Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yet here we find ourselves. In this market; at this time. Blame will not help. Everything has become a lowest common denominator commodity. Graphic design services = $10/hr from India. Stock photography for pennies. Uncle Ed doing the family christmas portraits. Printers used to sell their exceptional quality for premium prices. Today their profit margins = fractions of one percent; due to various web sources selling printing virtually at cost. One must work and sell within the market realities of the day. Do exceptional work that no one else does; develop new networks and markets. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Today you are lucky to get $100 for a ten year license for the > same size photo. I blame micro-stock entirely for reducing the value of > stock photography. Photographers who accepted 25 cents per download for > unlimited use of their photos ruined the stock photography business for > everybody.