Re: [APML] Payment for astrophotos

["mstecker" <mstecker@dslextreme.com>]

Hello Chris:

I have had similar experiences in the past.  There are a lot of people out
there (predominantly authors and publishers of books) who are cheap skates.
As an example I was once approached by a new non-astro English magazine with
"limited funds" who wanted to use one of my images gratis.  I said OK, if
they would merely send me a copy of the magazine when it was published.
Evidently that postage was more than they wanted to spend and they did not
use the image (I hope).  Probably the only honorable astro magazine willing
to pay a reasonable fee now is SKY AND TELESCOPE.  Other non-astro
publishers like the SMITHSONIAN and to a lesser extent Time-Life are also a
pleasure to deal with.  Some of those who frequently sell their images use
an agent that takes a commission.  This makes things far less frustrating
and you are "insulated" from all those rude people who want something for
nothing.


Michael Stecker
mstecker@dslextreme.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:32 AM
Subject: [APML] Payment for astrophotos


> This topic has been discussed here before but I just thought I'd share
some
> recent experiences.
> Two different people have emailed me over the past two months wanting to
use
> some of my images in a text book and regular book.  One being on the
cover.
> I emailed both of these people back with a price and never heard from them
> again.  Both were very interested and indicated they really wanted to use
> the image, specified in their original email, but once I gave them a
price,
> which was in the hundreds of dollars range, they vanished.  Not even a
> "that's too much, can you accept this" reply.  Nothing.  I based my price
on
> the following licensing calculator:
> http://photographersindex.com/price-ed-calc.htm  I even came in on the low
> side.
>
> I refuse to give my images away for free.  My guess is that's what they
were
> expecting......  Too much time and effort goes into them.
>
> Chris
>
>
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> Astronomical Photography
> www.abmedia.com/astro
>
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