Photographs For a Dollar Anyone?
Stock photography, for those unfamiliar with the term, refers to an industry that licenses images for specified uses. Agencies (or individual photographers) act rather like a library, where photographs can essentially be checked out for a fee depending on the type of use. Like a library book, there’s no limit to the number of times a photograph can be used, providing the photographer with a potentially lucrative income from their portfolio.
We’ve all seen stock photography, whether we realize it or not – in magazine articles, print ads, brochures, on web sites. Stock photographs are almost everywhere, and professional photographers have made a good living off the business of producing stock for many years.
But, like other areas of the photography industry, the business of stock photography has undergone a major upheaval over the last few years or so, especially so since the introduction of digital photography…
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