Are you a photojournalist, photography lover, professional photographer or do you love taking selfies? If yes, then this is for you; or you know someone that does, this is still for you; or you wanna venture into it, this is also for you!
500px has launched an app, accessible to IOS users only, tagged "RAW", which can help you monetize your work. Interesting, right? You wanna get a phone, but you've been confused as to if it's gonna be an iPhone? This can be a great motivation for you to switch to the IOS world!
500px is a photo community of about 8million subscribers, launched in 2009, for discovering, sharing, buying and selling inspiring photography powered by creative people worldwide. In addition to its accommodating professional photographers portfolios, it also allows them to license photos to clients for commercial use and profit from their work.
RAW, a free iOS app that lets you shoot photos, upload them to 500px, complete with a commercial license and model releases. Making money through photography is as easy as that!
The idea of RAW is to streamline professional photographers’ workflow and help them start earning revenue from their shots as quickly as possible (which members are given a chance to earn up to 60 percent commission on each image sale). In order to commence the monetization, you will have to create a model release by filling out a form and having your model sign their name on your phone, and generate a license in seconds.
RAW features a simple camera interface with a grid, flash, manual focus and exposure controls that you can adjust using on-screen sliders. It also offers a wide range of processing tools, including controls to adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, and sharpening. There’s included in it a collection of filters built by community members, and options to create your own and reuse them on your other shots.
RAW also come with a feature which will notify users when they receive a request for a commissioned shoot, and allow them to accept these assignments and complete them as well.
This is a great innovation, allowing the concerned users to be able to upload a commercially licensable photo while on the go, meaning, you don’t have to return to your desk to submit work, so clients can view and pay for them.
Andy Yang, CEO of 500px said: "We quietly rolled out our global photography on-demand service a year ago to preferred clients and the uptake has been unbelievable. RAW is the first of a number of products rolling out in the coming months to support this service. It’s a new way for photographers to secure paid work for doing what they love".
RAW is free to use, and is now available in the App Store.
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