On 10/17/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/10/06, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Um. I've made a non-trivial amount of money
relicensing my images to
folks who found them via Wikimedia projects... not enough to pay for
my equipment yet, but within a few years perhaps. ... but I'm just one
person with only a few commercially interesting images.
Really? That's even better than I assumed... I was assuming it wasn't
much more than paying for an occasional lunch for our regular
image-creators.
People who have no intention to pay well don't bother contacting
people for license grants... people who do intend to pay well have
already scoured the normal stock photo libraries and have failed to
find any images that meet their needs. ... Soooo....
Plus, commercial stock photography isn't cheap:
Compare
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:FoxBassoon.jpg
and
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/classes/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImageDetailS…
You have to log in to see the prices, so I'll just paste them here:
72 dpi - 6"x10" - RGB $ 89.99 USD
300 dpi - 5"x7" - RGB $ 229.99 USD
300 dpi - 9"x12" - RGB $ 299.99 USD
My image is similar in size to their large one (and pretty clear at
that size, since it was downsampled 2:1 from the capture). Their
lighting and pose is a little more attractive, while mine was intended
to be a bit more informative (showing all the keywork, but I got both
sides)..