{"id":6623,"date":"2014-04-22T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:17:31","slug":"scoopshoot-crowdsourcing-photo-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/scoopshoot-crowdsourcing-photo-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap, Scoop, Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amateur photographers sell work through crowdsourcing app<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jeffrey Loa<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cClick!\u201d The shutter of Carlos Ngui\u2019s smartphone goes off as he takes a picture of himself standing in front of the bathroom mirror. He has just woken up and is brushing his teeth. But this selfie is not for the 19-year-old City University of Hong Kong student\u2019s friends on Facebook or to be uploaded to Instagram, it\u2019s destined instead for Scoopshot, a photo crowdsourcing mobile app founded in Helsinki, Finland.<\/p>\n

With Scoopshot, publishing photographs is no longer the privilege of professional photographers and journalists using expensive digital single-lens reflex cameras. In fact, anyone with a sharp eye and a smartphone can get published and even be paid for it.<\/p>\n

Scoopshot currently has a user base of more than 110,000 mobile photographers from 170 countries. Once registered, you can upload photos and videos you think the media or companies would want to publish.<\/p>\n

You can earn money by licensing your pictures or by selling them. In 2012, Arto M\u00e4kel\u00e4 from Finland earned more than $19,000 by responding to a task set by Fonecta, a Finnish directory services company. The task was to take pictures of shops and businesses. M\u00e4kel\u00e4 took thousands and earned enough for a trip to Miami and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Simpler tasks may include capturing moments from your daily life. Who knows? A few photos of your messy dorm room with dirty clothes and books lying around may earn you a couple of hundred dollars.<\/p>\n

Besides taking pictures yourself, you can set a photo assignment for others.\u00a0 Ngui\u2019s toothbrushing selfie was for taken for as assignment called \u201cShow Us Your Morning Face\u201d created by Scoopshot. Anyone can create a task. If your favourite band was performing in New York and you could not afford to go, you can create a task to ask people to take pictures of the show for you.<\/p>\n

You can also contribute to advocacy work of global non-government organisations.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Scoopshot collaborated with the charity Oxfam and the British rock band Coldplay to produce a music video composed of photos and video clips taken by Scoopshooters to highlight the plight of families forced from their homes because of big land deals.<\/p>\n

When it comes to breaking news and significant social events, Scoopshot may be the place to turn to. For instance, if you are in the middle of a protest in the streets of Mongkok, your photos may be exactly what media companies want. Perhaps a picture of a protestor throwing IKEA wolf toy Lufsig at the Chief Executive could become an iconic image. News organisations in Hong Kong, like Apple Daily <\/i>and Metro Daily<\/i>, crowdsource photos from this mobile app.<\/p>\n

Photoscooper Ngui says: \u201cIt\u2019s a clever way to provide us with an incentive to take photos… I can\u2019t wait to snap some breaking news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scoopshot is more than about taking selfies and accomplishing tasks. It illustrates the changes in how the media sources images. Photojournalism has become a collaborative work of media producers and media consumers.<\/p>\n

Scoopshot is available for iPhones, most Android devices and Windows Phone smartphones. As the saying goes, \u201ca picture is worth a thousand words\u201d, so join the Scoopshot journey now!<\/p>\n

Check out Scoopshot\u2019s website to learn more at www.scoopshot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edited by Jeffrey Wong and Esther Leung<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an age where media consumers are also media producers, Scoopshot is a mobile app that allows amateur photographers to share their smartphone photos with the world, and get paid for it. With this crowdsourcing platform, anyone can be a published photojournalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1979,11,18],"tags":[293,294,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-6623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-issue-132","8":"category-photo-story","9":"category-vchoice","11":"tag-mobile-app","12":"tag-photography"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}