Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:13 PM 4/3/2007, you wrote: >The economics of professional photography and graphic design has been >seriously impacted by our digitalization. And for most - not positively. > >Regards, >George Lottermoser >george@imagist.com You are absolutely right, George, and the worst example of the falling marketplace due to digital is microstock. Thousands of hobby photographers are hoping to get their name in lights and become professionals by selling all rights to their photos on the microstock agencies for 10 cents a download!! No professional photographer could ever hope to make a living at those rates. The only thing we can do is to be better than the hobby photographers and the only way to do that is to have a vision and reserve your photos for rights managed, licensed photographs. Anybody who sells their photos royalty free is competing with the microstocks and will soon be out of business. The only hope for professionals is to maintain a professional standard, have a vision, and license everything as rights managed! End of rant. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com