Indian Photographs

I am based in India and just started shooting last year. I have been

asked by a lab to buy my photographs. What kind of photos do you

think do people like to see from India? Could that be the value

proposition that i could offer? I dont have many photos which speak

of this now though

 

this is my portfolio now http://tinyurl.com/2apr2

 

i would love some suggestions and how to go about quoting for my

photos and how much they would be worth to quote. thank you.

Pradeep:

 

Without knowing what the lab wants to use the images for, it's impossible to give you accurate information about quoting a price/fee. The usage determines the value and the fee would be very different if they want a display print compared to using the image in an ad, for example.

 

As far as images from India, there's a really good stock agency in India called Dinodia and if you're interested in selling your work you should contact them. Find them at http://www.dinodia.com/

 

Hope that helps.

Thank you Mikael that was very informative, so u suggest that i mail the labs and find out what they want the pictures for is it? I am sorry if these are stupid questions but i have never done this before in my life :) thanks

Pradeep:

 

Yes, ask the lab wehat they want to do with the pictures. Once you know that it will be a lot easier to determine a fair price.

Pradeep

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What photos of India? Which India? There is so much! Out of your portfolio, I liked "Mother cat and kitten" and "Majestic". At least those stood out to me as so real, so natural, and there is a feeling of environment, expressed so simply and so beautifully. "Mother cat and kitten" made me think of the cats of Rome! I have seen them myself, and there is a web site about them....<a href="http://www.romancats.de/">CLICK HER FOR THE CATS OF ROME</A>.....you can see them here, or run a search on Google for "cats of Rome".

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And remember, light tells so much of the story...find the light, find the story.....

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But the mother cat and kitchen are "moving about" in their environment, and you can almost see outside the photograph....to the street, the nearby door...you can almost hear it....the quiet alley, where only the muffled street sounds filter through, soft like a cat....<P>

I would say your best bet is to be as honest as you can in all your photographs.....that's when you get the "stuff"......

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You've just started photographing you said....so find yourself through your photographs...notice what you photograph the best....and makes you the happiest.....Discover where YOU find India!

For especially "Indian photographs", go for people, because it's the people that makes the place (as we all know :) But I also like your "objects" section and "a boy with many hands" and "blues peep" of your experiments section very much.

Thanks for all the comments. well as i mentioned my portfolio does not have much about india in it, i definitely need to do that, about the quote that i need to give this photo lab what is your suggestion how much should i quote?

i mailed them and checked what they want it for and they tell me this - <i>'We are collecting and compiling few choiced

photgraphs for a digital photography journal.'</i> how much do i quote now?

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<a href=http://tinyurl.com/2apr2>P r a d e e p R a g h u n a t h a n</a>

Ask them for more details: size, placement, distribution/circulation,

then refer to published tables (some are accessible from the link below)

and be prepared to negotiate down.

<a href = "http://terragalleria.com/stock-photography.html">Terra Galleria Stock Photography</a>.

Thanks Mr Quang, i will mail them and get the details. Just a question which popped in my head do i have to underplay a lot to get an entry to sell my photographs or think of the efforts that went into each photograph and price them accordingly. i see bob atkins page on stock photography going for around 25$ a photograph, some links i see people sell their photographs for 100s of dollars, i am really confused :)

In general, there is the "right managed" pricing where you pay according to usage, and the "royalty free" pricing, where you pay by the number

of pixels. Do a search on those terms in Google to learn more. In general, royalty-free prices are pretty low, and not a good idea for

photographers

but have been pushed by some agencies who do business in

volume, and now are partof the stock photography landscape. Often,

lower-quality, lower-res, or common images are licensed RF. Bob Atkins licenses royalty free.

Thanks everybody for the suggestions, i have been reading up for the past few days and learnt a lot, there was a local magazine with stock photography as the cover story too :) i love this web site and am so thankful to all those who responded, thank you.