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Buying OR Selling? Posted in sports/talk aS more relevant than talk/business IMHO
I keep seeing stories of photographers making less than £10 a picture published.. only slightly more for a full page pic.... I see nearly all the publications choosing rex/shutterstock pictures over far better and more pertinant pics... I see lots of big name photogrpahers supplying them and for the life of me i don't get it?
I know why the papers are doing it.. dwindling readership and a big cut on costs I guess.. But don't get why photographers are supplying them for those prices.
I would cry if I got a pic published in a national for a couple of quid.. My last one was £140 .. imagine how many rex/shutterstock you need to sell to equal my one..
it's a road I have not and will not consider as for the last couple of years anythign published in nationals is a small part of my wages and seen more as bonus payments.. But this season even though I get the shots.. OK it's league two I cover.. But I averaged a pic a month in nationals when the team doing well and there doing even better this season.. however its rex or nothing
So is anyone getting published in nationals (esp at lower levels) independantly.. NOT through an agency and deff not through rex type of cheapo agency ?
PS I work the games for my local paper so get lots published in regionals every week just my bonus nationals payments dried up...
I keep seeing stories of photographers making less than £10 a picture published.. only slightly more for a full page pic.... I see nearly all the publications choosing rex/shutterstock pictures over far better and more pertinant pics... I see lots of big name photogrpahers supplying them and for the life of me i don't get it?
I know why the papers are doing it.. dwindling readership and a big cut on costs I guess.. But don't get why photographers are supplying them for those prices.
I would cry if I got a pic published in a national for a couple of quid.. My last one was £140 .. imagine how many rex/shutterstock you need to sell to equal my one..
it's a road I have not and will not consider as for the last couple of years anythign published in nationals is a small part of my wages and seen more as bonus payments.. But this season even though I get the shots.. OK it's league two I cover.. But I averaged a pic a month in nationals when the team doing well and there doing even better this season.. however its rex or nothing
So is anyone getting published in nationals (esp at lower levels) independantly.. NOT through an agency and deff not through rex type of cheapo agency ?
PS I work the games for my local paper so get lots published in regionals every week just my bonus nationals payments dried up...