FotoQuote Reaches Bigger Audience Through PhotoShelter

Since the early 1990s, software developer Cradoc Bagshaw has been researching the prices people pay to license photographs, and organizing them in his software program fotoQuote.The program has been successful, but Bagshaw has been cautious about how his database – including the average prices of photo licenses in more than 200 categories – is used. Since it could influence the thorny issue of price negotiations, Bagshaw has been reluctant to offer the information on the Internet or publish it in a book. He encourages photographers only to use his data as a starting point for negotiations. Now Bagshaw's will be made available online to customers who subscribe to PhotoShelter, an online digital asset management system that geared toward with independent photographers. The two companies announced the partnership Thursday.Bagshaw works on the software full time, but speaks of it as a service to photographers more than a money-making venture. "I'm trying to help everybody else stay in business," he says.He says he believes PhotoShelter will offer the database as a resource, and not encourage photographers to use it as a default pricing grid. "You don't want to price this stuff as a commodity," he says.PhotoShelter will begin letting its users price photographs in various categories for immediate license by credit card, making it easier for art buyers to buy photos."The photographer will be able to set what the pricing is," for various uses, and use a slider icon to raise and lower the prices, says Allen Murabayashi, CEO of BitShelter, the company that owns PhotoShelter. FotoQuote is the only widely available survey data on photo pricing, Murabayashi says.PhotoShelter will continue to take a 10 percent fee from sales, as it does with its existing system for photographers who license stock photos.

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