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Hi Betty, by anointing do you mean keywording them? If so perhaps the deadline for updating the system happened in the middle of your keywording. I've had that happen, where the last few I keyworded didn't make the cutoff the the daily updating. Maria
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Vineyards in the Niagara Peninsula - Ontario Canada
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Fun challenge! Here's gold Elvis in Niagara Falls: Dressed up for Italian Day in Vancouver: At the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival in Burnaby. . This fellow wore both a red onesie AND his wife around his neck for the Finnish Wife Carrying race.
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This was taken last weekend, lots of Autumn leaves here.
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Tasty looking oatmeal Ed! I think there's going to be a lot more porridge photos showing up on alamy soon.
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Found a book excerpt with a few alamy photographers listed in the photo credits on the first page. I don't know all the images as there are only a few pages included in the excerpt. Book title: See it Grow Pine Tree by Avery Elizabeth Hurt Date of publication: 2019/2018 Photographers: Mike Cavaroc NatPar Collection Doug Wilson George Ostertag Buddy Mays The excerpt is found here: https://bearportpublishing.com/excerpts/12772/download
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Keyword problem advice needed
MariaJ replied to MarkK's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I feel the same, also living in BC. And then there's all the false positives with Columbia in there as well. -
What kind of image processing program are you using, and what model of camera are they coming from?
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Congrats, it's a great feeling!
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You don't need to have the maximum keywords for every image, or any image for that matter. As long as you have sufficient keywords to accurately describe what is in your image, that is fine. Always add plurals (e.g., fern and ferns, shrub and shrubs) because alamy's search system doesn't automatically do that. Maria
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You have an interesting port. As others have said, you will have more chance of sales with more detailed and accurate keywording and captions. I saw one titled "monkey in captivity". What kind of monkey, where was it in captivity? That information should be in there. Also, there are some studio shots, e.g. of a hand holding a snail, HWGP3E. It would benefit you to include a model release for this kind of image. Also for that image there are unnecessary keywords, like "canon", and incorrect keywords, like "backyard" and "rain". Ones that should be in there but are missing are
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How was your August 2018?
MariaJ replied to losdemas's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
4 sales for me, small values. -
Magazine Cover Price
MariaJ replied to York Photographer's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I had one of those on the same day as well. No doubt similar price. -
Quiet August
MariaJ replied to Alex Ramsay's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I had a couple PU sales show up on the first of the month, but nothing since. So kind of slow for me too, but I'm hopeful that it will pick up again soon. -
Hows your CTR doing from 1st August?
MariaJ replied to Doc's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
No major changes for me. It did drop a bit from the beginning of the month when I got a lot of zooms with relatively few views. But it's at .68 now which is better than than the last couple months. -
Sony RX 100 VI RAW
MariaJ replied to spiegel's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Thanks for the suggestion Michael. I recall when I got the camera and the files wouldn't open in my ACR, I went to the Adobe site and tried to upgrade. But either my Photoshop was too old (CS5) and/or my operating system on my computer was, and I couldn't upgrade any further. I am working on upgrading both in the near future. Maria -
You don't need to be a professional photographer to sell images (I'm not), but you do have to be able to produce professional quality images. Learning and gaining skills in photography and post-processing is very important, as well as learning what kinds of images make for good stock images.
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Sony RX 100 VI RAW
MariaJ replied to spiegel's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
I have an outdated Photoshop program that doesn't recognize the ARW files from my sony rx100. I use the free DNG converter on the Raw files and then work with the DNG files.