Trevillion Images, a photographers view.
“Trevillion Images home of inspirational photography”
I first came across Trevillion Images in a magazine article where the high quality of the photography was mentioned.
I browsed Trevillion.com and was impressed by the photographs there, in fact the quality of the work seemed way beyond what I could produce. I am a commercial photographer used to producing images to a brief, timetable and budget which often can be different to making photographs for pleasure. I say for pleasure because the images on Trevillion are obviously commercial but they also go beyond that. The images are fine art photographs of the type that photographers make for the sheer joy of the creating beautiful images.
I resolved to start making photographs for fun again and hope that some would suit Trevillion. Some time later I had a CD of images to submit…. Trevillion were very gentle when they rejected my images and they left the door open for future submissions.
During a commercial shoot with a model I spotted an opportunity to use the location for “fun” images, the model was enthusiatic so we made a small series of images which I submitted to Trevillion.
Much to my amazement and pleasure some of the images were accepted and I duly sent the high resolution files. In a short time there were some of my images in the Trevillion web site. I felt surprisingly proud, that my work had moved up a notch.
An even bigger surprise was how quickly sales were made and my first cheque arrived. The images were licensed for use as book covers (Trevillion images main market). Over time I have added images to the Trevillion library and although I only have a few (25) images online amazingly I have had sales, which says a lot for the high quality of Trevillion images sales efforts.
Would I recommend Trevillion images to other photographers?
Absolutely, they are easy to deal with, they do make sales but best of all they have helped rekindle my love of photography.
Just thought I would say this is great
Nice work.
I’d have to agree. I have a few on Trevillion (under ‘David Baker’) and made one sale with my share that almost covered the cost of a week’s trip to the Outer Hebrides. As you say ‘much to my amazement and pleasure some of the images were accepted’.
Hi David
I’m not surprised that they like your images, I really like your Dark coast and Forest images. The Outer Hebrides has been on my “must visit” list for ages.
Mark
Hi Mark,
just wanted to thankyou for putting this interesting thread up, it inspired me to submit 36 images to Trevillion this month and although quick to reply unfortunately they turned me down…
” Many thanks for the submission and your interest in Trevillion. There are some very nice images here but not really the sort of thing we could market.”
I did think I covered a few styles mostly arty but perhaps it is better to stick to one style only? What sort of images did you get turned down at first?
Hi Lesley
Apologies for the slow reply, health issues (now resolved)
To be honest I am surprised you had trouble, your trees and leaves images seem suitable, as does the cross image in LRPS.
I would suggest concentrating on the non travel images.
Good luck
Mark