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We've been opportunity that we thought you might be interested in :

MSboatphotos.co.uk are looking for photographers around the country to take photos of boats on the water.
Once you have taken a photo and uploaded it to our website it will then be available for sale, you can earn up to £14.23 from us selling one of your photos, which works out at 65% of the profit per photo sold.
The main point of this is that it is relaxed and there is no commitment, if you can’t get out and take any photos or simply don’t want to for a while it doesn’t matter, whenever you get a good photo of a boat or watercraft on the water just upload it. You can take photos from the beach or a jetty or a boat, all we are looking for is good photos so use your imagination, All you have to do is take the photos, sort them, edit them and then upload them and we do the rest that includes printing, customer service, payment etc.

If you are interested in becoming a submitter please email Info@MSboatphotos.co.uk with some information about where you are in the country and any questions you may have, and we will reply with a document containing much more information about the website and pricing etc,

Many Thanks

MSboatphotos.co.uk
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Please note that this is merely an 'advert' and is nothing to do with TalkPhotography. Any agreement or transactions are between you and MSBoatphotos :)

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Interesting. Email sent - good excuse to go messing about on the river me thinks :-)

How about a Grand Union - union in the Meeting forum? :-)
 
Well I enquired, and checked out their website. I think I'll pass.. £14 is for a CD, which I presume will be high res.

Now that you’ve shown an interest in becoming one of our submitters here is some more information,
MSboatphotos.co.uk is a commercial enterprise which acts as a hub between buyers and sellers. We work for the photographer by selling your photos to the public. You upload your photos and we do the rest.

How it works,
You have shown an interest in becoming one of our submitters of photographs, once you have registered (there is a link in the email), you will be able to upload and manage your photos and also name them which is very important in regards to buyers finding their boat,

Payment
What happens is that if you have sold a photo in a month you will get a monthly sales sheet with all photos you have sold and also accompanying payment by the 31st of the following month.

How much does it cost me?
Nothing. We don’t charge a single fee in regards to you having an account in which you upload your photos. MSboatphotos.co.uk income is earned by taking a percentage of the sale.

How much do I make?

Print Size Cost to Customer How much you make (65% of profit) per photo sold,
6x4 £7.95 £4.84
7x5 £8.95 £5.39
9x6 £10.95 £6.47
12x8 £14.95 £8.15
18x12 £24.95 £10.36
CD £22.50 £14.23

What do I have to do for my money???
Take the photos, sort through them to get the best, upload them and name them, that’s it.

What do we do at MSboatphotos.co.uk???
The answer is we do the rest after you have taken and uploaded your photos. We deal with the selling, the customer service, the printing and posting etc. This means you don’t have to worry about the rest, just take the photos etc and then wait for a cheque to drop through your door once a customer has brought one of your photos.

How do people know to look at MSboatphotos.co.uk
Well although we will advertise, and try our best to get people to know about us you can do a great deal for yourself in regards to making more sales if you wish, it could be a little as telling you friends and family in the boating world about the website and if they type in their boat name they will find a picture of it etc, but also maybe putting business cards in the marina office. Also if you have other photographer friends get them involved.

How often do I need to do it
You can take and upload photos when ever you want, the whole idea of this site is that it is a relaxed Idea and you upload photos whenever you wish. If you can’t upload any photos for a while it doesn’t matter.

What do I do now?
Well once you have decided you want to be one of our submitters, please follow the link where you will be able to register. Once you have registered you can then start uploading photos to the website and making money.

Contact
To contact us if you have any questions please
Email: Info@MSboatphotos.co.uk
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£14 for hires? Thats appauling. There is no way I would sign up and I urge everyone else on TP to respect the value of their work by ignoring these people.
 
I've been informed these are not commercial purchases, these are private purchases, with Boatphotos making the other 35%.
It's not Stock (which you normally get pennies for ;)) either

The CD's aren't hires, that's just the method of submission.
 
Why do you make £14 on the method of submission? Why is CD listed under "What I make" next to all the prints? Commercial or private these are some rubbish rates.
 
Print PricesThese are all the available prints for your boat photos. You can order as many different sizes as you like.

Price P&P

6" x 4" £7.95 £3
7" x 5" £8.95
9" x 6" £10.95
12" x 8" £14.95

18" x 12" £24.95 £3.75

JPEG on CD £22.50 £3

It's the method of ordering - someone wants the pic on CD rather than a print = £14.23
 
My apologies, it's not method of submission, its method of delivery :bonk:
 
It begs the question, what size is the JPG? Alamy's lowest price for normal use is around £50/60. Thats their smallest file size, other than the 60p blogger thing.
 
Sounds like a boat owner wanted a picture of their boat and then thought, "I know, lots of boat owners would like a picture of their boat. Lets start a service where we try to match owners with photos."

Then they thought, "how do we get photographs to sell? I know, lets get photographers to go out and take them for us....."

Anyone here taken for a mug? They'll have to get up earlier in the morning to catch me out like that. Sounds good though, doesn't it.....£14 for each of those photos of boats you have lying around......and a free library for them to use too - anyone checked the Ts & Cs of submission...does it say anything about other uses? How do you KNOW when a picture has been sold? This is one of the problems with Alamy...loads of folks finding their pictures have been used unlicensed elsewhere - chase Alamy and they side with the user, maybe ask them to pay a minium usage rate in arrears, but only if found out.

Sounds too amateurish to me.
 
PS - i AM a boat photographer. just been to do a shoot for a magazine today as it happens.......no, even though i have thousands, they won't be getting any of mine. Thanks for the offer though.

If anyone has photos of boats they think the owners would like....you can try and track them down through the marinas/harbour master of the ports where you saw the boat. If they were out of their patch, then tough. But it is worth a try.
 
This should hopefully clear a few things up,
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This concept is not designed for professional photographers but for hobbyists, it is designed so that hobbyists can submit photos they may have taken during a trip out, with the potential to earn themselves some extra money. Selling 20 of the lowest priced prints can earn you over £90, and selling 20 of the CD’s can earn you over £280 which is a lot of money for not much work and it can help contribute to gear costs which we all know for hobbyists is normally a lot of money.
The submitters earn 65% of the profit for submissions and MSboatphotos.co.uk takes 35% for doing the rest of the work, printing, customer service, website, posting etc. We feel that 65 % is a very fair amount as the hobbyist photographer can earn a reasonable amount of money with very little effort and doing something they enjoy.
The photos are sold for private use only however if a customer wishes for a photo commercially (if the submitter allows) the submitters still earns 65% of the profit.
In regard to hires, as stated before this concept is designed for hobbyists not for professional photographers and the people are not hired, people simply submit a photo if they have taken one.
We feel we offer a good service to the hobbyist photographers by them being able to earn some extra money from their hobby without much effort, however if there are any other professional photographers as well who have photos sitting doing them nothing then feel free to sign up and submit them if you wish.
The idea of companies selling their photos to boat owners is an established idea and there are many boat owners who are looking for a picture of their boat, without having to commission a photographer.
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We hope this has cleared up a few points, if you have any more questions please feel free to email me at info@msboatphotos.co.uk
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Why should hobbyists earn less than professionals? Doesn't matter who took it, usage is usage. Print costs are print costs. No seperation on Alamy. Selling 20 cds of hires image to make £280 is stupid when you can sell 1 image on Alamy for £280. Anyone can. Nah I really wouldn't advise anyone to use this. Go with alamy or something.
 
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