Hey, folks, been away for quite a while, but I wanted to share a nice little surprise I got this morning. Received an email from a buddy and fellow photographer that an image of mine taken during a game this past New Year's Day made the cover of 1 of 4 regional Sports Illustrated magazines.
Below is the original then the cover. As you can see, the original is just a "meh" capture, with a busy background, and I cut off part of his foot. Just goes to show ya that you never know……
Edit: the text in my original post got hosed up and I had to fix it…FM used to allow for quick edits - not anymore, apparently.
Congrats! Not sure about USPW, but I wish there was a better way for agencies to track what gets used. Getty does a pretty good job, but only on the contributor stuff.
Thanks, guys. Michael, it's a little odd. For online sales, I can see downloads on a daily, almost real-time basis. Print sales are more of a challenge. We get an itemized listing that shows where and when an image was used, along with how much I got paid for it, but this comes out quarterly and is often several months after the shot was published. I had a photo of RGIII on the cover of the USA Today Sports Weekly a couple months ago, and had another shooter not seen it and told me, I would have probably never known. In any event, though, the money still works.
