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About Bill Kuta

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    kutaphoto.com

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    Washington DC area

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    https://www.alamy.com/contrib-browse.asp?cid={B4BEB8F3-9294-41FC-80EF-E3BB07AA79F7}&name=William+Kuta
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    15 Feb 2004

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  1. Bill Kuta
    I still have my father's US-made twin-lens Ciroflex from the mid-1940's. Have spent some pandemic time digitizing transparencies from it, including me from the 1940's. He shot well with it.
  2. Bill Kuta
    My last 2-3 submissions have been from my Sony NEX-6 with the kit 16-50mm. It's 16mp like the K-50, and about a year older by release date. Never have had a problem with the images from it.
  3. Bill Kuta
    When you're using AIM, take care that you have selected only the images you are working on. It can be easy to accidentally leave some selected that you don't want to edit. There's a button near the top to de-select all active images.
  4. Bill Kuta
    Sales down 16%. These two lines explain overall results: Gross Revenue down 55%. Average sale declined from $54 to $29. Worst total revenue since 2005. Added 379 images, had added 797 in 2019.
  5. Bill Kuta
    379 for 2020, vs 797 for 2019. 2019 was a big year for trips. Almost half the 2020 total was archival, after I got into pandemic slide digitizing. 2021 might see me spending more time uploading to my POD site.
  6. Bill Kuta
    Thanks for the video, Alamy. A couple of questions from Emily's presentation: - a new search facility and filters: Which AIM fields will be included in the new search functionality? Particularly, which "Optional" fields? Categories? Location? Or some new fields? Contributors need lead time if we need to fill in new or unused fields. - getting customers to commit to Alamy: I can't think of a way to do this except through something like a subscription scheme. Is this what you mean? thanks Bill Kuta
  7. Bill Kuta
    Two 7 three 6 two 5 a bunch of 4 & 3 Of the best sellers, one is of a one-time event. All the others are easily replicated.
  8. Bill Kuta
    Edo, this is from the sticky topic "The importance of being accurate when marking images as exclusive to Alamy": You can sell your images on a personal print site (without a stock licencing option) and still mark these as exclusive to Alamy. Selling prints and stock licences on your own website is also fine. Although FAA does have a stock licensing option (do they still?), I take the above to mean that if I am opted out of the stock licensing on FAA, I can have images there and still have those images exclusive on Alamy. That's what I'm doing. And yeah, my
  9. Bill Kuta
    I got into stock photography as a retirement avocation--started planning and gearing up in the late 1990's. What appealed (and still does) is the chance to make a little money (although "little" is becoming a bigger factor) while shooting photos, which I have been enjoying since the 1960's, with a large degree of freedom. I'm still enjoying the whole stockosphere, including this forum. Along the way, I got to experience submitting slides, then digitizing slides, then the digital epiphany. Tried a variety of stock sites, most of which have disappeared. Alamy is the last one standing
  10. Bill Kuta
    I was going to reflexively say that the big time consumer is captioning/keywording and the internet research that goes into it. But after rethinking it, I'd say it's a toss-up between that and all the culling/post-processing that precedes it. But it depends on the shoot. If it's a case of my being rushed, or in an unfamiliar place with a lot of detail, then the research and keywording definitely takes the most time. For me, the best example was being on a tour in Jerusalem. So many things to discover online, a few feet from where you were. As to why it's more complicate
  11. Bill Kuta
    Have you tried a print-on-demand site?
  12. Bill Kuta
    I haven't been keeping track of which parts are slowest, but today some parts (such as Measures) seem a lot better. Some parts (especially account balances) are still very slow. I have the impression that the more a function touches my financial data, the slower it is. Or maybe it's random.
  13. Bill Kuta
    I take it back. It's worse. If this happened to me on the customer side, I would simply go on to the next image source.
  14. Bill Kuta
    Seems a little better here today, but still slower than in the past.
  15. Bill Kuta
    Yep, everything on Alamy has been very slow here for a few days. We have a high-speed connection.
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