We will help you understand the fine print in copyright, Public Domain and Creative Commons license regarding vintage stock photos. But while popular knowledge leads to believe all old photos have no copyright and are free to do as you please, that’s certainly not always the case. It seems non viable to go somewhere, at cost, specifically in the hope that it can generate sales worthy images.You will also find free images with a historical and vintage theme.
Today a popular image that I normally sell for about $40 got sold for $2 and that has been a theme this year. I had two sales this week one for $21 dollars but that attracted 60% to Alamy and then (after that) a 40% levy on the distributor commission for outside market fees - I think I ended up with about $5. The point about zero cost is, I think, an important one and I have come to the same conclusion.
It's a similar tale here - my highest ever sales year in terms of volume and my lowest in terms of revenue. but my time now is spent on non Stock photo work, same expected payout, higher enjoyment I used to once a week review my search results, try to remove obvious false positives, check my spelling mistakes (my dear "friend chickens"), rework some of the live news captions to be more targeted to stock searches and cull some of them-reupload those that could be improved after a second look. It's all the other things contributors would work with Alamy when we felt it was a partnership. How long can an agency profit from aging images, with little fresh quality work?Īnd it not only the time/cost involved with the picture taking. I can only take so many of those, and already have too many multiples, something I used to try to shy away from. Almost all of my images submitted since the prices have become so low are of things taken on my own property. When it means I’ll spend more to take an image than I earn from it, why bother? I agree with what others have expressed in the forum, that many of us photographers will only be submitting no or almost no cost images and most new images submitted will not offer the quality we used to submit. I spent more in gasoline just getting there to shoot it. Today I had one reported for less than a dollar, my share. And I realize the averages are much worse for some of you. It would have just been moderately acceptable. Not that long ago I wouldn’t have been excited to earn that amount for one image. So far this month, I’ve had 7 images licensed, that for my share, is a grand total of $65.
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