Archive for July 2009

29 Jul, 2009 | Posted by: photosource





CRYSTAL BALL – Photo Agencies and The Stock Industry: a Matter of Proportion - For as long as the industry remains chaotic and unmanaged by any central body, stock photography will also be unstructured. There will be little innovation that helps sort, rank and distribute photos based on merit--it'll remain as it is now: arbitrary.
Begin by dispensing of the premise that agencies are the de facto channel for stock photo purchases. You can (and should) sell directly yourself, irrespective if whether you also sell through agencies.
http://danheller.blogspot.com/2009/07/photo-agencys-and-stock-industry-matter.html
TAKEAWAY: The nice thing about the Internet is it’s not like a newspaper where you snip out the article, file it, and forget it. Crystal ballers face the new adversary: Central datacenters that don’t allow anything, after several years, to turn antique brown and crumble away. So, enjoy Dan Heller for both his analytics and amusing predictions.

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16 Jul, 2009 | Posted by: photosource




THE BIGGEST AGENCY? Google Image Search gets usage rights filtering - In an effort to keep people from incorrectly reusing or repurposing images found on its image search tool, Google has added new options that let users filter results by usage rights. Users can now filter photos by whether they're available for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification, or commercial use with modification. http://news.cnet.com/webware/digital-photography/
TAKEAWAY: This could add more coinage to the coffers of photographers whose images have been displayed on Google Images. Eventually Google will devise a payment structure that will benefit both the Big G –and you.


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