from it, but not as a passing hobby!
Tim
I wouldn’t sell a photo for two lousy bucks if I was starving in a garret.
I agree with you Pete, the images I would have on istockphoto would not be what I would consider great by
any means at all. Personally I’d be hard pressed to put anything I’d consider a fave photo
of mine up anywhere for $2. If someone wants to pay for my unwanted dross, they’re more than
welcome :)Considering what it costs to buy or use these pictures, two quid is just obscene
I quite often use stock stuff for productions, particularly the ones that wont pay for a trip to Aus or wherever
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:and some of them can be studpid money
Other places that are mad for what they are, places like trinity college, they charge a fortune for images of some of the old books they have, we needed one for a show a little while ago, it took them 4 months to give it to us and they charged us mental money for a picture of a national treasure which is actually from armargh
With iStock the payment can be significantly lower than $2, but then they sell for a pittance as well. If you can sell the higher res shots with them that can be more than worthwhile, but then you need something bigger than a D50 or 350D
Under a separate hat I’m working with a team to launch an Irish stock photo web site which will make payments well in excess of ?2, the photos will have to pass a stringent quality test first though. We hope to launch in March and are currently working on the ‘back end’. We’ll be going to Photography Ireland members sometime next month to ask them to contribute, so watch this space.
digitalbeginner wrote:
With iStock the payment can be significantly lower than $2, but then they sell for a pittance as well. If you can sell the higher res shots with them that can be more than worthwhile, but then you need something bigger than a D50 or 350D
Under a separate hat I’m working with a team to launch an Irish stock photo web site which will make payments well in excess of ?2, the photos will have to pass a stringent quality test first though. We hope to launch in March and are currently working on the ‘back end’. We’ll be going to Photography Ireland members sometime next month to ask them to contribute, so watch this space.
In what region of above 2 dollars are you talking about and what stringent quality tests???
There are some Irish Photo stock companies
StockByte is one of them
But their stuff is not quite the same
tara1 wrote:
In what region of above 2 dollars are you talking about and what stringent quality tests???
Trying to find the balance between a price the customer will pay and a price that keeps the photographer happy is a hard one. We think we’ve identified a market that will afford the irish photographer somewhere between ?6 and ?10 per download.
The quality issues will be the ones you’d expect on the technical side: sharpness, colour balance, resolution etc and on the creative side: composition, appropriateness to the brief (we’ll have very clear guidlines for submissions), impact etc.
Sorry for being a little coy, we don’t want too much getting out too soon.
stcstc wrote:
There are some Irish Photo stock companies
StockByte is one of them
Not any more it isn’t – Jerry Kennelly sold the business to Getty images for a handsome $135m early last year.
digitalbeginner wrote:
tara1 wrote:
In what region of above 2 dollars are you talking about and what stringent quality tests???
Trying to find the balance between a price the customer will pay and a price that keeps the photographer happy is a hard one. We think we’ve identified a market that will afford the irish photographer somewhere between ?6 and ?10 per download.
The quality issues will be the ones you’d expect on the technical side: sharpness, colour balance, resolution etc and on the creative side: composition, appropriateness to the brief (we’ll have very clear guidlines for submissions), impact etc.
Sorry for being a little coy, we don’t want too much getting out too soon.
Sorry to be a bit dumb here as i have no experience of Stock Libraries, but when you say download, Are you talking of a customer downloading my pic for what ???? To print or to use in a publication of some kind??
I understand why you wish to be vague and quite agree but i am puzzled here.
Stock Libraries work on the basis that a photographer provides a photograph in digital form so that it can be purchased, downloaded and used by the customer. These are usually “Royalty Free” (which ours will be), meaning that the client can re-use the shot as many times as they like, but cannot sell it or pass it on to anyone else.
In other words the client pays a one-off fee and can use the shot many times. The uses to which these shots are put varies from client to client, but we will be taretting producers of high quality printed material such as brochures and catalogues.
The idea with the low fee is that although a client only buys the shot once they do not have exclusive rights to it and the photo can be sold many times over. The shot always remains the property of the photographer.
I’m probably not being exact here, and others might want to add other bits, but this is the gist of it.
Dave
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