Author Topic: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000. (Read 7816 times)

devon · « **on:** August 04, 2010, 21:30 »

Alamy just sold an image for £30,000. WOW!!

http://twitter.com/AlamyContribs

Pixart · « **Reply #1 on:** August 04, 2010, 22:28 »

As my kid would say ZOO-WEE-MAMA!!!

sobm · « **Reply #2 on:** August 04, 2010, 22:52 »

which photo?

madelaide · « **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2010, 22:57 »

I can only dream!

sharpshot · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2010, 02:10 »

60% commission on that would be nice. I have seen them sell for this price or more a few times but I think most of the images have to be special to get that much. They probably wont pay that for one of my snapshots

Magnum · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2010, 06:11 »

I´ll go check my Alamy account then...

cathyslife · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:07 »

I'm guessing there was a little behind-the-scenes finagleing going on to get a price like that.

Blufish · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:08 »

That must be some photo

gostwyck · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:35 »

Quote from: Blufish on August 05, 2010, 07:08

That must be some photo

Not necessarily __ it just happened to be the image that most closely fitted the buyer's needs. The price is determined by how the image is to be used, not for it's artistic merit.

A very ordinary image of a straight road through scrubland sold for a similar amount when it was used as the backdrop for a movie poster. You couldn't actually see much of the original image because the movie stars were superimposed over most of it.

sharpshot · « **Reply #9 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:38 »

I think they also sold one of an elephant surfing, I don't see that every day

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Author Topic: Alamy just sold an image for £30,000. (Read 7816 times)

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