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Bits and Parts and Gizmos
Phil Robinson replied to Ed Rooney's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I bought a fishing tackle bag from Lidl last year for £20. Took the insides out, put in some cardboard dividers, it's got the most comfortable shoulder strap of any 'camera bag' I've owned and is the only one that can take a Nikon with a 170-500 zoom vertically. Good investment (and I got all the little plastic boxes that came with it for storing small things, not, in my case, fishing tackle). http://www.lidl.com.mt/cps/rde/SID-D391F162-95DAD370/www_lidl_mt/hs.xsl/Offers.htm?action=showDetail&id=2593 -
Bits and Parts and Gizmos
Phil Robinson replied to Ed Rooney's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
It helps with composition - some call it a viewfinder. -
Current QC status
Phil Robinson replied to Craig Yates's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Nope. Submissions from 3rd to 7th still waiting. Always good to know I'm not the only one. -
Alamy / FAA question
Phil Robinson replied to Steve B's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
You can add restrictions to the use of your images on Alamy - however, I can see greetings cards and posters on the list, but not prints. -
I agree too. I support the QC system and understand how and why it works the way it does, but I really can't see the benefit in delaying the notification of a fail. Perhaps it's to add to the suffering of the failed contributor, as an added incentive to get it right next time, but it has the same unfortunate effect on everyone else when there is a QC overload or a technical problem.
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I don't know what percentage of images Alamy check in a submission. 5%? 20%? If it's about 10% (just a guess) that would mean a ten-fold increase in QC work, which would have a huge impact on costs / time / commission. I think this aspect of the way Alamy work is a huge part of their ethos and something that we accept when we sign up. If they did it otherwise, they wouldn't be Alamy. (Why does the Alamy spellchecker always underline 'Alamy? There, it did it again!)
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I'm actually in Canada (the other America). Hopefully, you won't be getting some of the current weather that is hitting eastern North America at the moment. Vancouver, where I live, is an exception to the rest of the country. We shovel rain instead of snow for most of the winter. Bamboo and other subtropical plants do quite well here as well. That's why I didn't say US weather - I would never be so insensitive. I bet a few stock photos of shoveling rain would do well (12 results, but none of them really relevant)
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When I submit stuff via the news feed I go back to the images a few days later - when it's no longer news - and alter the data accordingly. If necessary I put all the background information into the description field, or more usually delete it altogether if it has no meaning to the image as stock. If you do a search here for any tennis player you will find dozens of pictures of other players, because at the time the photo was taken they were in a match against the player you are searching for, and mentioned in the caption. For a hot news photo that is important information. As a stock im
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Odd Measures data
Phil Robinson replied to dov makabaw's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
If you click on the pseudo name, to the left, instead of the number, THEN on the number in the zooms column, you get more data - the number of zooms and 'total number of views'. It seems the number corresponds to the views, not the zooms. At least it has for me for the last few days. -
Advanced member
Phil Robinson replied to Allan Bell's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I'm sure I read somewhere that it means you get 70% and promoted to page 1 on BHZ, -
Current QC status
Phil Robinson replied to Craig Yates's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Yes, uploads going back to 15th passed this morning. -
I can see your point, but one of the problems of having 45.13million images is that changes like this would be hard to implement now. I don't fancy going through my 18,000 pics giving them all categories, and I'm pretty sure Mr Greenberg would have something to say. I agree it's a good idea, but I think that particular horse may have bolted.
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Black list of cameras
Phil Robinson replied to Lauria's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Hmm - you've never been to Maidstone, have you, Ed?!