Photographers- Here is a chance to be published

[joefdiver]

IF YOU’VE EVER HAD AN INTEREST IN GETTING PHOTOS PUBLISHED…



Scuba Sport Magazine is making it easier than ever for your talents to be discovered!​

Our Editor WILL BE ON the Caribbean Explorer the week of May 12. We will be diving reefs off of St. Maarten, Saba, St. Kitts & Nevis.

We are trying a new concept for this article, scheduled to run in Scuba Sport Magazine in the July 2012 issue. We will only be using photos taken by participants that week in the article! All photos taken on that trip from all participants will be considered for the magazine!

Ask any editor, the way to getting assignments is to prove you can handle one. Here is your chance to show the editor what you can do for an entire week. This is a photographers dream! How often to you get to dive for an entire week with the editor of a diving magazine?

Call the Explorer Ventures today 800-322-3577 to book a spot on this voyage! THIS WILL FILL UP FAST!

 

[Shasta_man]

How much are you going to pay for each published photo? A sustainable photography job is the dream.

 

[Thalassamania]

Check the fine print, most contests have clauses that transfer all rights, in perpetuity, to the contest sponsor. I'd be happy to find out that this one is different.

 

[RJP]

I'd be happy to find out that this one is different.

Don't get your hopes up...

Not completely sure this is a "contest" per se, but either way it would make no business sense for a magazine to do anything BUT claim all rights/ownership of any images they publish in exchange for the "good and valuable consideration" that the photographer receives in terms of being published. As someone who deals with usage rights for images/video/etc all the time, I can tell you it's a real pain in the neck to manage anything but "full ownership" of images. Many people p*** and moan about this sort of thing being unfair, but it's a quid pro quo arrangement, and of course the photographer can choose to maintain ownership of the images simply by not submitting them for publication.

 

[HowardE]

How much are you going to pay for each published photo? A sustainable photography job is the dream.

For many aspiring photographers... just having your work published (for free) is enough satisfaction. What's the problem with this contest/offer? There have been MANY others similar in the past, and will be more in the future.

 

[DevonDiver]

Is this actually a contest?!?

What I read is... book on the same liveaboard as the magazine editor and your photos "may" be considered for publishing. i.e. whilst enjoying a post-dive evening beer, you'll all share your photos...and if he sees any he likes, he'll offer to publish them. Which he might do anyway...

It's a nice offer though - and may make a difference for an aspiring photographer - especially if the editor was able to offer some running feedback on your photos as the week progressed. i.e. tips and tricks to turn a 'nice' photo into a publishable photo etc. There's no mention of a 'workshop' type approach though.

 

[Lead_carrier]

If I read things correctly, Joe is starting a new magazine. 2nd issue was March 2012. Getting a liveaboard filled and photos for your mag at the same time. Not a bad deal, wish I could pull it off.

 

[Shasta_man]

If you do a liveaboard and get some tips from an editor, that's great. If he likes some of your pics and compensates you to publish them, fantastic. Of course, they get the rights. If it's the usual give us your pics for free and we'll publish them to give you exposure, that's worth next to nothing. The only thing that happened was they got your pics that you paid money to create for free to publish in the magazine they sell. Your work is worth what you charge for it. Everybody and their uncle wants free pics and there are a million people out there with the money to buy a high end camera system. Many just want that exposure so they charge nothing for thier work, which only leads to more "I want the pics you took with your $2000 camera" for free.

Hopefully this is works out to be the "we'll buy some great pics from the trip". That would be great.

 

[Thalassamania]

Don't get your hopes up...

Not completely sure this is a "contest" per se, but either way it would make no business sense for a magazine to do anything BUT claim all rights/ownership of any images they publish in exchange for the "good and valuable consideration" that the photographer receives in terms of being published. As someone who deals with usage rights for images/video/etc all the time, I can tell you it's a real pain in the neck to manage anything but "full ownership" of images. Many people p*** and moan about this sort of thing being unfair, but it's a quid pro quo arrangement, and of course the photographer can choose to maintain ownership of the images simply by not submitting them for publication.

First of all, rights management is rather simple and very few reputable magazines look for the sort of all rights in perpetuity arrangement that most of these "contests" demand. Secondly, the deal that most "contests" offer is that the photographer grants such rights in return for the sponsor considering the photos for use, so it is hardly a quid pro quo, at least in the sense that the photographer likely receives nothing in return.

 

[RJP]

First of all, rights management is rather simple and very few reputable magazines look for the sort of all rights in perpetuity arrangement that most of these "contests" demand.

RM is simple... when you're dealing with professional photogs who understand it and a fairly limited number of images. Not saying it's "right" but once you have a contest with thousands and thousands of entrants it's much easier (ie "cheaper") to simply state "we own all submissions." If you don't you could easily end up featuring an image that concurrently appears in a competitive magazine, a catalog, a calendar, and god-knows-where-else because Skippy the photographer submitted it to fifty different contests.

Same thing happens for essay contests, recipe contests, etc. Pretty standard "contest" sort of thing.