.jpg.df7005e43f3948068792ee97bd640d24.jpg)
Sally
-
Content Count
2,022 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Sally
-
-
It was worth being snowed in for four days due to the Beast from the East. So far, I have found three news images I took in newspapers.
This one in the Irish Sun, using a picture of a snow covered road in Scotland
-
1
-
2
-
-
1 hour ago, IanDavidson said:
I want to avoid the news pictures being moved by a news editor to stock then failing QC.
Why would that happen? They’d definitely be news images.
-
A few Alamy photos (including one of mine) of empty supermarket shelves
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/supermarkets-lidl-asda-tesco-morrisons-12124836
-
1
-
2
-
-
5 hours ago, Cryptoprocta said:
What's Alamy Bridge?
You can't mean Adobe Bridge, as it doesn't choose supertags IME, so is this some Alamy 'thing' I've missed?
Or have I missed something on Adobe Bridge?
No I don’t mean Adobe Bridge. I mean Alamy Bridge.
https://www.lightroom-plugins.com/AlamyIndex.php
It is a Lightroom plug-in that interfaces between Lightroom and Alamy. Indispensable IMHO
https://www.lightroom-plugins.com/downloads/Alamy Uploader Manual.pdf
-
4 hours ago, Baco said:
That's what I've been doing until now, picking them individually. I was just wondering if there was a way to auto-pick, or make the process any faster, I guess there isn't. Thanks though.
Yes, if you use Alamy Bridge to set metadata for images, it will automatically choose supertags, though it's always worth checking that it has chosen the ones you think are best
-
Found one of my snow pictures leading an article in The Sun newspaper
-
1
-
4
-
-
My first sale in March, magazine use.
-
Congratulations on your win. Great idea, but I have too many to choose from! That either makes me a lazy or opportunist photographer
From the window
And, again
Christmas time
-
1
-
-
It’s tempting to focus on increasing your portfolio, rather than revise and learn how to keyword. But I suggest you take the advice and also search the forums for other advice about tagging and revise what you have already, so that you don’t end up like me having to go back over thousands of images!? Good idea to start a proper keyword hierarchy in Lightroom to do this, too, before you end up with thousands of words.
There is a ton of good advice and information on the forum, which I wish I had known when I started. I didn’t even realise that there was a forum until I had been a contributor for over 4 months.
-
1
-
-
Interesting. One thing - lens flare seems to pass QC, here at any rate, and seems to be accepted as part of an image if pointing into the sun. Maybe it’s different elsewhere. I used to edit it out, now I tend not to.
-
5 hours ago, hdh said:
I would not put it as harsh as that, its their process that they adhere to - objectively regardless of who the contributor is.
Also my free decision to accept that or not.
The loss in income is most probably negligible, I am not a big seller so far.
It is arguable if a news batch should ever end up in the normal QC queue or not, personally I would have preferred to have the choice.
Like "Your batch has failed the news upload, do you want to submit it to the usual QC process instead?", giving the uploader the choice of what to do.
I suspect that if that option was offered, it would encourage people to submit things to news that aren’t really news. However, I agree with others’ suggestions about having a choice, once an image has been in news, about whether it then goes into stock, as I think it takes 3 months to disappear if deleted at that point.
-
1
-
-
Ok, thanks for advice about one of my photos. However, I think it misses the point that it shouldn’t be too hard for the system to be set to avoid duplication, and for those cases where a lot of tags are important it would be a valuable improvement.
-
1 hour ago, GS-Images said:
It doesn't matter if there's a duplicate as far as customers searching goes, but I see above that this is about your own searching. I understand that you don't want to waste tags, but 50 is a large number and if you're using up that many regularly, I'd recommend you think more about the tags you're entering to keep them relevant, and also don't forget to use phrases too which are counted as one tag for each phrase. I tag very comprehensively yet have only used up all 50 tags on a few occasions.
Geoff.
With respect, I think I do tag relevantly, but there are some groups of images that there are a lot of tags that are relevant, and I do use them up. And, sometimes, new ones become relevant and it’s annoying to have to go back and chop some out to include them.
-
1 minute ago, NYCat said:
I don't think it is a problem for people searching for images. I think Sally just meant that she doesn't want to waste tags and the searching she want to do is to check which images have duplications. I could be wrong but I haven't noticed that my duplications (and I have many) prevent my images from showing up properly.
Paulette
As yes, sorry for any misunderstanding. I didn't mean customer search, but my own in order to find duplicates, as Paulette suggests.
-
Yes, that's fine for an individual image. But I cant easily do that for thousands of images.
-
Please can you see if it is possible not to have a both a supertag and ordinary tag duplicated. It's impossible to search images where this has happened, and uses up tag limits unnecessarily. So, it should not be possible to add a normal tag when there is already an exact supertag duplicate.
-
13 hours ago, Tannachy said:
That’s stunning
-
My first sale was in the Guardian. It was about two months before it appeared in my account.
-
SunCalc.net is simple, free and easy
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, Avpics said:
Having been told that some overdue sales would be included in February I chased them up as still unreported to be told: "The month of February finished yesterday and due to the shorter length of the month the team have not long received the usage report so these uses haven’t been billed yet. The sales should appear within your account early this month." So no, February isn't over already!
How long is overdue? I have one outstanding uncleared sale from 17th November.
-
5 sales for just under $200
-
2
-
-
2 hours ago, GS-Images said:
I'm not going to live that down, am I?
And my serge
came in today too for a couple of weather news images in December and January (after Storm Caroline)- both IMHO not very good or well processed. But very decent amounts. February sales are almost equal to January so I am happy.
-
Sorry misread
-
5 minutes ago, losdemas said:
Is it worth thinking about a medium format camera?
in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Posted · Edited by Sally
I use a mirrorless Panasonic LUMIX G7. I have three Panasonic lenses (but not the kit lens) (12-35, 35-100, 100-300). Lightweight, cheaper than a full frame. I know very little about cameras but these have served me well so far. If you don’t want to carry a load of heavy equipment around, take a look at mirrorless options.