Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That wouldn't work for me!! I currently have 10,000 images with my largest stock agency. I'm lucky if they sell 10 a month! Prices for stock have gone from an average of $500 per sale to $20 per sale. If I didn't have digital and had to pay for film, I would never be able to afford my Leicas!! Tina On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > As a point of interest, the latest issue of Science magazine, the journal > of the AAAS, reports on the annual number of photographs taken. ?In the > early 1800s, the first ever photograph was taken, an unassuming picture > that required days of exposure to obtain a very grainy image. Over one > million photos were taken during the US Civil war of which 100,000 survive. > In the late 1800s, photography was used for the first time to see the > movement of a running horse that was too fast for the human eye. In the > following years photography played a pivotal role in human history, ranging > from creation of the national parks in the USA all the way to documenting > NASA?s first moon mission In the 1900s, roughly 10 billion photographs > were taken per year. Facilitated by the explosion of the internet, we will > approach 2 trillion images this year - roughly about 1000 images per year > for every person on the planet.? > > As a frequent reviewer of art and photo shows in the TriState area I have > noticed several results of this plethora of images. First, figurative > images are almost impossible to sell. Unless directly ordered by the > recipient (i.e. a portrait or picture at ones children or a prized > possession) the chance of selling any image approaches zero. Second, we > have run out of wall space to exhibit images. It is virtually impossible to > book a display space unless reserved far in advance. Modern houses have too > many windows and too little blank wall space. > > I can conceive on only one simple fix for too many images. Raise the cost > to at least one USD per exposure. Use film instead of digital. Currently it > costs only pennies to take and print a picture. At current rates a year?s > worth of photos requires only a few dollars of expense. The price of a new > Leica kit is thousands of times more expensive. Does anyone have a more > sensible solution? > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>