TRSmith
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I buy a lot of stock photography from Getty Images for my design clients. Getty has recently started using Flikr as a source for imagery. Which means that if you have a collection of photos on your Flikr site, the potential exists to make a sale through Getty to someone looking for a stock image.
I only scanned the info very quickly, but it would seem that you can actually flag your images/galleries to Getty in a way that asks them to be included in their online offering. The details of the deal and compensation are probably buried in there somewhere but I haven't explored that far as yet.
They are positioning this new resource as an ability to source more "offbeat and creative" images which opens the door a bit beyond a lot of the typical stock photography which often can seem staged or extremely polished. It could be an interesting resource for designers and a possible source of revenue for photographers who might not have considered stock photography as an outlet in the past.
Check it here: http://www.gettyimages.com/creative/frontdoor/flickr?isource=USA_home_creative_main1a_flickr
Tim
I only scanned the info very quickly, but it would seem that you can actually flag your images/galleries to Getty in a way that asks them to be included in their online offering. The details of the deal and compensation are probably buried in there somewhere but I haven't explored that far as yet.
They are positioning this new resource as an ability to source more "offbeat and creative" images which opens the door a bit beyond a lot of the typical stock photography which often can seem staged or extremely polished. It could be an interesting resource for designers and a possible source of revenue for photographers who might not have considered stock photography as an outlet in the past.
Check it here: http://www.gettyimages.com/creative/frontdoor/flickr?isource=USA_home_creative_main1a_flickr
Tim