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When you keyword(tag) everything you see in your head when you don’t even have your camera with you.

6 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

One of the first things you do to go with your morning coffee is to go to your dashboard to see if you’ve sold anything.

Second thing is to check into the forum.

Yeah that’s me except i check for sales on my phone before I even get out of bed. 

Moving to QC ...

Hi,

I’ve used a kaleidoscope filter to modify a few of my photos and submitted them to QC. Some are going through but others are rejected. The reason given for  rejection  is along the lines of you can’t call a photo editorial and add something which alters it (the filter?) . If you want to be creative ie use a filter you need to submit as commercial but then you’d need a release from the property owner but only if the property is still recognisable despite the effect of the filter,

Can anyone help me out with the rules on this?

Thanks

Sold to Brazil, perpetual licence, any media, decent $$.

Happy to see some of my summer holiday “work’ getting picked up.

Licensed for German editorial media, 1 page inside, print run up to 5000. Via distributor. I took this just over a year ago at Felixstowe in Suffolk and loaded to Alamy as a news/ weather image. I guess this is a “normal” sale given the 12 months time lapse.

I can’t get a header photo to load on my portfolio page. Using Safari on iPad. Is it just me?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/02/flickr-delete-millions-photos-reduce-allowance-free-users

I’ve had nothing from Flickr / Smugmug directly but I saw this in The Guardian today.

If you’re using Flickr for storage - look out. 1000 images is a low threshold for pro/ semi pro photographers.

On 13/09/2018 at 22:29, gvallee said:

One of 3 sales yesterday for a book to the US. $$$. Very happy.

 

Wow what an incredible shot 😍.

I thought I was going to get to the end of the month with no sales but this saved the day for me, or should I say month.

On 26/09/2018 at 11:05, Starsphinx said:

Maybe Pink Floyd are considering a remix............

Is that a wall or a cake? 

Does the QC excessive similars rule not apply to Live News? 15 near identical images of a Lyme Regis sunrise this morning. Minor format differences but even so...

1 hour ago, RedSnapper said:

there is a slight correlation between having a pic featured in the @AlamyNews tweets and that shot actually being used by a paper or online...

 

not 100%, but it does happen reasonably frequently

 

km

Thank you for that optimistic end to the day, I’ll keep my fingers crossed. 🙂

That does make sense, thanks all 😄. 

@alamynews on Twitter have used one of my Live News images taken yesterday. I hesitate to ask but does that count as a sale? 

6x vehicle and road sign captchas just now to get onto the Forum and I dont think i was doing it wrong. What a pain. 🤬

6 hours ago, spacecadet said:

Sales are still reporting, though

Alright for some! Hope that’s not another glitch cos you won’t be happy tomorrow 😉

This one of mine in The Guardian in a piece about livestock suffering in the heatwave.

Article here https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/sunscreen-for-cows-uk-farmers-struggle-to-cope-with-heatwave

All three pix from Alamy - Graham Turner, Andrew Gardner and mine. 

No fee yet hasn’t appeared on my account - was only in The Guardian a couple of days ago.

Thank you all for your amusing and helpful suggestions. I’m surprised no-one spotted it’s already tagged (on the ear) hahaha.

😄😄😄🐂🐂🐂

1 hour ago, Niels Quist said:

 

 

Not quite sure he will be happy with that 

 

Wasn't the breed on that coloured sign?

No that’s to do with safety & water nearby.

Can anyone help please with the breed of this calf. Have done some searches but cannot be certain. Photographed in Suffolk at the weekend. Thanks 😄.

2 hours ago, geogphotos said:

The main purpose of the forum is that it helps Alamy. It means that newbies are helped, and questions get answered. It takes pressure off Contributor Relations or whatever it is called now.

 

Also, a  lot of potential conspiracy theories get challenged and laid to out in the fresh air rather than festering away and multiplying in the darkness!

 

Whether helping newbies and answering questions helps us as individuals depends on your opinion, but I am grateful to receive help and so like to try and reciprocate. 

 

Personally I have had enough of private forums - I much prefer this one with Alamy's usually light-touch oversight.

 

Back to the topic. I'd like it personally if everybody posted 'number of sales + gross'. I find it useful to know what figures we are working with and what can be achieved by those better/more successful than me. 

Rather than us all putting up our numbers individually with subjective comments I’d like to see alamy publish some data. Anonymised analysis ie count of contributors who sold 0-25, 26-50, 50+ images for gross revenue <100, <200, <300 etc. Per month and per year categories. Plus some trending going back 1year, 5 years, 10 years. That would be way more useful than us trying to draw conclusions from a subset of contributors who visit this forum, Have alamy ever been approached to do this?

19 minutes ago, Sultanpepa said:

 

Had a packet of those in the freezer but they didn't say how they wanted them photographed. i.e. Product with box, without box, one or two, cooked or frozen, with fries, without fries, on a plate, or on a tray or with a white background, so I didn't bother. Extra info would be helpful.

 

You can go on their twitter feed and ask. I’ve done that and i got the extra info.

On 25/06/2018 at 20:07, Sally said:

I can’t believe that this is worth it.

Me neither, I’d find something else to shoot but each to his own.