Selling Photo's to newspapers and magazines

SCOOPT.COM

Now I can't say this next post is anything related to high art, BUT this is a blog for visual artists to find useful sites and useful sidelines for earning money. Particularly this post is for photographers or anyone one with a camera, most artists I've known have also possessed a camera as well as a set of brushes. This site, scoopt.com is a middle man for anyone who has taken a newsworthy photograph or a photograph that a newspaper or magazine might be interested in buying. Scoopt is run by a group of ex-journalists and photographers in an attempt to allow phtographers to sell their photo's to major publications.

PRO'S

Scoopt is free to join. Sending your picture to scoopt can be done in two ways, either upload it to their site or send it from your mobile phone(remember, it's not high art). Scoopt deals with contacting and negotiating a price for your photo for publication, you don't have to do anything except upload it. The picture is licensed(not sold)for three months but you still retain copyright of it, after which time you can sell the picture again or use it as you wish. An easy to navigate and understand site.

CON'S

Scoopt takes a huge 50% commission on your licensed photo. scoopt is concerned with newsworthy pictures of the paparazzi variety.

SUMMARY

Overall I have to say I like this site and the possibilities it holds for anyone with a camera so I chose to include it in this blog. I can't find too much wrong with it, but I haven't used their service either to exactly know enough about it. This site is good for anyone with a camera(even just a mobile phone camera), I'm not sure how many photo's of a 'non-famous person' variety would actually get sold on this site though, but they do mention that other pictures can be sold as stock photo's to various publications.