alamy for beginners

ann

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« Reply #100 on: October 18, 2010, 12:54 »

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Only images strong enough to show to a direct client should be sent to a stock agency.

If you take X number of photos during a photo shoot for client, and 20% of X are solid, it's better that the client just sees them, rather than having those images drown in an ocean of mixed-bag shots. Same goes for stock.

"Submit quality, salable images that stand out" is more useful advice than "submit, submit, submit" and "keep your weak images on port forever" while citing that agencies have millions of images.

No one has unlimited time, so each hour you spend working on fair shots is an hour you've missed building a port that's going to stand out from the masses.

and I totally agreed with:

click_click: "Only upload your best work so the buyers will be happy."


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RacePhoto

« Reply #101 on: October 18, 2010, 19:47 »

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Quote from: click_click on October 18, 2010, 08:52

Quote from: mtkang on October 18, 2010, 08:27

hi all, i know in alamy the QC is one failed and the rest of batches in queue will be rejected too.

But the failed one can be in any batches or just the first batch?

will it has the situation that the first batch image is perfect, and some of the images in subsequent batches are not okay but all passed because off the first batch is observed as okay?

thank you.

You got it right!

Alamy will check randomly to see if an image looks good. If it passes (or the images they chose to look at) all other images will pass also.

It's possible that they look at a "good" image and will automatically accept "bad" images in the batch - if you are lucky. But I don't think you're doing yourself a favor.
Only upload your best work so the buyers will be happy.

Also I suspect that Alamy tags people according to accepted photos vs rejections. So if you have problems, they will look closer than someone who has 2000 images accepted and one rejection two years ago for uploading some really bad photoshop work. (points finger towards himself) I've had batches of over 200 just fly through. When I have something I wonder if it's really good enough I actually send in a single photo so I know it's asking to be looked at.

Sneaking a poor quality image through may be a nifty trick, but it would just make me look bad and make Alamy look bad, when some buyer finds it. There's no winning a game of getting junk past reviewers. Agencies do allow returns for unacceptable photos, which would be more embarassing than just not having it up there in the first place.

What he said: Only upload your best work so the buyers will be happy.


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click_click

« Reply #102 on: October 18, 2010, 20:32 »

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Quote from: RacePhoto on October 18, 2010, 19:47

That is correct. Alamy was very frank with everyone in the past about that. If a contributor had a "high" rejection rate the reviewers would look closely at more images. If one had 100% approval rate the batches just sail through. I cannot vouch though if that policy is still in place like that.

Although it might not be "smart" to upload single image batches I'm still doing it because I have very bad experiences with their upload system (even the new beta one) if I upload more than 2 images. Processing could take almost a week sometimes longer. If I upload single image batches one after another the images pass the next day.


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ann

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« Reply #103 on: October 18, 2010, 20:57 »

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off-topic, but re RacePhoto's
"What he [click-click] said: Only upload your best work so the buyers will be happy."

click_click is a guy?
am I confusing click_click with clapper? (hmm, say that 3x fast)


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RacePhoto

« Reply #104 on: October 19, 2010, 00:47 »

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Quote from: ann on October 18, 2010, 20:57

I wouldn't know, could be that Click_Click is a she, but whatever it's not the same person as CClapper. Cheesy


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mtkang

« Reply #105 on: October 19, 2010, 01:06 »

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oic, so the reviewer is not doing a 100% technical quality check on files. the reason i asked is sometimes i want to know a certain image meets their criteria or not, so i guess best way is to upload that image alone.

sometimes just want to know it before start to edit a batch of images that may not meet their criteria.

Quote from: click_click on October 18, 2010, 08:52

Quote from: mtkang on October 18, 2010, 08:27