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Key words in this issue: Gone Fishin’ | Photobuyer Changes | Photo Theft? | Post-Trip | Scan Quality | Photo Search

NEWSWORDS: Well-crafter Photos | Nationwide Photo Project | Software Needs | Poetic Photographer | Photo Improvement | Canadian Photographer in Iran | Blue Highways | Supreme Court Photos | Corbis in Court | Cave Explorer/Photographer | 5 Megapixels |

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## PhotoAIM weekly newsletter for 07/19/03 ## 394c

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PhotoAIM, the weekly newsletter from PhotoSource

ISSN 1530-0511

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GONE FISHIN'

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If you're a person who loves fishing, you know that when a warm coaxing breeze urges you to come sit on the bank of a lazy river or in a rowboat on a lake stocked with walleye, you have to grit your teeth to resist. Duty calls. Your salaried position won't allow you such luxuries.

Small office/home office workers carry a passport in their pocket that's unavailable to corporate workers. It's a ticket that says, "Gone Fishin'." It's a Post-It-Note they tack up on their office door that says "Gone Fishin'".

Re-engineering and downsizing in corporate America is having a beneficial effect on many Americans who, when faced with early retirement or losing their jobs, thought the end was near. But they discovered a beginning, one they probably never would have experienced if they hadn't been forced into a position where they had to strike out on their own.

The beauty of being an independent stock photographer is that you can have the best of both worlds. As a photographer supplying photos to the specialized market of your choice, you can justify the time you spend at your favorite venue, whether it be a dog show, horse race, antique aviation meet, or fly fishing. You are always working, -and enjoying it.

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This week's featured photographer on PhotoSourceFolio: Terry Warren:

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As a special service to our PhotoAIM subscribers, we provide you with a fresh, up-to-date list of photobuyers every month. Look for this list every third week of the month, to update or add contacts to your personal Market List.

CHANGES

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FLORIDA WILDLIFE (620 S Meridian St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-1600) has ceased publication.

SUNSET MAGAZINE (80 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94107) former phone: 1 415 321-3600; current phone: 1 650 321-3600.

PACE COMMUNICATIONS (1301 Carolina St, Greensboro, NC 27401-1022) former phone and fax: 1 336 378-6065, 1 336 275-2864; current phone and fax: 1 336 383-5658, 1 336 383-5699.

NEWBRIDE EDICATIONAL PUBLISHING, former address, phone and fax: 333 E 38<sup>th</sup> St 8<sup>th</sup> Fl, New York, NY 10016, 1 212 652-0238, 1 212 867-5968; current address, phone and fax: 11 East 26<sup>th</sup> St, New York, NY 10010, 1 212 478-1706, 1 212 478-1771.

INTERPRETING THOSE PHOTO THEFTS

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Is thievery on the Web a hazard to the editorial stock photographer?

There's no need to experience sleepless nights worrying whether an image-thief is going to run off with one of your photos. Why? The stories you hear about web image thievery are of three kinds: 1.) Individual admirers of your photos, grabbing them for their personal website or fraternity/sorority room wall, or 2.) Print-on-demand vendors who fill orders for calendars, posters, greeting cards, placemats, jigsaw puzzles, coffee mugs and t-shirts, or 3.) Entrepreneurs who are supposedly ignorant of copyright law.

If you've done your marketing right, you will deal with none of the above. Your markets are reputable publishers who stake their reputation on their integrity in dealing with their suppliers: you. No reputable publisher is going to "steal" one of your images and publish it in 15,000 textbooks, coffee table books, or other material.

Can you protect yourself from the three types of thieves mentioned above? Well, yes, you can buy expensive image-protection software. With what results? You could eventually engage yourself in an expensive lawsuit with an infringer who will probably be penniless and make you penniless (attorney's fees) in the long run.

Leave the court suits to the major stock agencies which are already making headlines by going after infringers, not to make money, but to provide copyright education to the public. Every time an infringer loses a lawsuit, it makes for good reading in the newspapers and magazines, and increased understanding. You, the photographer, are the beneficiary, and at no legal costs to you. –RE

TRAVEL NOTES

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Hold Tight!

Having just returned from a trip, two months in Australia and a month in Japan, I have been very busy sorting out what I've shot in that time. In truth, far too much even though I try to cut down.

My first look is to see if there is anything there. Even after taking pictures for half a century I am still amazed at seeing good pictures on film and get a buzz from it. Then I weed out all the junk, wrong exposures and bad composition being the worst offenders. This is probably about 20%, and if it seems I am hard on myself deliberately, there is no other way to improve my own standards. This still leaves me with around 80%, a lot to offer my clients and stock libraries for sure!

This will happen in due course, but in the meanwhile I have also have to deal with my least favorite part of being a travel photographer, the accounts. While I was away the Tax Year ended on 5 April in the UK. Although my accountant has shifted the actual date to the end, rather than the beginning of the month, the time still flies by and the accounts have to be done.

So I knuckled down, put it all together and guess what, I have not made as much income as in the previous year. This is disappointing but was predicable. Apart from whether my work is saleable or not, the down-turn has a lot to do with the after-effects of 9/11; international terrorism threats, the war in Iraq and the SARS virus. Combined, they have made a big dent in my income. People are not traveling as much as they did, so the need for pictures is not as great. This lack of demand has been told to me by every stock library and picture-buying source I deal with. Thankfully, at least I am not alone.

But it will not stop me from investing in my future. I know the travel photography business will recover; in fact it is already being predicted that tourism is likely to be far bigger in the next fifteen years and that travelers from China will be at the forefront of this. In the stock market, which has boomed and crashed so many times, the overall outcome over a long period is a slow rise. This is what I think will happen in our business too, so hold tight, keep shooting and investing in your future. It should all come to good!

Happy shooting!

BUSINESS NOTEPAD

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SCAN QUALITY "You may think you know how to scan a photo for evaluation for a photo researcher, but unless you have someone who is knowledgeable about scanning to evaluate your work, don't send the images to a potential client." So says Bob Nover, photobuyer at McDougall-Little/Houghton Mifflin in Boston. "It's quite simple, - if the scan we receive is not up to par, we don't want to see the original. I usually see two faults: the exposure is off, and the scanning quality itself. The images look soft, not sharp at all. I'd be wasting my time if I took the chance to wait to see if the original [slide] was better." -RE

GOOD STUFF

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THE PHOTOSHOP BOOK FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS, by Scott Kelby. This book shows you step-by-step the exact techniques used by today’s cutting-edge digital photographers and retouchers. It also does something that virtually no other Photoshop book has ever done: it tells you, flat out, which settings to use, when to use them, and why. ($39.99; ISBN: 0-7357-1236-0) Contact: New Riders Publishing, 201 W. 103rd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290. Phone: 1 800 545-5914.

WEB ANIMATION EXPERT: All That You Need to Create Your Own Fantastic Web Animations, by Graham Davis. Beginning with the basic theory behind moving images, this manual explains how browsers understand animation (along with hints on control); how to use animation judiciously; and how to achieve a variety of effects. Tells exactly what you can animate, and the different ways you can create the illusion of movement. ($24.95; ISBN: 1-58663-679-0; 192 color pages) Contact: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 387 Park Ave S, New York NY 10016-8810. Phone: 1 800 805-5489.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."

Abraham Lincoln

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THIS WEEK'S WEB FEATURE

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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.

David Morris understands that a well-crafted picture is worth a thousand words.

Now Software Helps Nationwide Photo Project

Choose photo software based on needs

Shuttle board: Improve pictures

Canadian photographer arrested in Iran dies: official - A Canadian freelance photographer, arrested in Iran last month and admitted to hospital, has died, the culture ministry announced, official news agency IRNA reported.

Photos Show Supreme Court Chambers - A new collection of photographs takes viewers into the normally off-limits chambers to show justices clowning with their law clerks and at work in front of computer screens.

Corbis Wins $1M Infringement Settlement, More Suits Pending Corbis has reached a $1 million settlement in its copyright infringement suit against The Movie Market, an online retailer of celebrity images and
movie posters.   

Photographer explored caves, underground pools - Bruce Brewer, a photographer and cave explorer, died Saturday after he disappeared into an underground pool during an expedition into a Georgia cavern.

5-megapixel cameras: Who needs 'em? - High-resolution digital cameras were once for professionals only, but not anymore. Increasingly, 5-megapixel cameras are being aimed squarely at amateur photographers.

FEATURE/Kodak's New Digital Film Processing Service Now Available Nationwide; Celebrity Stylist Helps Consumers See the Difference at New York City Event

Wildlife photographer's career sprang from an instinct to preserve - One of the most important things Bill Silliker Jr. brings into the field is patience.

NY-EASTMAN-KODAK(EK) Kodak Unveils First National 'AssignmentAmerica' Contest for Photography Professionals and Advanced Amateurs - Eastman Kodak Company is challenging professional and advanced amateur photographers to "Capture America on America's Favorite Film" as part of its first
"Assignment America" contest.

Exhibit Highlights Ansel Adams' Artistry

Canadian photographer arrested in Iran dies: official

Corbis Fighting for Legal Resolution on Pix]

Sony Japan announces new RGB+E image sensors... Full review posted for Nikon Coolpix 5400!... Fuji Japan announces IR card photo printer;

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