[Geysers] Grand Prismatic on an iPad?

[Pat Snyder]

Thank you, Janet, for explaining this issue clearly. 
Pat Snyder


On Apr 18, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Janet White | SnowMoon, LLC wrote:

> A photo like you're looking at is going to be costly to create simply because of the plane involved. And any photographer who has gone to those lengths isn't going to license it cheap. Those will be rights managed images where you pay for each and every single use. It's not the pay once, use as you will model of licensing.
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> I did take a look around at the various stock photography agencies and really, the only ones were found at Getty:
> http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=creative&p=Grand+Prismatic+Spring+Overhead&assetType=image
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> As for the plane being photoshopped in, I would doubt it simply because it came from an editorial person - not good juju to tamper with editorial use photos.  Career risking type bad juju. Now if it was an 'art' piece - then there are no rules.
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> I think your best shot at using the photo is to contact the photographer himself, tell him what you want to use the image for, negotiate a price (rights managed/royalty managed - RM are usually negotiated based on the budget you have for a project, not necessarily on a fixed price). He may want to work directly with Gelaskins, I know I would with a shot like this. If you want him to photoshop out the the plane, just ask if he has one that doesn't have the plane in it. Like most of us, doing something along those lines, he has more than one shot in his files.
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> Janet White
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> janet at snowmoon.us