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my wife and i had all our photos used in the ad for a ski resort,... the day we shot these it was the coldest day of the year last year measuring under 5 degrees below zero at the high. keeping the batteries charged was a battle. we kept the spares inside our clothes but the ones in camera ran down soooooo fast.
interesting point. it all depends on the deal you strike.... some are usage only while you retain rights to the pictures, other deals they can buy the pictures outright, other deals they can use it for a limited amount of times and you retain the rights..
in fact on our personal website we do sell our photos and file rights and its all spelled out in the fine print if someone buys the rights to our photos
thats all got to be spelled out if its a for money deal...
since our goal is to eventually do commercial and real estate photography as a little retirement hobbie /business we thought it would be nice to develop a little commercial portfolio of sites that use our photos now even if we allow some of them for free. eventually it will give us a portfolio to show our real paying customers when that time comes.
Last edited by mathjak107; 12-05-2009 at 07:17 AM..
interesting point. it all depends on the deal you strike.... some are usage only while you retain rights to the pictures, other deals they can buy the pictures outright, other deals they can use it for a limited amount of times and you retain the rights..
Yep... and if they buy the images outright you can't use them ever again yourself, so charge $$$$ for them under that particular type of sale. But you've figured that part out already I'm sure.
Congrats on that job and good luck with your future endeavor. I know someone who went that route a while back and while it can be hard work, he said he never regretted the decision at all. He did note one thing to me though which may come in handy for you: Keep copies of EVERY job photo you ever take on external hard drives - even the photos you sell off the rights to, to buyers. He had a couple of pic buyers lose their pics due to crashes and later come to him asking for copies. Even though it was a direct sale, he was still able to charge a few extra $ for the trouble (which they gladly paid). Most small companies don't take the time to back up - do it for them and it can add up to small amounts of extra revenue too.
Although you made the movie/photos with your own camera, if the Ski Resort paid you, then Ski Resort owns the copyrights not you?
APPLYS only IF you sign a "Work For Hire" agreement....
Absent that agreement, all photographs are and remain the sole property of the artist beginning at the onstant of creation.....
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