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1 hour ago, Joseph Clemson said:

 

It is either a very elaborate hack or an authorised outlet for specialised POD images, with which Alamy has cooperated. I suspect the latter. 

 

The site seems to have access to the vast majority of Alamy images and using a search term (I used 'Bolton') the search returns largely the same images in the same order on both this site and the Alamy site. In addition, no attempt has been made to curate the images available through the customwallpaper site; images which are really not suitable for anybody's wall are returned in the search. If I was nicking images to create a site such as this I would at least made sure I nicked images which made saleable wallpaper!

 

I will be interested to hear what Alamy say in the morning, and even more interested to hear if anybody has sold any images used in this way and how much they got for them.

What’s POD?

25 minutes ago, Gordon Scammell said:

It would be quite useful if Alamy could let us know if this site was legit.

My thoughts exactly - i’ll report back when I get a response  from Alamy. 

http://www.customwallpaper.net.au/size-positioning/?imgid={11A3D093-3F6C-4E8B-B62B-6C66D0F64ED4}&ar=PAK8J6&searchfield=alien&pn=366

I found a couple of my images on this site which sells actual wallpaper (not pc wallpaper). Helpfully they say the Alamy watermark will not appear on the final product. I’ve not sold a licence for this or the other image. I’ve reported to Alamy as potential unauthorised use. Maybe I’d get a licence fee IF someone bought wallpaper based on my images?

Anyone else seen their images on this site?

On 27/04/2019 at 18:41, Chuck Nacke said:

Sas,

 

I am not a fan of SONY, even though they make most of the sensors in modern digital cameras.

I would suggest a 12+MP Canon g series pocket cameras.  I started with the G-2 and currently keep

a G-9 in the glove compartment of my car.  The G series are great "grab and go digitals" they can

also be had for very little money.

 

Chuck

I’ll second that on the Canon G range.  I’ve had the Gx9 mkii for a couple of years and about half my sales are from it, the other half being from a Canon 6D. The quality’s great and its neat and compact. I recently got a second hand one for my teenager for £200ish.

PU, $$, taken 18 months ago when i was recovering from eye surgery. 😊

I’m in the UK. I gave up trying to load during working hours, it’s just too slow. After 10pm at night though its a different story so that’s now when I upload.

7 hours ago, Marianne said:

 

I once waited for an NU sale that was under $1 to clear so I'd finally make payout. This was when payout was still $250.I think I waited two months just 40 cents shy of $250... It drove me crazy.  

8 hours ago, Mr Standfast said:

...when on monday you stare at your cleared balance of 47$. Humorlessly it stares back at you.

 ...on tuesday you stare at your cleared balance of 47$. Humorlessly it stares back at you.

 ...on wednesday you stare at your cleared balance of 47$. Humorlessly it stares back at you.

  and then, oh joy, oh happy day, the next licence in the pipeline clears, at last, at last!  It's an eastern european distributor sale.

... on thursday you stare at your cleared balance of 49$. Mockingly it stares back at you.

...on friday you stare at your cleared balance of 49$. Mockingly it stares back at you....

 

Oh this made me laugh so much thank you 🤣

I didnt know I could search AoA like that - thanks Wim.

Hi,

I’ve been uploading kaleidoscope / abstract versions of my images like the one below. I notice there are lots of this type of thing on Alamy. Wondering if anyone has had any sales? Do people buy these? 

When it’s pouring with rain outside and you’re trawling ebay for interesting things to shoot.

7 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

When you come up dry for subjects, then look at your feet and think... should I? Then decide no, you shouldn’t subject anyone to that.

Or your spouse doesn’t dare nap in the living room or he ends up in your portfolio captioned, “Old Fart sleeping”.

The feet thing 🤣

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. 🙂