On 10/17/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/10/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Um. I've made a non-trivial amount of money relicensing my images to folks who found them via Wikimedia projects... not enough to pay for my equipment yet, but within a few years perhaps. ... but I'm just one person with only a few commercially interesting images.
Really? That's even better than I assumed... I was assuming it wasn't much more than paying for an occasional lunch for our regular image-creators.
People who have no intention to pay well don't bother contacting people for license grants... people who do intend to pay well have already scoured the normal stock photo libraries and have failed to find any images that meet their needs. ... Soooo....
Plus, commercial stock photography isn't cheap:
Compare http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:FoxBassoon.jpg
and
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/classes/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImageDetailSe...
You have to log in to see the prices, so I'll just paste them here: 72 dpi - 6"x10" - RGB $ 89.99 USD 300 dpi - 5"x7" - RGB $ 229.99 USD 300 dpi - 9"x12" - RGB $ 299.99 USD
My image is similar in size to their large one (and pretty clear at that size, since it was downsampled 2:1 from the capture). Their lighting and pose is a little more attractive, while mine was intended to be a bit more informative (showing all the keywork, but I got both sides)..