QC speed

[LawrensonPhoto 695]

51 minutes ago, Avpics said:

high ISO images

What do you class as high?

[Avpics 1,046]

20 minutes ago, LawrensonPhoto said:

What do you class as high?

2200 and 6400

[Matt Ashmore 1,081]

2 hours ago, LawrensonPhoto said:

What do you class as high?

 

Does this not, to some extent, depend on the camera and how good it is at handling noise? Personally i don't like pushing my Nikon D7000 oast 800 and my RX100M3 past 400. But there could be an element of me being overly cautious.

[LawrensonPhoto 695]

3 hours ago, Avpics said:

6400

Same for me and above

[mickfly 458]

I had 14 images in QC and three stars.

Reading the 'stars' comments I looked again and it had increased to 5 stars with the 14 images still in QC.

I processed a small batch and uploaded, which passed immediately, but my 14 in QC failed the day after!
First fail in years, just as I gain the new 5 star rating, so I'm kicking myself, but I was using an RX10 mk4 in poor light and there was a slight 'painterly' effect on some of the shots, which may have been the reason for a fail (no reason given yet).

[spacecadet 3,116]

1 hour ago, mickfly said:

I had 14 images in QC and three stars.

Reading the 'stars' comments I looked again and it had increased to 5 stars with the 14 images still in QC.

I processed a small batch and uploaded, which passed immediately, but my 14 in QC failed the day after!
First fail in years, just as I gain the new 5 star rating, so I'm kicking myself, but I was using an RX10 mk4 in poor light and there was a slight 'painterly' effect on some of the shots, which may have been the reason for a fail (no reason given yet).

Could you try putting up some more and seeing how they're treated? IT would be handy to know if 5 star ratings are failure tolerant.

[Graham 164]

Seeing in another post that millions of EyeEm images are becoming available on Alamy, and several other posts about the quality (or lack thereof) of keywords in images that seem to have been bulk added from other agencies, I do wonder whether the (or a) reason for the QC change might be that these images may not have been through an equivalent QC procedure and be of less overall technical quality, in which case Alamy may be having to use resources to weed out the more obvious dross from these collections. 

 

The QC procedures have for many years been pretty tight and hopefully will have resulted in Alamy having a good reputation for image quality which benefits everyone.  If imported images which have not gone through a similar QC process might tend to reduce overall quality, and therefore reputation, it would make sense for Alamy to target these and free up resources with less checks on contributors who have proved themselves over a sustained period.

 

Whatever the reason, I very much welcome the change: it is a real incentive for me to be able to upload and deal with keywords while everything is fresh in my mind, rather than having to wait and then maybe worry about a load of images which are sitting there without keywording having been dealt with because I might not have the time to do this later when the QC pass has been notified.

 

Graham

[spacecadet 3,116]

Ooh.

My latest 6 are "awaiting QC"

Maybe the party's over, or they're still hoiking out a few to check.

Well, they'll be awaiting till 2020 because we're off to NZ.

Bye all.

Edited December 5, 2019 by spacecadet

[BobD 522]

3 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

Ooh.

My latest 6 are "awaiting QC"

Maybe the party's over, or they're still hoiking out a few to check.

Well, they'll be awaiting till 2020 because we're off to NZ.

Bye all.

 

Have a great time.

[Matt Ashmore 1,081]

4 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

Ooh.

My latest 6 are "awaiting QC"

Maybe the party's over, or they're still hoiking out a few to check.

Well, they'll be awaiting till 2020 because we're off to NZ.

Bye all.

 

Have fun... sounds like a great opportunity to take lots of photographs!

[meanderingemu 669]

32 minutes ago, spacecadet said:

Ooh.

My latest 6 are "awaiting QC"

Maybe the party's over, or they're still hoiking out a few to check.

Well, they'll be awaiting till 2020 because we're off to NZ.

Bye all.

 

 

seems to be the pattern,

 

 

Safe travel to NZ. 

[spacecadet 3,116]

1 hour ago, spacecadet said:

Ooh.

My latest 6 are "awaiting QC"

Maybe the party's over, or they're still hoiking out a few to check.

Well, they'll be awaiting till 2020 because we're off to NZ.

Bye all.

Just passed, 90 minutes. All jobbed before walking out the door. That's it for a month.

Edited December 5, 2019 by spacecadet

[Bill Allsopp 51]

Passed in under 10 minutes, thanks Alamy!

 

[Betty LaRue 2,487]

This is fun. Thanks Alamy! Would enjoy knowing what is going on in the engine room.

 

1. QC people hanging by their ankles in the dungeon 

2. Caught them sleeping on the job and fired ‘em

3. There was an uprising and QC is now running Alamy

4. QC are robots after all and they are slowly taking over the world, Alamy first

5. QC watching sports and can’t be bothered

6. Those people who write the codes are running amok through the halls and decided to favor the lot of us

7. QC came to the USA to partake of turkey and trimmings over Thanksgiving and are too fat to fit back into an airplane seat

hmmmm, I wonder....

Betty

I know! QC have turned into Zombies and are eating everybody and soon will come after US!

Edited December 7, 2019 by Betty LaRue

[Phil Preston 88]

Betty, LOL. 😁😁

[Bill Allsopp 51]

On 05/12/2019 at 14:41, Bill Allsopp said:

Passed in under 10 minutes, thanks Alamy!

 

And on the next batch I hit finish upload and IMMEDIATELY got passed QC! 

 

Amazing, thanks Alamy; what is going on?

[Allan Bell 1,935]

44 minutes ago, Bill Allsopp said:

Amazing, thanks Alamy; what is going on?

 

Yes Alamy let us hear it.

 

Allan

 

[Colblimp 1,550]

5 stars here now too.

[Avpics 1,046]

Unless I've missed it I'm surprised that Alamy haven't highlighted the importance of self-regulated quality control to ensure this new power isn't abused.

[meanderingemu 669]

23 minutes ago, Avpics said:

Unless I've missed it I'm surprised that Alamy haven't highlighted the importance of self-regulated quality control to ensure this new power isn't abused.

 

 

i guess because they still do random checks, many of us went through a QC once since the 5Stars, and having gotten the new feature, i am now even more afraid of impact of getting a rejection and losing the 5Stars, though i am implementing a new procedure to mitigate that risk

[John Morrison 3,156]

16 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

I know! QC have turned into Zombies and are eating everybody and soon will come after US!

 

And after the US, it may be the UK next (actually, I worry about the eyesight of anyone scrutinising images all day)...

[Betty LaRue 2,487]

2 minutes ago, John Morrison said:

 

And after the US, it may be the UK next (actually, I worry about the eyesight of anyone scrutinising images all day)...

 

2 minutes ago, John Morrison said:

 

And after the US, it may be the UK next (actually, I worry about the eyesight of anyone scrutinising images all day)...

Well, I meant us, as in you and me and the rest of us poor souls...

[DJ Myford 137]

Given everything that's been happening in the world during the last few years, a zombie apocalypse would almost be a welcome return to normality.

[Bill Allsopp 51]

12 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

 

Well, I meant us, as in you and me and the rest of us poor souls...

I think we knew....

[David Pimborough 171]

Yesterday instantaneous approval but today the one image I submitted is still in QC perhaps it doesn't work on Sundays?