Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just to give you an example of how LOW this can get, I once had an article published by a magazine and got paid 450 Euros for 3 full pages. Pictures and text. That's for a magazine that prints 250000 copies a month. Luckily not all magazines are like that... All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 6 nov. 09 ? 15:41, Tina Manley a ?crit : > You're probably right about the coffee! I don't think you're a > grouch, though, and agree with most of what you had to say, > especially the part about the market being flooded with thousands > of photos whose owners only want to see their name in print in > exchange for publication! Prices for published photos have dropped > drastically in the last few years. By elitism, I didn't mean so > much spending money as the perceived value of spending time and > effort. Of course handcrafted items cost more than mass produced, > but I consider any inkjet print made on a professional printer > using custom inks and printed on art paper to be handcrafted. I > haven't had any galleries in years turn down prints because they > are printed on an inkjet printer. You can call them pigment prints > or even glicee (yuck!) but anyone who sees them knows they are not > printed at an office supply store. And, by the way, check out some > art galleries on line. Lots of former watercolor artists are using > computers and software to create their work now ;-) I admire > anybody who takes the time and makes the effort to still work in > the darkroom these days, but I don't think any photo made in the > darkroom is automatically "better" than any photo printed on an > inkjet printer.