Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On average I make $1500 per day on a photography job. That?s almost always shooting,downloading,editing and delivery of images by end of day. Throw in a few direct from camera social media images as well. Last week I sold 5 images through Getty and I made $5.75. Currently I don?t have a ?job? until Friday. I only buy Leicas used. Chris Williams www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 > On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:17 PM, Ted Grant via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Hi Tina, > Well all I can say about "money earning photography today?" It absolutely > sucks compared to "being an in depend business 20 years ago? Maybe even 10 > years ago? > Let me put it in a monetary fashion compared today to the > yesteryears....... When I would receive a day rate of $500 per day, plus > $250.oo for down days of no shooting. Plus purchase cost of every roll of > film shot! Plus all processing and a contact sheet for every roll! Some > documentary > month long assignments. Sometimes several months in a row and quite > possible 9 or 10 months in a year! Quite often for a variation of clients. > Stock material sold through an agency some years would be close to $40,000 > a year on a good year. And I didn't really work at stock as my time was > nearly always assigned work! > LEICA's were a piece of cake to buy. TODAY? NOT ON YOUR LIFE! Why? > Well the number one reason as far as I'm concerned????? > Those telephone cameras that everybody and their mothers own and use them > quite often? Quite well for publications. > Their photography is quite well done for the pictures required these days. > Plus the "seller?" :-( quite often give their pictures away for merely a > "credit line" under the photo. In turn cut publication rates to almost > nickels & dimes. OR NOTHING! > Photo books of how to do it being published are almost null & void! Why? > Because you can learn so much off the TV screen down loading lectures and > lessons for almost give away prices. > Even photographer hired positions are far and few between. Do I have an > answer to correct this new life style??? NOPE! :-( > I suppose one could be factious and say " Just stay an amateur and have > fun!! > cheers. Dr. Ted Grant O.C. > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Tina Manley via LUG > Sent: September-01-18 7:09 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Cc: Tina Manley; Lawrence Zeitlin > Subject: Re: [Leica] RE Cost of pictures > > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information