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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
Let me see if I understand you right. By your own words you are not a good photographer and by you own words you never made big dollars but did manage to eke out a living by being a photographer. There is something to be said for earning a living by taking nude pictures but you always try to make it more than what it was. You are admittedly an uneducated Cockney that eaked out a living breaking laws and taking photos of mostly homely women. Admittedly there were a few lookers in the bunch but you did nothing to portray yourself in the light that you try to do.
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Not a good photographer when compared with other magazine photographers. I think of my self as a pornographer. That requires someone to know how to put a girl at ease and direct her to do things she has never done before. Something all good pornographers can do.
Eeked out a living. Now you are displaying your stupidity again.
Magazine photographers sell licenses for a year and country. So they are able to sell the same set 3/4 times the year they have shot it. This didn't include internet sales.
US top price $2400
UK top price £1600
Holland/ Europe top price £800
Australia or Japan $1,000 but they were hard to get.
When they came back they were ours again to sell as second rights. Second rights were £300 to £600
As you've been told these are from transparencies. There were no digital cameras and in the beginning, they were very expensive. So every image had to be scanned and photoshopped. A Scanner good enough to publish was $4,000.
So many sites couldn't afford this or employ someone who can light a set, there was no way of testing before shooting, they bought content. A set sold 20 to 100 times $35 to $50 per a set non-exclusive over its lifespan.
Which hasn't finished because I legally own all my content and anyone can buy it here at knock-down prices. Think of it in terms of doing something 20 years ago, that still pays you a little bit.
I can see you know nothing about
Content Production & Licensing so have been kind to you. You're still an asshole but we love you. Who are you? Damian Jennings would be my guess. Have you got a job yet?