Image Brief – get real money for your images

Successful Image Brief ImageI’ve been working with Image Brief for about a year now. It is basically an online image request service – a buyer with a specific need in mind posts their requirement and budget and photographers get to upload up to 10 images that meet that brief. I’ve been awarded one brief to date (and got $220 for it) – an image of the Acropolis in Greece that has ended up (I think) in a travel magazine. One key thing to bear in mind with this site is that they need to see a reasonable portfolio of images showing a selection of styles and also that they are really looking for Rights Managed Images. My recent strategic shift to put my best images (and editorial images) on RM sites is helping in this regard, but I also do submit (with the site owners agreement) some RF images to the lower priced briefs as long as I state in the comments that they may have sold as RF. I think they are reviewing this RM requirement, but you should also note that some of the more expensive briefs also look for exclusivity – so you need to watch for that.

I find the site intriguing – partly as a way to potentially earn more for an image, but mainly for the creative ideas I get from it. There was one one brief recently for concept images for gluten in bread and asked for images of a skull. I had a session in my studio (and photoshop) to create images like this.
Dangers of Gluten in Bread
I didn’t win this particular brief, but I am left with a series of images that I would never have thought about. Great for creativity!

Please use my link here to apply to the site – I may get a referral fee if you are successful with a brief!