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For this episode, we took a break from all the legal stuff and spoke with Stephen Johnson of Copyright Image about workflow and retouching.  Stephen formerly worked at Stone Images and Getty before setting up his own consultancy business.  We really enjoyed talking to him and there’s a lot of information in this recording which will be useful to any photographer.

In the news, we talked about:

• The House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee reports on the G20 policing operation
• A security guard at the Olympic stadium site in East London is alleged to have threatened a photographer with dogs
• A blogger at the New York Times suggests that Flickr is a good place to harvest pictures for wallpaper
• A photographer gets a terse email demanding he puts images back up on his website so that an infringer can continue stealing them!

We put listeners questions to Stephen Johnson

• Paul: “What constitutes changing an image?”
• Ian: “How does one ‘get into’ submitting pics to a subscription based online image library, such as Getty? What sort of images are accepted? What kind of ballpark return could you expect to get on each image sold?”

Links:

• The report of the Home Affairs Select Committee on the G20 Policing
• Phill’s ‘edit my photo’ project

Contacts:

• Stephen can be contacted by email or you can send a short message to his skype username ‘CopyrightImage’
• Darren can be found on twitter, at his wildlife photography blog and on the Canid website.
• James can be found on twitter, and Everys Solicitors, along with their twitter feed
• Phill can be found at his daily photoblog website, on twitter and Friendfeed

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