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Elenathewise

« on: January 14, 2009, 11:18 »

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About a month ago I sent test submission to Getty and today got a reply. What I am offered is "Photographer's Choice Placement Fee Collections", which basically means you have to pay 50 dollars per image placement fee, before any possible earnings. Is it even worth trying out? With prices going down and sales being slow, will I ever see my 50 bucks per image back? Anyone has experience with this?
All comments are welcome,
Elena.


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stock shooter

« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 11:53 »

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For what it's worth here is my experience. November of 2007 I sent 10 images to Getty at the introductory rate of $250 for 10 (half price). Six months later I submitted nine more. So I spent a total of $700 in placement fees. Back then the images had to be Rights Ready, and the collection was Lifesize. Now lifesize is gone and incorporated into their existing PC collection. Also, now you can submit RM or RF (RR is leaving soon). Also now they have a deal that for every image you sale within a year of submission, you can submit another for free. Initially they didn't offer that otherwise I would have submitted more.

Anyway, in one year with 19 images (10 for six months and the other 9 for six months) I have earned $1363 subtract the placement fee and my net is 663. My production costs were low, about $200 total. My guess is that if my images were RF I would have earned more, and I believe for now on I will place most images as RF. So $663 from 19 images in a year. For me that's better than Alamy, Acclaim, or any of the micros.


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Elenathewise

« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 12:09 »

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Thanks a lot stock shooter, this is very helpful. It looks like now I can submit initial 10 for free, so I should try this out.


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Elenathewise

« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 12:13 »

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One more question - these 19 images - what subject they are? (if you don't mind my asking)
Thanks,
Elena.


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stock shooter

« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 12:31 »

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You can submit 10 for free? Is there a link on Getty about that? I really feel like I got screwed by being an early adopter of this scheme. Initially their policy for sistering was only RM, so later I tried to submit more form the shoot that I initially submitted and they rejected them based on sistering. Pissed me off. If you can get 10 in for free by all means do it.

Any way, my images, a little variety, some lifestyle, friends hanging out in a park. A couple sport portrait images, some food and drink images, a few weird, kind of artsy conceptual imagery that haven't sold. Of the 19 images, five images represent all of the sales so far. One of the food/drink images was licensed by the same company three times for different uses, another food and drink image was licensed twice by two different companies. Two of the lifestyle / sport portrait images were licensed once each and one of the lifestyle images was licensed five different times by five different companies.

Hope this helps.


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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2009, 12:31 »

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Quote from: stock shooter on January 14, 2009, 11:53

Anyway, in one year with 19 images (10 for six months and the other 9 for six months) I have earned $1363 subtract the placement fee and my net is 663. My production costs were low, about $200 total.

Adding my voice to Elena, what is the kind of shots that are successful at Getty? It's totally acceptable you like to stay anonymous, but could you perhaps describe the type of shots? Thanks!


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Elenathewise

« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 12:37 »

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Thank you very much again stock shooter. About 10 for for free - this is what their email seems to be saying, I don't have any official links to that info. Maybe they just changed their policy (I remember looking this up a while ago and it was 10 for 250 deal). We'll see if this really works:)


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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 13:15 »

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Elena, after looking at your images, I cant imagine that you wouldn't do great at Getty. Your stuff is much better than what I have produced so far so definitely go for it.


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melastmohican

« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2009, 15:01 »

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When tried to register I figured out that my camera, EOS 20D, is not acceptable for Getty. It looks like I need upgrade first :-)


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Elenathewise

« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2009, 15:08 »

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Elena, after looking at your images, I cant imagine that you wouldn't do great at Getty. Your stuff is much better than what I have produced so far so definitely go for it.

Thank you for your kind words:) Will try it out, hope I'll have some statistics to post at the end of this year.


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litifeta

« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2009, 15:14 »

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congratulations anyway. What a great way to start the new year getting into Getty. You should be proud of yourself. Grin


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litifeta

« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2009, 15:17 »

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I can see no reason why Elena would not get accepted. Her files are among the best in the world.


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Tuilay

« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2009, 15:37 »

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So happy for you Elena.
The fee is a bit steep, do all Getty contributors really make that much in returns
to pay off that fee?
I suppose the good thing is that you won't find some dude flooding the site with 1,001 variations of an already overdone subject . That means your images will be found by a serious buyer and bought because it is the best one there, rather than because the buyer could not find your image and took the one of the 1,001 variations by the same contributor on the first 5 pages.

Congrats once again. I hope it works for you. Let us know if the fee was well spent. Cool


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« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2009, 16:06 »

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congrats! I hope you do well there. I would be interested in hearing how it goes.


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Elenathewise

« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2009, 17:51 »

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Thank you everyone, I'll keep you posted:)


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takestock

« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2009, 04:35 »

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Congrats Elena - wish you the very best there!


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Maui

« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2009, 06:38 »

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Does anyone know if they accept illustrations (raster images)? They certainly have lots of them on sale, but their application form only mentions photos.


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Iriz

« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2009, 10:11 »

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Quote from: Maui on January 15, 2009, 06:38

Does anyone know if they accept illustrations (raster images)? They certainly have lots of them on sale, but their application form only mentions photos.

Thats' a very good point I have lotza those!`+&%~```¬¬¬


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Gregor909

« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2009, 20:04 »

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Quote from: Iriz on January 15, 2009, 10:11

Quote from: Maui on January 15, 2009, 06:38

Does anyone know if they accept illustrations (raster images)? They certainly have lots of them on sale, but their application form only mentions photos.

Thats' a very good point I have lotza those!`+&%~```¬¬¬

Yes good point. Im curious too!

Oh and congrats Elena


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« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2009, 18:15 »

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Congratulations Elena, now each month you can enjoy an email telling you that your estatement is ready and look at it in complete amazement as to why they chose that image!


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Yurij

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« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2009, 12:17 »

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Elena - Congratulations!
Please - let me ask you (if that is not secret) about where you are submit your photos on test submission (your site or flickr or any other), it photos have been full size or reduced (what size), it photos have been exclusive (not represented at other stocks) or not?
Because I don't certainty about my completely understanding condition on http://contributors.gettyimages.com/workwithus/page2.asp
"Simply email [email protected] with the subject heading 'Test Submission: (Your Full Name)' and include a link to an online gallery of your images that best match our creative guidelines outlined in Step 2 of this process. This should contain approx 40 images and can be created using your own website or a community site such as flickr. Please ensure that you read our full Submission Requirements document as it contains all the information you need to correctly prepare your images for submission if accepted." And on guideline mention about photo size Requirements and exclusivity.


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Elenathewise

« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2009, 13:20 »

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thanks to all again:) I was also confused about the size of the images for test submission, so what I did just set up a page off my webpage (www.elenaphoto.com) where I posted 40 web-size images that are not currently selling anywhere, and sent that link. It looks like they don't examine the technical quality of your photos from the test submission, just the creative quality.


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stock shooter

« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2009, 14:04 »

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I thought this might be interesting. As mentioned before I have 19 images with Getty, RR, Photographer's Choice. I made one sale last month for $5.06. My commission, $2.02. It was for a web site. I didn't realize that an image can be licensed for so little at Getty. Disappointing.


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Elenathewise

« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2009, 14:49 »

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yup i heard about that before - i think there is even a law suit against Getty for selling images for such low prices (RM ones I think). I think it happens when a buyer gets a large number of images at once, kinda volume deal, similar to subscription model. Still, wouldn't that sale allow you to upload one more image?


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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2009, 21:00 »

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Still, wouldn't that sale allow you to upload one more image?

No because that image has already been downloaded a few times and has already qualified for the "sale one, get one upload free."


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