Photographing Citrus Fruits

The photography world has changed completely over the past 2 decades and it is changing the world of marketing along with it- This article will use the citrus industry as a perfect example of how the citrus industry can utilize this in cutting costs and improving sales.

The evolution of the digital world with cell phones now being able to capture images at decent quality and the everyday pocket camera be able to capture 10 megapixels as well as the typical SLR. The copyrighting of digital photography has become extremely difficult and it has become harder and harder as a photographer to make large amounts of money on photo shoots with the rise of cheap stock photography sites, and even free photography sites.

A great example is the photography of foods. Before, photographers would be paid like studio photographers to come and photograph foods. Today, this is not generally necessary. Take the citrus industry for a great example. In today’s globalized society orchards and local farmers have small marketing budgets as they need to cut costs everywhere they can in order to stay competitive in the global market. Now, they can go online and research stock photography and find photos a very low cost for their marketing teams to utilize in promotional materials. There are thousands of citrus fruit photos that amateur and professional photographers alike sell through micro and macro stock photography websites. All one must do is search citrus fruit stock photography to find an almost overwhelming amount of photos to choose from on the internet. Most stock photography is for a small fee per use but it is possible to find free stock photos on the internet as well.

So, sticking with our citrus industry example, take a lemon and lime marketing campaign for the holiday season. One only needs to search for lemon and lime photographs, find exactly what they are looking for in regards to the artist quality and negative space, request rights to use that photo and pay the small fee to the photographer. Then the citrus company can use that particular photo for billboards, internet marketing, print advertisements, pamphlets or business cards as they would like for the amount of prints they have purchased from the photographer. They are able to print whatever written promotional material for their company as well as the citrus product they would like to market- in this case lemons and limes.

The cost for the citrus company of working with stock photography is exponentially cheaper then hiring a photographer to come and take professional photographs of their orchard and products and then launching a marketing campaign for lemons and limes. It may also help the career of an amateur photographer as well- a mutually beneficial deal!

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