Author Topic: Using my stock photos on my personal website allowed? (Read 6234 times)

TeamC · « **on:** April 03, 2010, 12:38 »

Hi All,
My wife has recently started a recipe/food blog and I'm wondering if I can upload some of the photos that I have taken for her and are used on the website?

As a side note, if anyone here has any website design experience, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism since we have never done anything like this before, and don't personally know anyone who has either. The site is http://splatteredwall.com/ [nofollow] and we use wordpress.

Thanks!

ShadySue · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2010, 12:52 »

Quote from: TeamC on April 03, 2010, 12:38

Hi All,
My wife has recently started a recipe/food blog and I'm wondering if I can upload some of the photos that I have taken for her and are used on the website?

As a side note, if anyone here has any website design experience, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism since we have never done anything like this before, and don't personally know anyone who has either. The site is http://splatteredwall.com/ and we use wordpress.

Thanks!

Yes, of course. You are the copyright holder. You might even want to join the affiliate programme and see if you can attract new buyers. (Sorry, can't find the link offhand, but I'm sure someone else can help.)

sharply_done · « **Reply #2 on:** April 03, 2010, 13:20 »

The only time you will encounter any obstacles related to this is if you become an iStock exclusive. As an iStock exclusive you cannot offer any images for free download or RF license anywhere except iStock and Getty. You can still use them for promotional purposes on your blog, your wife's blog, Flickr, photo.net, etc.

nancypics · « **Reply #3 on:** April 03, 2010, 14:20 »

Quote from: TeamC on April 03, 2010, 12:38

Hi All,
My wife has recently started a recipe/food blog and I'm wondering if I can upload some of the photos that I have taken for her and are used on the website?

As a side note, if anyone here has any website design experience, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism since we have never done anything like this before, and don't personally know anyone who has either. The site is http://splatteredwall.com/ [nofollow] and we use wordpress.

Thanks!

As long as you submit those images as non-exclusive, it should be fine. Btw - love the website name - it sounds like our kitchen at dinner time

TeamC · « **Reply #4 on:** April 03, 2010, 16:29 »

Thanks everyone. I'm non-exclusive everywhere so it sounds like it shouldn't be an issue.
I hadn't heard of any affiliate programs. I'll definitely do a little bit of research and see if I can find a way to work it in that will make sense for her site.

cascoly · « **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2010, 14:04 »

Nice website - if you're inerested in linking with my travel recipes site , just send me an email..

http://cascoly.com/trav/recipes.asp

steve

anonymous · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2010, 07:47 »

As a web designer by trade, I'm not a big fan of the "templated" layouts. However, for what you're doing, it looks fine....easy to navigate, attractive colors, nice sharp images of the dishes. A "4 out of 5"...you should be safe through next week's voting on Website Idol

TeamC · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2010, 21:43 »

Quote from: anonymous on April 05, 2010, 07:47

As a web designer by trade, I'm not a big fan of the "templated" layouts. However, for what you're doing, it looks fine....easy to navigate, attractive colors, nice sharp images of the dishes. A "4 out of 5"...you should be safe through next week's voting on Website Idol

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, when we were first setting it up I tried to figure out a non-"templated" look, but I quickly figure out I was way over my head if i didn't start from a wordpress template.

TeamC · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2010, 21:44 »

Quote from: cascoly on April 04, 2010, 14:04

Nice website - if you're inerested in linking with my travel recipes site , just send me an email..

http://cascoly.com/trav/recipes.asp [nofollow]

steve

Thanks Steve. I'll let the wife know...she calls the shots on those kinds of decisions.

crazychristina · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2010, 22:26 »

I'm an istock exclusive and I asked a similar question on the istock forum recently. Here's the discussion.

travelstock · « **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2010, 03:17 »

The layout & design looks very nice.

The only thing I noticed was the "Shop" tab on the top menu bar - I'd have it go to a page on the site itself rather than to Amazon if possible.

Looks like a lot of very tasty recipies on there - the photos really make them jump off the page.

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