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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
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Thank you for that optimistic end to the day, I’ll keep my fingers crossed. 🙂
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That does make sense, thanks all 😄.
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@alamynews on Twitter have used one of my Live News images taken yesterday. I hesitate to ask but does that count as a sale?
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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. 🤬
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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 😉
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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.
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Thank you all for your amusing and helpful suggestions. I’m surprised no-one spotted it’s already tagged (on the ear) hahaha.
😄😄😄🐂🐂🐂
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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.
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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 😄.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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That’s encouraging thanks 🙂.
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1 hour ago, Brighton Coast said:Not bad - 49 sales in June
Wow congratulations. I’d be over the moon with that, but then I am a newbie. (5 in June, 10 for the year to date).
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1 hour ago, spacecadet said:Well if it's your stamping ground fair enough. I've sold one but I was on holiday. Probably in between pints.
Anyway, yours is slightly better.
Wow thats a tiny font but gee thanks 😉😎😊.
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42 minutes ago, spacecadet said:They're "under 500000" these days, just, according to my recent licence details
Mail or Sun, I'm afraid.
And what exactly was wrong with my images of the Walton beach huts, I'd like to know??
Thanks for the info. And to answer your question- no idea but I seem to have the market on Walton beach huts at the mo, this is the second sold from the same shoot both for decent fees. I guess I got lucky 😄.
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This sale landed this morning. Licence is for a UK national newspaper print run up to 2 million copies. I don’t know which newspaper so if you spot it please let me know. It’s not appearing on Google search so I suspect its one of the paywall papers - Times, Telegraph?
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On 26/06/2018 at 14:19, wiskerke said:Try: Michael Ventura Alamy -site:alamy.com
The -site:alamy.com excludes Alamy itself. You do get the odd Alamy.de image though.
There's probably a syntax to exclude them both at the same time.
wim
I took Wim’s string and added to it, which has worked eg Angela Chalmers Alamy - site:alamy.com -site:alamy.de -site:alamy.es -site:alamy.pt
Needs a bit more work to exclude all the alamy derivatives but you get the idea.
I tried using &&& as a wildcard but that didn’t work. I was trying to get to syntax which would exclude any alamy domain without having to list them all.
Thanks Wim 😄
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Really pleased with this one. Decent licence fee for calendar usage. Taken about a year ago in Brighton with my little Canon Powershot just after I bought it. Also this was the point I decided to try again with Alamy after giving up several years previously,
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Oh wow thanks for that Mandy. I guess it only counts as one sale though, for use by the article author, not one for every website it’s on though that would be nice!
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This shot of my friend’s Vizsla has appeared in an online article about the top 15 best dog breeds for families. Per Google images its on at least 6 websites but I can only see one. They’re all US based and mostly blocked to me as I’m in a country where GDPR applies, ie the UK. That’s going to limit the reach of Alamy’s infringements team.
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email from alamy - tech issues with their db and my images should be visible later today
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Hi yes same here I have three batches passed QC 8th June but still not appearing in searches. I just emailed contributor services for advice.
Excessive similars?
in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
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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...