If you are a member of BarelyEvil.com or read Forrest’s journal, then you’ve already seen this smokin hot picture of Rachel Face, but I love this photograph so much, I’m going to post it here too:
This shoot was really fun. We did it at a bar after hours and there were still people there we had to boot when we got there. They were really nice about it though. And we had a blast!
Hey Szandora!
I’m posting one of the Gothic Sluts caged pix from the abandoned zoo per your request:
Shooting outside where you are not really supposed to is so much fun!
You might want to look at the front of BlueBlood.net now too . . .
I’m posting one of the Gothic Sluts caged pix from the abandoned zoo per your request:
Shooting outside where you are not really supposed to is so much fun!
You might want to look at the front of BlueBlood.net now too . . .
Alize is a girlie drink?
Alize is not a girlie drink in anything but color. That stuff is so strong it will put hair on your chest. Pretty sure it should mix better on top of champagne than beer though. I can’t wait for my stupid period to be over this month. I always get it whenever I hang with Szandora, no matter how recently I’ve bled already. Her hormones rule me.
Alize is not a girlie drink in anything but color. That stuff is so strong it will put hair on your chest. Pretty sure it should mix better on top of champagne than beer though. I can’t wait for my stupid period to be over this month. I always get it whenever I hang with Szandora, no matter how recently I’ve bled already. Her hormones rule me.
Hey Models and Photographers: Stock Photography
So spikyme was talking about stock photos in his journal and it reminded me that this was something I had percolating in the back of my brain.
For those who are wondering, stock photography is where a photographer takes a bunch of images he or she has already taken and places them with essentially an agent. The centralized agent company then sells various rights to the images to various organizations and gives the photographer a small percentage. The advantage to the photog is that he or she can concentrate on making images instead of sales and will probably get a number of clients that he or she would not have landed with any sort of direct contact.
Basically, the stock agency pays the photographer a royalty at set intervals, but they don’t call you up and say hey we are thinking about using x and so pic of so and so for a cell phone advertisement; how do you feel about that? Most of them let you know where your work ran when you get the royalty statement.
I have a royalty clause built into my standard model release for full shoots, so that, if I got a huge check, there is a standard % I would pay to whoever was pictures minus any advances I had already paid them. I view all payments to models as advances because you never know when a picture is going to become more valuable down the line and I think the model should share in the success if it does become more valuable. It shocks me that more people on both sides of the camera do not insist on a royalty clause in the case of an unexpected windfall.
I’ve never done the stock thing because it always weirded me out that I wouldn’t know where the images would end up and I didn’t want to piss off any of my models. What do models reading this think about stock? What do photographers reading this think about stock? I’d really love to get some other people’s opinions.
Forrest and I have a HUGE back catalog of images which no one has ever seen and an even huger one of images which have appeared on a Blue Blood Site and nowhere else. Should I submit some of them to a stock house?
Updated Blue Blood
I did the first installment of a travel column I am going to be doing for BlueBlood.net at http://www.blueblood.net/stuff/travel_vegas.htm It will mostly not be new to people who have been reading my journal, but I am pleased to have been able to make some pottery by turning the clay in my brain on my diary for a while. I wanted my blog to be a place I could start placing ideas which were not yet fully formed articles, but I was not sure it was going to really happen until now. I am very pleased. Getting psyched for the relaunch. Just need a few more columnists with credits to write me at submit@blueblood.net
Does anyone know?
So spikyme was talking about stock photos in his journal and it reminded me that this was something I had percolating in the back of my brain.
For those who are wondering, stock photography is where a photographer takes a bunch of images he or she has already taken and places them with essentially an agent. The centralized agent company then sells various rights to the images to various organizations and gives the photographer a small percentage. The advantage to the photog is that he or she can concentrate on making images instead of sales and will probably get a number of clients that he or she would not have landed with any sort of direct contact.
Basically, the stock agency pays the photographer a royalty at set intervals, but they don’t call you up and say hey we are thinking about using x and so pic of so and so for a cell phone advertisement; how do you feel about that? Most of them let you know where your work ran when you get the royalty statement.
I have a royalty clause built into my standard model release for full shoots, so that, if I got a huge check, there is a standard % I would pay to whoever was pictures minus any advances I had already paid them. I view all payments to models as advances because you never know when a picture is going to become more valuable down the line and I think the model should share in the success if it does become more valuable. It shocks me that more people on both sides of the camera do not insist on a royalty clause in the case of an unexpected windfall.
I’ve never done the stock thing because it always weirded me out that I wouldn’t know where the images would end up and I didn’t want to piss off any of my models. What do models reading this think about stock? What do photographers reading this think about stock? I’d really love to get some other people’s opinions.
Forrest and I have a HUGE back catalog of images which no one has ever seen and an even huger one of images which have appeared on a Blue Blood Site and nowhere else. Should I submit some of them to a stock house?
I did the first installment of a travel column I am going to be doing for BlueBlood.net at http://www.blueblood.net/stuff/travel_vegas.htm It will mostly not be new to people who have been reading my journal, but I am pleased to have been able to make some pottery by turning the clay in my brain on my diary for a while. I wanted my blog to be a place I could start placing ideas which were not yet fully formed articles, but I was not sure it was going to really happen until now. I am very pleased. Getting psyched for the relaunch. Just need a few more columnists with credits to write me at submit@blueblood.net
Friendly
For some reason, feeling like a lawnmower is in my tummy and a lava lamp is in my head makes me feel simultaneously more loathing for my fellow man and more of a desire to smooth over all differences. Like if most people suck, holding a grudge seems like such a waste of energy. It makes me want to buy dinner for people I don’t like. Fortunately I feel too cramp-riddled to leave the house. I think dingopariah had some insights on this.
Weirdly, I got a lot of work done tonight and I am still good to go.
For some reason, feeling like a lawnmower is in my tummy and a lava lamp is in my head makes me feel simultaneously more loathing for my fellow man and more of a desire to smooth over all differences. Like if most people suck, holding a grudge seems like such a waste of energy. It makes me want to buy dinner for people I don’t like. Fortunately I feel too cramp-riddled to leave the house. I think dingopariah had some insights on this.
Weirdly, I got a lot of work done tonight and I am still good to go.
Ow quit it
Wow. Bottle of White Star and a bunch of Midol and I still have cramps. I should probably disconnect my internet right now, but I won’t.
Wow. Bottle of White Star and a bunch of Midol and I still have cramps. I should probably disconnect my internet right now, but I won’t.