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Question - how do you guys make a photographer give you a credit? I try to give all photographers with professional cameras my cards, and ask them to give me a credit if they publish a picture in print or post it online, but it hardly ever works...A picture with your name in a paper is great for publicity - if anybody wants to hire you, they can just google your name and profession, but un-named picture does not do anything for you...
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Hi, Evan, where did you find the info that photographer can't sell your images as stock photography? Can they post them on free stock photography sites without your permission? I just found whole bunch of pictures of myself on a free stock photography site - the name of the photographer was listed, so I found him on facebook and sent him a message asking to take them off....I wonder what he will answer? It looks like it is his own free stock photography site he is using to promote his business.Comment
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This assumes that he's going to make a boatload of money on stock photography. With the use of the Web, stock photos that used to get $10 to $50 a shot are now earning 75 cents to $1, and that has to be split with the company hosting the stock website. I shot a bunch of stock photos about 6 years ago and uploaded them to one stock website. They have since migrated to a bunch of other stock websites worldwide. The threshold to get payments from this company is $50 in sales. I've yet to hit the $50 threshold yet in all these years. I've uploaded about 100 photos.Comment
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yeah, stock photos are hard to make money on (not to mention it's a free stock site), but he still can't sell or give away your image for commercial use without an image release from you if you are recognizable in the photo.
Here is some info. I've just known this stuff cuz I do photography as a hobby and have lots of pro photog friends.
See if you can email him rather than facebook.Comment
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Wow, it turns out that you can't use pictures of people, landnmarks and private properties without a release for stock photography...what can you use? Trees and animals, unless they are somebody's property? These rules are kinda wierd...But thanks for the info, I'll try to contact this guy!Comment
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I recently did a performance for a radio station and they had a photographer take pictures of the event. The station used the photos in their materials and so did the photographer. I just contacted him and asked if I could purchase the photos from him to use in my materials. Cost me $350, but I got 3 dozen high quality images that I can now use in my materials. They're people, just talk to them. Build a relationship with that photographer and you never know where it might lead.Comment
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When I take photos , then it is mine right?
Like not of people, but I post it somewhere?
Not that I would go after anyone, except I did
take a pretty cool picture on my deck the other
day and posted it on Facebook, a tree frog on
a plant I got from as a bulb, laying by the big plant.
Well this angel looking flying bug got in the pic took
me three days to notice it. True I should water mark it.
What about photos of me or people doing exclusive
tricks no one else in the world does or can do?
Is there a line there? Like invented props and stuff?
I use it a lot in my promo, although the other things
I do are just physically impossible for anyone else to do,
no props so can,t copyright that or can I?
My son is copyrights his act and says he can copyright my written
material , let me know any feedback is appreciated, I am writing
a short biography for another website and adding pictures
so I already like the watermark idea and maybe some words too.
In the photo itself?
thanks and good reading here!Comment
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