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The concern over how best to depict the climate emergency led us to seek advice from the research organisation Climate Visuals, who have found that “images that define climate change shape the way it is understood and acted upon”. https://climatevisuals.org/7-climate-visuals-principles https://climatevisuals.org/about towards the end: Paid partnerships: Alamy wim

In principle yes, but it's unclear how much is one's own rank and how much is the rank of the image. So much is clear: sales are a very important factor. Duh again! 😁 However very new contributors with very few images sometimes overtake all, images and contributors. That must be because very early on that image or the contributor had sales or maybe even just zooms. Because again and again Alamy has reassured us there's no such thing as a secret sauce. Meaning human intervention to favor someone. wim

If you check on contributors that sell many images a month, you'll see that their images are much closer together than those 19. It works the other way around also: if you spot many images on the first rows by one or two contributors, you know they are really high sellers. Like really high. Like selling in a month what I sell in a year. wim

That's about the going rate for a mk1 on Ebay as well. I prefer the mk2 or higher because they have a flip out back screen and wifi. (I had never thought wifi is such fun.) Mk1 also has no way of connecting a remote. Everything on the later models is a bit faster each time because of a better processor. Between each model most of the steps are really small though. Apart from the obvious changes in lenses. Only mk2 has a flash shoe. From mk3 on there's a pop-up viewfinder. If you need video the differences are a bit bigger between models. Here is a comparison between all the RX100 models. wim Edit: (I have the mk1; 2; 5 and 6 - I use the 5 and 6 a lot. More than my A7R2 at the moment.)

Another mosaic floor: Roman mosaics. Sevilla, Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija. Vertical stitched panorama of 3 images with 17mm shift lens. Mid $$ Worldwide editorial. wim

Yep, hence the 24fps. Failed frames cost nothing. Except when you don't throw them away and have to store them. But even then. Last week I bought a second 10Tb hdd for 316 euros. wim

2 crops with simple defects: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8p5vtjk3vhrlaby/crop-ruined city 005.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssdy68a5eh8sb5q/crop-ruins 7k.jpg (Sorry don't know why dropbox insists on showing them this big - they're normal at download though.) I think the problem that QC has with these images is that at thumbnail size they suggest to be photorealistic. Anything that looks a certain way in thumbnail, but turns out to be totally different when opened at 100% by the client gets a rejection. So in general if you use parts of bitmaps, they should have the correct size at the definitive end size. So if you start with a 10x10 pixels piece of bitmap, but the end size is a 7000x4000 pixels, your initial 10x10 don't look so good. It's called uprezzing and yes you can, but only with very good files, like RAW files and then only to a certain size, say to a 14x14 pixels. It's not such a big deal with moving images, but still images are being scrutinized throughout the industry at 100%. So check your initial jigsaw puzzle bitmap parts, see which one got uprezzed the most, say 400% and then decrease the pixel size until you're at 100% again. Now see how big your end file is. My guess is about screen size at 4k. Do you have a Retina screen? Use at least 200% as a final control. wim

Interesting. I do the opposite: I hold it like you would handle an old Rolleiflex, cradled in my hands and my hands or wrists held against my body. Not too firm though, because tension induces movement as we know from shooting. I use my thumb on the release button. My left thumb is in the same position on the left on top of the viewfinder which I never use. 1/2s is well possible in this position. The back screen is tilted towards me and usually the electronic level is visible. Plus always the one thirds lines. This position is stable enough to allow looking up without changing much the way the camera is pointing, say up to 35mm. If you hold the camera lower than your belly button, it will look very odd to onlookers if they do not spot the camera though 🙋‍♂️👮‍♂️👩‍⚖️ - 😁. My tremor is usually because of the lack of food or sugar. But any excitement or physical exercise will cause even more unsteadiness. It's a wonder I do manage to get any sharp image at all. Those image stabilization thingies are pure magic! 👴😁 Using the 24fps on the MkV and MkVI reveals how many images are actually blurred and how little are pin sharp in a second. So I use that a function a lot now. It does eat hard disk space though. Btw I only use full AUTO or A. On A I usually use exposure bracketing. wim

You didn't say what the subject was nor the use. Does the subject move? At what speed? What light levels? Is the subject stationary? - could include models posing. Are the images going to be printed? Published on Facebook? Alamy? Billboard? You get the idea. So this is very general: Play around/practice at home at the expected light levels and see at what shutter speeds your images are sharp enough. And what level of graininess is acceptable for the purpose. Not RAW but very useful is the handheld twilight scene mode. High speed continuous drive and RAW will do the same, but then you will have to do the editing by hand: delete all less than sharp images from the burst and stack/median the rest in Photoshop. After practicing at home, do a test run at the actual venue. wim

OK I'll bite: Seville Las Teresas - traditional Andalusian tapas bar. World English Language IQ - high $$ wim edit: Edo, I would go back for the winter 😎.

All will be answered here: https://discussion.alamy.com/search/?q=rx100 , if you have a day or two to spare. Short answer: yes if your photography and editing skills are good enough and don't expect it to be a dslr. wim

Or the other nice young guys. (The Halloween edition; the original. Or the binge version for a wet Sunday evening. Some very funny renditions.) wim

Well spotted! It seems short term memory is the first to go. 😂 ITMA? Aha. I've checked my sales since that thread and all 25 images taken outdoors have blue skies or otherwise brilliant weather. So no new examples of bad weather with good light. These are 19 of those sales: It's clear that light does play a big role. Whether that is in my images or in the taste of the buyers I'm not sure. It could also be color or just content, and mine was on the first or second row for their search. That content has something to do with it, could be deduced from these two: The one from the previous thread which has sold 5 x and this one from the same outing: which sits on 5th row @10/row @100/page for small thumbnails; or 8th row for large thumbnails. And has not sold once. I like it better though, but clients think otherwise. Or they just don't see it because it's too far down on the page. (There are 11,929 images for Gettysburg.) Could be content: ah yes that's a monument with some interesting light as a bonus. That's God's hand or Jacob's ladder or a Sun Harp (depending on where you live and which language you speak). What's the other - just a fence? Huh? (Fences played a role on that battlefield and they looked like this.) My image is #2 for Gettysburg fence. However nobody ever searches for that. Ever. wim

Maybe post some thumbnails which have sold and which have done nothing. Hmm it seems that we have done this here? But where is it? Because I remember posting this one as an example: Maybe the topic was bad light, not good light. wim

Chuck, could this be your screen? Dell 2407WFP-HC Maybe it's nearing the end of it's life. This advice is not bad. Check out his pages about color management too. If you can live with sRGB his budget option looks good. But as he says, you must calibrate it. I noticed that over here the Eizo CS2420 went down in price and is now EURO 620, But in the US it has gone up quite a bit and is now around $960 at B&H. Cheapest I could find was through Amazon for $759. But the average at Amazon was around $870. Could this be the current trade wars at work? Could also be because I cannot tell Amazon to show me prices without shipping (to The Netherlands). It used to be the prices in the US were in dollars what they were over here in euros. (We have higher sales tax, which is included in all prices on the consumer level.) What I don't understand is why some of your images are perfect, but others tend to have those darker shadows and are sometimes just too dark overall. Could be changing ambient light also. Like sunshine in the room vs no light at all. The Kaepernick portraits are good and the close-ups of Condi and Kerry look good too. But the overviews of that one are a tad on the dark side. wim