More info. So Age Fotostock and Westend 61 allows to photographer sell images directly to final customer. As stock images and fine art prints. It means you must ask a non- exclusive contract for Age. Westend 61 has exclusive contract only, but allows direct sales at same time for same images. But distributing must be for same images only via Westend 61. Westend 61 split is for photographer 40 %, after 10 000 euros it will be 50 %.

Age Fotostock allows to distribute images by contributor too. You can send same images to Alamy. Age asking from contributor does they could send images to Alamy. So there is option in or out for Alamy. Actually there is not very much options for indie macro. Age and Alamy. Alamy is centered very strongly for Great Britain stuff.  Today there are agencies like 500px Prime, Pond 5, but they are not really big sellers yet. Surely there are some companies, but agency must be well known to have good sales.

Most of macro aggregators wish exclusive content and contracts are long. If agency does not perform well then your images are dead images to the end on contract. Most of macro agencies does not allow to sell images by contributor at same time. Do not forget that exclusivity is good for agency only. They can sell images, all agencies over the world can sell your images for some dollars, only you, photographer can not. Exclusivity is good if only an one agency is selling images. Like Stocksy does. Without sub-distribution.

There is one option for Right Managed editorial images. Lightrocket.
They asking 49.- USD per year and all your editorial content  is directly available for Getty. Getty editors pick-up what they wants. No middlemen. No cuts. Direct contract. Lightrocket is  On Asia photo agency. Now they are offering image hosting service like Photodeck, Photoshelter and some others.

So my 2 cents. Be very careful with exclusive contracts. There is no final truth, one business model works well for one, but not for other.

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Shutterstock does not accept buildings in main focus. I had very large houses like skyscraper and an one public building in main focus and they rejected it. I had a two property releases too for these buildings, but reply was a copyright infringement. Same for tractor in field. All logos and numbers were removed. There is no problems with such images at macro agencies. I add this image as link.

http://goo.gl/6jr9Z

Fine art prints and stock images market are very different things. Yes,  some images suits well for stock and for fine art prints simultaneously. But not always.

Maybe not all people know it. Couple of words about names of FAA and Pixels.
FAA and Pixels are a mirror pages.  Content and pages are same. Pixels.com was created to better sell images worldwide. Not all people lives in America and not all people loves a  name Fine Art America. So Pixels is more neutral name for people outside of US.

FAA is strong for Americans. European taste is sometimes very different.
From newletter Sept 2013

"FineArtAmerica.com is a great domain name if you're interested in buying and selling fine art... and you're an American.
Unfortunately, we get asked all the time... "Do you ship to England?"... "Do you ship to Australia?"...

"I'm a photographer living in Spain, can I join your site?"... etc. We decided to answer those questions once and for all and transform FAA into a truly international destination.
Introducing... the world's greatest domain name for artists, photographers, graphic designers... and anyone involved in the visual arts Pixels.com"


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Never. Good images requires a lot of glass (lens) and larger sensor than phones have.
Sure, sometimes we can get very good results with camera phones too. But sometimes only.
No for sports, wedding and events. Mobile photogarphy need a lot of light and standing or slowly moving objects. In dark conditions results are very bad yet.


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Jaak

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Production cost is 2000-3000 euros per photo session. I do not know, maybe really.  I think in US or in western part of Europe fees for models are would be two-three times higher than in Estonia. Our overall income is simply 2-3 lower.

Next is out of topic already. I do assignments and a lot of architectural assignments. I send same images usually to macrostock too. But I have no costs. Only some euros for gas. And I am paid by customer already. Best solution. And an income from marcostock is bonus.

Today only some contibutors can live from stock only. Sure there are such people. But they started some time ago.  It is very important for  your ranking. A competition was not so high like today. If a contributor started in time and her/his images were very good then they sold lot of images. And all agencies loves a people whose images sells well. Searching system displaying their images usually at first. So if you have no good sale history it is very high to be on top.


http://goo.gl/Lv2HF

Who knows, but I have an one hypothetical opinion.
There are only some aggregator agencies only which can sell same images directly from their own site and at Corbis and at Getty simultaneously.

Usually contributing agencies must have a selection. Gettys family or Corbis and all others. Not simultaneously same images for Getty and Corbis.
Now my hypothetical idea. Yuri got simply this agreement. He can sell images from his own Peoples Images site and via Getty family too. Very easy and logical.

Best,
Jaak Nilson