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Welcome to the Gallo Images Contributors Page. This page is intended to give photographers some information on Gallo Images and how to become a Contributor. Gallo Images creates and distributes dynamic digital images, footage and music especially for design professionals in the business of advertising, media and marketing in Africa and Brazil.
Gallo Images is the Master Delegate and representative in Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, for Getty Images - the world’s leading image bank. Gallo Images licenses stills imagery and footage as well as creates and produces content for a number of Getty Images Collections.
Gallo Images offers you a number of revenue opportunities through which to market and license your images on a worldwide platform.
Creatively, as Editorial Content or Sport Photography as well as Creative Footage.
CREATIVE CONTRIBUTORS
At the moment our focus is to submit fresh, relevant and conceptual new imagery to our wholly-owned Rights Managed brand called Gallo Images Textbook Collection (which incorporates our Creative RM collection – formerly “cape to cairo”) and our wholly-owned Royalty-Free brand called ROOTS, both of which are image partner collections on www.gettyimages.com.
If you are interested in becoming a contributor to our ever growing creative collections, you will need to comply with the below specs as well as have your portfolio reviewed by the Gallo Images Content Team. We have to abide by certain specifications to ensure our customers and distributors receive content which is of the highest quality and versatility.
Please note that Gallo Images requires all content to have world exclusive rights and no similar can exist in the market.
Submissions:
Please note that if you do not shoot with any of the following digital cameras, you cannot apply to become a contributor.
Only professional digital cameras with high quality interchangeable lenses are accepted.
Gallo Images will only accept digital content shot on the following DSLR cameras:
- EOS Canon 550D (Rebel T2i)
- EOS Canon 30D, 40D, 50D, 70D
- EOS Canon 5D, 5D mkII
- EOS Canon 7D
- EOS Canon 1D, 1D mkI, 1D mkII, 1D mk2n, 1D mkIII, 1D Mark 4
- EOS Canon 1DS, 1DS mkII, 1DS mkIII
- Nikon D90, D200, D300, D300s, D700
- Nikon D2x, D2xs, D3X
- Nikon D3, D3s
- Leica M8.2, M8, M9
- Olympus E3
- Pentax K7, K20D
- Sony A900
- Most medium format digital backs
Digital Submissions:
Digital File Requirements: – Jpeg files converted from RAW files.
- The required format is uncompressed 8 bit, RGB, 300 DPI, Jpeg files with .jpg extension at the end of the file name
- Converted Jpeg files should be between 48–52MB in size when opened in Photoshop (flattened, with no layers or channels). Remember the largest file size your image can be sold at is 300MB, so image integrity is critical when interpolating digital source material.
- Details of the camera used for each image should be supplied.
Gallo Images Reserves the right to:
- decline any application that does not meet the strict Gallo Images and/or Getty Images specification
Please Note: We do not return DVDs or CDs.
So where to from here?
If all your technical specs meet our guidelines above, you will need to please send us a portfolio of a minimum of 20 images and a maximum of 50 images that best portray a full range of your work.
NB: Please could you zip the images into a file no bigger than 5MB or make sure the jpgs you submit amount to no more than 5MB. Please also complete the Artist Information Form to help us identify your niche. The Gallo Images Content Team unfortunately cannot review your application without receiving all this information.
Artist Information Form (word doc)
Minimum of 20 Low Res Jpgs (Maximum size sent via email 5MB)
Please send you applications to: creative@galloimages.co.za
Once you have sent the AIF and portfolio to this email address, the Content Team
will review your application.
These reviews will take place on a monthly basis.
Our next contributors panel meetings will take place ln the following days:
- 31st May 2013
- 28th June 2013
- 26th July 2013
Successful applicants will be notified within one (1) week of their acceptance as a Gallo Images Contributor. If you haven’t heard from Gallo Images within this time frame, please consider your application unsuccessful.
If you are accepted by Gallo images, you will be given a username and password to enter the contributors page which will give you some more detailed information on
Please note, this will only be valid for two weeks, and once it has expired you will need to reapply as you will not be able to access this page after this time.
Thank you for your interest and we look forward to reviewing your work.
CREATIVE FOOTAGE
Gallo Images is looking for exceptional videographers who can contribute creative stock footage. We are mainly looking for African content that has a strong conceptual and emotional appeal on an exclusive basis only.
An idea of the content we are in need of is regionally relevant panning city views (from Johannesburg to Lagos), industry, agriculture, lifestyle (model released for shots of people), sports and culture.
Technical Requirements:
There is no approved camera list, however, we only accept content from cameras that shoot specific formats, provided they do it properly.
Our most common capture formats are:
XDCAM HD (a Sony camera format),
HDCAM (also a Sony camera format),
DVCPRO HD (a Panasonic format),
R3D (from the RED ONE and RED EPIC cameras)
H.264 if it is shot carefully as it is quite a compressed format (from DSLR cameras).
We do not like HDV format, as the colour space is very compressed and give us problems during post production.
If you are interested in applying to become a Creative Footage Contributor, please send us a portfolio of 10-15 low res (MPEG4) clips along with your Artist Information
Form.
You are required to be proficient in a video editing program that can export uncompressed footage. Ie: final cut pro, premium pro or avid.
You can send your low res clips on CD or link us to your work on your website of youtube.
Email questions and applications to: tumim@galloimages.co.za
Gallo Images Reserves the right to decline any application that does not meet the strict Gallo Images and/or Getty Images specification.
The Editorial department is not currently actively looking for new contributors, however, for photographers who have EXCEPTIONAL content, here are a few requirements:
- A “test” submission of 10-15 images can be sent by potential contributors. These images can be low res, but high res images will have to be between 5-10mb in size.
- Images must be fully captioned.
- Events must be recent (maximum from 1 month ago)
- Events must be newsworthy on a national or international level
- Be of a subject matter that will be of interest to a news media outlet.
The Sport department is not currently actively looking for new contributors, however, for photographers who have EXCEPTIONAL content, here are a few requirements:
D3 / D3s / or new D4 (Nikon)
Lens: 400mm 2.8 as well as the usual short lenses.
EOS 1D Mark VI D Canon
A decent website / portfolio is a must.
sportsdesk@galloimagescpt.co.za
