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Ukko:
When I upload photos to agencies they are all attached with description and 50 keywords of course, but there are also some personal information, such as my email address, phone number and website. I guess I dream of making big sales with customers directly and some lucrative freelance gigs, lol. But the truth is nobody has ever approached me in these two years. Now, am I that lousy photographer, or don't the buyers get those information from the image data?

Not Today:
Metadata is usually wiped by agencies so buyers don't have access to our information.

Ukko:
Ah, ok, now I know. I thought they were doing something like that. Thanks!

dpimborough:
Waiting on customers to find you through agencies is a waste of time

You have to market yourself

You asked are you a lousy photographer? Lord knows as we can't see your images

Not Today:

--- Quote from: Ukko on February 01, 2019, 02:36 ---When I upload photos to agencies they are all attached with description and 50 keywords of course, but there are also some personal information, such as my email address, phone number and website. I guess I dream of making big sales with customers directly and some lucrative freelance gigs, lol. But the truth is nobody has ever approached me in these two years. Now, am I that lousy photographer, or don't the buyers get those information from the image data?

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If you're looking for gigs, you can always track down the photos you've sold with Google reverse image search, to find where they've been used. Then use that as leverage on social media saying X company used your photo for X article or Ads. Who knows, with the proper tags and hashtags, you might be approached there.  8)

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