I have a picture selected for publication

awp said:
Not less than £50.00 and up to £200.00 depending on how long it was required for and what type of company was using it.
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Well I'm sorry awp, I may be wrong, but, I can't see many going at that rate, when you can get an image double the size for £1 from any of the microstock sites. If you can sell an image that size for that price, then well done to you.

But please do not get me wrong. I have a lot of sympathy for professional photographers who are competing against many thousands of amateurs on sites like istock and the like. I just feel that professionals should concentrate on what they do best and that is, taking high quality shots for print and publication. Images like the one mentioned are never going to go to print in a brochure or anywhere else for that matter, it is 150px, and printed at a standard 240 ppi would result in a picture 1 X 1.5 cm, which with my eyesight I would barely be able to see, never mind make out any of the detail in it..

As a professional photographer, I take it you advertise your business. Isn't this what the OP is doing. He/she (sorry hashcake) is showing a small taster which may interest a potential buyer to look at the rest of his/her work, and who knows, as a result of this you may have a potential rival on your hands.

While I fully believe that professionals should be paid for the work they do. I still stand by what I said earlier, and that is, that a picture of this size is not worth bothering about. :)
 
awp said:
Had a look at your website Caledonia - your pictures are great - and all very saleable - you think so too as you have them watermarked to protect theft - so PLEASE - don't give them away for free - no matter what the useage.
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Thanks for the comments on the web site awp and you are right I do think they are sellable (is that a word?) and they are all watermarked to try and prevent image theft for that very reason. I have sold a few, not many, but we live in hope. I would not give away any image that could potentially be used for any other purpose than linking to something else, as I said I have turned down many requests for free use of my images, but I have also allowed a few.
 
I wonder how many of us have actually looked at Hashcake’s image. ( I think it's Hashcake's!) No it's Tazmaniandevil's!
In fact it’s a nice reverse ‘Z’ composition.

The main path leads the eye to the right, where you are stopped by the narrow-boat. Then you’re led to the left to the lock and the ‘boat transporter’ takes you back to the right and into the distance. There’s plenty going on in the main body of the image. Maybe Tazmaniandevil could have waited until the walking figures had got to the ‘golden mean’ or thereabouts.

So that’s ok then.

The greens dominate and some of the primaries are a bit intense. Maybe some of the foreground grass could have been cropped-out and the clouds are too bright. All those things can be improved by a visit to Photoshop and overall you'd have a good architectural/reference shot. So I hope someone buys it TD.


Regards
John :thumbs:
 
I think you mean Tazmaniandevil.
It's his picture :)
 
Caledonia said:
If you can sell an image that size for that price, then well done to you.
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Maybe that's why I'm shooting with a couple of D3 bodies and you shoot with a Canon 400D? :)

Caledonia said:
I still stand by what I said earlier, and that is, that a picture of this size is not worth bothering about.
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Well last year I made a largish four figure sum from pictures that size! Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves!
 
I think people are missing the point somewhat as the warmth rises in the debate.

Doing voluntary work for a charity by supplying them images to use is totally different to supplying a business with free moneymakers, especially when that business happily states that it might not even bother to thank you if it doesn't feel like it.

It doesn't matter what you do for a living, would you go and work for a company that tell you from the outset that you won't get paid for any work you do and in fact, you probably won't get any recognition for being a good natured egomaniac either?
 
awp said:
Maybe that's why I'm shooting with a couple of D3 bodies and you shoot with a Canon 400D? :)
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So now it's descended into a - mine is bigger than yours - discussion :exit:
 
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