CEPIC New Media Conference – The Microstock Industry In Pictures
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
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