Seeking Photo For Cover Of New Book

[brahmburgers]

The text is done & edited, have a publisher in California, but there's one item hanging up publication. We don't yet have a suitable photo for the cover of the book.

If you, or someone you know has a photo we can use (can pay modest amount, or trade something), let me know - either on this thread, or otherwise.

We're thinking of Himalaya shot, could be mountains or valley, though it would be good to see sky as well. Don't need people, animals or structures in the shot, though if it's a very old style rock structure that might be excellent. Prayer flags ok, as well as pathways, clouds, a lake.

We're searching the internet concurrently, so we'll see what pops up on the radar.

[Tatsujin]

If you want to keep costs down low, why don't you try the RF sites such as:

http://www.shutterstock.com

http://www.istockphoto.com

There are loads of others, but those two are some of the best for the cheaper but still very good shots.

Chris

[brahmburgers]

If you want to keep costs down low, why don't you try the RF sites such as:

http://www.shutterstock.com

http://www.istockphoto.com

There are loads of others, but those two are some of the best for the cheaper but still very good shots.

Chris

Thanks, but what does RF mean? referral? reap for free?

You mention 'cheaper' - does that mean the people who post their photos are open to selling the rights to individual shots? If so, sounds like a cool idea. I'll take a look.

Meanwhile, I found a photo I liked, and cropped it, yet still don't have a response from the woman 'Katarina' who took it.

BTW, Katarina has an incredible selection of photos online

[sabaijai]

RF = royalty-free

[Tatsujin]

You beat me to it! Yes, Royalty-Free = RF and Rights-Managed = RM.

RF essentially means you can use the image anywhere you want to and as many times as you want to. RM has many different conditions attached to the image such as only using it in a Brochure, 1000 copies, UK distribution only etc etc

The images from Shutterstock/iStock etc are 'cheaper' than those from what were the original image libraries like Digital Vision, Getty Images etc where they were primarily RM images or very expensive RF images. The Shutterstock/iStock type sites are now able to offer quite good quality (in terms of composition) images for fairly low prices.

Be careful with the images from Flicker, you may not use any of the images from there legally unless you either have the owners permission OR the image is placed under a Creative Commons licence (which hers are not). Same goes for a Google image search, many people just grab images from online and use them wherever they want to. Again, this is not legal, but you makes your choices and you take your chances.

Chris