I made my first non-cycling photo sale this week. Its for the cover of an upcoming CD, "A Picture of You." Amanda can be happy that it is a picture of her. Here's a bio of the band -- I'm keeping it nameless right now because I would like to keep this out of Google-range.
The Jazzscript bio sounds pretty exciting -- "Best Small Group" in the 2001 British Jazz Awards, so I'm looking forward to spinning up the finished product. The sale was a bit of surprise because he offered to pay me. I'm used the monthly, "can I use your photo for free" permission request on Flickr for some e-zine or Web site, and if it's not my cycling photography I generally say yes. In this case I also said yes, at which point he told me that I should charge him. That borders on saintly.
Another surprise for me is that the photo in question was taken with my old S400 ELPH, a compact 4MP point-and-shoot camera that was my very first digital camera. Since then I've bought a new ELPH, a Digital Rebel, and Canon 30D, and several thousand dollars worth of SLR lenses and accessories. With this sale, the S400 becomes my only piece of camera equipment that has come anywhere close to paying for itself. I've always claimed that it's better to have a point-and-shoot instead of an SLR if you only get one camera, but I never expected this to be the proof. I even later repeated the same beach+overexposure experiment with my SLR equipment.
This completes a media cover hat trick for me: magazine cover, CD cover, and book cover, though the book was a freebie. I enjoy the experience because I lose artistic control. With all the hours I log processing my photos, I get to see how someone else interprets and uses them instead. And adds music.
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The Jazzscript bio sounds pretty exciting -- "Best Small Group" in the 2001 British Jazz Awards, so I'm looking forward to spinning up the finished product. The sale was a bit of surprise because he offered to pay me. I'm used the monthly, "can I use your photo for free" permission request on Flickr for some e-zine or Web site, and if it's not my cycling photography I generally say yes. In this case I also said yes, at which point he told me that I should charge him. That borders on saintly.
Another surprise for me is that the photo in question was taken with my old S400 ELPH, a compact 4MP point-and-shoot camera that was my very first digital camera. Since then I've bought a new ELPH, a Digital Rebel, and Canon 30D, and several thousand dollars worth of SLR lenses and accessories. With this sale, the S400 becomes my only piece of camera equipment that has come anywhere close to paying for itself. I've always claimed that it's better to have a point-and-shoot instead of an SLR if you only get one camera, but I never expected this to be the proof. I even later repeated the same beach+overexposure experiment with my SLR equipment.
This completes a media cover hat trick for me: magazine cover, CD cover, and book cover, though the book was a freebie. I enjoy the experience because I lose artistic control. With all the hours I log processing my photos, I get to see how someone else interprets and uses them instead. And adds music.