Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Not knowing the nature of the subjects you are shooting for your clients > I'll go out on a limb and say that you are giving away your retirement fund. Not at all. As I have said, I am getting paid what I asked for, and I am taking no risk. > Twenty years into this business and I have reached the point where I make > as much from sales and licensing of my stock photo library as I do on > assignment work during a year. Stock is different. In stock, generally, the photographer paid for the materials, and sought out the subject matter, and was not compensated for any of the time, so the photographer too ALL the risk. Commercial shoots, and compensation, and stock shoots, and compensation, are completely different. I could not use shots I did for Nike, that they provided the models for, and the materials for, for my stock portfolio. That would be unethical. BUT if I went out and bought a pair of Nike shoes, and paid a model my self (or traded portfolio shots for the models services), then I can sell them until the cows come home...