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[Tina Manley]

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.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > 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
> >>
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