Maybe there is a flaw in the photography industry itself? Is today's model of licensing and selling photography viable? How to best sell your photos? Will open resource photography stocks increase supply growth until the number of images reaches a level where photographers couldn't even cheaply sell good photos and make money off those who sell them? In theory, this horrific scenario could become reality. Shutter's stock alone offers more than 5 million photographs, which do not require the payment of royalties, and, as CEO John Orangey stated, every month the number of new entries amounts to millions. The number of images in the Dreamtime bank has also exceeded 5 million. Since old photos, whether sold or not, remain in their bases, the photo stock will continue to grow indefinitely. Since the offer precedes the demand - in the world there have always been more photos than buyers - prices will become lower and lower. In fact, this is something that has already produced micro stocks. Between the fee, part of $ 1 (the photographer receives only a few cents), and their photos almost no difference. But photographers have to worry about more than just the total number of photos available. Ultimately, it's hard to imagine prices dropping even lower. They should also worry about increasing competition. As the proposal continues to grow, each individual photographer's contribution to this proposal is reduced, as are their chances of becoming an author, who has sold their work. In the photographic sector the same amount of money can rotate, but this sum will be divided among an increasing number of photographers, while each individual photographer will receive less and less. At a minimum these considerations... half the paper ...if photo banks increase, No Equivalents' research has shown that buyers are willing to pay different amounts of money depending on future use. They already have the possibility to choose from almost 100 million photos with free Creative Commons licenses on Flicker, but if they want to receive commercial photographs they turn to micro stock, but for more substantial goals they are still willing to pay for a traditional outflow photography. Even more Importantly, the outflow of photo banks can grow indefinitely, but the buyer does not have the patience to choose for a long time. Unsold photos will soon go into oblivion, and the old will go out of fashion. Photographers who are satisfied with their income from unloading, soon lose their earnings if they do not offer a new photo. Perhaps most of the photography industry is flawed, but most likely the problem is the idea of countless poorly selling photos..
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