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Now everyone suffers. A big issue with Unsplash, and photographers as a whole, is there's nothing controlling pricing. Like you said, if people are willing to pay for your photos they will, and if not, they won't. And there's a lot of highly valuable work on Unsplash. Don't undervalue your own work. Plus respect the work of others. This "Fair Use" thing sometimes gets out of control. But maybe that's another conversation.

If you give it away for free, then Fair Use might have nothing to do with it. But there are times when folks don't care how it was given. The imagined "glory" of getting images used? Gawblimey, tell me, I really want to know I wonder how many hobby photographers would quit their day jobs knowing they could make as much or more money selling their photography. Very few these days. But almost all could have been making extra money to partly-fully pay for new camera equipment, travel, etc.

I think there is plenty of opportunity to earn a significant amount of money either as supplemental income or day job replacement. It's understanding what your work is worth and how to connect with buyers. The problem is lack of sales, marketing and general business knowledge.

A sharp businessperson with average photos will likely outsell a non-businessperson with amazing photos. I don't get it. Where is the "glory" if someone uses your image without even crediting you, as Unsplash terms allow. Bragging rights? Downloaded photo ends up on a book cover, popular website, TV commercial or whatever.

First you would have to find your uncredited, unpaid for image before "bragging" about it. It's easy to find photos using Google Image search and other tools. But yeah likes and downloads dont seem to have much value other than how popular you are. You're haverin' mate. Speaking in Opposites gawblimey. Is it worth the hefty price tag? We take a look at the Cine, the high-end model in this series.

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Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. Now reading: Getty Images announces the acquisition of stock photo platform Unsplash comments. Unsplash's website includes easy access to millions of free stock images Mikael Cho, Unsplash's CEO, writes that the entire Unsplash team will be staying on board and that the team will continue its work to 'create the world's most useful visual asset library.

In the top left you can also see an Unsplash for Brands image for Boxed Water. Tags: acquisition , business , getty-images , unsplash. View Comments Comments All Sessility If you upload your photos to be used for free, then you should be doing so because you're happy just to share them, with no payback or benefit to you, because you're feeling altrustic, however you want to word it. FeralFoto I make a few hundred a month and occasionally more on my stock imagery, which is better than a sharp stick in the eye.

You get nothing. The road to heck was paved with good intentions, and bad ones alike. Terrano What was your reason for giving your photography away in the first place? Real Ramona " Sue Anne Rush Thank you. Silken Hopefully they can splash it away. Bigsensorisbest I like unsplash as I see photography as a hobby, if you want to earn money do something else, I worked that out aged MrWalnuts sunnyside7 - Disagree.

For the right type of work, there is a huge market and demand for prints. MrWalnuts There is huge demand for prints and art in general. Bas Emmen I removed my complete portfolio from Unsplash.

Terrano Its coming RobzLondon There already is - check out Kavyar where you pay to get your images into magazines :. JustSomeone HAHA this is funny, only two weeks ago I deleted my Unsplash account because after a year uploading photos, I came to the conclusion that there was no point.

Bobthearch I'm curious, why did you join Unsplash? JustSomeone Yes, my point was to give photos away but I thought maybe naively that I would perhaps get a little more traffic to my website.

Like the blockchain. If you're fast, create it now. But remember: you won't be able to sell it ; Unsplash itself will end up as Tumblr did, no doubt.

Terrano The Contributing Photographers of Unsplash have totally been exploited, this plays out time and time again. MrWalnuts These stock agencies plan in advance for things like this and may disable the ability to remove images. MrWalnuts falconeyes - These agencies have loose contracts that allow them to do whatever they want. MrWalnuts sunnyside7 - My experience is that named credit alone has no value and rarely provides any benefits that offsets the lack of compensation.

Francis85 The money Getty pays for Unsplash should actually go to the ones that contributed to it. Francis85 Even with your name being mentioned it wouldn't bring you fortune. Chances are you can't call out a single name. That said. I do find that everybody should be credited for. For any kind of photographer this kind of website is totally useless waste of time.

Francis85 That's correct, but what I meant to say is that if you think it is self promotion to give away your work for free. Bobthearch "Even though they should legally do it. Francis85 Assuming the images fall under Creative Commons Licensing then yes you can do so if no name mentioning is done at least in Europe. Prolenscamera Fancis85 Bobthearch There are many types of Creative Commons licences and restrictions applying to them.

Souciantmag Another awful chapter to the Unsplash saga. Francis85 Next step will most probably be that it will turn into another paid platform with a subscription based model behind it. Souciantmag I doubt it. Unsplash just wanted a big buy out after selling out all the photographers JelleNL Soon Unsplash will have links to paid images at Getty between the free images in the search results of Unsplash, hoping to get some people to pay for images.

MrWalnuts This acquisition shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. Terrano Typical, give your photos away for free while the owners of Unsplash get rich. Bobthearch How does Unsplash earn revenue? Not from giving away photos By selling to Getty? Bobthearch They've got something in mind. ShaiKhulud Unsplash is great for me to boost some organic stats on my hobby photos didn't want to sell those anyway. ShaiKhulud You can show your closed and open stats and most popular photos to the clients.

I mean, 1 million views on a single pic could land you some odd jobs here and there. I find that hard to believe. Any details? Brom78 Can anyone say monopoly. MrTofu I play uno once in a blue moon.

Bobthearch Never used Unsplash myself, but just now took a look and it appears legit. Bobthearch reinhard78 I browsed that article quickly and didn't see anything specifically regarding Unsplash. Bobthearch gavin It seems like Unsplash matches photographers who don't wish to be paid with users who don't wish to pay. Visit Getty Images at www. Getty Images. Tweets by GettyImages. Other sites iStock Thinkstock Photos.

Jim Pickerell, a veteran stock photographer and industry critic, agrees. But the turnaround has been slow.

Peters says that, since the late s, the volume of licensed images Getty distributes annually has probably grown by a factor of between 30 and 60, while company revenues have roughly tripled.

But early on, Getty and Klein saw how digital technologies were disrupting the photo business. In , they acquired Seattle-based PhotoDisc, a pioneer in web-based photos, and two years later, relocated their business to Seattle, which was emerging as a center of digital image technologies.

But the digital-image market Getty had helped launch was now moving beyond its control. Even after Getty bought iStockphoto in , growth was becoming harder to sustain. The path is wide open not only for stealing material with abandon, but for asserting rights illegitimately, as Highsmith says happened here. The shame of the Highsmith case is that she has shown herself to be a most public-spirited artist. Her photographs, often awe-inspiring in their drama and color palette, amount to a rich snapshot of the people, structures and landscapes of America.

She began donating her work in , focused on an ambition to visit every state in the union. Her donations serve a tradition established by Dorothea Lange, the Depression-era photographer whose travels for the New Deal Farm Security Administration yielded an indelible portrait of America in its time. The choice is yours. Watch as four giant oil companies try to interfere with a California election. Korean investors sue Wilshire Bank over fraud that cost them millions. Phone companies could stop robocalls.

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