Dave Richards

Looks a bit like a dahlia, but that's all I can offer.

That is the dilemma you have if you want to pursue using this kind of material. I wouldn't touch it with the proverbial bargepole! I would never advise you as to what captions and keywords you could use in these circumstances. There is a lot of advice being given but some is contradictory and that is where you need to exercise caution. I don't know if any of the other respondents in this thread are legally qualified and whether the advice being offered is reliable. If you choose to go ahead and take a chance, then you are gambling. You may think that the subjects in your images will never find them, but I would caution you that it may not be impossible. I will give you a first hand example. A couple of years ago at a seaside resort, I took a picture of a guy who was painting seashells and stones for sale as decorative souvenirs. It was a fairly loose shot and included the general surroundings. Some time after posting the image I received an email from Alamy advising that the person in the image had contacted them complaining that the image was breaching his artistic copyright. It wasn't because his material was incidental in the general context of the image and, to their credit, Alamy did tell him that. But it just goes to show that whilst you may think the pictures won't be found, there I always a chance of it happening. When all is said and done it is ultimately your decision whether you put your head in the noose or not. Good luck.

I agree it's possibly overkill, hence my question as to how much the pictures could be expected to make. There is a lot of advice being given in this thread which in some cases is contradictory, so unless one can be 100% certain that the captions and keywords are OK it's a bit of a gamble. It only takes one error and the chance that a subject could discover they have been the victim of a defamatory piece and the result could be the whole thing blowing up in the authors face and that could prove to be extraordinarily expensive. How likely is that? As I said it's a gamble.

It's a great debate and I dare say there is a lot of good advice being given, but if you want to be as certain as you can be in your captions and keywords for these types of picture I would advocate seeking professional legal advice. It's your neck on the block if you get it wrong and things go pear shaped. I guess another thing to weigh up is how much money do you think you could make from the pictures against the potential cost of getting professional advice. Unless you have a good friend who happens to be a lawyer. Good luck.

Surge? Nope, just the tide rapidly receding.

..........and just supposing he happens to find it. There will be others who won't agree, but in my view this is dangerous territory. I wouldn't even go there. Get a good lawyer.

Seems I'm a bit behind....................Lightroom 5 and Maverick. HELP!

When time allows I too go back over tags and captions. One small $$ sale on 7th November and then nosedived. Zooms down too, one today but on checking the search terms used I'm not holding my breath!

Rightly or wrongly, I am under the impression that sales report in real time. Most of my (few meagre) sales have come in either at the beginning or end of the week. Don't know why, but that seems to be the trend for me.

My first DSLR was a Nikon D90 with 18-105 kit zoom and this is the kit I used when first starting to submit images to Alamy. I subsequently acquired a D610 full frame and the ''holy trinity'' of the Nikkor 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200 f/2.8 lenses (took a few years of hard saving, but should last a lifetime). I continue to use both cameras for Alamy submissions. The D90 still a good camera and more so when used with those lenses.. It isn't necessarily the kit that sells the picture, the picture sells itself if it's what the customer wants.

Check this out https://t.co/KM3ZyLWru9 I would put one person as number of people in the image.

One popped in yesterday making it a positive avalanche (by my standards) of two for October. Zooms are increasing but not converting into sales. I have work to do!!!

+1

As Phillip Whalley correctly says, Alamy QC doesn't judge on context and I don't think they take into account composition either; these are up to the photographer. But this has got me thinking about composition and, looking back over my stuff, I am guilty of uploading a lot of poorly composed images. From now on I'm going to try to take a bit more care when shooting and a harsher approach when editing.

Motion blur seems to be acceptable if it suits the situation. I recently uploaded a picture of commuters leaving a London railway station with lots of motion blur. It seems that if there is context there shouldn't be problem. Just need to exercise a bit of caution when assessing an image.