3500+ Images Getting Back into the Marketplace
In the world of Images for Publication , especially since digital photography has essentially supplanted film, marketing of such images has both evolved and devolved from the photographers perspective.
I once had almost 20,000 images in the "pipeline," mostly 35mm slides/transparencies;with the death of the owner of one of the agencies representing my pictures, some 8,000 of those were "lost" so-to-speak. The owners widow and grown children just had no way to separate and package and return the half million or so slides to the dozens of photographers whose slides were stored in 20-pocket plastic pages, not by photographer but by subject.
Then there are the 3500+ digital images that were stored on the servers of a handful of other agencies that, for various reasons, went by the wayside. Fortunately, I backed each of these 3500+ on several external hard drives and am now in the process of uploading them to what has been, in the half year or so we've been hooked up, the best of all of the agencies with which I've been associated.
Some resizing, fine tuning and key-wording, and, on a good day, I can get a dozen or so into a DropBox folder for the new agency and/or to my own site where I market them as Print-on-Demand (POD) -- canvas, metal, glossy paper, cell phone case, greeting cards, framed, matted, matted and framed, single or double matte
Enough detail
A poster image just put out there today
Gay Nineties Dancers and Horse-drawn Trolley, Main Street USA, Walt Disney World.
Juvenile, Wild Brook Trout Caught on Caddis Fly Imitation (Caught & Released)
Humpback Grouper
Rosybill Duck, Male
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No complaints -- I love what I'm doing.
4 of some 3500 something
Beautiful pictures!!!
Sigh, I know what you mean about losing pictures. Not as many as you did, but all the pictures of my son, growing up, thanks to a lightning strike that fried my computer, and the backup.
mmm, grouper, that's a tasty fish!
Oh no, I'm a catch & release guy, but tell you what, pat, if ever we meet in person, I'll buy you a steak dinner and a glass of wine.
Fair exchange?
I could go for that too !
Nice Reflections/Ripples on the water in the picture of the Duck........ Here are some reflections of my own...
Thanks for the nice addition to the discussion; Leonardo was somehow able to draw ripples/turbulence in water well before anyone ever had photos from which to reference!
Thanks for the insight A Mac. I would imagine that protecting your images is a big deal; what with digital piracy and such, being so rampant.
Hi Larry,
Haven't seen you much and happy to see you now.
Fortunately, agencies that represent my images have legal departments, and, also track visitors to the websites where the images they represent appear as thumbnails having lots of embedded information. These agencies have in the past, connected the dots so-to-speak, between pirated images and the "pirates" who subsequently used them in unlicensed situations.
One company had the balls to take one of my images and use it as their corporate logo and in other places! After the agency asked me if I had licensed the image on my own and I indicated I had not, I received another e-mail from them
Here's the image with the agency watermark which the pirating company photoshopped out and replaced with their own logo.
In a way, I'm flattered when one of my images is deemed good enough to steal. Otherwise, let the pirate beware.
I love what I'm doing. . . . . and it shows Mac! These are definitely eye-candy! Again, thanks for sharing your gift!!
Wow; that's a cautionary tale for sure! I also understand better whyone would work through an agency, for the sheer security alone. Movies, books, images, music....all this stuff is being pirated----quite sickening actually. Artists are worthy of their wages.
I have, for quite some time, maybe even as long as I can remember, been fascinated by ripples and reflections on water.
Here Is another:
I lost touch with his widow; I think about re-establishing contact but I hesitate.
ambi,
I would never consider any adverse action; I hesitate to re-establish contact because of the woman's age. It may seem silly, but I would hate to call or write only to learn that she had passed away.
I have no fear that the slides will be pirated but one never knows. In most cases, I believe I'd recognize my own work, but again, who knows?
Maybe I'll take a chance and send her an e-mail just to say hello and see how she's doing.