Q. What is the Photographer’s Contract?
A. Click here to view photographer's contract.
Q. What is the cost at which photos are licensed at www.indiapicture.com?
Is there any minimum or maximum limit on the price of
the photos available on the site?
A. The basic cost structure is available on line (the
customer will have to click on an image and say he wants
to buy it and it will give the pricing according to
usage).
Q. How does a photographer submit images on IndiaPicture,
how much time does it take before the photo is available
to the customers for purchase?
A. There are two ways of submitting images:
Q. Is there any limit
on the number of photos that a photographer can load
on the site? Also does the photographer decide in which
collection the photo gets displayed on the site or it
is the agency, which decides that and accordingly links
the photo to a specific collection?
A. No, there is no limit on the number of images per
photographer. In fact all what matters is quality. The
decision to make collections, which are displayed on
the Commercial / Editorial page, is with the respective
Photo Editors and to some extent it also depands on the details provided by the photographer while submitting the images.
Q. What is the protection, which the site offer
to the photos from being downloaded from the site, without
their permission or knowledge? There is a provision
that the images displayed could be saved by just right
clicking and saving! Is there any plan to stop this?
A. As an international policy we encourage our users
to download the “click to enlarge image”,
which is a 500-pixel image, saved at quality 5. This
is helpful for the designers and creative people to
do their layouts and have approvals, which in turn converts
in to a sale. In all the major International Agencies
there is never a restriction on downloading a low-resolution
image.
Q. How does the photographer know that a customer
has bought his photos? Whenever there is any search
carried out by the prospective customer, what is the
logic on which the images are displayed? Is there a
possibility that there can be a priority set by which
some specific images can be displayed whenever any such
search is carried out?
A. Once a photographer joins in. He is given a user
name and a password that he can use to log, in to his
account. The login section is in the top right corner
of the website. This account has all the images of that
particular photographer including a link called “my
account”. Through this link the photographer is
updated about his sales, till date and the payments
due. All our billing will be happening online and as
soon as a bill is generated for any particular image
ID, which is unique to the photographer, his account
will get updated automatically. The photographer can
caption and categorize his images from this page. The
image display is based on quality and of course, the
keywords. i.e. the keywords are also ranked on priority
starting from the first word, so it is important to
write more apt keywords in the beginning and the
less important later. The first twelve words are very
critical to the search.
Q. Also can there be a separate section where in
photos can be divided on the basis on the photographer
names? So that if some customer wants to buy photos
clicked by some specific photographer then he will have
that choice or if he wants some specific photographer
to click photos for him then he can accordingly instruct
the site or your agency about it.
A. If you go on to the advanced search option you can
find this.
