Hi Magnum,

 One more time congrats for playing the game so well. It seems some people here don't aren't clear when it comes to stock sales negotiations. Most would have been happy with 10 dollars but not you : ) Maybe some people will learn what can be made from stock if they follow your lead. Bravo.

Jonathan

 Hi Gejam,
 
 Depends on time. As you shoot your images to double your collection your older images start to lose sales so it depends how many images you already have and how quick and well produced your second batch. I cannot achieve that at this point but a beginner who is improving their speed and quality still can.

Best,
Jonathan

Hi All,

 Found this link and thought some of you might find some of the articles interesting. They printed a news paper ever day of the event and this link connects you to all the copies. http://www.tweak.com/cepic_2010/index.html

Cheers,
Jonathan

Great Quotes, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Jonathan

 Hi All,

 Got to watch the match from a party at the Guinness brewery last night to close out Cepic here in Dublin. We are very lucky to have tied that game. Being the fat headed person I am I placed 50 Euro on the Americans to win. I'll take the tie even though it didn't pay. We really played terrible football last night, we never controlled the mid field we had no use from the outside on the attack and pretty much played with only two men up. That won't hold up long in the cup, I do hope we start moving the ball better. I have 3 12 year old keepers on my team  that would have stopped that goal, I'm glad the Brits don't have my keepers to support them: ) Green will never see the pitch again. Enjoy the matches, looking forward to Australians and Germans tonight.


Cheers,
Jonathan

Hi Lisa4,

 I just wanted to add in that my RPI over the life of an image is ow between 300-400 dollars per image in it's life time. I spend an average of 50 dollars an image returning about out 6 to 8 times my investment through their sales. In the old days it was $1500 dollars an image over it's life but with the drop it is now down to the 3-4 range. I still find that quite a reasonable return on my efforts. If I produce 40 images in a day for Getty it costs me $2000 and within the life of the images I will return $12,000-16,000 from that days work. I think that is still pretty good money in Macro stock. P.S. That is almost all RF Macro work.

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Lisa,

 I would love to talk in detail anytime you would like. I have seen your work and I would be happy to have you on board. Thank you for the support and the kind gesture. I hope we are working together in the near future. Remember the 50/50 split  

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Sean,

 We aren't drawing the line on property releases at all the end user has to make the decision if they want to use the image outside of a market that requires a release so it really is a mix out there. Corbis has told us that they sell as many non property released images as they do released ones for commercial use so I guess the need isn't as great as I was always lead to believe by my art directors.
 I think it is good news that both released and non released images are selling well for both commercial use and for editorial. This image was used for commercial purposes leaving any release issue up to the buyer if there should ever be a question. Our agency, Corbis and our contributor are all in the clear because of the way the contracts are designed. Nice to see that no PR doesn't mean you should think about what collection to place it in, just as long as the buyer is the one responsible for the final use

Best,
Jonathan

Accidental copy of previous post. My bad : )

Hi Lagercreek,

 Yuri is under the Cultura collection because it is a third party company owned by myself and 20 other photographer from Europe that Yuri is  contributor to. He is not contributing to Getty but to a third party agency like Cultura or all the others they have. It is represented by Getty but it is also represented by over 100 different agencies around the world. I mentioned this a few times that sometimes the best way to get into a Getty or Corbis is through a third party agency. These are agencies within themselves with a board of directors and owners and contributors.
 I have work in Stone, Image bank I actually have work I think in all of Getty's RM collections. Stone is eye candy but it is definitely not the biggest money as a single collection. That was years ago when Tony built it and Getty first bought it, things have changed a great deal. My Stone and my Image Bank don't do any better than my other RM work at Getty, it has far more to do with the image than the collection.
 The one way to tell what Getty wants to push is to pull up a page of RM with a single key word. Then count the number of slots each collection get on that first page of 60 images. Stone has a high count therefore they have more exposure and do well in sales, Image bank has a lot but so does Iconica and other collections owned by Getty. The third party agencies since they are not " wholly owned " have smaller placements, some don't get an image until the second or third page depending on their sell through rate the size of the collection and a few more factors. jockeying for slots on the front page is a very big part of a collection sales and success, third party or otherwise.
 It really isn't the collection because buyers don't shop by collection they shop by Key word. I hope this helps. Third party agencies are a great way to enter the big agencies. Talk directly with the Third Party like Cultura or Blend or Tetra or my new agency Spaces there are several of them, these are all third party agencies represented by hundreds of distributors across the globe. Hope this helps. Multi distributional is another option in certain third party RM collections at Getty and Corbis.

Best,
Jonathan

Congrats Zeus,

 That looks like a text my son would send  Congrats!

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Lisa,

 Thanks for the incouragement but I don't think it's me

Hi All,

 This entire year each month is getting better and better at Getty RM/RF. I have not added anything but some motion clips in over a year and I just had one of our biggest months in two years. Sales are growing rapidly I sure hope it continues. Does anyone else see their Macro work increasing in sales? Love to hear if you have.
 This past 2 months in Micro my sales have dropped for the first time since I joined. I hope that doesn't continue.

Best,
Jonathan

Hi Phil,

 I can't find the typo. Can you point it out. My name is spelled Jonathan Ross and my Wife is Amy Andersen Ross and the site is www.spacesimages.com I just can't find it. Thanks for the help.

Best,
Jonathan