Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Shutterstock
From: hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 07:48:59 -0500
References: <24EEF6BA-80F3-459E-9A53-9889501F655A@twc.com> <D692B967.8EBBA%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <CBF30142-2B8A-4818-BB90-16F41A0A2524@gmail.com>

Great, Tina. Thanks for the lead.

(I notice you?re 6 hours ahead of us here in the New World. Off to someplace 
exciting this time? Africa? The Svalbard Is.? Safe travel!)

?howard

> On Jan 28, 2018, at 3:35 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just say ?NO!? to Shutterstock and all micro-stock agencies. They have 
> been the ruin of stock photography. If you want to sell your work, look at 
> Alamy. Their prices have fallen because of the micro/agencies, but at 
> least you get 50% of the sale.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2018, at 5:20 AM, Christopher Crawford <chris at 
>> chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sites like shutter stock are awesome if you love making other people rich
>> by giving your work away for pennies.
>> 
>> There is a lot of money being made by stock sites like Shutterstock and
>> iStockphoto, but very little of it goes to photographers.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Chris Crawford
>> Fine Art Photography
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>> 260-437-8990
>> 
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>> 
>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
>> Like My Work on Facebook
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/27/18, 10:53 PM, "LUG on behalf of Howard L Ritter Jr"
>> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
>> hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was listening to an NPR show today where an interviewer spends 20 or 30
>>> minutes speaking with some innovator or another. One of the subjects was
>>> the creator of Shutterstock. This got me interested in the possibility of
>>> trying to sell some of my images through a service like this.
>>> 
>>> This may have been discussed on the LUG previously and I don?t recall
>>> anything about it because it wasn?t relevant to me at the time. So I?ll
>>> just ask for comments/observations/advice about Shutterstock: Thumbs up,
>>> thumbs down, neutral, alternatives?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any comments from voices of experience!
>>> 
>>> ?howard
>>> 
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Replies: Reply from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Shutterstock)
In reply to: Message from hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr) ([Leica] Shutterstock)
Message from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford) ([Leica] Shutterstock)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Shutterstock)