Супер добре описани термините от суперфотографа Yiuri Arcurs (не мога нещо да пускам линкове - http://www.arcurs.com/)

Agency slang:

G: Getty images

SV or just "snap": Snapvillage.

IS: Istock.com

AL: Alamy.com

SXP: Stockxpert.com

SS: Shutterstock.com

CS: Crestock.com

DT: Dreamstime.com

FT: Fotolia.com

BS: Bigstockphoto.com

YAY:  YayMicro.com

P5: www.pond5.com

 

Microstock 

Stock agencies selling images at a very low price. Normally around 1USD for a small resolution royalty free license.

 

Midstock 

A term that has been the subject of a lot of
controversy. Prices at midstock collections such as the Fotolia
Infinity collection, Snapvillage, Featurepics or the 123RF EVO
collection are normally 10 USD for a small web resolution and either 50
to 100USD for a ultra high res. Midstock operates with commissions of
normally 50% and together with the high prices compared to microstock,
these collections are effective ways for a small agency to compete
efficiently against bigger agencies that have lower prices and lower
commission such as istockphoto.com or shutterstock.com. Midstock
normally operates with price-exclusivity (see below).

 

Macrostock

Macrostock or "traditional stock" describes all
the agencies not selling their images at microstock prices, such as
Corbis, Getty, JupiterImages, Veer, Alamy, etc. Prices in macrostock
have dropped and you can now buy a low res web usage license at Getty
for only 49USD. However the prices in macro are much higher than micro
and midstock, normally between 50 - 750USD depending on size.

 

Cannibalization

This term in relation to stock photography covers
the idea, that if a photographer suddenly starts selling his images at
a much lower price point than before, he will be "cannibalizing" his
own ability to make real money from his own higher priced images. The
concept of cannibalizing is most often used as a criticism of
microstock and it is often said that microstock is cannibalizing the
whole macrostock industry by under pricing images too much.

 

Price point

At a given agency, the lowest price for one
royalty free license for one image is it’s starting "price point". When
discussing stock theory, people often say things like "this is too low
a price point" or "we should try selling at the lower price points"
Price points are often referred to as the lowest price at which you can
buy an image. The price point in microstock is therefor normally 1USD,
the price point in midstock is 10-20USD and the price point in
macrostock is 50USD, but often higher.

 

Picture Pooling

First used by: Yuri Arcurs

This phenomenon is normally used as a criticism against subscription agencies. It describes the fact that buyers that have
a subscription will download more pictures then they use and will
sometimes download pictures for future purposes. The result
is pools of pictures that the designer can use instead of buying new
pictures. Picture pooling is a real threat and it is confirmed by
multiple users that if you opt out of subscription selling at
Stockxpert for example you will actually earn more almost immediately,
despite not getting any income from subscription sales. This can
however be caused by more factors then just the result of picture
pooling.

 

Self-pricing

Inventor: Featurepics, Snapvillage among others.

Self-pricing agencies are very popular and
basically let the photographers decide at what price point they want to
sell their images at, low as well as high prices. Self-pricing is
normally between 1USD - 50 USD for the highest resolution file.

 

Non-exclusive

Non-exclusive agencies and collections allow for
the images in them to be sold elsewhere. Normally non-exclusive images
don’t have a price-exclusive agreement and you can basically sell the
same images at all price points.

 

Exclusive images

Exclusive images are found on one agency only and
cannot be sold elsewhere. The most successful exclusivity program is
the iStockphoto exclusivity program or the Getty Collections. This
program offers a wide range of extra benefits for the exclusive
photographer, such as higher commission, faster inspections, etc. The
iStock exclusivity program requires not only the images, but also the
photographers themselves to be completely exclusive in the sense that
the photographer is not allowed to sell Royalty Free stock for any
other agency accept Getty.

 

Photographer exclusivity

Photographer exclusivity occurs when a
photographer chooses to sign a contract forbidding him to produce stock
material for any other agency. Normally he receives special benefits
for doing so, but it is very criticized and very dangerous because the
income is limited to one agency only, so if that agency falls back in
sales, the photographer will experience a drop in income, but is bound
to stay with that agency. Some photographers report having gone from
making as much as 30000USD per month to 3000USD per month in less then
two months in exclussive collections.

 

Price exclusive

Price exclusive images are images that belong to a
collection that are not allowed to be sold at a lower price then the
price they have in this collection. The Fotolia Infinite collection is
a price exclusive collection, and will not allow that you sell the
images at other agencies at a lower price. Price exclusive images are
non-exclusive, but just price exclusive.

 

Duplication/plagiarism

Plagiarism is a very controversial subject. When a
photographer is looking for new images to produce it is very normal to
get "inspiration" from another photographers. Sometimes however,
photographers will go a little too far in this endeavour and duplicate
another photographer’s pictures a little too much, being that the
resemblance is simply too similar to the original. This causes great
debates and forum tantrums and can cause a great deal of heat among
photographers. Before you accuse someone of duplicating your images,
make sure you really are the first one to have come up with the concept
and that the other image really is similar to yours. For example, if
the accused duplicator has also duplicated your titles and keywords
too, this is a good indicator of intentional plagiarism. Stock
photographers in microstock will re-invent a lot of concept that have
already been thought of and been well executed in traditional stock.
These new "inventors" in microstock will then claim and believe they
are the original inventors of this concept and think that everyone is
duplicating them. The most controversial and talked about duplication
case is for sure the "jumping goldfish" from iStock and the most
duplicated photographers are Andres Rodriguez, Yuri Arcurs and Lise
Gagne from iStock.

 

Technical quality vs aesthetic quality

Technical quality describes a photographer’s
ability to control and produce digital images without well known and
defined technical mistakes such as fringing, artifacts, shaken focal
point, flare, moire, etc. The aesthetic quality refers to all the
aspect that makes a photograph interesting: the conceptual, emotional
and creative elements of the image. The lowest degree of technical
quality is often found on amateur forums such as diviantart.com or
flickr.com, while the highest technical quality is found on
iStockphoto. IStockphoto has far more strict technical quality
standards than any place in macrostock, despite the much higher prices.
The ability to produce high aesthetically pleasing images that also
have high technical quality is what defines the difference between the
amateur and the professional. Places like iStock, with extremely high
technical standards, are often criticized for being too straight and
rejecting too many images that have high aesthetically quality but not
"perfect" technical quality.

 

Forum slang / acronyms for photography related forums:

LCV - Limited Commercial Value
PM - Private Massage HDR - High Dynamic Range
SUB - Subscription lisences.
MR - Model Release.
RM - Right maneges licences.
RR - Rights-Ready
RF - Royalty Free licences.
OOF - Out Of Focus DOF - Depth of Field
OD: On Demand Sale DL - Subscription Sale EL - Extended Licence Sale
BME - Best month ever (sales) WME - Worst month ever (sales) BDE - Best day ever (sales)
WDE - Worst day ever (sales)
Inspectors/reviewers/bouncers/editors/curators/creative content team are all words for the same