Category Archives: Photography News
PhotoLibrary’s Tim Moore Featured in Dynamic Export
Australia’s Dynamic Export has a short article on stock photography agency PhotoLibrary and its founder Tim Moore.
Moore is an Australian who followed his instincts back in 1995 and took his small photographic library online.
“Now Photolibrary.com has 10 million images, thousands of hours of footage and music and competes as one of the top three image providers in the world.”
“Competing with the likes of Bill Gates’ Corbis and privately owned Getty Images, Moore has concentrated on differentiation to gain market share. He looks for specialty brands with niche photography.”
You can read more here.
Albumo Relaunched
Microstock web site Albumo has been relaunched and is now part of the Fantero Network.
According to Fantero’s twitter posts images can be uploaded again and they will be launching a new email newsletter soon.
Albumo currently has over 700,000 royalty-free images.
It will be interesting to see if this microstock site will be more successful this time around.
Get more info or sign up to sell your photos at Albumo.
ThinkStock’s First Birthday & Contest
ThinkStock are celebrating their one year anniversary with a party photo contest. Submit your party photo and you could win an iPad. Or a trip valued at US$5000.
ThinkStock is a subscription-based microstock site owned by Getty Images that enables customers to easily choose from a selection of royalty-free images pulled from Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiterimages.
Fancy your chances in their party photo contest? Get the details on their Facebook page.
iStockphoto Wins Readers’ Choice for Best Place to Buy Stock
iStockphoto has been chosen by readers as the best place to buy stock, royalty-free, or rights-controlled images in the 2011 About.com Readers’ Choice Awards.
They were followed by Corbis Images, Getty Images (2010 Winner) and Shutterstock.
21 March 2011
Designer Creates ‘Help Japan’ Image with Profits Donated to Relief Efforts
A ‘Help Japan’ image of a cracked rising sun has been turned into a poster with all the profits being donated to Japan’s relief efforts.
James White, a 34 year-old freelance graphic designer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who designs under the name Signalnoise, created the digital image as a way to encourage people to give to the Red Cross and other charities.
iStock’s New Editorial Use License Goes Live
Early in 2011 iStockphoto started accepting images for a new Editorial Use Only license.
They have since accepted thousands of images for this new license and have just announced that these are now available for download.
ClusterShot Avoids Closure
ClusterShot had announced it would be closing down on 21 February.
“Now it appears the site will live on, although photo uploading and new account creation will remain temporarily suspended until the switch to a new owner has been finalized.”
