Who's
the Biggest?
By: Rohn
Engh
Who is really the biggest
stock photography agency? The answer may
surprise you
When you think about a
large stock photography agency, which ones come
to mind? Getty? Jupiter? Corbis Stock Agency? If
you guessed these deliverers of stock photos are
super-big, you are correct. But, don't
underestimate what Rohn is going to tell you
about in this report! - Bob
Did you know you are a
member of the largest stock photo agency in the
world?
Photobuyers have quickly
learned to check this “agency” out
first – before turning to any other stock
photo agency.
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- When buyers seek a
specific-content, hard-to-find image, they
know not to turn to Getty, Corbis, Jupiter,
et al. These agencies do a great job serving
up generic and standard pictures, but for
real-life specific action and location
images, buyers know to go to this other
“agency.
”While the familiar
large stock agencies have been laboring to
keyword their images for access to Internet
searches, they’re woefully behind the
precision and extensive nature of the keywording
being done by many independent
pho-tographers.Getty, Corbis, Jupiter, et al
have not been keeping up.
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And none of them is
the largest stock agency in the world. They
represent only a small fraction of the number of
stock photos that reside in the files of the
Internet’s worldwide database of
photographers.The largest stock agency is the
Internet + Search Engines + You.
Increasing numbers of
photobuyers are finding out they can easily
locate the source of the exact photo they need
by simply us-ing a search engine such as Google,
and typing in several specific words describing
the photo they need. * THE GOOGLE
EXPERIENCEYou’ve no doubt experienced it:
“the Google Experience.”
- You needed to know the
name of the vil-lage where Michaelangelo was
born, or the name of his father.
- You typed your
question into the Google search bar and your
answer was available to you in
seconds.
A text search on the
Internet for photos is no different.
If you were a photobuyer
researching the making of violins in Italy, you
would have found that Cremona is famous for its
violins. But you need an aerial view. Your
search request on Google or Yahoo would read
like this: Cre-mona Italy violin aerial. Presto,
the name of a photographer (or photog-raphers)
who has this photo comes up.
Did you knowyou are a
member of the largest stock photo agency in the
world? Photobuyers have quickly learned to check
this “agency” out first – before
turning to any other stock photo agency. When
buyers seek a specific-content, hard-to-find
image, they know not to turn to Getty, Corbis,
Jupiter, et al.
These agencies do a great
job serving up generic and standard pictures,
but for real-life specific action and location
images, buyers know to go to this other
“agency.”While the familiar large
stock agencies have been laboring to keyword
their images for access to Internet searches,
they’re woefully behind the precision and
extensive nature of the keywording being done by
many independent pho-tographers.Getty, Corbis,
Jupiter, et al have not been keeping up.
And none of them is the
largest stock agency in the world. They
represent only a small fraction of the number of
stock photos that reside in the files of the
Internet’s worldwide database of
photographers.The largest stock agency is the
Internet + Search Engines + You.
Increasing numbers of
photobuyers are finding out they can easily
locate the source of the exact photo they need
by simply using a search engine such as Google,
and typing in several specific words describing
the photo they need. * THE GOOGLE
EXPERIENCEYou’ve no doubt experienced it:
“the Google Experience.”
You needed to know the
name of the vil-lage where Michaelangelo was
born, or the name of his father. You typed your
question into the Google search bar and your
answer was available to you in seconds.A text
search on the Internet for photos is no
different. If you were a photobuyer researching
the making of violins in Italy, you would have
found that Cremona is famous for its violins.
But you need an aerial view.
Your search request on
Google or Yahoo would read like this: Cre-mona
Italy violin aerial. Presto, the name of a
photographer (or photog-raphers) who has this
photo comes up.
Try it. How large is this
Internet direc-tory of photographs? You be the
judge. Estimate how many individual
photographers now have digitized and labeled
their collections and presently make them
available to photobuyers via the Internet.
If your calculations are
similar to mine, you’ll figure there are
presently at least 450 million im-ages
search-available on the Internet. By the year
2010 there will be three times that number.
Getty, Corbis, and Jupiter can never catch
up*.
Do photobuyers use Google
Im-ages as a source for images? No, they
don’t. The Google Images system di-rects
them only to sub par images, that also often
present complicated copy-right issues. More and
more buyers know instead to use the
“text” option of the Google search
bar, and type in their photo-need description,
to locate quality stock photos that offer ease
of transaction.
Hopefully the report above
outlining photo stock agencies contributed to
your understanding of how this new digital
photography system works with photo buyers. Tell
other stock photographers about your new
understanding so they can benefit too. They will
be most appreciative. Now you will have a better
chance to buy and sell the stock images you
want; with this new knowledge about agencies.
and photo sources.
- You now have another
notch in your belt when it comes to knowing
how to sell or buy digital stock photography.
New information is coming into view as we
speak so be sure you keep on top of new ideas
as they are introduced to this
website.
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About
the Author:
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- Rohn Engh,
veteran stock photographer and best-selling
author of “Sell & ReSell Your
Photos” and “sellphotos.com,”
has helped scores of photographers launch
their careers. For access to great
information on making money from pictures you
like to take, and to receive this free
report: “8 Steps to Becoming a Published
Photographer,” visit http://www.sellphotos.com
Article presented by Bob Pardue; a model and
travel stock photographer located in South
Carolina. You can search
for digital stock
images by
going
here ...
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We hope you enjoyed reading this article by
Rohn Engh about the largest photo stock
agencies and hope it will be useful to
helping you sell images online or will help
you to understand more about buying stock
photos online but Bob Pardue Photography does
not assume responsibility and does not insure
or imply any degree of reliability of this
report or by working with any of the photo
buyers listed on this website. Each digital
stock photographer's goals will be different
and results in the photo business will not be
the same. Look over any photosource
information you find on this site and always
remember to search online for digital images.
Hope you enjoyed this article about large
stock photography
agencies.
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