spacecadet Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 6 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: At least you have a sock drawer now. He may not need one in Seville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Dave Brubeck used to travel with just two pairs of socks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 14 minutes ago, Ed Rooney said: Dave Brubeck used to travel with just two pairs of socks. I would have thought that he'd take five. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 21 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: I would have thought that he'd take five. Ha ha good one John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marianne Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I recently cleaned out my sock drawer. Now I have to attack 20 years of accumulation up in my attic LOL, so I have no time for culling my collection here. I've always been pretty picky when uploading and usually don't have too many similars. The older stuff I took and uploaded back around 2008 certainly could be better but since it sometimes sells, it will stay. I got rid of about 300 photos at one point - mostly "live news" images that wouldn't have legs. It took a lot of time, and it might have been easier to move them to another pseudo but that seems like just throwing them up in the attic. I'm trying to shoot a lot less these days when I go out - I pretend I have a roll or two of film instead of a 64GB card in the camera. My socks now take up just one-half of a drawer, and I haven't filled up my second 64GB card yet, so I'm getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaomega Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Quote Last year at a local camera club there was a guest speaker - among the many things he covered was a shot he had taken that was, to say the least, gloomy (it was inside of a long-abandoned residence) - and it sold for a significant sum of money and was used as the cover art for a thriller/horror novel. The publisher had been specifically looking for gloomy. He warned against limiting to bright and happy, because there is always a market for sad and gloomy going on as well - so long as the photo catches the mood. I wish I knew how to get Alamy to pass a 'gloomy' image without their 'lacking definition' or whatever description they can conjure up. Here is a real problem for me. I dare not submit an image that is not sharp with good definition. I have seen a couple of rejections in the past where I could not fathom why. Have not had a rejection for years. Maybe I am too critical? I don't want a rejection by 'testing' the border between pass and reject. Proud of my three stars. All images have a date taken and some buyers are actually looking for historic images. I have only deleted duplicates uploaded by mistake. I have again uploaded some old images where I have used the PS haze filter, but left the old images in case a buyer actually wanted the mist or haze. You never know. Buyers are often looking to specifically illustrate something and the 'arty' image is not necessarily what they are looking for. I still think I have an awful lot to learn after 16 years at Alamy as very much a part timer. This is definitely a numbers game. I am certain I have missed a lot of picture opportunities because of my vision of wanting 'good looking' images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 13 hours ago, John Mitchell said: I would have thought that he'd take five. That's an ace LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domf Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 On 1/14/2019 at 05:49, John Mitchell said: You bet. Gloomy can be quite lucrative. Lucky it was not sold on Alamy it would have probably gone for $5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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