Stock Photography, a buyers guide
Stock agencies or Stock Photography sites are where people requiring a photograph or digital artwork go to buy already produced images, without the need to hire a specialist photographers service, or where photographers submit photographs licensed for specific uses.
There are two types of images are usually submitted to Stock photography sites:
Royalty Free (RF) Photographs: These are images submitted that you pay a one off price for in order to use the image many times (within limits set by the terms and conditions). There is no time limit on when the image must be used. And there are no exclusive rights (the image can be sold multiple times).
Rights Managed (RM) Photographs: These are where a usage is specified when the image is sold (e.g adverts, images in a magazine or book etc), these usually have a higher fee to the photographer as they will only be used once, with exclusive rights, but will only be allowed to be used for the specific purposes of the contract.
There are two common types of agency for stock photography, the older stock photography sites such as the world famous Getty, major supplier to most news agencies, these specialise in the more expensive end of the market and contain extremly high quality images, the second are the newer Micro-stock Photography sites, such as Big Stock Photos who specialise in large numbers of cheap (usually around $1) images. The micro stock end of the market is normally filled with much larger amounts of work, and from all types of people, not just pro photographers.
Each agency will have thier own rules on what photographic images will pass and what they will reject, so if you are supplying images to one do check before you submit your work.
Those looking to purchase photographs (or other digital files), you may be shocked by not only the numbers of photos/images and videos for sale but also the good quality of those images etc. top agencies are VERY strict when it comes to photographic submissions and will reject images that have too much noise or that are not pin sharp.
For a good list of different agencies try visiting the fatphotographer site and looking at their stock photography pages.
About the Author
Having been a birdwatcher all my life and an amateur for much of my adulthood I decided it was time to start using my writing skills to show others what I have learnt, and so my global web resource www.fatphotographer.net was born, (much of my writing can be found there).
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