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Alamy.com / Re: At last my first sale
« on: December 21, 2008, 19:45 »
Something to keep in mind about Alamy is that buyers can get their money refunded.  If you spent 8,000 on an image (which someone just did for an image of a castle in England) and then found that same image for a few bucks on a micro, how quick would you be refunding your 8k?  Pretty easy why you wouldn't want to offer those images at RF and RM.

As far as Alamy, I've had 7 sales for a nice total of about $1200 in under a year with a relatively small portfolio (500 images)..and an average of one sale for every 10 zooms.  Not a bad way to go.  Beats . out of anything I ever got out of the microstocks, and should be even more lucrative once I actually get off my butt and upload the rest of my collection.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy rejected file,should I reupload?
« on: August 28, 2008, 18:35 »
Alamy has done a bang up job of compiling all the most common questions into what I'd call a super FAQ.  Their Contributer's section is just loaded with this sort of thing.  Read up, it'll help you a lot.

Without you providing the image so we can tell you what's wrong with it, you aren't going to get a good answer.  If it was a total garbage shot that slipped in, then no, of course not.  Dump it and move on.

On the other hand, if it's a bit of sensor dust you forgot to clone out, then fix it and re-upload the thing, but not before checking that you caught that same problem in the other images in that series..

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Alamy.com / Re: Sales at Alamy. Any updates?
« on: August 26, 2008, 22:23 »
Hmm... I've got a notion of why you're seeing a drop.

Alamy went from like 6 million to over 13 in a relatively short time period.  You're competing with a TON more images than you were before, and based on what people have reported in terms of sales, I'd imagine a huge number of people 'just getting into' alamy did their very best to imitate (and out-do) many previous submissions.

I'm also gonna go ahead and guess that a huge majority of images produced a year or more ago aren't going to have much use for a while.  What was 'cool' or applicable last year certainly doesn't look current today. 

I think I've found a bit more of a niche for what's selling, at least for me.  I'm going to try to put a great deal more of that type of image up, and see where it takes me.


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Alamy.com / Re: Sales at Alamy. Any updates?
« on: August 25, 2008, 15:07 »
I got accepted back in February 2007, didn't really start uploading until June/July.
First sale in December 07 for $144
Then one in March 08 for $100
And then in May 08 for $115
And one in August 08 for $332

Four sales, total of $691, of which I get $449.15

I had far more images keyworded with Shutterstock back in the day, and didn't see anything like this for the average return per image. 

Just recently keyworded about 400 images to the piddly 100 or so that earned me the first four sales, and have about another 800 accepted that I have to tag and put up for sale.  Hopefully that'll bring a big boost in sales.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy's new system - Take care!
« on: December 09, 2007, 22:51 »
I don't mind too much.  I'd be a bit miffed if I'd had a larger portfolio to go back and adjust.  I can't even imagine trying to go back and re-keyword a collection of reasonable size.

I'm hoping most people are going to figure "screw it" and that it will help my images climb the ranks a bit.

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Alamy.com / Re: Zero Tolerence at Alamy
« on: December 09, 2007, 22:48 »
Micro's give this drip feed of downloads.  It's an oddity to go a day without at least a few downloads with a strong portfolio.  Alamy, not the case.  You get far far far fewer downloads per month.  The trade off is that one sale at Alamy is usually the equivalent of hundreds at a micro. 

I would venture a guess that if all of the top micro contributers were all with macro sites such as Alamy and the like, it would certainly be the greater income source.  It certainly has been for me, and I barely have anything up there yet.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy's new system - Take care!
« on: December 08, 2007, 06:25 »
Ironically, my first sale just came from an image that I put updated for their new system...
Looks like I'm gonna have to dedicate some more time to bringing everything up to date.

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Alamy.com / Re: Zero Tolerence at Alamy
« on: December 08, 2007, 06:23 »
8 months for 50 images for your first sale isn't really all that bad.  If you put it into the numbers perspective, 50 barely registers as the overall percent of their 10+ million images. 

Keep on submitting.  I just had my first sale.  Only started seriously submitting a few months ago, but that got delayed, again, and now I'm back up.  My first sale was $144.  I don't care how you swing it, that's better than micro =)

I must admit, I don't know how I feel about zero tolerance yet.  Nothing to really discourage someone from uploading 6000 images, having one fail, and simply reuploading the 5999 plus any new shots.. and repeating over and over until they finally pass. 

Hopefully Alamy eventually gets enough talented reviewers to go the way Shutterstock managed with individual image review within days of uploading.

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Alamy.com / Re: How to Upload Model Releases to ALAMY?
« on: September 19, 2007, 17:27 »
It's not that Alamy trusts or distrusts photographers at all.  If you tick the box to indicate that the image has a model/property release and it turns out that you didn't.. it's your butt that's on the line, not Alamy's.

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That seems pretty shady.  I hope you can get your money for it. 

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Cameras / Lenses / Re: cheap camera gear
« on: February 25, 2007, 10:11 »
I've used newegg for all sorts of electronics gear.  It's a thrill that they're getting into camera equipment now.  Not everything there is the cheapest.. but I'd say about half of the electronics stuff I've ever ordered has come from there as they've had the best deals.  The 3-day shipping certainly doesn't hurt how I feel about them either.

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Cameras / Lenses / Re: Is that all that Canon has got?
« on: February 25, 2007, 10:06 »
Considering the marketing wars and the product competition, I think Canon was smart to only release a limited number of new products.  Don't see anything from Nikon or the like that can compete with the new body.. so for the time being they're going to dominate until the competitors can release something formidable, and when that time rolls around you can bet that Canon's going to have other new releases. 

Right now I'd say they're on top. 

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Alamy.com / Re: accepted by Alamy
« on: February 21, 2007, 12:31 »
I also just got my first batch accepted.  Had 8 of the 10 go through.  Apparently my CD had two images fail to read.. but they passed me based on the others.  Woo hoo!

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/5AB8D295-C569-4329-A68F-63252B2F045E/Chris+Rabior.html

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Crappy translation from AltaVista's BabelFish:

", we you welcome congratulations as new Sodagrapher! We sighted and are convinced your Portfolio of the fact that your pictures fit our Sodapix style. In order to begin with the Upload of your pictures, we ask you, your registration with one let us click on "account activate" to lock: Case the left activates, contacts account not functioned you your Sodapix team. Likewise we ask you to send us back the photographer contract in double execution signed by post office. Only then we can offer your pictures with full rights on the sales platform. Photographer contract download We look forward to co-operation! Friendly greetings, your Sodapix team "

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Alamy.com / Re: UK submitters to Alamy a question?
« on: February 07, 2007, 19:49 »
Day 1 post media
Day 3 media received e-mail
day 6 processing - number of images mentioned
day 14 awaiting QC (approximately)
day 30 passed QC

Here's my experience ( so far! )
Day 1 - Shipped via USPS
Day 8 - Media Received email
Day 21 - Processing

Looks like my QC is taking a bit longer =\

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock down?
« on: January 21, 2007, 23:02 »
Man that was quick.l

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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock down?
« on: January 21, 2007, 22:36 »
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I can't get to the submit.shutterstock.com page OR the shutterstock.com main page.  Strange.

All other websites are working fine.  Anyone else having issues?

My little SS download ticker has been stuck at "loading..." for some time as well.  Hmmmmm.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Initial Submission, SECOND REJECTION
« on: January 12, 2007, 18:21 »
Seriously, your best bet is to post the images you want to submit in the forum for the micro you're trying to get into. 

Keep in mind, SS will reject over-processed images.  If you're shooting correctly, there shouldn't even be a need for noise reduction software.  Also keep in mind that JPG files degrade and will leave artifacts (often mistaken for noise or a dirty lens) EVERY TIME YOU OPEN THEM.. so short of submitting a file created directly from RAW or TIF, you're probably getting nailed for artifacts if they're older images that you've spent a lot of time editing.

I can't tell you how many "how did this get rejected!?" posts you'll see on all of the different forums.  Typically, the people who regularly submit will give you about as accurate of a review of your image as the reviewers will.. without the whole 30 day waiting period for another go at it if you fail.  There are probably enough SS submitters here to give you a quick review.. but we can't do it until we see what you're trying to submit.

As Professorgb said, post some 100% crops, and people here will show you where you went wrong.

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StockXpert.com / Re: Hungarian Law
« on: January 08, 2007, 11:08 »
OH man.. here we go again   ;)

I agree, it's not, but we can save that for another thread.  Not sure about everyone else, but it's certainly more important to me what kind of fraud I may be letting my guard down to than someone else's opinion of my country or what to call it.


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StockXpert.com / Re: Hungarian Law
« on: January 08, 2007, 11:03 »
As the post was rather vague, and quickly grew into an argument over 'third world' and "US' and other things that had no bearing on the discussion of security issues with microstock sites, maybe you should post more info on this.

I caught StockXpert and StockXChange being named.  I think a finger was even pointed at Dreamstime as one of the culprits.

What's the deal?

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But just think, the people shots that go out of style in 5 or 10 years are going to go back into demand in say, 30 years.  Hooray for vintage shots =)

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Site Related / Re: Earnings outlook low
« on: December 15, 2006, 15:15 »
I definitely see a slowdown.  Getting about 1/2 of the usual downloads I was getting before.  Glad to hear it's only a holiday season side effect. 

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ImageVortex.com / Re: Is IV freezing?
« on: December 13, 2006, 14:28 »
ditto.. I removed all of mine as well

once the shots I had there ended up being my best sellers elsewhere, I figured it was time to move on

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Off Topic / Re: When did you start dabbling in Micro Stock?
« on: December 12, 2006, 18:06 »
July 2006 is when I found Shutterstock.  Since then, started contributing to Dreamstime, iStock, FeaturePics, Fotolia, BigStock, and 123RF.  Waiting to find out if my StockXpert application goes through.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Sales
« on: December 12, 2006, 01:44 »
Most of my photos on Shutterstock are editorial in nature.  Even so, I'm closing in on 1000 images.  Majority are concerts or sporting events.  A small selection of 'stock' images (which also made dreamstime, fotolia, and bigstock). 

All in all, very good sales rate.  Just missed my second payout (a few cents short in Nov).  Been with them since July.  I can see it becoming a very profitable site once I get more stock worthy images up.

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