UPDATE: Lots of interesting views in the comments, and PhotoShelter has now responded.Seeing how many of you have photos on Flickr, this is gonna be a topic of conversation around here. We have one of the largest groups on Flickr, and the quality is such that the photos in the Flickr Strobist group regularly make explore. So this is definitely gonna be relevant.Main points:1. They come to you, based on your photos. Not everyone will be involved.2. It’s an “opt in” thing. You do not have to participate.Full official FAQ, links and your comments, after the jump. _________Flickr/Getty FAQWhat is being announced?Getty Images and Flickr are announcing an exclusive partnership that allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection on www.gettyimages.com that will be available for licensing to Getty Images creative and editorial customers in the coming months.How does this benefit my customer?We know that our customers were already going to Flickr for inspiration and they often would try to license images. This partnership allows them to more easily find the images that are commercially viable, and then to license them with confidence.It also means customers will have access to even more fresh, authentic and regionally relevant content that expands our best-in-class imagery offering.Are all images on Flickr going to be in the collection?No. At launch (which is scheduled for later this year), we will have tens of thousands of high-quality images available for commercial licensing on Getty Images. Our goal is to make thousands more available over time. Getty Images editors will select the most marketable Flickr images and create a Flickr Collection for customers to license at www.gettyimages.com. They ll select images for the Flickr collection according to Getty Images unique understanding of what our customers need, using insights gained from the creative research processes developed by Getty Images. Photographers will have the option to take part, or not.The images selected will be cleared with their Flickr copyright owners, so that they are ready for license on gettyimages.com. Their prices will vary, depending on the licensing model assigned to each image and each customer s intended use.What license model will the images be under?At launch, the edited collection of Flickr images will be available to Getty Images customers through the Flickr branded collection on gettyimages.com which will span across all three licensing models rights managed, rights ready and royalty free. Prices will vary, depending on the license model, but the pricing will be similar to other RM, RR and RF imagery at gettyimages.com.When will the collection be available?The collection will be available to customers in the coming months (it is not available right now). Prices will vary, depending on license model, but the pricing will be similar to other RF, RR and RM imagery at gettyimages.com.Will customers be able to find the selected images available for license on Flickr?A license this image on gettyimages.com button or function will be enabled on Flickr for images included in the Flickr collection, to enable Flickr visitors to license such Flickr images through Getty Images.Can Flickr photographers distribute the images they have on Getty Images through any other distributor, or is this an exclusive deal?This is an image-exclusive deal. If a Flickr photographer decides to have an image distributed through www.gettyimages.com, they cannot distribute that particular image, or any similar image, through any other site. They may, however, choose to distribute other images anywhere else.Does this deal mean that our customers can legally use images from Flickr?Yes. When the Flickr collection launches on www.gettyimages.com, customers can be confident in the rights and clearances of any Flickr image licensed by Getty Images.What customer segment does this deal address? All of Getty Images customer segments: media, agency and corporate.What is the goal of the Flickr collection on gettyimages.com?This partnership represents the continued innovation that moves the industry forward to meet the changing needs of Getty Images customers. This relationship offers a responsible way to bridge the world of Flickr s photo-enthusiasts with traditional photography, offering a customer experience that is different than microstock. Getty Images customers will have even more fresh, diverse and regionally relevant imagery to use for their communications projects, with confidence.What does the deal mean for each company?Getty Images will have an exclusive partnership with Flickr to source and license select, potentially marketable photos discovered on Flickr for Getty Images creative, commercial and editorial customers.For Flickr, this partnership gives members a potential entry into the world of stock photography, leveraging Getty Images strengths and expertise for their members benefit. The Flickr collection on Getty Images is a testimony to the photographers who have influenced the aesthetics of commercial photography with authentic, creative and personal images._____________More reading:Previous Strobist Series: Flickr and YouPress ReleaseFAQInterview (PDN)Discussion This is a full RSS feed post from Strobist.com, the off-camera flash blog. This month’s feeds are sponsored by:

One-Light Night Landscape
New in the Strobist Reader Gallery is Jonathan Boeke’s night shot of a stand of trees.It’s done with multiple pops, during a time exposure. And it is easier than you might think. Keep reading for a few tips on creating shot like this, next time you are alone in the woods at night…For this shot, Jonathan walked to a spot behind each tree and fired a Nikon SB-600 with a green gel back at the camera while the shutter was open during a time exposure. (You can click on the pic for the comment thread, and his explanation.)If you have a camera that supports multiple exposure, you can eliminate a lot of noise (and logistical problems) from the frame by shooting the frame as a sequence of higher-shutter speed multi-exposure shots. But you’d need a shutter cord and a third remote (or a helper and a tripod) to do that. You can see how to do the channel-hopping relay mode here.If you wanna go multi exposure, you can do it with no remotes at all. Just open that shutter and start running. I’ve pulled together a few ideas to help your photo, and save some work in post production.___________ Wear dark clothing. Nice to have a dark hoodie, too, just in case you do not have one of those face-hiding ninja masks lying around. Snoot the flash just a teensy bit. You still want a nice, wide beam, so just do a half-inch or so. Black gaffer’s tape works great. But that little ridge will help avoid blowback in the exposure, which can light you up if you have limbs visible to the camera. Mount a very dim light source close to the vertical axis of the lens at the camera. Maybe an LED flashlight, aimed up, mounted to the hot shoe. This will let you know when the tree is hiding you (and your flash) from the camera very precisely as you walk around in the background. Consider varying your distance from behind the trees as you pop each flash shot. You can throw light a long distance, and light up big chunks of your background that way. Be sure to crank up the power some (adjust with a few test shots) to account for the increased flash-to-blocking-tree distance. And multiple pops could be your friend here, too. If you aim the flash up a little (or a lot) you’ll light the leaves in the trees better. Especially in the background, where more height from the trees will be visible to catch the light. This will also avoid the hot spot being visible at your feet. Remember that the light behind the far trees acts as a nice rim for the nearer trees, so take that light-to-subject distance into account when planning how far back to get behind the rear light pops. (Remember L102 Position — evenness increases with distance.) Watch your ambient lights, to keep from tracking. Gaffer tape everything that would give off light while you are busy walking around in your frame. Your flash ready light and info panel backlight need to go dark. Ditto anything else that might be glowing or blinking, like a Pocket Wizard status LED.___________If you are gonna try this on your own, tag your shot “strobist” and “backlitforest” (the latter is all one word) so we can see all of them at once by clicking here. I am thinking of trying one myself, and it might be fun to revisit in a future post.This is a full RSS feed post from Strobist.com, the off-camera flash blog. This month’s feeds are sponsored by:

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