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Author Topic: Would you have submitted this as RM or RF?  (Read 3726 times)

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« on: February 22, 2010, 07:42 »
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What do you think; does this subject belong in RF, or RM? Will it ever sell many enough times to justify selling it as microstock, or is it special enough to find a customer in RM?

A picture of a little girl with hearing aid, eating an apple. The first in a series of many, and I'll try to get more of the hearing aid in later shots. That's the problem and positive thing with the modern hearing aids, they are almost invicible. But you see the type of picture: happy little child in everyday situations, with hearing aid.


« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 09:24 »
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yeah, it is tough trying to capture something that is very small within a context.  I don't think this image really says 'hearing aid'  If it was put in a magazine or online you probably wouldn't notice the hearing aid unless you knew to look for it.  Perhaps a shot with a wide angle lens, with 1/3 of the frame filled with the hearing aid (along with the ear / head) and the other 2/3's of the image with someone talking to the person with the hearing aid.  You would only see the side / back of the head of the subject but it may convey the idea of a hearing aid better.

I think if you could get some good shots they could sell well as RF

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 07:11 »
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we should't see this as a single picture but as a set of 5-10 picture with the same kid in different compositions.

in my opinion, this shoot is very average, nothing special nor anything you can't even shoot yourself
at home.

therefore it belongs to the micros and even there i'm not sure it will make you rich.

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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 07:15 »
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to sell well on RM you need either tons of images or a very very good edited collection.

on Alamy now we have 18 million pics but 90% of them are junk.
no wonder we don't see any sales decrease despite this increase in the alamy collection.

most of the uploads are crap.
maybe with excellent quality, but still crap.

that's what happens with unedited collections.
great choice, as long as you've the time to sort the junk out.

your picture would end up in this ocean of "kid portrait" images :

http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?CreativeOn=1&adv=1&dtfr=&dtTo=&qt=kid+portrait&creative=&lic=6&lic=1&hc=&selectdate=1&txtdtfr=&txtdtto=&size=0xFF&ot=1&ot=2&ot=4&ot=8&imgt=1&imgt=2&archive=1&chckarchive=1

i don't think you'll ever make a sale with that unless you create something special.


 

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