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The Internet is proving that it is the image-delivery system of the future. It is important for photographers everywhere to understand that their own influence, as photographers, and their capabilities to compete in the
We are finding here at PhotoSource International that more and more photobuyers are realizing the benefits the Internet affords them for photo research. We talk with ten to 20 photobuyers each day. As more and more computer-literate photo editors come on board who know how to utilize the Web, photographers will flourish.
The automobile, airplane, and the telephone launched huge leaps in communication among peoples of the world, and so do the capabilities of the new Internet delivery system. But the Internet goes even farther. It affords independent photographers the delivery power that was once the domain only of the large stock photo agencies.
As a photographer, now that your images can be both pre-viewed and transmitted electronically, you can open the curtain on a brand new horizon of opportunity for yourself.
The top dog major stock agencies are no longer, well, top dogs. In the past, creative persons, whether songwriters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, etc., had no way of competing against the middleman agents. It was near impossible to break into the ranks and get the attention of the buyers directly.
The World Wide Web has changed all of this. For example, if a major publisher is producing a book, CD, magazine article, Web review, TV special, on agricultural growth of cucumbers in Venezuela, there would be no reason to turn to a large digital stock agency to seek the needed images. Using web search engine efficiency, a buyer can, in minutes, locate photos from independent freelancers, and save money by eliminating the middleman.
Also important, images from a corporate stock agency would usually be 'generic' in commercial style (smiling, contented farm workers (usually models), shiny new equipment, clean landscapes, etc.) This type of photo isn't the
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Furthermore, many agency images would be at least 6 to 12 months old. (It takes that long for the corporate bureaucracy at most major stock photo agencies to acquire, edit, catalog, and process a single image.)
The individual stock photographer not only has more recent photos, but can in fact, within hours, produce the needed photo and deliver it to the buyer, in high resolution, from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world.
Independent photographers are able to use key words, plus the power of search engines such as Google, to offer delivery speed to buyers. Photobuyers are realizing it's to their advantage to deal directly with independent stock photographers.
This is the main reason we have launched PhotoSourceGROUP, which is a portal that not only posts hundreds of categories of images for you, but also offers you a a "sit back and let the buyers come to you" method of selling their pictures. And PhotoSourceGROUP is a portal a rung ahead of other image portals: PhotoSourceGROUP partners a unique system of each photographer placing 3,000 image-descriptive key words on their storefront site, making for a distinctive winning system for both photo buyers and photo suppliers.
Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and best-selling author of "Sell & ReSell Your Photos" and "sellphotos.com," has helped scores of photographers launch their careers. For access to great information on making money from pictures you like to take, and to receive this free report: "8 Steps to Becoming a Published Photographer," visit http://www.sellphotos.com
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