Business plan workbook for 2012
PhotoShelter have a great, free Business Plan Workbook available here. It guides you through ways to improve your photography business for the new calendar year.
Plus Registry beta
The PLUS Coalition is a not-for-profit collective supported by associations and companies representing professional image makers to assist rights management. They have launched a beta of the PLUS Registry that connects image makers to image buyers through metadata. Photographers can join PLUS Registry free to register their details so photo buyers can locate you. With Orphan Works … Read more
Quoting on Video & Stills
As more photographers (including me) create video along with their stills a gap in best business practice has arisen. A Photo Editor blogger Rob Haggart asked photo buyers to field anonymous questions from professional photographers creating video content. Some interesting answers including usage versus day rate, and stills photographers with DSLR cameras being more efficient … Read more
How the stock photo industry ate itself
The British Journal of Photography has very good summary by Betsy Reid on recent events in the stock photography industry. The changes in technology, the market, duopoly, dubious business practice, and the freemium economy saw the death of a once fulltime profession: high quality stock photography. As Executive Director of the Stock Artists Alliance, Betsy … Read more
India’s $35 Tablet
Move over iPad, the Sakshat is a very basic 7 inch Android tablet computer due for release later this month. With Indian Government subsidies the tablet will cost even less to “help [their] students learn”. Video link: http://bit.ly/lyLK9j
Peter Krogh in Australia
Peter Krogh’s Dam Workflow Presented By Nikon Australia & DAMsimple The AIPP are pleased to announce that Digital Asset Management (DAM) Guru Peter Krogh is coming to Australia and New Zealand for a limited series of workshops from 25 May to 1 June 2007. Nikon Australia and DAMsimple are proudly sponsoring the event. The workshops … Read more