Photo buyers Information

A few more pointers for prospective photo buyers

Do you send out Transparencies?

We decided from the outset that we would be an “all digital” site. That means that we do not send out, or store, the original transparencies or negatives of images.

Our images are either high quality film scans, or files from digital capture.

Is digital up to the job?

In our opinion – absolutely!

Images captured digitally, using professional equipment, have no film grain, and little noise. They can usually be interpolated to a larger file size more easily, and with greater success, than a film scan of equivalent size.

Keeping only digital files helps us keep down costs – savings we can pass on to our customers.

Is it a free for all?

Unlike some sites, we do not accept anything and everything we are sent.

While our contributing photographers have a high degree of discretion on material submitted, we do first check out the work of new photographers to ensure their work meets our standards.

What formats do you use?

You have the option of requesting images in either Tiff or Jpeg format.

Tiff files are uncompressed. Jpeg files are compressed to “high” quality ( 9 on the Photoshop scale).

An Adobe (1998) ICC/ICM profile is embedded in every RGB file. The web miniatures are highly compressed jpegs, with the sRGB profile embedded, as this displays better on non-ICC compliant browsers, used by many viewers (but is of smaller gamut, so less good for publication).

Image License Terms

Please click here to view our standard Image License Terms

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