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Written by Jim Hunter, Editor-in-Chief/Chief of Operations
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Friday, 15 September 2006 |
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 “Technological
progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going
backwards.”- Aldous
Huxley (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
The rate at which the future becomes
the present, which, in turn becomes the past, has never been greater
in terms of the technological changes that are taking place in
today's world and the stock photography industry has not been immune,
though a great deal of the work has been pushed downstream.
Photographers are now required to do
more and more of the work that used to be performed by stock
agencies, designers and printers, yet prices and percentages paid to
photographers have not gone up appreciably and in far too many instances have
actually gone down.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 October 2006 )
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Written by Jim Hunter, Editor-in-Chief/Chief of Operations
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done”- Rudolf Flesch
As we all know, the stock photography market is rapidly changing. Every day seems to bring new challenges especially for those who depend on continuing royalties from their stock images.
The current trend at many stock distributors is towards more "wholly owned" content. A number of stock distributors are increasing their wholly owned content either by setting up production in house, buying images outright from some of their contributors, as well as purchasing images from a whole new crop of production houses for royalty free images. It has been suggested that within the next few years, fifty-percent of the images licensed by distributors will be wholly owned. Though it is still too early tell, the figure could be much higher as more distributors move to wholly owned content to increase their bottom lines.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 September 2006 )
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Written by Jim Hunter, Editor-in-Chief/Chief of Operations
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Tuesday, 04 April 2006 |
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? -Berenice Abbott
The other day while surfing the web I came across the web site of a stock photography production company. The site read in part:
"Utilizing highly creative art direction and the latest digital imaging technology, XXXX produces a distinctive photographic choice for clients licensing stock photography and commissioning creative imagery."
"Covering the full gamut of photographic styles and with diverse and unusual subject matter, XXXX stock material is available through an international network of licensing agents."
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 September 2006 )
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Written by Jim Hunter, Editor-in-Chief/Chief of Operations
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Sunday, 05 March 2006 |
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. -Elliott Erwitt
Just in case everyone hasn't noticed, I love quotes. The other day, during the course of a discussion on one of the professional photographer forums, I was somehow reminded of this quote by Elliot Erwitt. I have no way of knowing exactly what Mr. Erwitt had in mind when he made the statement but, it reminded me of why I got into photography in the first place. It was fun!
Over the years though, photography has slowly gone from being fun, to being a job. I'm sure, like many others, I had begun to only think about making images that were highly marketable as stock, finding a creative way to express a client's ideas during assignments or trying to make images that would somehow be memorable. Without realizing it, I had lost the fun aspect and photography had become a job, though it's still a job I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 September 2006 )
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Written by Jim Hunter, Editor-in-Chief/Chief of Operations
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
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Exactly one month ago yesterday, we formally announced the launch of
StockPhotographer.info. What had begun as a wispy dream was suddenly
thrust into hard reality.
We have come so far in such a short
period of time. We began discussing this project on December 6, 2005
and then started the actual physical work to develop the site on
December 14. After working many sixteen to twenty-hour days, we then
officially launched on January 17.
Apparently we are doing
something right. We have had quite a number of very positive comments
from many in the stock photography industry and number of those have
come from some real industry heavyweights.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 17 September 2006 )
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