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To produce photography for stock libraries, it must be of a
high technical standard, and you must be able to read, understand, and act upon
technical guidelines. You need to be able to find professional-level
information on technical matters. In the practical photography that you are
producing, I have set strict technical guidelines to follow and these are
comparable to industry standards.
Task
1000 words by March 1st.
Visit the Photoshelter website, which has information and education material about stock photography and answer these questions in your own words.
What is stock photography?
http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06/what-is-stock-photography.html
What is the visual style and production quality of
stock?
Why are Model Releases important?
When would model release forms not be required?
Why are Model Releases important?
When would model release forms not be required?
Who buys stock?
What is editorial photography, what is the visual
style associated with editorial or photo-journalistic photography?
Looking through Photoshelter’s photographers, find 3
examples of photo-journalistic/editorial
style photography and
3 examples of lifestyle stock
photography.
Compare their visual style, subject and technique and compare the examples to
your own photographs for this project.
When a buyer purchases a stock photograph, what are they buying?
When a buyer purchases a stock photograph, what are they buying?
What is the difference between Royalty Free and
Rights Managed?
Why are captions and keywords important?
Read the Alamy technical submission guidelines:
Read the Alamy technical submission guidelines:
What basic retouching tasks in Photoshop do you need
to understand to submit pictures for stock?
Name and explain four reasons why Alamy would reject
images.
What size of files dp Alamy need uncompressed?
What size of files dp Alamy need uncompressed?
Read the news picture guidelines:
Which image editing techniques that change the truth
of the image are unacceptable?
In captions, what key questions should you be
answering? What is unacceptable in captions?
Visit Trigger Image at http://www.triggerimage.co.uk/about/
What are this company’s specifications for High Resolution uploading?
What are this company’s specifications for High Resolution uploading?
Visit the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging
Guidelines website at
http://www.updig.org/guidelines/uqg.html
Name and briefly explain four of the key guidelines listed.
Name and briefly explain four of the key guidelines listed.
Also look at Tim Gander’s blog for information about
professional practice:
A Handy article for the difference between Royalty Free and Rights managed can be found here.
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06/how-to-license-your-photograph/