[Leica] Shutterstock

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

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
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 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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