Michael_Jacobs

Plenty of unauthorized uses of Alamy images on this site: http://ttnotes.com/city-antwerp/2/ (including at least one of mine...)

http://www.traveler.es/viajes-urbanos/galerias/las-ciudades-mas-caras-del-mundo-2018-worldwide-cost-of-living/1932/image/99001 10 photos from Alamy wihout further credit. Tel Aviv is one of mine... Sale hasn't popped up yet...

I do carry two bodies with me most of the time, not so much as backup but with two different types of lenses... Fortunatly I never had problems with bodies or batteries.. but having two lenses ready to shoot at any given time is very usefull... i usually carry a tilt and shift lens + either 24-70 or 70-200, sometimes 24-70 and 70-200... If I only need one lens for a particular shoot, I might make an exception... but will always travel out of town with two bodies. Very heavy though... usually between 4-5 kg of gear... A few years back I travelled in Madagascar , at the time I had only one body... but being there with friends photographers we travelled with 4 bodies, with a dozen lenses and would switch cameras by replacing memory cards, was very convinient...

Only one small sale :-( 2018 is terrible for me both in sales and views... After a descent 2017 where my efforts in uploading where rewarded, I am really dissapointed. I did find two usages of my images, sales who didnt pop up in my sales yet... so there is a bit of hope...

50/50 approximately, a few square ones too... but since I sell mostly architecture photos, makes sense probably...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/03/14/defender-of-the-faith The photo was converted to B/W by the authors. Wasn't reported yet, so no data about the price.

You can use: “your name alamy” -alamy.combin google, bing... or you can reverse search with google images and/or tineye, select your sales, zooms and right click google search

Is it a distributors sale? They tend to be be very liberal with usages in my experience...

A few months is not exceptional! if you think about it, a client downloads an image and uses it... confirms usage 3 months later, the distributor confirms the sale to Alamy another 3 months later and they get (sometimes) months to pay the bill... At least 3 to 6 months, in my experience sometimes up to 7-8 months after usage??? Still don’t understand why Alamy doesn’t allow downloading watermarked images and only fuml size image w/o watermark on sale???

I started end of may 2013 and had my first sale in July, so a bit more than a month after my first successful submissions... by then I had 178 photos online. The next sale was January the following year.

From my experience even if you submit your live news pix in different batches, they will be merged... as I use the same caption for all images of the same event. I usually send a few images as soon as they have been processed in LR and then sometimes add a few, if I feel they add to the story. As said a few minutes later they are merged with the first submission. This is imho the way it should be as I don’t believe having several batches will benefit myself or Alamy...

Well done!

If I can sell 100 images for 1$ or 1 image for 100$ I would’t mind... but these subscription models certainly don’t guarante more sales... as we can see from other models. With novel use, newspaper scheme and through distributor the only thing I sell are the same amount a month but at (near) microstock prices... my thought is if a buyer is willing to pay 1$, don’t except him to search on some agencies where photos are priced well abive his budget... if a buyer gets the opportunity to pay less, he will do so... my two cents ofcourse ;-)

Thank you all for your replies!!! Very usefull. On average how much time between dust removals?

Thank you Spacecadet for elaborating!