Digging around on A Photo Editor today I came across this example of an image license negotiation with a book publisher. Jess Dudley, a producer at Wonderful Machine, helped one of their photographers negotiate terms and prices.
It's a good nuts-and-bolts example of building and negotiating a license. If you're not licensing your images, you're leaving a ton of cash on the table.
Read. Learn. Reap the benefits!
Read the article here.
Image of the Week
Image of the Week: Set still from 'The Last Supper', actor sitting behind light scrim.
Showing posts with label Koz Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koz Photography. Show all posts
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Bottom Line
Photographer's Rights
I get this question every time I run my Business of Photography seminar at Vancouver Photo Workshops, and this article sums up the answer quite nicely.
I get this question every time I run my Business of Photography seminar at Vancouver Photo Workshops, and this article sums up the answer quite nicely.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
CAPIC Portfolio Speed Review Review
The action was fast and furious at CAPIC's 3rd annual Portfolio Speed Review last Tuesday night. There were enough of us photographers to fill 3 shifts of 5 minutes each with the reviewers. Designers and art directors from the likes of Hangar 18, Dare, and Red Rocket (to name a few) were kind enough to spend some time offering up their opinions on attending photographer's portfolios.
There were also a few heavy hitters in the photographer crowd; Dale and Michele of Roth and Ramberg fame, Phillip Chin & Kevin Clark were a few of the tougher acts to follow.
A 5 minute speed review goes by incredibly fast! CAPIC might consider finding a way to stretch that time to maybe 8 or 10 minutes in the future. Mind you, I'm sure any amount of time in this sort of format would seem short. Regardless of the amount of time allotted, photographers are afforded invaluable face-time with their target clients, and that interaction is all too important in any photographer's marketing strategy.
My reviews went well. Most suggestions leaned toward my inclusion of more conceptual imagery in my book. I received kudos for my lighting skills and light-matching accomplishments on one comped image I'd included last-minute.
I had 2 different leave-behind pieces and offered the choice to each of my reviewers. 80% chose one in particular, one reviewer asked to keep both. It was an interesting experiment (one reviewer touched on that, "Is this your way of learning a bit about me?").
Various sponsors offered up door prizes via random draw. Apparently it's good to be the one to draw the winning ticket, 2 of the photographers asked to draw from the bag pulled their own name!! I was lucky enough to win a 20x30 canvas gallery wrap, graciously donated by Technicare. Others won digital retouching time supplied by Cake Imagery and studio rental time from Whitebox, among other prizes.
Thanks to CAPIC for bolting this together, and to Rick Etkin and Steve Pinter for cracking a whip to keep it all rolling smoothly.
My membership application is in the mail.
There were also a few heavy hitters in the photographer crowd; Dale and Michele of Roth and Ramberg fame, Phillip Chin & Kevin Clark were a few of the tougher acts to follow.
A 5 minute speed review goes by incredibly fast! CAPIC might consider finding a way to stretch that time to maybe 8 or 10 minutes in the future. Mind you, I'm sure any amount of time in this sort of format would seem short. Regardless of the amount of time allotted, photographers are afforded invaluable face-time with their target clients, and that interaction is all too important in any photographer's marketing strategy.
My reviews went well. Most suggestions leaned toward my inclusion of more conceptual imagery in my book. I received kudos for my lighting skills and light-matching accomplishments on one comped image I'd included last-minute.
I had 2 different leave-behind pieces and offered the choice to each of my reviewers. 80% chose one in particular, one reviewer asked to keep both. It was an interesting experiment (one reviewer touched on that, "Is this your way of learning a bit about me?").
Various sponsors offered up door prizes via random draw. Apparently it's good to be the one to draw the winning ticket, 2 of the photographers asked to draw from the bag pulled their own name!! I was lucky enough to win a 20x30 canvas gallery wrap, graciously donated by Technicare. Others won digital retouching time supplied by Cake Imagery and studio rental time from Whitebox, among other prizes.
Thanks to CAPIC for bolting this together, and to Rick Etkin and Steve Pinter for cracking a whip to keep it all rolling smoothly.
My membership application is in the mail.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Aspirations
This past weekend I had the pleasure of working with one of the photographers whose work I've admired for some time; Art Streiber.
It was incredibly inspirational and quite refreshing to work with him & the crew as we sculpted light around the talent on various sets of the television show Eureka. He's a very hands-on photographer. Every light that went up did so under his direction. The resultant images were lit efficiently and to perfection.
Thanks to my friend Wayne H. (quite a magician with lighting himself) for getting me on the project. Check out his work at Ordeal.
It was incredibly inspirational and quite refreshing to work with him & the crew as we sculpted light around the talent on various sets of the television show Eureka. He's a very hands-on photographer. Every light that went up did so under his direction. The resultant images were lit efficiently and to perfection.
Thanks to my friend Wayne H. (quite a magician with lighting himself) for getting me on the project. Check out his work at Ordeal.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Brave, New World
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/04/19/DigitalRights/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190410
A friend of mine passed this link along to me. It's very informative as well as being testament to the way photography is perceived by creators and non-creators alike in this day and age.
While I'm a firm believer and staunch supporter of copyright and rights retention by creatives, articles such as this make me wonder more and more about the medium as a viable career choice, at least in the way it was when I graduated from college, as well as what a successful imaging business model might look like in today's 'free' society (Google, Wikipedia, Flickr).
Compounding the stress on the medium... photographers knuckling under and giving their images away for next to nothing continue to push the medium's value down. The market continues to be flooded with substandard images that people accept as 'professional' because they just don't know any different. Clients offering what amounts to less than minimum wage for projects because they KNOW some photographer out there will take the gig. It ain't pretty.
I spend more and more time these days trying to come up with a business model that will cater to the way images are used (and abused) in the current marketplace yet maintain my professional ethics and moral integrity AND keep the dog fed. Jury's still out...
Stand out. Focus your vision. Get noticed. Offer great value for client dollars. Create what you love. Success will follow.
These are the thoughts I repeat while rocking myself to sleep in the fetal position every night.
A friend of mine passed this link along to me. It's very informative as well as being testament to the way photography is perceived by creators and non-creators alike in this day and age.
While I'm a firm believer and staunch supporter of copyright and rights retention by creatives, articles such as this make me wonder more and more about the medium as a viable career choice, at least in the way it was when I graduated from college, as well as what a successful imaging business model might look like in today's 'free' society (Google, Wikipedia, Flickr).
Compounding the stress on the medium... photographers knuckling under and giving their images away for next to nothing continue to push the medium's value down. The market continues to be flooded with substandard images that people accept as 'professional' because they just don't know any different. Clients offering what amounts to less than minimum wage for projects because they KNOW some photographer out there will take the gig. It ain't pretty.
I spend more and more time these days trying to come up with a business model that will cater to the way images are used (and abused) in the current marketplace yet maintain my professional ethics and moral integrity AND keep the dog fed. Jury's still out...
Stand out. Focus your vision. Get noticed. Offer great value for client dollars. Create what you love. Success will follow.
These are the thoughts I repeat while rocking myself to sleep in the fetal position every night.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
My Instructorial Debut...
For the first time in my career, in my life actually, I got excited about, wrote and presented a seminar at Vancouver Photo Workshops, a seminar covering various points on how to run a successful commercial photography business.
Everyone is aware of the general apprehension to public speaking that pretty much every human on the planet suffers from, myself included. For some reason I never felt nervous immediately prior to or during the presentation. I did have the 'Who am I to be presenting this material?' thoughts prior to writing the material for the big show. I kept telling myself that 'Someone has to get this info out there!' though and persevered.
We experienced a projector malfunction toward the end of the last class and I wasn't able to post my list of thank-you's to the people who donated time and information to the seminar. Here is the list:
Thanks to the following people & associations for the
information shared this weekend:
David Ellingsen, Photographer
www.davidellingsen.com
Jennifer A. Marles, Intellectual Property/Copyright Lawyer
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
Intellectual Property Lawyers
Barry M. Robinson, Photographer
www.barrymrobinson.com
Leslie Burns Dell'Acqua, Photographer's Consultant
www.burnsautoparts.com
Selina Maitreya, Photographer's Consultant
www.1portauthority.com
Elyse Weissberg, Photographer's Representative
Canadian Association of Photographers & Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC)
www.capic.org
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
www.asmp.org
I hope that I was able to open a few eyes and minds as to the value of the medium I work in and love. It's the duty of every photographer to pass along information to the up-and-coming shooters out there. They're going to get their info from somewhere, let's make sure they're getting the proper information from reputable sources.
Everyone is aware of the general apprehension to public speaking that pretty much every human on the planet suffers from, myself included. For some reason I never felt nervous immediately prior to or during the presentation. I did have the 'Who am I to be presenting this material?' thoughts prior to writing the material for the big show. I kept telling myself that 'Someone has to get this info out there!' though and persevered.
We experienced a projector malfunction toward the end of the last class and I wasn't able to post my list of thank-you's to the people who donated time and information to the seminar. Here is the list:
Thanks to the following people & associations for the
information shared this weekend:
David Ellingsen, Photographer
www.davidellingsen.com
Jennifer A. Marles, Intellectual Property/Copyright Lawyer
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP
Intellectual Property Lawyers
Barry M. Robinson, Photographer
www.barrymrobinson.com
Leslie Burns Dell'Acqua, Photographer's Consultant
www.burnsautoparts.com
Selina Maitreya, Photographer's Consultant
www.1portauthority.com
Elyse Weissberg, Photographer's Representative
Canadian Association of Photographers & Illustrators in Communications (CAPIC)
www.capic.org
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
www.asmp.org
I hope that I was able to open a few eyes and minds as to the value of the medium I work in and love. It's the duty of every photographer to pass along information to the up-and-coming shooters out there. They're going to get their info from somewhere, let's make sure they're getting the proper information from reputable sources.
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