Lee Torrens, Microstock Diares, Moderator Of The Conference

Lee is probably the world-famous microstock blogger. Check out his blog Microstock Diaries.

Yuri Arcurs on CEPIC New Media Conference

Yuri is one of the world’s best-selling microstock photographers, and definitely the most popular one. Yuri talked about his path from ‘trying microstock’ to the current status when he run a full production company, operating sometimes $10,000 per-shot budget.

Yuri Arcurs on CEPIC New Media Conference

Microstock panel

Andres Rodrigez, Tyler Olson, Jonahtan Ross, Lee Torrens are listening to Yuri Arcurs.

Tyler Olson of the MicrostockGroup shows some microstock stats

Serban Enache, CEO Dreamstime

Serban talked about what made Dreamstime a success story and how to keep the leadership on the current market.

Metadata Panel

Dr. Chrisitan Donle, IPTC Metadata panel

“Online usage of images with no metadata is illegal in European Union”.

Metadata panel

Guys from European and US standard organizations talked about the importance of proper indexing images with their metadata.
Unfortunately, this mostly remains a nice theory since most images available today on the Internet come with no metadata at all. And it is illegal…

Photographer Jonathan Ross asking a question

Jonathan is one of the very few photographers who was flexible enough to adopt microstock very early. Now he is enjoying both worlds selling his images with traditional RF/RM and microstock licenses.

Jim Pickerell of Selling Stock particpates in debats

Jim asked very good questions trying to make parallels between microstock and traditional industry.

Taylor Davidson is trying to predict the future of microstock

Shannon Fagan, NYC-based stock photographer talks microstock

Closing note by Klaus Plaumann, CEPIC

Clousing note by CEPIC VP.

Want more pictures? Check out the great microstock blog by Roberto Marinello