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You're a photographer and
would like to list your photos with Stone's Throwe? Scroll down,
read it all.
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| Who and what we are. |
| Stone's Throwe is the on-line stock photography offering
representing several Des Moines area photographers, acquaintances,
and friends, who each have their own photography business, either
full or part time, outside Stone's Throwe. This website is just one
of the portfolio listings, and is an additional stock sales outlet
for, each photographer. |
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| Submission guidelines. |
| We
don't work for you, and you don't work for us. This is just one
more place to hang or display your excellent photos for
sale. |
| We do
not solicit outside contributors. This is NOT a solicitation or
request of any kind for any further works from anyone. That said,
submissions are accepted from interested professional photographers
outside the company for listing with us without fee [this may
change if we start soliciting for more work, but it's all free for
now]. Submissions must be in digital format, see the file
guidelines below. |
| If you
are just getting started in photography, are a part time or
semi-pro photographer, or just someone who likes to take pictures,
we will accept, but do not solicit, your work for our stock files.
If you do not regularly work your files in Photoshop or other
similar photo pro quality software, or are unfamiliar with digital
"workflow" or shooting "raw" image files with your camera, click
here for some "basics and
recommendations". |
| If you
previously listed images with Murray-Reynolds Photo Files, please
contact us by phone or email. |
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| File and Image Quality Guidelines |
Digital files submitted should be finished, [including
completed date, location, subject, and credit IPTC info], high
resolution [260 to 500ppi in jpg], RGB/8, jpg format. The files
should be no larger than 9 meg each, and at least 2200 pixels on
the shortest side.
If you cannot translate the last sentence, go to the
"basics and recommendations" page. |
| Hard
core news photographers/photo journalists will probably find our
operation a bit small for their tastes, especially if they've
become used to big per image money. Our payouts run between .35
[yes, that's 35 cents] to about $100 per image, depending on the
deal. If you're looking for the big bucks, we can't help you
much. |
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must have a full resolution, high quality file of the image in our
possession to display your work to potential customers. |
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| To Make a Submission. |
| Contact us by phone or email prior to submitting any
work. Submissions sent without prior contact with the company are
deleted without review. |
| Digital files submitted should be finished, high
resolution, [260 to 500ppi in jpg], RGB/8, jpg format. The files
should be no larger than 9 meg each, and at least 2200 pixels on
the shortest side. We can, under the right circumstances, accept
tif and other format files, also, but ask first. |
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| What YOU guarantee us by submitting
work. |
| By the
act of submitting an image for listing, you UNCONDITIONALLY
guarantee us that you took the photograph, did not steal it from
someone else, and that you have all rights and permissions to
display and sell the image to others. You also guarantee that if
you have other agents selling the same image for you, your
submission of the image to us does not violate or interfere with
your terms or agreement with them. |
| By the
act of submitting an image for listing, you UNCONDITIONALLY
guarantee that you possess all and any necessary model's releases,
permissions, or rights to publicly display or sell that image,
especially if it clearly depicts an individual person and that you
can provide a signed model's release if one is needed. |
| You
UNCONDITIONALLY guarantee, we [Stone's Throwe] can and may, without
further contact with, or further permission from, you, make prints
or copies of your image, at any time or in any form, and, in any
manner, display them for public viewing and sale. We may also give
away, or display, any image you submit, for advertising purposes,
without payment to you. [i.e. - you only get paid if the image
sells - if we put your image on a greeting card and we give the
card away as a sample, you don't get paid, if the same card sells
for $2.05 or $2.44, you get a whopping .35 cents.] |
| And,
for our lawyers, you, as the submitter of images or photos, further
UNCONDITIONALLY guarantee, you hold Stone's Throwe, its' assigns,
its' customers, their assigns, other company or listing
photographers, and/or any of their associates, harmless and
COMPLETELY without liability or responsibility, either moral or
monetary, for any misuse, distortion, improper display, confusion,
loss, lawsuit, harm, complaint, misunderstanding, ridicule [public
or private], error, loss of income, or embarrassment [public or
private], caused to you or anyone else, by the viewing, display,
sale, use, listing, or distribution of, the image[s] you submit to
us. |
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| What we guarantee you. |
| We do
guarantee you'll get paid the going rate if your image sells as
long as we have a correct address to mail the check to. |
| We
guarantee the going rate changes from time to time and without
notice or consultation with anyone. As an average figure right now
you'll get about .35 cents per 4x5 greeting card and somewhere
around $15.00 for an unframed 11x14 print that sells for $35.00. As
of the time of this writing, you'd get $100 for a high resolution
jpg file, single use, for publication, that we charge $135 for. The
less work we have to do the more money you make. |
| We
guarantee we'll try and sell the image at wholesale if the customer
is looking at your image and the retail price sounds like too much.
[It's better to sell something 5 times at $30 than once at $100, we
always say.] |
| We
guarantee we'll try to show your image[s] to any prospective
customers we find or contact that seem interested, and, if web
space and workloads provide, post low resolution copies of them in
applicable sections of the website for public viewing. [i.e. - your
image may or may not be prominently displayed on the website or in
our hardcopy notebook or catalog books.] |
| We
guarantee Larry runs the website. If you don't like what's on
there, notice your work is upside down, or don't like the order it
shows on the page, contact him at 515-267-1436. He'll try to flip
the pix right side up or explain why he did whatever he did that
offended you, but, sadly, it's his website, and things will
probably not change all that much. |
| We
will protect the electronic image and print images from thieves to
the best of our, our store front display, retailer's, and our web
provider's ability. If your image gets hacked or your print gets
shoplifted, it's sad, neither of us make any money. We did our best
and will try and learn from the loss so it doesn't happen again.
Our IT gurus and retail outlets are good, but there are no
guarantees against theft, copyright violations, and other such
things anywhere in the Western World. |
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| NOTICE: Some things we don't do. |
| This
is just one more place to hang your work so people can look at it,
and, hopefully, buy it. We don't work for you. You don't work for
us. |
| This
isn't a good place for starving artists. We do NOT pay for images
up front. We do NOT guarantee your image[s] will sell, or that
potential customers will even briefly consider them. |
| We do
not write checks for .35 cents. You might have to wait for a few
sales, if the only product moving is greeting cards, to get enough
money to make it worth writing the check, say $5.00 or
so. |
| We
don't guarantee our customers will do what they say they will do
with your image[s] once it's in their hands. Don't submit images
you don't want to see advertising, or connected to, what ever it is
you hate most. [Example: a billboard company buys - or worse yet,
uses for free with your permission - your image, of your baby, for
an ad - you are pro-life and it ends up on a thousand pro-choice
billboards, credited to you, by name, in 3 foot high letters
visible for 20 miles, in full view of every friend or relative
you've ever had.] |
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| A few more asides. |
Politics - Keep your politics out of it. Some flag waving
and memorial stuff is fine, but art and/or photography with a
screaming political agenda isn't our bag. There are plenty of
outlets on the 'net and elsewhere for that kind of stuff, so don't
bring it here. Red State, Blue State, peacenik or warmonger,
pro-choice, pro-life, Republican, Democrat, environmentalist or
strip-mining logger, we don't care. If it looks like it has an
agenda, activism, politics, or propaganda in it, it probably won't
get listed.
Nudes - Nudes are great photographic art when properly done, but
alas, not for display on this site.
Kids - Too many strange Federal, State, and local laws on kids and
how much clothing they have to have on to be decent and far too
many droolers surfing the net looking for kicks. Clothes on,
completely covered, even babies, no bare chests, bottoms, or such.
No exceptions.
News Photos - We'll take 'em if the date/time/place is documented,
we also accept work from Combat Camera pro's and other military
photog's that have rights to their work.
Freebies - Often we are contacted by official and private
publications or government and private entities seeking the use of
images for free [no cost to them, absolutely no money for you]. If
you are willing to release your images, for free, to government or
private publications/entities which might credit the photographer,
but do NOT pay ANY money for the image, include that information
with your submissions. Be specific about which images may, or may
not, be had for free, with credit to the photographer and Stone's
Throwe. We don't guarantee they'll do what they promise, only that
we'll forward the work you're willing to give away for fame and no
money. We will ask for a 'tear sheet' on the free stuff if it's
print format, but we, and you, shouldn't ever believe said sheet
will really show. If the tear sheet does show up, we'll forward it
to you, if your mailing address is correct.
Work or assignment requests - From time to time we send out
requests from potential customers looking for specific images. If
you gave us an email address you may receive a copy of these
requests from time to time. If you submitted something that matched
it, give us an email nudge, it might be hidden from us in the
system. If you don't have any work on it, don't immediately dash
out and start working on it. ["Tempests in a teacup just get
everyone burned", to quote an aged photo editor]. Think first, you
might just be doing all kinds of work in vain, rushed shoots rarely
end up selling. Deadlines are usually mentioned, and some customers
have specific ways they want things presented, and have lots of
other sources besides us. If you have a lot of work on the subject
that isn't listed with us, or want to do a shoot on the subject for
submission to the customer, email or call first. |
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