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03/21/2005 08:16:35 PM · #1 |
The real "Stock Photography II" challenge is quite simple: Grand Champion Prize for the "Stock Photography II" goes to the first person to post their sale (meaning you've received the check in the mail) of their photo entered in the DPC "Stock Photography II" challenge. As the challenge details read, "try to sell your work to a stock photography company".
Just for fun, I once took a "Feature Writing" course from the Journalism Department at a local state university. The Final Exam was practical: sell a feature story to a publisher, or show that you've attempted to do so with a letter of rejection.
Those of you with DPC who regularly traffic in stock photography might offer the rest of us who entered some ideas about which companies to avoid, which places are open to non-agented or simultaneous submissions.
Of course, this Real Stock Photography II challenge will not close in a week. It will close once the first three photos of the current 258 submissions to DPC are posted as actually being sold to a publisher and will go into print. Blue to the first across the selling finish line. Red to the second, and yellow to the third photo to sell.
Have fun storming the castle! |
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03/21/2005 08:19:53 PM · #2 |
Doesn't matter if it sells for 20 cents or $200? How about whoever gets the most for an image in 1 years time?
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03/21/2005 08:23:51 PM · #3 |
| The value of a photo is inherent in the photo itself, not in the sale price. The price a company pays a photographer for a photo reveals much about the values of that company. I hold to this Real Stock Challenge II: first one to receive $$ in the mail (or via paypal, western union, cash) from an existing company which has a legal business license (not grandma.org who buys her grandson's photo for a coupla bucks), is the true Blue. |
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03/21/2005 08:25:05 PM · #4 |
| Someone should take a picture of this thread for the Bored challenge. |
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03/21/2005 08:29:35 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by bledford:
Someone should take a picture of this thread for the Bored challenge. |
Would have worked better for the Surreal challenge.
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03/21/2005 08:30:46 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by bledford:
Someone should take a picture of this thread for the Bored challenge. |
Explain...
I am not a professional photographer, but have been a professional writer for 15 years. There's nothing boring about creative energy channeled through the human spirit onto a page/photo/CD, then taking that "child" of your creative vision and submitting this work to the marketplace. Exasperating, challenging, frustrating, exhilirating, any of these. But boring? Not in my experience at least. |
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03/21/2005 08:44:02 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by charliebaker:
Originally posted by bledford:
Someone should take a picture of this thread for the Bored challenge. |
Explain...
I am not a professional photographer, but have been a professional writer for 15 years. There's nothing boring about creative energy channeled through the human spirit onto a page/photo/CD, then taking that "child" of your creative vision and submitting this work to the marketplace. Exasperating, challenging, frustrating, exhilirating, any of these. But boring? Not in my experience at least. |
Oh I was just being a tool. I should have appended a :P or perhaps a tag. It's actually a good idea, but these kinds of threads tend to be short lived. If you could remember in a year's time to revive the thread and see if anyone sold their image...that would be cool. |
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03/21/2005 08:59:22 PM · #8 |
Thanks Brad for the follow up and the realistic view to bring focus. I do enjoy seeing posts of DPC folks who are stepping into the marketplace and finding their way in the jungle of selling photos.
I'm not so sure I'll try myself. I know a few of the challenges of the world of the writer's market, the written publishing world.
Still, maybe there are a few shy ones here on DPC who will step out of this greenhouse, into the jungle of stock photography and find their way opening up and a path laid out...
Dream on!
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03/21/2005 10:05:14 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by charliebaker:
As the challenge details read, "try to sell your work to a stock photography company". |
My photo has already been accepted as a stock image, but doesn't yet have any downloads in the two days it's been posted. |
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03/23/2005 06:39:07 PM · #10 |
My (low scoring) photo has already sold - for the grand sum of 23 cents. Of course I'm not going to get a cheque for that!
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03/24/2005 02:08:12 AM · #11 |
| Congrats Gina! Who really cares about cheques and sums, (or as we yanks say, "checks and amounts"), you are getting your creative work out into the marketplace. Cool! |
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03/24/2005 07:09:39 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by Manic:
Just a reminder people - PLEASE don't discuss (or post!) images that are currently being voted upon! |
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03/24/2005 07:39:13 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by GinaRothfels:
My (low scoring) photo has already sold - for the grand sum of 23 cents. Of course I'm not going to get a cheque for that! |
Don't spend it all in one place. |
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03/24/2005 07:43:21 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by bledford:
Someone should take a picture of this thread for the Bored challenge. |
LMAO
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