Zach Petschek, Jonathan Spooner & I (Ozzie) went skating pools one Sunday, this past summer. July in the Badlands is terrible for most people & skating a pool is something most folks never really consider. We three are not your normal folks. We live to ride skateboards. We devote our entire day & night thinking about it. Its what we are. We had ridden three or four pools & Zach had been telling us about several skate photographers that were complaining about how there was simply no outlet or place for skate photographers to develop an archive & have them sold. Zach went on about how ridiculous it was to see a Mountain Dew machine replete with a huge graphic of some random kid ‘falling off’ a skateboard, as a representation of skateboarding. It was a mockery! I peered over at Spooner & we nodded our agreement…It was true. We had both seen precisely what Zach was referring to. I was at the mailbox about three weeks past and saw a TV cable company mailed postcard with a skateboard graphic on it. It was pathetic. The image was some guy barely on the board, with no ramp or transition anywhere near him. It looked like some kids dad pulled from a basketball court at the local YMCA. It was sad. We took a few more runs at the pool and thought about what we’d seen and what exactly we could do about it. After we finished skating, we decided to eat. At the table, Spooner & Zach continued the conversation. Spooner wrote out four major bullet points that needed to be addressed.

Photographers Problems & Solutions.

1. Protecting your copyrights.

2. Manage model releases and contracts.

• Model Release
• Model Release for a Minor
• Property Release

3. Pricing and contracts. – Shrelp helps you sell your image for maximum value

Price Matrix that covers everything from print, web, tv, products.

Our image pricing interactive tool.

4. Shrelp provides secure access to your image catalog 24/7. And no one will get your high rez file until their payment is verified and you have the cash!

We’re excited to announce our new policy on image pricing. Other stock agencies control the sales price and the amount you take home. Shrelp decided this was not acceptable and gave the control back to the photographer.

As you know image licensing is complicated. For example how much more should I charge for a 1/8 page vs a 3/4 page photo? We continuously tune our interactive pricing tool to provide you with the most up to date licensing options and pricing.

Here is how it works

1. First find the “Set Price” link near an image you have uploaded.

2. Then set the base price and click “update prices” and watch the pricing matrix below refresh with your new prices. You will not see a our commissions taken from these prices, the amount you see here will be the actual amount you take home.

And that’s it.