[STOCKPHOTO] Simple question

[Mike]

Hi folks,

I am just curious as to how you all send photos to editors of
magazines, etc., when submitting your work for review. When sending
images on a CD, do you watermark the CDs, put a copyright line on the
photo, send small images with low resolution (or as per the editor's
wishes), some of the above, all of the above? I've done stock
photography for many years but it's all been local interests and I've
dealt mostly face-to-face with editors and haven't had the need to
send images via email or send CDs across state lines to editors.

That being said, do you put the images on a CD as a slideshow or just
images only and let the editor peruse them as he or she desires?

Thanks for your thoughts. I hope everyone had a good Christmas (or
whatever it is you celebrate) and I hope the new year brings much
profitability to you all!

Good day.

Mike

Mike Larsen Studios
www.mikelarsenstudios.com

[Ernest H. Robl]

Post by Mike
Hi folks,
I am just curious as to how you all send photos to editors of
magazines, etc., when submitting your work for review. ....

Depends somewhat on the project. If the client is only
interested in a single image or I have only a single image
that I think is a good match for the client, I will typically
e-mail an approximately 400x600 pixel .jpg -- the same
as the largest images shown on my Web site.

If I am showing the client several images that are not
yet on my Web site, I may either e-mail .jpg images as
above, or I may put together a Web page with the related
images. In several cases, these Web pages were then
linked in so that they were publicly accessible on my
site.

This is one example of such a page:

http://www.robl.w1.com/pix-m/index.htm

The client was looking for images of two trains meeting
each other and ended up selecting one of the images.

When I make a Web page, it typically containes images
at 200x300 pixels, with a link to 400x600 images.

Obviously, a Web page takes longer but usually provides
a better presentation. If the client is in a huge hurry or
I don't have a lot of time, I would just e-mail previews.


Sometimes it's a combination of e-mailing previews or
making a Web page AND also providing links to existing
images on my site that the client may not have
found on his or her own.


In all cases, my images have a copyright notice embedded
in the image. I see this as more of a means to identify
who provided the image -- if the client has this image
stored somewhere -- than to keep the image from being
stolen. Most of the clients I deal with are large publishing
companies or major corporations. I don't see them
intentionally misusing an image -- and the moderate size
.jpg images would only be usable very small.


In a few cases, where a corporate client was in a huge
hurry to use one of my images in a PowerPoint presentation,
they have simply used my 400x600 pixel .jpg images -- with
my authorization, of course.

What I have tried to do with placing the copyright notice in
the images -- at least more recently -- is to put it in an area
of the picture where it does not detract from the contents,
but where cropping it would would also make the picture
much less valuable. Yes, I know a really determined person
could try to take out the copyright notice -- but then a
really determined person can probably circumvent most
such measures.


Your mileage may vary.

-- Ernest

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