Does anybody know how to actually get a response to something from Getty? They never respond to inquiries through their ticket system, that's for sure.

The background is that I want to use one of my Getty exclusive images for a fine art publication and while the exhibition part of it appears to clearly exempt from the exclusivity, the publication part of doesn't... but of course I can't let the curator/publisher wait for months.

I logged in to contribute.getty.com on the 20th (when they usually do their report) and instead of the report got a message that they were having technical issues and that the report would be late. Now when I try to log in, it says "sorry, your account has been disabled". Is anybody else experiencing this?

As a EU-based contributor who is liable to pay VAT, I have to follow EU VAT regulations. For EU cross-border b2b license sales -- i.e. when I receive money from an agency that is in another EU member state -- that means that I need to report the amounts to my local tax authority together with the buyer's EU VAT ID. The idea is that the buyer has to pay his local VAT rates on the transaction (so-called "reverse charge"). This has not been a problem with most agencies. AGE Fotostock for example is very good at following these rules.

Not Alamy. They allow me to register for VAT payments only if I have a UK ID, which I do not. When I ask them what to do, they say "no need to worry about VAT if you're from another member state.", which is wrong.

Has anybody else encountered this problem? And if so, how did you solve it? It is my duty to report the sale here at home and to give them Alamy's VAT ID with the report, but I have a feeling that Alamy won't be too amused if I do that and their own tax man comes after them for not having paid UK VAT on the sale...

I just realized that an image of mine that is exclusive with Getty -- and accordingly hasn't been uploaded for sale anywhere else -- is on Corbis, credited to my name and the Ocean collection.

Does anybody know what that's all about?

 

Guys and gals--

My company is running a promotion in the local clubs and we will be doing a (manned) photo booth. Being the only photographer on staff the technical implementation has largely fallen to me, but I haven't done this before. I am going to work with a branded backdrop and one or two (haven't quite decided) studio strobes firing into reflector umbrellas. For the camera I will use my Canon 6D.

Now, what software would you use? We could bring either an iPad or a Mac (or both). I would like to use the 6D's amazing Wifi tether and put software on the device that would

a) allow people to enter their email so that they can receive the photos and, of course, our marketing emails
b) allow people to see their photo right then and there

Now, I could do both these things separately by tethering the camera to Lightroom on the Mac and showing the photo there but having people enter their email to a list on the iPad. Easy, but could be a huge mess because emails need to be manually matched to photos later, or everyone needs to be directed to a page containing all photos. Not very professional.

Therefore, I would like a software that could embed (or otherwise assign) the email into the photo in one workflow. Does something like that exist?

I just received my first payment from Getty/Flickr. It's even decent ($71). However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to see which of my images on Getty sold. There is nothing on the Getty/Flickr "Sales and Stats" tab (and some text about it not being used anymore? Why display it then? Weird.) and in my Getty "Royalties" page it just states the amount and the month of the sale, not which image sold. Am I missing something?

It looks like Fotolia, too, has gotten into the dedicated smartphone image sales business...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/stock-photos-site-fotolia-launches-fotolia-instant-an-app-for-selling-your-smartphone-photos/

Opinions? I have one or two good sellers that were actually taken on a smartphone (and then stripped of their metadata to hide the fact), so that was never an absolute impediment to acceptance. What I don't like is the stunted pricing choices for this new "Instant" collection.

I just noticed that a photo of mine was taken off Flickr without a license. On the up side, at least they gave credit. But this can't be ok, can it (as in this can't be covered by Flickr's terms)? Here's the link: http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981276875

I am also selling a slightly different version as RM through Alamy and the like.

Is there anything I can do? I usually don't bother, but then the other cases were mostly Russian websites where I figured it's not worth even contacting them.

I am currently using a Canon Rebel T2i but have been thinking about an upgrade for a while. I love the 7D, but in the end it's got the same sensor as the T2i and is getting a bit dated. Fascinated by the SLT technology, I played around with a Sony a77 at a store the other day and I was completely awestruck. I might have to change systems... the handling and the ergonomics are amazing, the price is good, and build quality feels a lot better than Canon. Of course I couldn't test IQ or anything in depth.

So my question is: Is anybody here working with an a77? How do you like it? What's the pros and cons?

My Veer account has been stuck in the registration/approval process for months now. I have about 50 approved images, but they do not show in search. In Workspace it says that my tax forms are being reviewed. The link to redo the tax forms eventually leads to an error message ("try again later").

I have repeatedly tried to reach someone at Veer. The Corbis employees that man the help chat are very nice and try to help, but they are salespeople and don't know how to do contributor support. I have mailed to all the addresses they gave me, but to no avail. The best result was at [email protected]: I received an out of office reply telling me that there would be nobody there on January 2 (I tried this today).

All this leads me to ask: Does anybody else have these problems? How can I reach them? And: Is Veer even worth all this trouble?