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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
 The Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL) has recently completed a survey of the worldwide stock footage industry and outlined their findings in a very comprehensive and detailed 259-page study entitled "ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2007."
This report provides an important baseline for further analysis of the footage industry in the future and is a must-read for anyone engaged in, or considering entering, this market. As photographers and stock image sellers look to the future, it is also important to recognize that the demand for video imagery is likely to increase, while the demand for stills may decrease.
Tags: stock footage, Jim Pickerell
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007 |
 When an electronics company first squeezed a lens into a mobile phone, people in the photography industry started asking questions. With just 110,000 pixels, Sharp's J-SH04 didn’t look like much of a threat to professional photographers at the time, but it seemed inevitable that the quality of camera phones would rise as quickly as the quality of the phones themselves.
Tags: cameraphones, photojournalism, John Chapnick
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
 This week, U.K-based stock photography portal Alamy released first quarter 2007 figures on contributors, percentage revenue and average pricing. In the quarter they added 920,952 images to their collection, which now totals more than eight million images.
Tags: Alamy, stock photography, Jim Pickerell
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
 It's happened again: a photographer is battling publicly with a glamorous model over usage rights.
In the latest round, photographer Dimitri Halkidis plans to sue former Playboy Playmate (and current reality show star) Shannon Tweed, who included pictures of herself taken by Halkidis in her 2006 biography without compensating him.
Tags: usage rights, model releases, Shannon Tweed, Jessica Alba, Lara Bingle, Veronica Varekova, Playboy
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
 Christine Hutman, owner of the Chicago-based online business Pet Services Review, wrote Inc. magazine to ask the following question:
I bought a stock photo of a dog for my website and it has become our unofficial mascot. Recently, I discovered that another pet site is using the same photo. Can I stop the site from using it?
Tags: stock photography, royalty free, microstock
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
Pictage, an online service provider for more than 9,000 wedding and event photographers in the United States, has launched a new community Web site enabling photographers to exchange ideas and directly access professional development resources and content.
Tags: wedding photographers, Web 2.0, online communities
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Thursday, 05 April 2007 |
 CNET News published an interview with CEO Bruce Livingstone of iStockphoto on Wednesday. An excerpt:
Have the pros decided that it's better to band with you than to try to fight you?
Livingstone: The ideas are changing. A lot of pro photographers are now submitting to microstock agencies, and at least testing it out and seeing, "Can I actually make money here?" I think a lot of them are finding that yes, they can.
Tags: Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto, Dan Heller
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