I would think yes, assuming that it was the eBay seller who bought the EL. The seller appears to be particularly transparent in their business dealings by crediting your name to the image.

sad but true about EL. which is why we need agencies like Canva

hi Leo,
i have never spoken 2 u before, but i have followed ur progress here on Tyler's forum .
it's a shame ur dream got hijacked by the internal problems. it is as they say,
no matter what, someone will come in to screw it up; even if it benefits other contributors,etc..

anyway, end of the story being, i know u will be rewarded for all u ventured.

as Hobo points out , we r in the "age of entitlement" where freebies is not considered a privilege but an expectation. musicians paid pennies? well, we won't go into that , safe that, as a teenager
we were paid 300 bucks for a gig at pub-night 2 nights a week = 100 bucks per person as a power-trio.
last time i spoke to today's musicians , they told me they get paid for a case of beer.
one bottle per person for a 6 piece band. 2 for my power-trio if we were young today.

same for the writers of freeware or shareware. lots of criticisms , all for giving away their
work. why?
and we thought ms was bad 

no time for crying over spilt milk, as Goofy says.
it's the reality today. so, go where there is no saturation, and live well and prosper .

Spock 

Quote from: marthamarks on August 08, 2014, 09:29

Actually, it's a common situation with "wildlife in nature" images, especially when you're shooting with a long lens at 4 or 4.5. You can see several other examples on that same page and many more throughout my SS portfolio. In the past, they haven't rejected many for that reason.

I've read others saying their shallow-dof real wildlife pics were rejected at SS for that reason. I always assumed they were inspected by clueless-about-wildlife studio togs.

  i think u r being too kind;
i don't think their curating-cluelessness (a class of its own) only applies to wildlife pics   

i recall someone here who said they got rejections on images lit by  setting sun 3400K being rejected for wrong WB .     
Q :
how do u expect 5600K from 3400K? 
A: have eyes like a certain breed of SS reviewer(s).

glad u had it fixed.
mirrorless is a different camera altogether, so one has to learn the camera as it is not a DSLR.
much in the same way u never did handle a NiknF like a Leica M

other thing is many DSLR say it is not sharp with a mirrorless, when in fact, it is that their DSLR
does sharpening in default. much like in the days of Kodachrome 25 and 64, many Ektachrome users say it is sharper with Ekta when in fact it was the grain. the former was in fact sharpest.

My Alamy earnings would probably be better if I didn't have some of the same RF photos on Alamy and the micros -
- I've been uploading more as either RM or as RF without adding the same work to the micros.

-  payout threshold from $250 to $75
- minimum size photo from 48MB to 24MB
- Most of my travel and editorial stuff is illustrative editorial so I think they'll have a good shelf-life on Alamy. I'm averaging less than 2 but more than 1 sale per month with 600+ images.

Honestly, a lot of my travel stuff would sell equally well on both Alamy and The RM sales were both for more $ than the RF sale.

I also licensed that RM photo to a calendar company last year. Those 3 sales have netted me almost half as much as my best-seller ($-wise) on SS which has been licensed 261 times, including 10 ELs. Both images are comparable in many ways, of popular travel locations in New England, so I think the comparison is illustrative. Hard to say if I'd have earned twice as much on SS if I'd uploaded that same image there as RF instead, but it would require hundreds of sales, not just 3.

many changes happened since i was last there, for sure.
highlit edited your points taken to heart.
i too was with Alamy from their maiden voyage, but have long neglected it for micro
but these days micro has over-saturated itself , and i consider going back to RM ,
and ur port is pretty much in line with my new project of non-micro collections (travels, calendar ,
editorials).

it's good too the reduction to 24MB as min req. but i still think there can be a need
for the old  48MB. maybe Alamy might give an option to the higher-paying RM
to have this available upon request . i m sure the clients would prefer a 48mb
than 24mb as they will give better hard copy, cleaner, etc

for my own gallery quality hard copies i still prefer as high original px as they do print cleaner
posters,etc
maybe, as  here mentioned, i should be looking to Alamy once again.
the RM editorials are what originally attracted me to Alamy.

thx

I have a small port of around 80 images on there, they except more high end stuff that is not always 100% technically correct due to high ISO and so on but gives a broader field. Interestingly I pulled a load of night work off there as I have just launched a calendar and did not want anyone using my images for a similar product.  Within a day I had an agency contact me indicating they had approved one of my images with a client would it still be available.  I made the transaction personally and licensed them the image.  I just find it a little odd that I have no sales reported, but as soon as I remove images, I am contacted with clients willing to purchase.  Is there anyway we are going to be able to receive stats?  Click through's?  Anyone considered a poll?  Also any chance of FTP, I have around 7K images, I think 1K of them would easily suit 500px style but upload is painful.

truly interesting.  another site 2 eye-ball.
just looking  at their site moment ago,  and  seems 2 me most ppl there r more interested
in liking your work in exchange for asking u 2 like them in return.
 sort of flickr, or facebook poking .  social-media, ugh !


there r impressive stuff there , as like flickr,
but there r also just as many um, not so good. still, impressive stuff yes.

are they curated??? i read their forum and there is only mention of putting your port in your store
when and if u want to sell through them. but there is no mention of any "approval", nor how long it takes . sort of lots of grey areas.

could explain why some who have been there a long time have still to report a sale.
they were not selected and were not told so  .

or they just did not put their images into their store

i like their style, but  think they should partition off the social-media
and leave 500Prime for the commercial side of things.
 

-1) What is important to remember is that Alamy is NOT microstock.  It takes a different mind set to be successful there.  Normal everyday MS images do sell occasionally but their core is textbook, reportage, newspapers and so on.  No one is going to buy an isolated tomato on Alamy when they can get it on MS for nothing.

-2) Different styles, different sites.  For example I have applied to Stocksy twice and been rejected twice.

so, is the money u make at Alamy good? or as good as u hoped to get from Stocksy?
do u consider Alamy in the same category as Stocksy?

SS is growing too fast in my opinion.

it's unsustainable, they're certainly preparing a big fat sellout.

definitely. writings on the wall being
- cap on top earners
- capping of other earners
- high approval on newbie portfolio
- absence of transparency , ignoring or moving attention away from negative forum postings
- old management conspicuously absent (left SS or parachuted to Offset)
- focus on Offset
- new idea (music,etc)

it is similar to someone who wants to sell-out by ensuring a full-tenantship thus giving
the potential buyer new owner the impression that earnings are high while payouts are lower
than previous years. pay lower commissions to newbies than established earners.

Quote from: gbalex on August 09, 2014, 01:44

Quote from: LesPalenik on August 08, 2014, 22:55

Quote from: Shelma1 on August 08, 2014, 19:59

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2399635-shutterstocks-sstk-ceo-jonathan-oringer-on-q2-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?dr=1

I wonder how many of those "fresh" images are 10 year-old pictures from ex-IS exclusives.

Exactly

- messages loud and clear and our pocket books are telling the full story.

-  Jon Oringer interviewed on CNBC Mad Money ...talked a lot about selling music
-  prominent link to OFFSET. So SS is using their main page to transfer customers to a site where my competitors sell images and where I am not allowed to submit.
 - as Lauren pointed out, increases our commission percentage by zero.
- sell his signatures on ebay. That is probably the only way I will ever see an increase in my income from SS.

+1 to all.

it's not just the old images ported from IS exclusives, it 's also the reviewers ported from IStock.

and soon, with his music we will see a repeat of history Sales of Istock/ Sales of Shutterstock...
to Getty

 
probably make more money being a Turf Accountant taking bets on who is going to buy SS 

removed. sent PM.

i shoot , then i eat.
 i think that's a positive 

after reading ur post here, i went in to check my  sales fro august and july .
i actually got 1.07, 1.07 and 2.48 sales for  august earlier this week...
christmas deco, cake, design.
never thought they start so soon. in 2013, it started for me in oct. 2013