new stock images

[leonardobarreto.com]

Just came back from a thousand kilometer trip to Potosi, south of Bolivia and I am beginning to edit and upload some images to Alamy.com.

I have yet to sell an image here --and now with all newspaper circulation winding down, even more difficult--, but it is a lot of fun to shoot for my collection. I used to upload 5 images at a time, but now I'd doing 20 or 30 with no QC problem, so I am gaining speed. My images are coming out in relatively up. The way Alamy works is that the more registered buyers zoom in your images the more you get bumped in front of searches and so the more you get bumped up...

I went on an official UN business trip with wife and kid, so the up side is that it was a no expenses trip, the down is that I had to shoot on restricted time... Bolivia has a lot to offer in terms of photography, but it is well represented in the stock collections...

This is an adobe church that seams to be holding barely.

This guys are seriously funny, they have neckties, skirts yellow flowers and monster faces with pipes.

Waiting for something in line and chewing coca leaf,,

 

[Asher Kelman]

Leonardo,

Good to see your new work. The first image is great in that it is iconic, simple and could have many uses. I do have a question.

What about consent? Do you get consent for such folk who's face might be recognized?

 

[leonardobarreto.com]

Good to see you too Asher. That is a good question, but in a nut shell: You can take their photos w/out consent, but you have to state that clearly in which case the user has to take that fact in to account. They can use the image for editorial proposes in a newspaper or magazine when they talk about Bolivia.

This is a portrait of someone that I have a signed release form. This image can be used for commercial purposes.

I try to get as much consent as possible, but I also document people in the street...

 

[Asher Kelman]

Good to see you too Asher. That is a good question, but in a nut shell: You can take their photos w/out consent, but you have to state that clearly in which case the user has to take that fact in to account. They can use the image for editorial proposes in a newspaper or magazine when they talk about Bolivia.

This is a portrait of someone that I have a signed release form. This image can be used for commercial purposes.

I try to get as much consent as possible, but I also document people in the street...

Leonardo,

This portrait is very special. The lighting is just right to shade his hat and show the details of the complex lines on his face. Dignity and age and a private life. What time of day was this?

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

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Now THIS is a great portrait!

 

[leonardobarreto.com]

Thank you thank you, Don Guillermo Gamboa. He passed away last December unfortunately. He was our landscaper and came dress like that, he would change before going home. Very elegant guy, he said he was a "morenada danzer". There is a lot of dancing here but more on carnival.

So, one day I asked to pose for me in my studio. --I used a 2 meters high light back that I made--...

He used to say that "quiero que Diosito ya me recoja" or that he wanted that little God "Diosito" would pick me up already...