By Neil J Bradford
UnitedIndependent Photographers from around the world unite toform an affordable Royalty Free and Rights Managed
At last, a stock photos library offering the highest qualitystock photography royalty free stock photos, rights managedstock photos at one flat rate, low price and the actual artistreceiving all the payment... No agency commission!
Beginning with a royalty free stock photography photo librarycalled www.Flower-Photos.co.uk back in 2002, youmay guess correctly that it was focussed (no pun intended,honest!) on flowers, plants and tree with some really highquality close-ups that made me feel as though I was enteringanother world.
As the art director, graphic designer and website designer of agarden centre, garden center to our American cousins, which wasthe flag ship of our group and our group belonging to the UK'slargest chain of independent garden centres, I was in theperfect location to photograph flowers, plants, shrubs and treesat the drop of a hat.
The website really took off, paying for its self, the film andprocessing including scans from Fuji Labs UK and then beganmaking a profit. Not a huge profit but enough to plough back inand expand the library.
I was contacted from a number of horticultural photographersover the first few years but declined their portfolios as Isimply didn't have the time to manage a team of photographersand their work.
Over the years however, I couldn't ignore some of the quality ofwork being submitted and it wasn't just flower photography, itwas every theme imagineable.
In 2004, with many of my own photographs, all the photos from
I and the library don't take a penny or any commission fromsales. The payments go directly to the photographer, I get alarger viewership as there's more to see and hopefully broadenmy chances of actually selling some of my own photos!
I was sick of paying $200 for an image from stockphoto libraries and then as I went through the online form andentering where the image was to be used and how many issues wereto be printed, the price soar to $1,500 or more!
I thought it was about time someone started a library offeringreally high quality stock photography at a flat low cost pricethat didn't get higher the more editions or posters were beingprinted, where it didn't matter if the photo was being used onan inside page of a magazine or the front cover, where you coulduse the image over and over again with no additional charges....www.Photo-Image-Stock.com provides just that- One flat rate of $77.00 / £40.00 / €58.00 for asingle image and discounts for multiple image purchases as below:
2-4 images (10% discount): $69.00 / £36.00 / €52.00per image
5-9 images (20% discount): $61.00 / £32.00 / €47.00pi
10-19 images (30% discount): $54.00 / £28.00 /€41.00 pi
20-40 images (40% discount): $46.00 / £24.00 /€35.00 pi
The majority of stock photos are taken using slide /positive film but where digital cameras have been used, only thehighest quality digital images have been accepted.
The slide film used is either Fuji Velvia or Sensia at ASA50 orASA100, then the film is processed at
which is higher than the industry standard requirement of300dpi but means that these images are crystal clear if used asa front cover of a glossy magazine.
There's also a second option for web designers orfor those with low budgets so low they can't even afford our lowrates, subscibing to our service for a low monthly or annualrate and downloading almost an indefinite number of medium res'photos high enough res' to be used on printed material ifreduced in physical size but easily high enough res' to be usedfor in-house posters or on web pages.
I set out to provide excellent quality stockphotography at a very low and affordable price that would enablegraphic designers, web site designers, art directors, picturedesks and anybody else, to stretch their budgets further and notchoke every time they ordered a photograph from an stockphotography library.... I hope I have accomplished this in somesmall way.
Anybody wishing to purchase our images can visit usat the websites above and any keen photographers with qualitywork wishing to
