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You may have seen this photo on our homepage before. We obviously put this up to trigger a reaction and yes, it worked: No way you could have made that much!! How? Where is this place? That's 2/3 of my annual salary! We also get a lot of requests to explain the back-story for this photo, so I decided to write about how, in one year, I made $15,000 with this one photo in licensing fees alone....

Some food for thought: I was wondering what many of you feel about registering (if applicable in your country) your copyrighted work prior to any publishing or licensing agreement(s)? Is it worth the effort to you and if so why? Would you consider charging a client copyright...

I've been reading a lot of responses on here with pricing suggestions. The thing is, all assignment pricing must be based on a photographer's Cost Of Doing Business. Now, MY CODB is not the same as a photographer's in LA or NYC and this is a very important part of pricing. When...

Since I've started posting on this forum, I've seen a lot of questions from people asking how to price the usage of an image by a potential client (that's what this forum is for after all). Unfortunately, most of the questions lack all of the information necessary to accurately...

It might be helpful to create a section with some general help and information for licensing photos, like templates for writing correct invoices or contracts.This one below is what some TV networks would like to include when you license photos to them:* Permission to use each...

Hello Folks,  I'm new to licensing and have been asked by a university department if they can license 2 abstract images for their department website.   I asked them several questions which I hope covers some details.  How long?  on homepage or other page?  What size? ...

I know we have a fantastic resource here on Shakodo, and before I price things I go here and other places to make an estimate. One of them is stockphotopricecalculator.com, do you have any thoughts on it? And do you have any other resources you can recommend?