Dusko Petrovic Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 (edited) I have a bunch of photos from travels I did between 2016-2019 that I think might be interesting as editorials, but I am not sure if it makes sense Are people looking for editoril photos looking for just the latest photos? Or, if they like a photo and it is not of a current event, it doesn't matter? Edited November 11, 2020 by Dusko Petrovic title change, to make it clearer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 4 year old photos are not old photos. Of course there is a market for the most recent shots but 95% of my portfolio is much older and trundle along producing sales 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I've had four reported sales this month, three of them are over two years old. It'll help you get your numbers up too, because you'll need that to have a chance of sales. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 One of my best sellers was taken in 1975...! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Yes, I regularly sell older photos. In fact, I just uploaded and keyworded some Italian travel photos from 2016 a few weeks ago and two have sold already: The only thing I would say is that I actually uploaded these photos a few years ago to Alamy, but never got round to keywording them. I decided I wasn't happy with the editing when I looked at them again so I took them all down and re-edited them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) Latest sale is a nine years old image - and the best priced in the last few months is 11 years old. Edited November 13, 2020 by Niels Quist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Last month I sold 1x 12 years old and x2 10 years old images. My oldest sale ever was taken in 1985. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 This year my oldest image licence was for one which was taken on 18th November 2010. Not long after I joined Alamy. Have to admit that I do licence a mix of old and intermediate as well as newer images. The latest one to licence was taken on 20th August this year. Generally I shoot for stock. Others who shoot live news will get sales the following day if not the same day. Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusko Petrovic Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 thanks so much for the responses guys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 curious wouldn't this depend of the nature of the Editorial Photos. Not sure i would upload photos of a from a failed Croatian president candidate that went into oblivion for example. One thing for sure, images from that time frame will show a different reality, especially on the Travel scene. I know i have gone through sets to find some that might illustrate that as a priority. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I hope images from 2019 will sell as i'm going through hundreds from Vietnam taken in January 2019! John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Standfast Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 A 2014 picture sold today, 2020 price though...😉 Allthough people taking selfies and wearing masks makes a picture look current, not everybody wants to see this! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TABan Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 I had a four figure sale in 2018 of an image from 2007. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 (edited) I joined in 2009 and every year I have sales from all previous years. The only exception is this year- I haven't yet had a sale from 2010. All were uploaded in the year they were taken, though, but I can't see how that would disqualify travel images. They go out of date eventually, but then they may become archive! If you count archive, this year I also have sales from 1992 and 1994, and in previous years, back to 1979. Edited November 13, 2020 by spacecadet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Images taken in 2016-2019 are still in diapers. Most of my repeat-sellers are much older that. Upload away... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxzoomy Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Just to add that one of my first submissions of older photos was rejected for noise. Worth checking for the ISO used. I tend to keep it to 400 to be on the safe side, though others may differ. Reportage can be higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, zxzoomy said: Just to add that one of my first submissions of older photos was rejected for noise. Worth checking for the ISO used. I tend to keep it to 400 to be on the safe side, though others may differ. Reportage can be higher. If you inspect them at 100% as Alamy recommends before uploading, you’d see the noise. An underexposed image at lower iso that you’ve raised the exposure in post can have as much noise as some higher iso images. Edited November 14, 2020 by Betty LaRue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 (edited) Just as examples, I have three sales showing so far this month: AXAHFF Aerial St Lawrence Seaway circa 1985 BBAHA2 Excel centre London circa 2010 AMY0UP Dover Castle circa 1990 the two older ones are scans from slides The aerial might well put you in hot water these days as we were just doing a sightseeing flight over an international border and above an installation which should be fairly high up any security list these days. note these are A & B prefixes so they've been on Alamy some time. Edited November 15, 2020 by Robert M Estall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 It's a resounding yes from everyone here including me. I recently had a good dig around and came across a load of stuff from 2008-2010 I had not yet uploaded, from a place far away that I used to live, that really doesn't get photographed much. Some of the things in the photo have changed now but doesn't make them useless. Stock is stock and it can be surprising what sells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Cal said: Stock is stock and it can be surprising what sells. I licensed an image of a full rubbish skip some time ago. The buyer obviously did not think my image was rubbish. I only took it as the first "Get me going" photo of the day and never expected it to sell. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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