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Agency Based Discussion => Alamy.com => Topic started by: FunkMaster5 on October 31, 2006, 11:25

Title: Noise reduction for alamy submission
Post by: FunkMaster5 on October 31, 2006, 11:25

I'm in the process of getting my CD of 10 images ready for alamy

my only experiance is with iStock, who jumped on ANY noise

if I'm shooting at 100 ISO on my Canon 30D and the image is basically got very little noise, should I use Noise Ninja on the images as it reduces sharpness?

Any other tips for getting the CD ready

thanks

Title: Re: Noise reduction for alamy submission
Post by: Bateleur on October 31, 2006, 11:34

The big thing that Alamy look for are dust and rubbish spots on your image. They seem to be quite tolerant of noise and grain. I've submitted scans of transparencies to them that have been rejected by both IS and SS, and they've accepted.

In fact I've never got a tranny scan past the SS inspectors, which is a pity because I've got thousands of useable trannies (scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 5000, so not rubbish scans). IS have accepted a few. I even got an inspector's 5/5 for one once   :)