I've had a pop at uploading both direct and indirect to Alamy.
Probably I've been doing it all wrong as currently I am looking to build my portfolios quite quickly as this game seems to be as much about volume of uploads as it about quality, composition, etc. This is what's got me into difficulty with Alamy. With other sites I can with confidence upload 20, 30, 50 photos with keywords sorted etc. Indeed I use xPiks to help with those uploads. Alamy is one of the big 3 that seems to hate this way of doing things. I've had a couple small batches get through... and a few batches rejected in entirety because the only photo looked at wasn't liked by the person who looked at it. Trashing the entire upload.
However... I also upload via 3rd party middlemen (renaming nameless today). They obviously have a different arrangement and if they accept the photos, so it seems likely that alamy does too. Same goes for the other more difficult sites, again remaining nameless today. Happy through the big third party, unhappy from me the small guy direct. So it seems to me I gotta pay the commission to get my stuff onto those platforms.
Ok my investment with equipment is just short of 3k. Not enough I hear you shout if I want to earn 30 cents on a photo. I get that and another couple of grand is just nearly ready to go into the kit pot. That's not to say I know how to use it properly yet. I'm learning and improving possibly. Quickly as I can. I'm 60 years old, not a child. I got this whole photography thing in my mind as being my migration out of my day to day business into something more relaxing, that hopefully in perhaps half a dozen years will be able to help supplement my pension. Not overly ambitious I think. Also as a tech guy, I'm into the whole drone thing, the 360 degree VR camera thing and I think that suits my style of things far better than some giant lens Pentax would ever do. Yes I got a tripod,,, but it's for my Pocket 2 to do hyperlapses with!
I don't want this to sound like a rant. It's not that. I just feel the need to express a little frustration that while what's trending seems fine, it all depends on who does the submitting to the platform as to what exactly gets accepted. That just doesn't seem as fair to new starters, new investors of time, money, perhaps some talent.
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I've had a pop at uploading both direct and indirect to Alamy.
Probably I've been doing it all wrong as currently I am looking to build my portfolios quite quickly as this game seems to be as much about volume of uploads as it about quality, composition, etc. This is what's got me into difficulty with Alamy. With other sites I can with confidence upload 20, 30, 50 photos with keywords sorted etc. Indeed I use xPiks to help with those uploads. Alamy is one of the big 3 that seems to hate this way of doing things. I've had a couple small batches get through... and a few batches rejected in entirety because the only photo looked at wasn't liked by the person who looked at it. Trashing the entire upload.
However... I also upload via 3rd party middlemen (renaming nameless today). They obviously have a different arrangement and if they accept the photos, so it seems likely that alamy does too. Same goes for the other more difficult sites, again remaining nameless today. Happy through the big third party, unhappy from me the small guy direct. So it seems to me I gotta pay the commission to get my stuff onto those platforms.
Ok my investment with equipment is just short of 3k. Not enough I hear you shout if I want to earn 30 cents on a photo. I get that and another couple of grand is just nearly ready to go into the kit pot. That's not to say I know how to use it properly yet. I'm learning and improving possibly. Quickly as I can. I'm 60 years old, not a child. I got this whole photography thing in my mind as being my migration out of my day to day business into something more relaxing, that hopefully in perhaps half a dozen years will be able to help supplement my pension. Not overly ambitious I think. Also as a tech guy, I'm into the whole drone thing, the 360 degree VR camera thing and I think that suits my style of things far better than some giant lens Pentax would ever do. Yes I got a tripod,,, but it's for my Pocket 2 to do hyperlapses with!
I don't want this to sound like a rant. It's not that. I just feel the need to express a little frustration that while what's trending seems fine, it all depends on who does the submitting to the platform as to what exactly gets accepted. That just doesn't seem as fair to new starters, new investors of time, money, perhaps some talent.
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