[Leica] Getty Images

Sat Feb 28 10:01:34 PST 2015

Jayanand Govindaraj ASKED:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Getty Images

>>> Are Getty going bankrupt then, if they are ripping every client off?
That must be the broader market today. <<<<<<<<<

Hi Jayanand,
Well I don't think so. But they are "great money/cost players" and sell or
give away images because they accept the photography from any person sending
them something they consider they will eventually sell for whatever the
buyer will/can/can't pay? They figure "Well if we give them this one for
free?  The next time they want something we can put the hook into them
big-time and make-up for the "freebie!" 

However they pay the photog-submitter .25cents and because this submitter
isn't depending on stock sales for a living they accept any amount simply
because they think, maybe not all? But think they've been recognized as a
"Professional photographer due to the sale."

And that's how GETTY can keep going . Low prices they charge and "HOW CHEAP
THEIR SO CALLED ROYALTIES PAID TO THE PHOTO-submitter is!"

It's a modern day fashion of life simply making and taking images.......
"PLEASE NOTE I DID NOT SAY BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER" The technical advances of
recording scenes and things has become so simplified any person with any
kind of "IMAGE CAPTURE MACHINE?" Will/can and do some very interesting
images. 

However they don't understand that when they accept next to nothing in a
sale .25 cents or a couple of dollars they're taking food off the tables of
real photographers depending on their livelihood for food and family! 

Cheers
Dr. ted

Sent from my iPad

> On 28-Feb-2015, at 21:25, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's greed on Getty's part.  They take 80 percent and give photographers
> 20.  Alamy is doing fine with a 50/50 split and considerably higher fees
> for usage.  Not as high as they used to be but at least Alamy is not
giving
> away photos for free!  Getty and the micro-stock agencies have devalued
all
> stock photography.  When I started in the stock photography, Rohn Engh
used
> to say, "Would you rather sell one perfect apple for $100 or 10
good-enough
> apples for $10 each?"  I've always held out for the higher prices and
> haven't regretted it.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> My guess is the market has changed, but photographers' mindsets have not,
>> pure and simple....Getty is probably just trying to adapt to fast
changing
>> market conditions, that is all. They cannot survive as a business
>> otherwise. Neither can professional photographers survive without
adapting
>> to the reality of the markets, and only those who realise this will
>> prosper. Change is the only constant. Photographers who crib about this
>> would do well to reflect on the history of Kodak...
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On 28-Feb-2015, at 15:10, Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hurrah! The business model just sucks and photographers have been taken
>> advantage of and devalued. Maybe there will be a readjustment, but I
doubt
>> it.
>>> 
>>> Charlie
>>> 
>>> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 28 Feb 2015, at 06:50, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> There is only a few words to describe GETTY IMAGES as a picture agency!
>>>> 
>>>> UNFORTUNATELY I WOULD BE IN VERY DEEP TROUBLE WITH THE "SALOON KEEPER!"
>>>> Brian Reid!
>>>> 
>>>> This organization is the destruction of photography quality and an
>>>> uncountable number of independent photographers and a huge number of
>> smaller
>>>> stock agencies!
>>>> 
>>>> One can only wish they die in the fires of HELL!
>>>> CHEERS
>>>> Dr. ted :-(
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On
>> Behalf Of
>>>> Ken Carney
>>>> Sent: February-27-15 5:19 PM
>>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>>> Subject: [Leica] Getty Images
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't tried stock photography, but I did wonder why the images were
>>>> so cheap.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>
http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2015/02/getty-images-downward-spiral-
>>>> approaches.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
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