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Demotix- Good or Bad.
magiclantern:
Joined up and had a look around the forums,there seems to be a lot of complaints on there and worryingly very little response from Demotix. Covering a demonstration in the next few weeks so will try Demotix and Alamy. ;D
magiclantern:
Just saw on the forum that someone got paid a nickel ($0.05) for a sale. Think i will stick with uploading elsewhere. :o
Hobostocker:
you won't make a single sale ever unless you upload images of national/international interest.
what's selling in News has nothing to with the stuff you see on micros and the shelf life of a news image is very very short.
SLStudios:
Just as an FYI, I used to shoot news and uploaded a ton of stuff from the area I was working in. They NEVER sold a single thing for me. I even shot some NASCAR and NHRA stuff for them. Never sold. I think that you really have to be "in the thick of it" to get sales. Something like images from Ferguson last week or a similar event that is garnering national/international attention might be a great seller but that is about it.
If I worked in NY or Chicago, maybe then I could find something that sells. It is hard to get anything out of them if you are shooting local news or events.
magiclantern:
--- Quote from: Hobostocker on August 27, 2014, 13:24 ---you won't make a single sale ever unless you upload images of national/international interest.
what's selling in News has nothing to with the stuff you see on micros and the shelf life of a news image is very very short.
--- End quote ---
I have had news images on other agencies (not micros) sell many months after the event to illustrate a newspaper or magazine article so the shelf life can be longer than many think. A few people i know have covered the same events as me and have had sales from placing some of the images with micro agencies,they sold as editorial well after the event but still sold.
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