Photographers Still Making Sales on Flickr

and also Flickr. But Cahan isn’t just the tech-savvy founder of IntoNow, a start-up that Yahoo bought for between $20 million and $30 million. He’s also a former wildlife photographer for National Geographic who has contributed to Emmy award-winning nature shows. With a one-time professional photographer and full-time tech geek now in charge of what was once the Internet’s most important photo-sharing service, image-makers who want to make money from their shots should really be giving it another look.

They might well find what many professional photographer have long known: that Flickr can still deliver sales to photographers with the right images and the knowledge to reach buyers.

Chris Nuzzaco is one of those photographers. A former videographer and director of photography who shot occasionally, he switched disciplines in 2008 when the recession dried up orders and he realized that photographers had better working conditions, options and control.

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Medical Photographers Document the Doctors

The only time I was taken aback was when I was covering a neurosurgeon and came into the OR. Seeing the human skull open and a brain was somewhat arresting.

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Photographers Struggle to Sell Images for Five Dollars

on the site and you’ll find around 537 people willing to do something image-related for just five bucks.

That might sound horrific, but the good news is that very few of those jobs involve image-creation. Of the first 30 gigs returned no more than six actually involved working with photos themselves. Most of those were quick Photoshop edits. One was an offer of an image and motivational quote, apparently for personal use, another was a shot of light-writing, which could be done quite quickly, and a third was a pitch from a seller in India of

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Making Pinterest Work for Photographers

fashion, for example, or electronic gadgets. They can repin images that they spot on other users’ boards, giving the best pictures the chance to go viral. They can also add comments and they can follow boards and pins to make sure that they don’t miss out on an interesting post.

The images might be pinned from the users’ own websites, to which they receive links, but they can also be pinned from anywhere. Any Pinterest user is free to copy someone else’s photo onto their board from where other members can duplicate it.

Not surprisingly, that level of openness has met with some concern from copyright holders. Like YouTube, the site tries to position itself as a

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Watermarking Presents Photographers with Difficult Dilemmas

and to Pinterest users whose boards are largely made up of lifted photos. But while you’ll have to look hard to find an image on Pinterest that was paid for, placed in the Commons or taken by the poster, you will have to dig around to find a stolen picture that carries a watermark. A translucent logo placed on an image might not classify it as private property but it might just prompt users to stop considering it

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Photographers Get Creative with Moo Cards

each month. They’re sold to hundreds of thousands of customers in more than 180 countries around the world.

The products themselves don’t sound very original. The company didn’t invent business cards or stickers and it certainly didn’t invent the postcard and the greeting card. But it did offer a way for photographers to print their images on a small scale, and at an affordable price that allows them to give them away to leads and win new business.

It’s an approach that’s not been lost on Moo itself. The company’s latest product is Facebook cards which use a customer’s main Timeline image as the graphic, and add text on the back. At the moment, Moo is giving them away for free, not including postage, as a way of reaching new potential buyers who might order more traditional business cards, and in order to benefit from Facebook’s viral posts. Each time someone’s Facebook page tells their friends that they’ve got Moo cards, the company spreads its name a little further.

Where Moo really stands out though is in its

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Photographers, Like Everyone, Fail to Prepare for Their Deaths

this caused to the people closest to him as they saw his literary estate disposed of in a way that the writer might not have intended while he was alive.

Ford, of course, isn’t the only creative artist to die intestate leaving behind works of art, some of which may be valuable, to be distributed according to inheritance law

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What Buyers Want from Photographers

and it throws up a number of surprises.

The survey covered more than 1,000 image buyers who commission and license photography worldwide. Forty percent of respondents worked at advertising agencies, 15 percent at design agencies and another 15 percent at editorial publications. Their most common job titles were

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Photographers Fight Over Charity Donations

Often it will be one of my previously exhibited prints, they are in excellent condition but I cannot sell them as a new print.  The harder question is; do I donate one of my top selling images or one that doesn’t move as well and has been sitting in my gallery?

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YouTube Fails to Bring Sales for Photographers

and ideally one that’s free of Flash, easy to browse and contains an impressive but select portfolio. You might also want a Facebook page, either for advertising or as a way to stay in touch with previous clients. But what about a YouTube channel? Should photographers be thinking of video-sharing as a way of showing off their talent for stills?

Certainly many photographers seem to think so. Search for

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