Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, Tina, you are proving Jayanand?s point. What you are describing, namely carving out a niche, taking advantage of the new marketing channels, and cutting out the middlemen, are precisely the kind of adaptations to a new environment that are needed to survive in the business when fundemental change happens. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 01 Mar 2015, at 16:55, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm still making a living with stock photography by photographing editorial > subjects that others do not have, do not want to travel to get, don't think > of posting, or can't get (especially with model releases). My average > income per sale has dropped by about half since I started in the 1980's but > I'm also selling more than twice as much through world-wide internet > connections that were not possible before the digital age. My hope for the > future is that we will be able to do away with agencies and get 100% of our > sales through our own websites thanks to effective keywords and SEOs. > That's on my agenda for this year. > > Tina > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ted, >> I am sorry, but that seems to be the marketplace today, however illogical >> or awful it may sound to you. To my mind, it was inevitable, with the >> great >> democratization of photographic matter that digital has wrought. By the >> way, I have no idea of how stock sales work in detail, so I am just >> picking >> up clues from the messages, and applying them to what has happened in >> professional photography, and management culture, in general. Similar >> income compression has been happening in a variety of professions, as the >> hunt for the lowest cost has taken over as a prime management paradigm. >> Eventually, in all these areas, the end customer benefits greatly through >> lower prices. Other than weddings, medical, fashion and industrial >> photography (there may be other niches, too, that I do not know about), I >> cannot see any other niches where a photographer can make a decent living >> today.... >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >>