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Q. Stock Photo Help

Asked by James McGinnis (K=6045) on 12/16/2004

I've been doing some small service photo stuff. Weddings, portraits etc. I've also made some money doing event work...horse shows and stuff like that. The area where I live is very equine related and I'm becoming more interested in getting shots that keep selling. Repetetive sales of the same photo...residual sales is another term, I think. As a horse owner and competitor, I think I could do well providing stock photos in that genre.

Now, the question. I just switched to digitial (Canon 1D) and had to trade my EOS 3 bodies to do that. Are stock companies or magazine photo buyers willing to accept digital images? I've read some books that are steering me back to slide film but, I'm not sure how current this guidance is. Any input from active stock photographers would be most welcome!

Dmitriy Margolin (K=2351) - Comment Date 12/16/2004

Hi James,

As far as I know stock agencies, magazines - they do accept digital images/photos. But there are different requirement for each individual company/agency/magazine. Some accept only TIFF format, other may accept JPEG with almost no compression and etc. Plus, there are some rules, guide lines for editing images after taking them.
I'm sure you can find rules for submission of digital images at any stock agency or magazine.
Personally, i do submit my work via FTP and electronic type of files.

Scott McFadden (K=5663) - Comment Date 12/17/2004

Magazines will vary or work with a specialty stock house.
running a search on stock agencys may turn up a potential winner.
Each magazine uses unique specifications and there will not be a "standard" settings.
Learning batch processing will help minimise stress in this regard as you could label each batch specs the magazine names.

Scott McFadden (K=5663) - Comment Date 12/17/2004

PS legals need some research and make sure they stick to the Uses contract as this will avoid unnesscery law suits.

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