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  1. You do not pay anything upfront but Alamy will take a commission from any sales you make. Initially you will be on a Gold contract and Alamy's cut is 60% of each sale (with some exceptions where they and their distributors take even more than that). From July 1st each year, a new Revenue Year starts and, unless you have made sales to the value of $250 in the year to that date, Alamy's cut jumps to 80% as you are moved to a Silver contract. You can get back to Gold if you gross $250 of sales within the revenue year. It is unlikely, unless you create an exceptional portfolio, that you will quickly get to $250 per annum sales, through it is not impossible. You will benefit from immersing yourself in the large amounts of inforamation available from Alamy, such as Become a Contributor and then browse this forum to get answers to the questions you will inevitably ask - and some questions that you don't yet know that you need to ask. You would also be wise to study carefully the Contributor Contract, just so you know what you are committing to and the joys, sorrows and responsibilites which come with being a contributor.
  2. On the plus side, it says that at least Alamy haven't given up on selling video. On the down side, this move doesn't seem to bring any closer the possibility of direct video submission to Alamy. Fourteen million videos available from Deposit photos appears to be the entirity of their video library, compared with a subset of the videos from Pond5 which were made available when that deal was done. As far as I know, Alamy still sell only a subset of the Pond5 library. To the best of my knowledge, I've not sold any Pond5 video through Alamy. As I don't contribute to Depositphotos, I won't be selling any through that channel either.
  3. This weekend I very much enjoyed the stage show version of the 1990s sitcom 'Drop the Dead Donkey'. A bonus was to find an Alamy usage in the printed programme: the former cast member, Hayden Gwynne, who died in October 2023. 2GJ3C0C, Matt Crossick
  4. I'm not sure why you would want to make such modifications to the image. The presence of the logo and the distinctive colour scheme of the building precludes selling the image for commercial use. In which case the image needs to be sold for editorial, or possibly, personal use. Editorial images don't usually benefit from extensive editing to remove items such as you describe. Indeed, editorial images ought not to be significantly modified lest the accuracy of depiction is impacted and starts to verge on being misleading. In the case you describle above it's probably not a big issue but, even though I'm not a Pro photo-journalist, I've always understood that editorial images shouldn't be substantially modified.
  5. Broadly speaking, the question boils down to whether your images are going to be used for commercial purposes (example, advertising) or editorial (newspaper, magazine etc). In most cases no release is required for editorial use. You, as the contributor, mark each image as Martin describes and it is then up to whoever licences your image to use it appropriately. If the 'no releases' tickbox isn't checked, the image will be shown as available for commercial use. That may not matter as a savvy, professional buyer will know what is required of them in terms of obtaining appropriate releases or not for their particular requirements. However, a more casual buyer may simply take the apparent availability of an image for commercial use as a go-ahead for use in an promotional leaflet, for example, leaving the door open for a possible kickback from the property owner. The same goes for images containing people and whether there are signed releases for them. If the relevant 'contains people' and 'have signed releases' boxes aren't ticked then the image will be shown as being available for commercial use and a naive purchaser may blithely use it as such. This aspect has even more potential for aggravation as individuals depicted may complain bitterly if their likeness is portrayed in a way they consider detrimental to themselves. Like Martin, I tick the 'no releases' boxes for both property and people on nearly every image I produce. I also tick the 'sell editorial only' box for good measure. And for belt and braces, I add an 'editorial use only' disclaimer paragraph in the additional info section of the photo description. I can't actually prevent a purchaser using one of my images inappropriately, but, my goodness, they will not be able to claim that they didn't know they couldn't! I'm sure being so explicit about my images being editorial only hurts my sales, but I'd rather that than contemplate even the remote possibility of a legal kickback somewhere down the road. What sometimes worries me is that all these important aspects of the image description are in the 'Optional' tab in the Alamy image manager. How these things may be regarded as optional is a mystery to me. Yet, even some seasoned contributors say they ignore the Optional tab. Oh well. Unlike some of the microstock sites who check photos for possible intellectual infringements etc. and carry responsibility for such infringements themselves, at Alamy pretty well all the responsibility and all the risk is carried by the contributor. I, for one, feel that weight on my shoulder every time I submit an image.
  6. Since contributors are required to own the copyright to images we submit, unless we have permission from the copyright owner or there is no copyright on the image, I'm not sure how TV screen grabs might be submitted at all, let alone as exclusive. Am I mistaken in this interpretation? I know there are many movie stills on Alamy, but I've tended to assume they have been submitted by people or bodies who have authorisation to do so.
  7. Sounds like very demanding work to me and I can't see where it says how much it pays. Whether the photographer could also shoot stock would depend on the nature of the contract and whether the employing company claims copyright of all photos taken because the photographer is a paid employee. It's all well outside my field of experience but I would want a lot more detail before I thought of applying.
  8. Interesting you have the perception of The Times being too right wing. I've always thought it was politically balanced and centerist. If The Times is right wing what does that make The Telegraph? However, Guardian, Times or Telegraph are all preferable to the unregulated wilderness of social media as a source of news and opinion. I truly fear for my childrens' generation.
  9. I subscribe to the print edition of The Times at a rather painful £67 per month. My days of accessing an introductory offer are long gone. The cost is painful but I do want to support and access good quality journalism, which seems to be the exception rather than the rule in a free-for-all social media world. I also want to have the printed paper in my hand. I've found that I read more extensively and thoroughly of the printed version than I do of the on-line version, where it's all to easy to skip unpromising item headlines. In the printed version one's eye scans and takes in items which might otherwise be missed. One aspect I do like about the online version of The Times is their excellent daily News in Pictures feature which shows off the photographer's art. I enjoy seeing photos printed in the printed version, but there are so many more and so vividly displayed in the on-line edition. Alamy photographers feature often in this section, as is so well documented in this forum on most days by Bryan. I also support my local newspaper, the Bolton (Evening) News by subscribing to the digital version. It's not perfect but it provides a more stable access to local news than the oft wild ramblings, rantings and outright disinformation of Social Media. I rarely, if ever, go out searching for stock photo opportunities nowadays but the traditional press has been a strong source of inspiration and guidance in times past. Long may it continue, even facing the teeth of the gale of online sources.
  10. Just check deep in the CF slot in the camera that none of the pins have got bent or broken. I've seen a couple of cameras with CF card slots fail in this way after the card was removed and replaced.
  11. Not just 5000 images, but 5000 carefully composed, well-researched, well described and accurately and concisely keyworded images. That is what makes it a noteworthy achievement and the success you have is well-earned. Being a good egg, as you clearly are, is a bonus.
  12. I filled in the survey. I can't see that it's going to tell them much. I ticked the option to say that I'd uploaded in the last year. That doesn't begin to cover the fact that I've only added 15 images in the last 2 1/2 years to my portfolio of nearly 4000 images. Why? Because since Alamy slumped in the value of licences sold and then reduced the amount I received from those reduced sales, it has become unprofitable to process images for Alamy (I have four years worth of shooting waiting to be processed). I use such time as I have for stock work more profitably on video. I earn more per download and more overall from video clips on the agency Alamy partner with (though only direct, not any sold through Alamy, as far as I can tell). Oh, and Wim. I did complain about the terrible keywording and captioning I'm always seeing. Not holding out much hope on that one either.
  13. Absolutely sterling effort Bryan, this morning, as ever. You only rarely stumble across one of my photos but your daily efforts are very much appreciated nonetheless. You are sorely missed when away from the grindstone. Thanks also to all the other contributors who make daily, weekly and monthly efforts to locate our work in publications. You too are appreciated as you embody the spirit of what has makes the Alamy forum such a positive experience still, even though it be slightly withered from it's most glorious days.
  14. I'm pretty sure I've not sold any videos through Alamy to date. Video sales at my other agencies have been a shadow of what they used to be, both in volume and, especially, in $ per sale.
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