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PhotoAIM, the weekly newsletter from PhotoSource

International. <http://www.photosource.com> ==>

ISSN 1530-0511

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LET THE FEDS WORK FOR YOU

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Advance Note: The Feds might not realize it – but stock photographers can benefit from government regulations designed to help small business.

If you are serious about marketing your stock photography, you are missing out on some fine opportunities if you don't take advantage of the benefits offered to you by, yes, your benevolent government.

COPYRIGHT. The law states that you own the rights to your picture, not the person who "buys" it. This was emphasized by the well-known Tasini court case reversal. Your copyright stays with you, unless you sign something to the contrary at the time of the transaction. Place the copyright symbol on all of your work; it costs you nothing to do this – it's a gift from your government. Only if you register your picture (with the Library of Congress) will it cost a fee (at this writing: $30).

MODEL RELEASES. Have you shackled yourself with the belief that you have to have a 'model release' for recognizable people or buildings in public? Not so, -it's your First Amendment Right not to have to get a model release if your picture is used for informing and educating the public. We live in a free society and the writers of our constitution early recognized that the free exchange of information was a right we should all enjoy. Unless you are a service photographer (industrial, architecture, fashion, advertising, etc.) and your pictures are used for promotion, endorsement, advertising, or other commercial and trade purposes, you won't need a model release. The only exception to this are cases where a picture might be in a sensitive area such as mental health, sex, or used in a compromising, unfair situation which could embarrass someone. Your book or magazine editor will advise you if these exceptions come into play when the picture is considered for publication.

PUBLIC DOMAIN PHOTOS. These photos from government agencies (NASA, Dept. of Agriculture, FSA, etc.) are free. You or your parents paid for them with your tax dollars. Public Domain photos can be used for many purposes: in books, with lectures, researched and sent to photobuyers. (see PhotoStockNotes; Sep. 99)

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This week's featured photographer on PhotoSourceFolio: Jan Mueller:

(http://www.photosourcefolio.com)

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FLASHBACK

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1959 – Photographs in color of the heavens (the Great Nebula in Orion, Crab Nebula, Veil Nebula in Cygnus and the Swan) were published in May 1959 issue of National Geographic magazine.

SIDE BAR

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Get your act together and get up to speed...

Mastering Digital and The Reasons Why

We are currently compiling responses to the 2003 edition of the PSI Photobuyer

Survey Report, and the Survey results will soon be available to you. This survey focuses on digital images -- from both capture and scans -- in depth. What's emerging is that editorial photobuyers are still hesitant to accept digital images from photographers.

This is not due to dislike of digital images on the part of the photobuyers. On the contrary, in general, photobuyers are positive toward digital images. The problem, from the buyers' perspective, is that in their experience most photographers simply submit poor quality digital images.

85% of the respondent photobuyers report being happy with digital images in general, but only 5% say that they are satisfied with the quality of high res digital images supplied by photographers.

KNOWLEDGE CRUCIAL

This underlines the importance of getting a handle on how to produce quality digital images, to further your success as an independent editorial stock photographer in this day and age. You don't have to be a master of PhotoShop or an expert at pre-press digital, but you'll find it profitable to get a working knowledge of the basics.

The complete 2003 Photobuyer Survey Report gives insights into how to submit digitally. Covered are things like digital previews, transfer methods, digital promotions, and digital catalogs. As always, interviews with photobuyers are included, in this survey talking about digital, and their likes and dislikes regards submissions and ommunications with photographers.

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The 2003 Survey indicates that photobuyers are becoming more open to receiving promotional e-mails from photographers. What they like most are short e-mails with a link to the photographer's site, or to alightbox made especially for them on the photographer's site.

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Bob Nover, researcher at McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, says, "Photosuppliers and photographers should recognize that even a quality jpeg is a reflection of the photographer's expertise. If the thumbnail looks fuzzy or has poor color balance, we don't have time to ask for another thumbnail. Our deadlines won't allow that. If the photographer doesn't have the proper equipment to submit a hi-res scan, he or she should have it outsourced."

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HERE'S A PLUS

The 2003 Photobuyer Survey indicates that photobuyers are becoming more open to receiving promotional e-mails from photographers. What they like most are short e-mails with a link to the photographer's site, or to alightbox made especially for them on the photographer's site.

New for this year is that PhotoSource International offers you "assistance sections" within the 2003 Photobuyer Survey Report. For example, if we write about how photobuyers want to see more photographers use the "file info" set-up for supplying captioning information with their digital images, we will have a how-to section about how to do that very thing.

In other words, we identify the tasks and problems, and show you how to implement those tasks and how to fix those problems.

The Survey is a report full of information you can use today to make more money tomorrow.

Using the 2003 Photobuyer Survey Report as a tool, you'll be able to tailor your website to photobuyers' needs, construct useful lightboxes on your site, and become more efficient at promoting your site and your photography to photobuyers.

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Early birds! Register today to receive the complete 2003 Photobuyer Survey Report. Once we receive your payment for the Survey ($19.95), you will receive a voucher worth 10% off any PSI service or product. To register, simply send an e-mail with your name and address to: mike@photosource.com This offer good until May 15th.

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Photojournalist Mikael Karlsson has 14 years' experience of working for magazines and newspapers in more than 30 countries. He moved to the United States in 1998 from his native Sweden. He lives in Nebraska and is currently US correspondent for 11 Swedish magazines and a regular contributor to a wide variety of U.S. publications. Reach him at mike@photosource.com.

CONTESTS

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23RD ANNUAL ART IN THE PARK. Deadline: May 10, 2003. Awards: $150 Best in Show; $100 2nd place; $75 3rd place; $25 Outstanding; $50 Mayors Choice. Fee: $100/3 entries. Contact: Art in the Park, c/o Paula Wild, 8707 Forest Court, Warren, MI 48093. E-mail: pwild@provide.net .

42ND ANACORTES ARTS FESTIVAL. Deadline: May 13, 2003. Awards: $5,000 in awards and purchase prizes. Fee: $15/1 entry, $20/2 entries, $25/3 entries. Contact: Anacortes Arts Festival, 505 "O" Ave, Anacortes, WA 98221. Phone: 1 360 293-6211. E-mail: info@AnacortesArtsFestival.com . Web: http://www.AnacortesArtsFestival.com .

17TH ANNUAL TOP 100 COMPETITION and the MINI 50 contest. Deadline: May 1, 2003. MINI 50 Show; June1, 2003 for the top 100. Awards: over $85,000 in cash prizes. Grand Prize Winner in the top 100 receives $25,000, and three regional winners will receive $3,000. The Grand Prize Winner in the MINI 50 Show will receive $10,000 and three regional winners will receive $2,000. Fee: $50, unlimited entries. Contact: National Park Academy of the Arts, P.O. Box 608, Jackson, WY 83001. Phone: 1 800 553-2787. E-mail: artsfortheparks@blissnet.com . Web: http://www.artsfortheparks.com .

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."

–Roald Dahl

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THIS WEEK'S WEB FEATURE

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Got a question about " on-line"?

http://www.photosource.com/online/index.html

Watch for developments in the field of stock photography in PhotoAIM's

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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You'll be the first to know…

Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL.

Why Your Digital Data Could One Day Disappear - Data stored on discs and other forms of computer storage are anything but permanent. Worse, companies that don't work to preserve digital data now might face a dark future, says Harvard Medical School professor Bryan Bergeron in this excerpt from Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die.

http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=2767&t=operations

Magnum Celebrates 5 Decades of Editorial Photography

http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1147&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Sports photography. Brad Richman has a different goal in mind when he shoots photographs of the sport and its players.

http://www.pressherald.com/audience/stories/030504keyes.shtml

Focus on Wildlife: Shooting Outside the box

http://boothbayregister.maine.com/2003-05-01/focus_on_wildlife.html

Small Talents: Photography Team, Davis and Davis

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/05/02/30987.html

Young Lives Transformed, Guided by a Camera Lens - The Fotokids' vision bridges the modern and the traditional, the rich and the poor. They unblinkingly document impoverished slums that have surreal names like Hope or the Jewel; they also embrace moments of giddy joy and even beauty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/07/arts/design/07FOTO.html

ActivePhoto Unveils Latest Mobile Imaging Solutions at Realcomm - "This year more camera phones will be sold than all other digital cameras combined! Coupled with the ActivePhoto solution, devices like these will have a significant impact on workflow efficiency and simplicity for commercial real estate professionals.

http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-21184663-0.html

Disposable camera has digital perks - Eastman Kodak announced the release of its PlusDigital 35mm disposable camera. When consumers get film from their PlusDigital developed, they will receive digital versions of their pictures on a Kodak Picture CD so they can load the photos onto a PC.

http://news.com.com/2110-1041-999225.html

These photography books are sized to sell - The books are big (eating up lots of shelf space) and expensive. Now, Phaidon Press presents 55, 20 individual collections of 55 photographs by a diverse group of photographers. At 6 1/4 -by-5 3/4 inches and selling for $7.95 each, the series offers a compact and inexpensive solution.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2001-05-04-book-55.htm

Reviews: Underwater Photography

http://www.photographyreview.com/Underwater,Photography/PSC_4354crx.aspx

Total Lunar Eclipse On May 15-16...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20030425/sc_space/total_lunar_eclipse_coming_may_15_16

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