Posts Tagged ‘Getty’
One way to make money shooting stock: specialize
I recently came across a photographer whose work stopped being accepted into the collections of Getty and Corbis.
MicrostockRF Part 2: Getty’s Thinkstock
This week, Getty will launch Thinkstock, a subscription-based royalty-free image service that combines RF images from Getty and Jupiter with iStockphoto images. In other words, there is now absolutely no difference in price between professionally-created RF images and user-generated microstock. Read all about it in this British Journal of Photography piece. Earlier this week, Veer ...Read more.
As Microstock and RF converge, can pro stock photographers continue?
Soon enough, Microstock and RF (royalty free) stock photography will be the same thing (see Fast Media Magazine on this happening right now at Veer).
Edits at Getty Images much tighter? Really?
As a contributing photographer to Getty Images, I often get e-mails announcing that edits are going to be tighter and that the number of accepted images per submission will decrease unless a photographer performs a tight edit.
TV Spot for new Seinfeld show uses my uber-low-priced RF image
This weekend while I was sitting in front of my TV watching my beloved Dallas Cowboys kick the tar out of Philadelphia in the first round of the NFL playoffs, a promo for Jerry Seinfield’s new show, Marriage Ref, came on the tube. It includes an image I shot for Getty Images’ RF collection several ...Read more.
This picture is just for the web! Usage is cheap, right?
Recently Getty Images made images for the web very inexpensive.
Layoffs at Getty Images
This just in: The entire wholly-owned shoot program at Getty Images has been shut down. At least two positions in Creative’s production area have been eliminated.
