Sell and show your images on takeapic.com

[takeapic]

Hi everybody,

When your images are high-quality and high-resolution you can post them on our website for free. By adding name and keywords they are available for buyers. All the images are same priced, namely $25,-, after deducting tax (19%) we split the rest 80% photographer (you) 20% takeapic. From that 20% we also pay hosting and paypal transactions. Should be a fair deal.

You can also use our database as a portfolio since searching by photographers name is one of the options added to our site.

At this moment 93 photographers have joined, and they have uploaded around 1900 images. We are not yet open for sellings yet, but hope to open around 3000 images...

If you like to join feel free to visit our site.

regards,
Leonard Hamers
Takeapic.com
The Netherlands

[Anarchist86ed]

yuhuh. and what about licensing rights and al that. my instructor tels me to never sell anything i haven't copywritten.

[takeapic]

You really are a anarchist...

You can read everything you want to know on our site, about the copyright......

regards,
Leonard
takeapic

[Anarchist86ed]

yeah but you have to have a paypal account and you have to pay to use it?



pass...

[takeapic]

Hi,

yes, we don't want to handle everybodies creditcardnumbers, and most people don't want everybody to have their creditcardnumber, so paypal is the most secure way to pay you when you sold some images.

To know for sure that your provided information is accepted by paypal you have to transfer $0,01, we won't get rich that way, in fact this dollarcent goes to paypal directly.

If you can't spare a $0,01 maybe a good friend can loan it to you
;)

regards,
Leonard
Takeapic

[takeapic]

...and there are no further costs for using our system...

[Anarchist86ed]

it's not that i dont have a penny it's that i dont have a paypal account.

theres always gotta be a catch to something...

[takeapic]

there is no catch,
we are some guys who have been working on different advertising agencies and who couldn't find the right images... and that's when the idea for this site came up.

We now are working on a forum, so you can communicate with other members of our site, and share opinions. We'll allways try to make the site a good place for photographers, because we depend on them sharing good images with us...

regards,
Leonard
Takeapic

[Anarchist86ed]

heres a way to improve your business. Use a source other then paypal which as far as i know requires you have a credit card. not everyone has a credit card including yours truly. you'll lose a lot of potential business by shutting out people who dont have one.


just an FYI

[wingnut1]

I think I will give it a go Leonard, at least it's on my side of the big pond for a change!
I will pop back over to takeapic.com and register now.

[takeapic]

Hi Steve,

thanx for your interest, see you on takeapic...

Leonard

[antbrown]

HI Leonard,
I think you may be on to something her and I'm interested in giving your site a go but I wish that you would let us see more of how the site will look once you get things going. I noticed that you have a few pictures posted on Takeapic now. Is this the format that it will take once you start selling pictures? You must have enough pictures now to let us see what we will be signing up for. Do we need to be members before we can view pictures on the site? How will we receive payment for pictures that we/you sell? How do I upload pictures to your site? There is nothing to explain how everything will work.

Michael

[takeapic]

Hi Michael,

there are allready 3000 images on our site, you can try by using our search engine.... The format is .PNG, you upload highres files, and our system automatically generates thumbnails and watermarked low res previews. It's also possible to send us cd's with the images, then we will upload them for you. You only have to add keywords and names that way. Just give it a try...

regards,
Leonard
Takeapic

[wingnut1]

Well,
I sent off a CD a couple of weeks back with 59 images and Leonard put them up on Takeapic. Another 70 shots on CD are on their way to the Netherlands as I type this message.
It's well worth a try and costs nothing. If some of the images sell, thats fine and if they don't sell then that's fine too. At least I don't have to pay storage fees every month for images that might not sell and if they do then it's a bonus for everyone.

[takeapic]

We work hard to open the buyers section 1-1-2004

regards,
Leonard
Takeapic

[Ferdinand]

Hello Leonard,

First off I would like to say that this is a great idea. And I have just signed up with your service and being new in photography, this will act as a form of motivation for me :) All the best sir.

Best regards,
Ferdinand

[bct341]

having taken many photos and having bought photos (for work) .. there is a big difference from what is commercial and what is artistic. I think you have a great idea and will check it out. But most customers want generic photos of people and things unless they a nature website/mag etc or a travel site etc.. most photos are geared to advertising.

What would be nice on your site is some serious tips on how to take photos that sell... there are plenty of books out there on it and the average photographer does not know what the marketing world wants..

anyway.. good luck and who knows. maybe I will join some day :)

[karusel]

And what if Paypal hasn't heard of your country yet?

[karusel]

And by the way, would one be allowed to sell the same photos on takeapic site and on some other site too? Does the buyer get the 'negative' and thus exclusive copyright or just a reproduction photo that anybody can get? Picture 2 advertising agencies buying and using the exact same photo... I just feel there wouldn't be a whole lot of buyers this way... and one would have to be hella lucky to have been chosen....

[takeapic]

Hi Karusel,

If your country isn't registered by paypal you can not join (yet). We are working on a alternative.

we don't give buyers exclusive copyright, images can be used more than once. Images will not be used in major advertisements, but more in local advertising etc. Or in magazines as illustrations. The whole stockmarket is based on the principle of using one image very often. You may sell your images on other sites, no problem.

By the way: we don't send buyers negatives or printed photo's, but they can download a digital file.

Regards,
Leonard
Takeapic

[hodad66]

How does our payment for sale of photos take place?

[karusel]

Paypal? :mrgreen: Haven't you read the thread?

[G2Jim]

Cool idea! I have a few questions, just to clarify things in my own mind:
1.) A customer could buy my photo for $25, and if it was good enough they continue to make big bucks off of it for years to come, right?
2.) Could they theoretically add their own copyright to it in whatever product they incorporate it?
3.) Could I keep my own copyright name and date on it, or would that prevent it from being marketable?

[hodad66]

karusel -- i've never had PayPal pay me so I don't know how that would work! :wink:

[gordeaux]

This sounds like a good idea and I've come across a couple of other references other than this forum's thread. Can anyone step forward and tell me that they have actually received one or two payments from images they have listed at TakeAPic.com?

I've posted two dozen pictures there and am wondering if there's actually any revenue generating activity anywhere at TakeAPick.com before I spend too many more hours sending more images. :?

[jylitalo]

I think they are still more or less in startup mode, because sometimes you can get quite funny error messages from their site. As an example, if you log into takeapic, leave that window on its for couple hours and then select 'Financial status' link, you will receive three MySQL error messages from takeapic server instead of message that would say that your session has expired.
In addition to that, they are missing some of the basic functionality like possibility to change your password.

- Juha

P.S. My financial status on takeapic is still USD-1 (=none of the current 16 pictures have been sold).

[nomel]

Hey takeapic,

All of the links at the bottom of the site don't seem to work in mozilla...only "i don't care about standards" internet explorer.

The error is

"The requested URL /\content.php was not found on this server."

Looks like someone put the wrong slash.

[karusel]

Well, it's been five months now... anyone sold anything on takeapic :?:

[jylitalo]

They seem to have some strange network related problems, because none of my three ISPs (home, work, webhost) seem to be able to find IP address for www.takeapic.com.

[karusel]

What do you mean? Just ping it...

[shelbix2020]

its shows up using Opera ... but no images will load ???

you have to pay $1 to sign up .. then you get payed up to $25 for every download?

[Scottes]

All of the links at the bottom of the site don't seem to work in mozilla...only "i don't care about standards" internet explorer.

The error is

"The requested URL /\content.php was not found on this server."

Looks like someone put the wrong slash.

This is pretty poor. That error has been happening for at least 4 days now. None of the images load on the index page. When I right-click and try to view the image I get a message saying that I'm forbidden from viewing the image.

Pretty pathetic.

[gordeaux]

its shows up using Opera ... but no images will load ???

you have to pay $1 to sign up .. then you get payed up to $25 for every download?

The $1 is to prove you have a PayPal account. Which is how you're going to get paid. Your pay will be credited to your PayPal acccount. They charge $25 for each image use, $20 goes to the photographer, $5 to the company. It's not complicated.

I am still wondering, though, if any photographer has actually gotten paid anything. Or is this a giant hole of a web site that is sucking in my time + pictures and nothing will come back out. :?

[jylitalo]

What do you mean? Just ping it...

Their DNS entries were missing for couple hours this morning (my timezone is GMT+0300), while all the other services that I use from internet were working just beatifully.
Big and popular sites are supposed to have enough DNS servers in use so that people will always find their IP address. Without IP address, its quite impossible to ping or create tcp connection for web browsing. (As an example, when was the last time, when your browser complained about unknown host, when you tried to access google.com)[/quote]

[Bruce Hamilton]

They charge $25 for each image use, $20 goes to the photographer, $5 to the company. It's not complicated.
Recheck the original posting... He takes 19% off the top for taxes, and you get 80% of the remaining $20... I'll sell my pictures myself.

[Scottes]

Well, the site is back up and seems to work.

Found this:

"2. You give permission to the buyers to use your images for personal and commercial purposes."

That's about the only statement pertaining to anything about the subject of use, copyright, etc.

It seems a little broad. No "single use" or anything like it. The buyer could resell the photo a million times or put it on a "Clip Art" CD or something.


And it's only made worse by this:

"Uploading images with your own embedded copyright is not allowed. Takeapic.com does not accept files with embedded copyright notices."

[Scottes]

OK, so the buyer can't resell the image. But if the buyer reproduces the image more than 500,000 time, then TAKEAPIC make $.01 per use, so they make $5000.

Nice.

The buyer is also allowed to alter the image with certain restrictions.

But the buyer can't remove any copyright notice... Hey, the photographer can't upload an image with a copyright notice so I wonder where it comes from....

[csondagar]

It seems like a good idea but they have a long way to go to get their site stable. I have tried accessing the site numerous times and I get different kind of issues each time.

Chets

[jylitalo]

Its been more than three months since last post on this topic. Has anything changed during that time (meaning that has someone got anything sold during that time and if so, have you received payments from them) or is it hoax?
Based on their website, they are still getting new uploads from people, but they haven't announced any new news since March 3, 2004. Some the links in their web pages footer are still broken (they contain unnecessary backslashes).
I personally have have something like 30 photos in there, so its not big suprise, that my financial status with them is still at USD -1, but if noone has made sales, then its not worth of the time and effort to start uploading more stuff in there.

- Juha

[Aylwin]

First time I've heard of this. Sounds like a good idea. However, I just visited the site and no images would load. All I can see is text and lots of little red X's. Not a very good thing. :roll:

[stefG5]

i think there should be a policy against people promoting their own business here. most good forums do that

obviously it wasnt all that?

[gordeaux]

This E-mail I got from takeapic.com May-10-2004 tells you what's going on.
[quote]
Hello Photographers,

We get a lot of mail from photographers with the question, how we are doing.
We have to be very honest, this project is not going very well, we have not sold one image yet.(!!)

We have tested the payment system over and over, it is working perfect. The site gets more visitors every month, we have a lot of people searching in the customers section, but there are no sellings.

We have placed an advertisement in a dutch magazine, placed banners on 12 sites, we have mailed over 600 german advertising agencies, and over 500 american agencies, but we get not that much response. The only response we get, is that there are not enough people related stock images on our site, and this is what is searched for most of the time. Takeapic is mostly filled with nature and animals. What we need is professional models, in different situations.

The stock business in general is not doing very well, a lot of major companies have stopped their services, but we think in the end that will be an advantage.

We want to ask you all to be patient, and to keep uploading because the images are the backbone of this site. We have invested a lot of time and money in Takeapic, and will not end this project. To you it is a free service, and a good way to present your images. You can also use our project as a free way to advertise your personal website.When you want to help our project, it is important that we are linked on as many websites as possible. (banners: http://www.takeapic.com/banners/) The more pages we are linked on, the higher google will place us in their listings.

We know our harddisk failure has cost us a lot of trust, but we asure you this can not happen again. All images ar backupped, and the server for the site and the storage are separated. So keep sending in your images. Our main time investment will be promoting takeapic. And I'm sure we will get there, almost a bit slower than expected.


Leonard, Marc, Domenico and Robert
Takeapic
Vughterstraat 133a
5211GB 's-Hertogenbosch
+31 (0)73-6130244
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[karusel]

Wow. I was being sceptical about this, since the chance that your photo would be pulled out of thousands or ten thousands is pretty slim, but this... not one photo sold, that surprises even me.

Perhaps this is due to the wide availability of photos all over the web, the key factor here is time - time to browse through them and decide what you want. I guess it's simpler to either hire a photographer or browse a site that stocks only the highest quality photos.

[meow]

Maybe they've been busy selling photo CDs and email addresses. :mrgreen: