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One site that caught this reader’s eye was Photo Business News (not a Forum) online. The business side of image licensing that leans well on the side of the photographer fights for a common cause. News worthy events were Stephen Colbert claiming image licensing was passe, and that a major magazine had finally credited images correctly.
This is the kind of watchdog site that keeps image licensing agencies and media outlets honest crediting images with their makers. I am rarely tempted to Twitter, but the feed from this site would be edifying in the two minute format that comes from Itunes or other.
 
This kind of blog site keeps your sights aimed at the higher professional plateau you want to reach after a certain time in the microstock space. The  image library feature tells just what I have been saying all along.
There is a feature titled “Assignment Construct” that seems to be just what it sounds like. I like the pitch feature, and also intriguing is the portrait setup and the ringlight usage review. This would be an excellent site to learn more about technical details at the very high end of freelance professional photography. Also, the recomended blogs and other sites were extremely qualified and well worth my time to glance over and bookmark for later perusal.
I loved the feature about the Time magazine cover of a jar of coins marked “the new Frugality”, and the information Harrington had provided about how Time paid for it covers. Knowing more about the upper echelons of the photo media world can’t hurt, especially when looking up form down below.

Harrington’s post was a shocking statement about how closely these worlds intersect. What can established photographers think who have mortgages and children’s college educations primed for those big cover image paychecks?

I did not know the average budget of the Time magazine photo department, but I was shocked to realized a $30 Istockphoto made the cover of Time. Furthermore, it ws an amazingly frugal decision on the part of TIME, to decrease the usual 41,500 to $4,000 odd cover fee to a mere $30 drop in the bucket.

This spurs the question if there is no more ceiling on the photography fee scale. Are we all just working for microstock fees and don’t know it? 

 

 

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