Interested in Stock Photography like most other hobby photographers?
There are different types of stock photography, and it’s important to know the differences.
Royalty free stock photography means that a stock photo is paid for once, but can be used multiple times.
However, there are usually some limitations how the image can be used and the buyer cannot distribute the images freely to others.
The photographer also still owns the copyright to the image so when someone buys an image, they are only getting a license to use that image. They’re not getting full ownership rights…
Micro Stock Photography is relatively new, and in general falls into the Royalty Free Stock Photography area.
The main difference however, is that Micro Stock images for as little as one or two dollars while Regular royalty free stock images sell for as much as $60, $90 and even hundreds of dollars
But remember that the total revenue = #sold images x average price so even though you get very little each sale the number of sales can compensate for this because microstock images usually sell in much higher numbers due to the low price.
Rights Managed Stock Photography is more controlled and only allows a limited number of people to use a particular photograph at any given time.
Clients pay much higher fees for Rights Managed photography, and they’re subjected to many more restrictions as well.
For instance, coca cola typically want exclusive rights to images they use in their advertising, imagine if Pepsi Cola uses the same image at the same time.
In this special report we’ll focus on microstock photography but most of the content is valid for traditional stock photography as well.
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