Michael_Jacobs

December was a bit better than average for me, even with only two sales. In 2018 I have earned 25% less than in 2017, with the exact same number of sales and over 3.000 uploaded in 2018. Am very disappointed.

I've used a MBP 17" for many years... now that I have a PC with 27" screen, wouldn't go back. Never used the trackpad for editing, and frankly for anything else, but a normal mouse... Not only the screen size, but also the speed (even with similar specs, a desktop will usually have better performance due to better thermals) and having large internal drives to have all my data avaible are also factors...

Personnaly, haven't seen any website that use them... 3D artistst (mostly in architecture) use half-domes or domes (360) to create the environment, and have reflections in windows... but usually HDRI ones. The HDRI's take even more effort to make... Frankly, I have a few horizontal pano's on Alamy and they don't seem to have much success...

I had until beginning of 2018 a catalogue of over 225.000 pictures, although workable... not fast enough imho... so I started a new catalogue for 2018 and have around 33.000 pictures... Frankly, as much as I like using LR and it’s workflow, it’s painfully slow batch editing, switching between pictures etc... and I have, I would say a pretty powerfull machine i7 6700k, 16gb ram, os and software on a m.2, LR catalogue and recent pictures on an SSD, gtx 1060 6gb graphics card etc all in large case that’s well cooled... and reinstalled the all system recently... normal resolution monitor... yesterday I moved a bunch of folders from the SSD to an archive drive (internal WD black...), took about 10x the time it would have taken Windows to move the files... and it scattered my files all over the place, some files where not copied (had alot of error msg’s), other well but not in the right folder... a real nightmare... not even close to have solved the issue... spend too much time with adobe customer care who couldn’t help me... anyway, seriously disappointed....

Thank you very much Domf!

Yuri, A non stop city indeed ;-) Thank you very much for your reply! greetings, michael

Indeed, Alamy will confirm that there was a download and notify when you can expect a sale popping...

Thank you Alamy! Keep uo the good work!

Just finished my timelapse of Tel Aviv: Hope you enjoy it...

In my case ir is about 1 sale on 4-5 zooms... and as said by others plenty of sales without the photo being zoomed... i would very much like to have different stats on Alamy: being able to see the views per image and being able to see which images where viewed, zoomed in etc the most... This besides the stats as they are today.... shouldn’t be very complicated to implement?

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3720137 First one is mine... others are uncredited, but might also be from Alamy contributors...

6 sales for half what I earn on average :-(

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-best-antique-shops-and-flea-markets-around-the-world - 21/9/2018 First image is mine Third: INAKI ARBULO / Alamy Stock Photo

I still don't understand this whole property release issue and I really want to understand. Lately some of my images where refused (not by Alamy) for not having a property release. The reason was that they where unsellable without PR. Subjects where in Paris, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem... both free and payed entrance... the same kind of images, same venues etc where accepted by them btw. I argued that: - for some subjects there was no way to get a PR, the Church of the holly sepulchre in Jerusalem for example... 5-6 Churches are in charge of the place and there is a ladder on the facade that can't be moved and wasn't for the past few hundred years (read it on wiki if you're interested) + nothing mentioned on their website and no contact at all to ask about their policies - for some places they didn't own any copyright on the design since the place was built a few hundred years ago... - on the websites of the 5 places I took photos, nothing mentioned - nothing mentioned on the tickets either - I wasn't told anything when entering... and I sure you will all agree that a D700 and D750 with battery packs, 24mm PC-E and 24-70 are not the most discrete... - and in some places it was free entry and no security, reception whatsoever... etc... Then I looked for similar photos in articles on the web and found plenty. Some of them I recognised and traced back to the agency that rejected my pix as ell as Alamy. And what would do you think, NO PROPERTY RELEASE WHATSOEVER. Most (I didn't check them all) of the images by well known architecture photographers Hufton + Crow and Iwan Baan have NO PROPERTY RELEASE. They where, I suppose, appointed by the architect to take exterior and interior shots... and after while threw them onto stock sites... If they don't succeed to get PR who would? Next question is WHY WOULD ANYBODY GIVE YOU A PR? You can basically sell a picture ad vitam eternam to whatever end: mugs, posters, postcards... or maybe sell the image of a museum, somebody's house to sell KKK flags? Background of a porn video cover? Even more trickier is there is no one person/organisation that can give you a PR... in the case of the Tate Modern as an example you will need the PR from the architects Herzog and De Meuron + The Tate, maybe some other firm involved in the design, probably the ones responsible for the exhibition and layout... and in some cases artists... any photographer has the time to deal with all those people??? And lastly what about freedom of press? Can't a journalist write an article even a review about a place and add a picture that he seems reflecting the space, building, exhibition???

Thank you very much dlm... it is indeed a good day to bicycle, skateboard,... or just have a stroll ;-) a very special day... because almost all people refrain from using the car, it is the quietest day of the year, in an otherwhise hectic city, you can hear birds, stray cats are super relaxed, no barking of dogs... plenty of bats having a good time...