Until recently, they were strictly a video site, and I've been selling video there for years.  Now that they're selling photos, I'm uploading like there's no tomorrow.  When you go to your "uploads" page, there's a "type" button just below the search field.  If the type is video, that explains why you can't see your photos.  Change it to photos, and voila!

Thanks a lot!  do you set your price at 10 dollars? it seems to be the most popular setting?

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on September 25, 2012, 01:02

A few months back I supplied a picture of a hardhat worker having a luch break inside an industrial plant. I thought the picture was great. This was to  the Getty RM.
It ws rejected with the words, too similar to another picture.

Fair enough I did not know. So why cant micros do the same? probably because if they think they can earn 20 cents out of a guy its worth it.
They dont care.

Because their business model doesn't allow them to pay the staff to check. Clearly not something Bruce factored in.
That's why rather than contact pinterest about pinned images, it's easier for e.g. istock to say pinterest is an affiliate, end of discussion. (I haven't seen any reports here about what the other micros say about pinterest and its clones.)

Allow them to pay the staff? . At the Getty original RM they have 22 staff including four qualified Art Directors, highly experienced picture editors and even art buyers and the list goes on, they even call in special editors for medical and scientific material.

They have the staff and the money to pay. They dont like copying, plagiarism and thats that.

A few months back I supplied a picture of a hardhat worker having a luch break inside an industrial plant. I thought the picture was great. This was to  the Getty RM.
It ws rejected with the words, too similar to another picture.

Fair enough I did not know. So why cant micros do the same? probably because if they think they can earn 20 cents out of a guy its worth it.
They dont care.

Hi,

This deepmeta. I dont get it together. I use Mac without the internet and for all PP. However I use PC for actual uploading. So, on which one should I install Deepmeta?

thanks a lot.

This whole business is getting ridiculous 

Agree! its getting to the point of stupidity and Alamy is the biggest concocsion of ingredients of them all. Its easy for an agency to give what they call "fair" percentages and deals when they hardly sell anything themselves.
Then I rather support an agency giving "unfair deals" with lots of sales.

I seem to remember a few years back before I became a member that some people here predicted this outcome. I dont know if they are still here but their predictions came through alright. No doubt at all.

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on September 22, 2012, 02:35

Where can I see these PP sales?  I havent even bothered so far but since we are at the subject. I presume its somewhere on the IS site?

Thanks.

Select Stats and go back a month.
The green is PP.

yes now I see, thanks.

Yes plenty. Then again who am I?  just a passing ship.

I'm curious since a lot of people are saying IS is losing sooo many buyers and about to become irrelevant have your sales elsewhere gone up a lot?  People still need images even if they don't buy from IS so I would expect to see huge gains on other sites if that was true.

I completely agree. We keep hearing buyers are leaving, exclusives are leaving and the place is falling apart. Yet no other site show any gigantic increase but rather the opposite.
Yes exclusives are leaving but at the same time I know of two photographers who just signed on for exclusivity.
Sometimes I feel we are led down the garden path with all these predictions.

I doubt very much this has got anything to do with recession or the global financial troubles. Its not as if we are selling cars or houses but just pictures that anybody can afford.
Now is the time when corporate designers, advertising agencies, companies in general start planning for profiles, annuals and all sorts of promos.
Right now business should be booming, its not so something is wrong in our gebit.

Quote from: velocicarpo on September 18, 2012, 14:59

Lisa, whats typical for the Micro world is all this technical quality thing of low Noise, even lightning etc. Macro comes from a world of film and has other values. The term Quality refers MUCH more to composition and originality in Macro than to Noise. At least this is my experience. Another thing is that many know "Macro" only from Alamy, and we all now that their approval standards are quite low.

"Editing" refers to "Selection of images". This is the hardest part of the Macro world.

1. Micro: produce a generic and possibly well known shot at best possible technical quality (noise, light, etc.) and then hope for sales. One shooting is prepared for 2 days and gives 60 uploads, 40 of them accepted.
2. Macro: Do original work. Know what you are doing. Be _really_ creative. Use 8 Shots of a entire shooting which was prepared for a entire week and get 2 accepted. 1 of them has Noise

Agree with this 100%

I recently did a shoot with over $1,000 in overhead including models, makeup, and wardrobe (not to mention overhead associated with studio rental, my equipment, my time, etc.).  I walked away with 84 images...all of which I would not hesitate sending to the top tier micros spread out over a few months (as many people here do).

Alamy - 100% acceptance
Traditional agency a => all images rejected for "too much noise" (these would have made the micros no problem - there is no noise)
Traditional agency b => all images rejected (agency does not give reasons)
Traditional agency c => 18 of 83 images accepted - images not accepted were rejected for "not being marketable"

You get the point.

I agree with this exept that Alamy tends to accept just about anything nowdays and for selling Rm, its not exactly your ideal agency. I dont work with Alamy but I know many who does and they hardly ever sell any Rm pictures.

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on September 18, 2012, 02:56

Absoloutely. I have only been involved in micro for a couple of years so I cant really give an opinion on that but after ten years of shooting Rm and Rf material I do know that its much, much more demanding then micro. The editing process is a lot harder and especially with agencies such as Getty and Corbis. Its also very time consuming and its very seldom one can see any earnings in the first year.

I don't sell RM, so I hadn't heard this.  I was under the impression that micro was much pickier about photo editing - noise, focus, contrast, etc.  Many RM pros were surprised to find they could not match the technical standards set by Istock, for example. 

Or are you talking about tighter editing of your collection - meaning only uploading one or two images from a shoot rather than the whole series? 

I am curious in what ways RM is much more demanding than micro.

Personally as an Rm photographer I would not join an agency like Alamy, too much into travel and landscapes and so on but thats me others might have differant experiences. Creative buyers consult the Rm industry for one purpose only and ready to pay extra money, rights and ofcourse something above the average or else they would ofcourse buy micro or even Rf.
A typical submission to say the Getty original collection is around fifty pictures and the reject percentage is around 80%, so its a very time consuming affair and takes years to build up. Editing for Rm is a lot harder then Rf.

As I said this is my own experience for what its worth. You do have a few Getty Rm photographers here, I recognize their names and style and maybe its worth asking for their opinions and then comparing them to mine.

Jeffs photography and travel is exactly what will sell at Alamy. Its tailormade for Alamy. I know of a medical photographer who left Alamy around 2008 because lack of sales. He then joined another Rm agency and for the last two years he is earning a small fortune.
I think with Rm its very important one actually picks the right agency, the agency that have the clients for specific photography.
My thoughts anyway.