Design agency want to use a photo of mine

[4hero]

Someone via flickr is asking if this shot's available for licence, his client is Subaru. Should I charge, and how much? Anyone got any licensing documents I could send the dude if I do give it to him or is a creative commons licence enough? I would like to retain copyright (not that it's my favourite shot, stupid reflection of my house in the badge ), I had only had my first dslr for a few months though.



or it could be this one



or this



one of the above

Any help would be nice

Edited by 4hero on Friday 12th December 16:44

[fastfreddy]

Yes, you MUST charge or all photogs will be put out of business!

I would work on negotiating a price first before spending too much time on forms etc. How much will depend on lots of things but find out what they want to use it for first and go from there.

They may just be trawling for free images to use and not go any further when they find out you want some money.

[Scho]

nice shot at the top there!

you must charge. you might get some help from the NUJ or the AOP.

basically it all depends on the usage, for what and how long.

find out that and post it up, someone like tony g or emma P will prob be able to give you an idea what to charge.

[Jack Blag]

You can be sure that whatever you charge the design agency, they will be charging Subaru a LOT more!

[Bee_Jay]

As has been said - you need to ask them where and how the image is going to be used? Print media, online, size, number of impressions, all affect price.

[CVP]

Definitely you should get paid for your work, you can be sure they are going to charge Subaru !

How much you want is up to you but commercially very much depends upon their use. You could get some more info on the intended use and then register on a site like www.alamy.com and put those details in and it will give you an approx indicative price. You can then decide what you want from there.

Of course if the end customer is Subaru you could always ask for a few STi goodies instead as that could be much cheaper for Subaru.

Tin foil hat on - are your Flickr images suitably small in size?

Chris

[4hero]

Thanks for the info folks, I'll get back to him and see what's what.

Chris, yes, the images are all 750px wide on flickr

[CVP]

4hero said:

Chris, yes, the images are all 750px wide on flickr

Good man

Hope this works out for you, really like the last two, esp the one with the clouds reflected as I can se that one going well in advertising.

Chris

[4hero]

CVP said:

4hero said:

Chris, yes, the images are all 750px wide on flickr

Good man

Hope this works out for you, really like the last two, esp the one with the clouds reflected as I can se that one going well in advertising.

Chris

The thing is, I buy all these fancy lenses & 40D, and these were all shot with a 350D and kit lens

[flat-planedCrank]

4hero said:

CVP said:

4hero said:

Chris, yes, the images are all 750px wide on flickr

Good man

Hope this works out for you, really like the last two, esp the one with the clouds reflected as I can se that one going well in advertising.

Chris

The thing is, I buy all these fancy lenses & 40D, and these were all shot with a 350D and kit lens

Congrats I'd certainly want to charge something for commercial use, always difficult to know how much though...


Shows that technique and a good-eye are more important than expensive lenses
(well apart from that marco lens, its nuts )



Cheers.

[4hero]

Thanks FP

Got another email from the agency:

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The use would probably be in an electronic brand book and/or
website, but I don't have all the details yet. I've been out for the past week and am not up-to-speed. I first wanted to check to see if the shot was avail and if you were interested. I'll find out more and get back to with an update by early next week.
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Still not sure what to charge, any ideas? It's for this shot..

Edited by 4hero on Friday 19th December 08:38

[mikee boy]

I can't see the image because I'm at work.

However, whatever you think it's worth, you're likely to be wrong as you'll almost certainly undervalue it relative to other commercial photogs.

I'm probably going to upset some people here, but I'd probably let it go cheaper than its worth just for the thrill of seeing my photo in an official publication. I used to take a lot of (free) photos for the Uni newspaper and it's obviously not my day job.

Edited by mikee boy on Friday 19th December 11:26

[bramley]

I'd say between £150 and £400 depending on usage and period. So, £150 if it's used in one project/document, £400 if it's in several and/or likely to be used for a long period of time. Or somewhere in the middle depending on what they want to use it for.

No design agency worth their salt would quote for the creation of a brand book (or anything else) without allocating a budget for imagery, so they'll have some funds for this.

[CivicMan]

Such a similar post to this one...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Are designers giving up on stock photography agencies who charge big bucks to try and get cheap images off innocent amateurs??

[bramley]

CivicMan said:

Such a similar post to this one...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Are designers giving up on stock photography agencies who charge big bucks to try and get cheap images off innocent amateurs??

istock has had a huge influence on the stock market afaik. Plus some shots taken be commissioned for not much money so there's little point in paying over a certain amount for a stock shot.