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General Stock Discussion / Who should buy the image

« on: October 14, 2008, 13:52 »

I have a general question about buying photos. I am not doing a lot of design work, but occasionally I get a request. If I buy licenses under my name at microstock agencies and use them in the design for the customer, can then my customer use this design or should he buy himself the license and give it to me to work on it?

iStockphoto seems to say that I can buy the license under my name.
Since iStockphoto is not the cheapest especially for Els and contributors only get a small percentage I in general want to buy images elsewhere.
I could not find anything in the legal section at the other agencies, DT and FT. Maybe I read too fast or I have to contact support. However support can take quite a while I guess, so maybe someone of you did that before and has an answer?

Canon / Re: Lens recommendations for a new Canon user

« on: October 14, 2008, 13:39 »

Quote from: AstburyD on October 14, 2008, 11:20

If budget permits go for L series lenses, these have the higher quality professional glass and can be spotted by a red ring around the front of the lens. IS denotes Image Stabilisation, this typically works well and you get the option to turn it on or off. The 24-105 is a nice lens, I use one a lot but it does give a few problems, notably chromatic aberration, unless you want the flexibility of that range you can do better for portraits.

For example you could take a look at:
85mm L f1.2 prime
70-200 L f2.8 IS zoom

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/EF_Lenses/Fixed_Focal_Length/EF_85mm_f12L_II_USM/index.asp
http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/EF_Lenses/Zoom_Lenses/EF70_200mm_f2.8L_USM/index.asp

The 85 1.2 and the 70-200 2.8IS if you need the zoom and have the money. Both excellent lenses. the 70-200 4.0 IS might be delievering a bit better quality, but between both the quality is not that much a difference and you still have the nicer bokeh on the 2.8.

Off Topic / Re: Question, what to charge

« on: October 26, 2007, 17:06 »

Thank you! That helps!

Off Topic / Question, what to charge

« on: October 26, 2007, 15:22 »

Recently a person contacted me and asked if I would design an image exclusively for them. It would be a similar design to a photo that I already have on microstock, which has made ~500-800 $ in its first year.

The requested exclusive design might have the possibility to earn a similar amount, if I put it on microstock. The amount of time I need to do the new design would be arround 5-10 hours. The image would be used for a large publicity event.

My question is, what would you charge?

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