> Tina
> www.tinamanley.com
Excellent site and Photos, Tina. You make SmugMug look good. :-)
The more I learn about SmugMug the more I like it. Can you tell us how you use your site to help generate sales? How do you get people to your site? (How) do you network with other photographers?
Your site is an excellent resource and I have added it to my photography resource page at http://www.acclaimimages.com/links_out.html - a link back to http://www.acclaimimages.com is always appreciated but not required.
Also, I see that you use small rangefinder cameras. I have been drawn to that method since way back in the 70's when I first got interested in photography. I now find myself using point-and-shoot cameras for much of my photography mainly because they are so unobtrusive. Have you switched to digital yet, now that high quality digital rangefinders are becoming more common?
Fred Voetsch
Group Moderator - Selling Stock Photography
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/selling_stock_photography/
Owner - Acclaim Images, LLC
http://www.acclaimimages.com/
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, Tina Manley <images@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, Fred - I'm a RM only photographer and am hanging in there. Prices are
> definitely down but, in some ways, the extra reach of the internet is making
> up for lower prices. I've sold photos all over the world that I would never
> have been able to sell 10 years ago. MicroStock doesn't affect many of my
> sales because I'm a documentary photographer specializing in indigenous
> people in developing countries. Not many Micro photographers are willing to
> haul their cameras through mud and over mountains and live in tents to get
> their photos. I am not at all interested in "lifestyle" photography, thank
> goodness. I would love to go back to the prices I was getting 10 years ago,
> but I don't want to give up my sales to China and Japan and Greece!
>
> Tina
> www.tinamanley.com
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Fred <freddyv@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > While Rights Managed licensing has taken a beating over the past few years
> > it is not totally dead. So far this month we have had a number of sales for
> > $300 and above, including one for almost $1,400.
> >
> > BTW, none of the photos are especially unique or special at first glance.
> > One of the photos, seen here,
> > http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_pages/0480-0908-1215-0642.html is
> > probably unique enough that the buyer may not have had many other choices
> > but some of the other sales were of cell phones and other common images.
> >
> > Of course just 4-5 years ago we made such sales on a much more regular
> > basis so the news is really not that good when viewed from the long term
> > perspective.
> >
> > I would love to hear from other RM sellers about your experiences and how
> > you are adapting to the MicroStock dominated environment.
> >
> > Fred Voetsch
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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