Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, but when most people in the stock business refer to adjusting to the market, they mean giving photos away for credits and selling everything for peanuts on micro-stock sites. That is not what I am doing. I will quit before I adjust to that market. Tina On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > 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 > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html