Friday, February 12, 2010

I am a freelance photographer (19 yrs old) and i am looking for a job. How do I go about it

I am a freelance photographer (19 yrs old) and i am looking for a job. How do I go about it?
If I were to send my work to a magazine company (say, National Geographic) do i have to get it COPYRIGHTED first??
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Whenever you sell your work as freelance or stock you want to make sure you have the right license as to how your photo will be used. Go to http://www.deviantart.com , they have a section there that explains the different kinds of licenses.
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If yuou took the pictures, you own the copyright the minute you snap the picture. You can register the images with the US Copyright office (www.copyright.gov) as well. Most places take emailed or uploaded submissions, so only send them low res, low DPI images, so they will have no real chance of printing the image with any quality. Call around to different places and see if they are looking for photographers - newspapers, magazines, places that offer newsletters.
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Google a book called Photographers' Market 2008 -- it'll show you thousands of ways to make money shooting pictures. By all means send pics to Nat Geo, but unless they're top-echelon images, don't expect to get work. If the country you live in is a signatory to the Berne Convention (most are), your pics are automatically copyrighted and you don't have to do anything. Beware of sites that offer to send your images to the U.S .Copyright Office for a fee. It's unnecessary and they're scams. V

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