Gina Kelly

Grinding Halt by the Cure

I would love suggestions (if anyone has them) for adding keywords to older images to make them more relevant currently. For example, for photos of people alone I've added "self-isolation", "self-isolating" etc. And pictures of people standing far apart I've added "social distancing" Any other ideas? And I apologize if this has already been brought up and I missed it. It's a long thread and I skipped over parts of it 😬

Great article, and yes very reassuring. Thank you!

I do hope it's just a matter of things slowing down because of the sale to PA Media, I'm feeling pretty discouraged by the lack of sales. 😞

Thanks so much everyone for the feedback. Doesn't sound like switching to RF will make much difference, and I'm glad for that, I like having my images RM.

Forgive me if this topic has been covered before, but I've searched the forum and haven't been able to find much on the subject and I'm still slightly confused by it. Mainly I'm curious if selling my images as royalty free will increase sales? I have the majority of mine listed as rights managed and having over 14,000 in my collection I feel like I should be making more sales than I am. I see that a lot of people with fewer images are making more sales. I know that a lot of things can factor into this, I'm just trying to determine if part of it is that mine are rights managed?

Sadly, no, not in my experience which goes back 20 years.

With dwindling sales and lower prices for images I do feel some kind of shake up was needed, but still. . . this is unsettling news. "no current plans to change prices or terms" is not reassuring. Scary.

Thanks Clare! I rarely see my name here, what a treat!

I just surpassed 14,000 images 😀 that's the good news. But I'm still making fewer sales than others with much smaller collections, so I need to figure that out 😕

5 sales for $193 Gross

First sale of the year! $$$ for inside book 😊

First sale - 2010 - for $200. Was absolutely thrilled!

Best year for volume, and second best year for revenue (only 2017 was better and that's because I had a $$$$ sale that year). 😊

I have a batch from the 30th that is stuck in QC, but the one I uploaded last night went thru instantly 🤷‍♀️