Orange Elephant

Hi I have a couple of Alamy model releases to organise & there is a section for "Good & valuable consideration" to complete. If the model was not paid for the photo shoot, may I leave that blank, or enter a token amount such as £1.00?

Uploading since the new image manager has been very slow for me. After a couple times closing the browser, I now just leave it & do something else for an hour. They eventually do upload now, but very slowly indeed. I'm on VDSL in a rural area, so not super fast, but reasonable speeds. Currently 14.2mbps DL & 1.2mbps UL.

Thanks for your reply Betty I had been hoping to use quotes in the tags, so that the client didn't have to tweak the search. But thank you for your testing.

Thanks for your replies.

Can anyone advise how to allow only the full phrase in a search? I tried enclosing in quotes, but the Image manager ignores this. I have a steam locomotive image with a nameplate from a company, Beyer Peacock, but it's popping up in searches for "peacock" - which isn't really accurate.

Yes... I think that's what I'm using & even the new version has not failed on me until now.

Indeed I do - & it generally works!

Is anyone else having upload troubles? I tried an upload of 16 images last night (Friday) & it failed half way through with the "washing machine" icon spinning on the next file to process. I tried again a few hours later & I couldn't get even the first image to upload. This morning (Saturday), I tried again & my browser crashed after 10 images. Those 10 images however are now in "processing". I use Firefox & as a computer engineer, everything is working well on my Windows 7 pc. I can't remember the last time my Firefox crashed, but not for at least a year. Is this just me, or is it affecting anyone else?

Understood - thank you both.

Hi I have some model released headshots of an up & coming actress. Should I upload these as regular stock or as news images?

Thanks Mark.

Use google search "alamy forum bhz" I am not using bhz BTW. Thanks.

Could someone point me to info about BHZ please? The forum software won't allow me to search on 3 characters.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks.

I've not created any new Alamy images for a while. I seem to remember that we are not supposed to sharpen. Is that correct please?

Could you recommend any US stock agencies?

And by the way I love the Lighthouse image. Thank you.

I was thinking about sharpness. However I now realise that cropping would reduce the overall total image size & total pixels, but would have no effect on the actual sharpness of the remaining part of the image. You may well have saved me from buying a teleconverter!

You say in another thread that you are using a D810. I would bet (figuratively speaking) that you would get better results cropping using the 70-200 without any converter than full frame with any one of these 3 attached and still have an image that could be used for almost any general purpose including printing large. You are quite possibly correct MDM, particularly with the 1.4 t/c. However looking at the 2.0 t/c, would it not be correct that if I cropped an image by 50% in PP, the image IQ would therefore drop by 50%?

There's a new image manager? Are Alamy rolling them out or do I need to tweak something? Edit: I found the blog. It's a roll-out.

Hmm, my new name must be Billy no stars!

Sorry coming late to this, I am also considering a t/c for my Nikon 70-200mm f2.8G. Some useful testing from Nasim Mansurov from Photography Life, produced some IQ figures as follows: No t/c = 100% 1.4 t/c = 95% 1.7 t/c = 83% 2.0 t/c = 74% I read this to be that a 1.4 t/c results in no noticeable degradation. https://photographylife.com/image-degradation-with-nikon-teleconverters

Where is this shown please? Unless I have no stars...

You're welcome, but bear in mind that my slides are purposefully grainy, using expired or cross-processed film.