PhotoNetCast #54 – Wildlife Photography

Great discussion on the future of photography publications, the new limited edition models by Hasselblad and lots of Wildlife Photography

Wildlife Photography

 

As we’ve mentioned before, episode 54 is focused on Wildlife Photography. Will Burrard-Lucas is our expert on the topic and we discussed the basics of wildlife photography, including gear and logistics to commercialization of the images and approaches on how to get your images be seen by the traditional media. This is a must listen discussion if you’re interested and/or planning to start in Wildlife Photography.

Before our main topic, we had the opportunity to discuss the future of photography publishing and the shift from the traditional books to e-books and portable applications, following Jim’s launch of his White Sands Fine Art e-photobook, and talk about the new limited edition cameras by Hasselblad.

As in the last episodes, we’ve recorded the live video and we’ll publish it below as soon as it’s ready. it can be seen at the bottom of the post.

As always, any feedback, comments or questions are greatly appreciated.

For now, enjoy the show…

 

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Uncut video of this episode is now available

PhotoNetCast #49 – Revamping the pricing model for Rights-Managed Licenses

Are photographers who license images under Rights Managed losing a slice of the market? Find out on this episode with our guest Jim Pickerell.

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In there an easier way to license your photos?

 

One of the complains we hear from photographers and buyers who are in the stock business has to do with the complexity of the Rights-Managed Licenses. From the usage type, run, duration, sizes, etc it all becomes a nightmare to manage in the long run. In that sense, and although not quite as simple as it may seem, Royalty Free sounds much less complex. But is there something in between that would allow photographers to still manage the usage rights in a less complex way, and at the same time tap into the budget market? Our guest Jim Pickerell thinks so and joins us on this episode to explain the why and how.

As always, if you have any comments, we’re here to listen.

Enjoy the show…

 

 

 

The links mentioned on the show and some more support reading are, as usual, on the show notes below.

 

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PhotoNetCast #31 – Stock Photography and different Licensing Models

Rich Legg and David Sanger take us into the business of a stock photographer and discuss the different business models and licensing types in stock photography.

The World of Stock Photography and the different Licensing Models, with David Sanger and Rich Legg

 

 

When choosing your path into commercial photography, and in particular stock photography, it’s wise to define your business model and know exactly what each of the different approaches will pay off, having into account your style of photography, the market (or niche) you’re trying to break into, and even the investments your prepared to make, whether time or financial.

In this episode we have the pleasure of having with us Rich Legg (@leggnet), a well-known iStockphoto contributor and big name (although he doesn’t want to admit it) in the microstock field, and David Sanger (@davidsanger), an achieved and outstanding travel photographer and Getty Images contributor.

Our guests takes into the inside of the life of a stock photographer (microstock and traditional) and discuss at length their current business models and their reasons for choosing them, advantages and disadvantages, marketing their photography, licensing photography on a Royalty Free (RF) or Rights-Managed manner, amongst other things on what was a great conversation.

And if we have any questions regarding any of the topics approached, please feel free to drop them on the comments sections as both Rich and David will probably take a few minutes to try to develop further on them.

We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did and again we have to thank David and Rich for their prompt willingness to join us on PhotoNetCast.

 

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On a personal note, the PhotoNetCast Crew wants to whish a fast and healthy recovery to Bengt Båvegård (paradox66 on Twitter) from Bild och foto, a colleague photographer, blogger and PhotoNetCast listener. Get well soon.