|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Photographers Information
What are we looking for?
Our focus is on funny or cranky photographs, regardless of specific topics. We cordially invite everybody who disposes of funny photographs for collaboration and appreciate receiving your pictures.
The confinement to funny photographs does not hold, if you want your pictures to be marketed royalty free.
Among the range of our customers are advertising agencies and publishing houses, domestically and internationally.
Information for photographers with regard to digital imaging
Submissions (low-res images): We receive many submissions every day and it is therefore important that we can view your images quickly. Please submit your images as low resolution jpegs. We prefer email attachments, cd-roms, or portfolios on your website.
Technical requirements for hi-res images: The images must be scanned at a minimum of 300 dpi and A3 format (ca 5400 x 3600 pixels). A colour photo for example then has an uncompressed digital size of approximately 55 MB, a b&w image approximately 20 MB. The images must be scanned for this format, as simply stretching a small image to these specifications would only increase file size, but not quality. Required format: RGB-tiff or jpeg (maximal compression in Photoshop 8-11). Please do not send any hi-res CMYK images.
Tips and information for production quality images: The larger a digital image file the more time one needs in order to archive it in a database and to retrieve it. That is normal and you know it already if you have previously tried to store an image with 55 MB on your hard disk. An RGB-Tiff which prints well as an A4 print is around 55 MB in size and it can take 1 - 2 minutes to save it. Scanning images like this on a daily basis is time intensive and uneconomical. It is also inefficient to send such large file sizes via ISDN Leonardo. Even more problematic is the storage of these files. For 10,000 images one needs around 500 GB storage capacity. One solution is to compress images, but not all compression methods are equal.
The most widely used compression methods are LZW and jpeg compression.
LZW compresses files without any loss of quality, but its disadvantage is that the file can only be compressed to 50% of its original size, which means that a 55 MB image can only be compressed down to 25 MB if one is lucky, but more typically 30 or 35 MB. This is not much help for photo libraries.
Jpeg compression is much higher but the disadvantage is the loss of quality. Please note that the higher the compression factor the less loss of quality there is. The more often the photograph is recompressed, the higher the quality loss. Despite this, we recommend jpegs for the following reasons:
Jpeg files are the international and national industry standard for file formats and client delivery. We have yet to receive complaints from clients from the advertising, design, publishing and press industries or from our international representation.
If compressed up to a factor of 20, a jpeg file loses very little quality. That means that a 55 MB image can be compressed to a 1.5 - 2.0 MB file without a noticable loss in quality. (In Photoshop this is a compression of 8-11.)
Storage, retrieval and delivery times are quick and efficient.
If you want to be completely safe, save the original scan as an uncompressed tiff file on cd. If anything goes wrong in the future, you will always have a high-quality original scan.
Picture indexing: The images must be keyworded with the following IPTC information: author and caption. All other IPTC fields are optional.
Tips and information regarding picture indexing: IPTC is an international standard which is used to describe digital images. Any text that uses the IPTC standard can be read and imported by most professional databases. The same standard is used by software programs like Photoshop. In Photoshop go to the menu item "file" and then to "file information" after you imported your image. Here you can read and change or enter IPTC text. This facility offers a maximum of compatibility to your customers as well as your suppliers.
Summary of our conditions:
Every submission, whether received by post or e-mail, will be processed as quickly as possible
Originals will be sent back to you, but we request a copy of the slide or photograph so that we can rescan as needed for special client requests.
Your photographs in our archive may be viewed at any time on our website. Simply search by your name or the archive numbers. This helps you to keep track of your imagery.
You receive 50% of the licensing fee.
We require written model release for all images containing people. While we do not ask you to submit the model releases to us, you must have these contracts in your files to be requested at any time.
The images that you place with us must not be offered to or in the property of any other photo agency or photo library, and may not have been sold for royalty free imagery at any time. This applies to variant images as well.
We accept all images for worldwide distribution with unrestricted rights.
Please see the attached sample contract for further details. We look forward to receiving your image selection.
Downloads
* Unseren Photographers contract
* Unseren Model release contract
* |
Fotografeninfo
|
