Ed Rooney Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Having a quick look at someone's Alamy collection yesterday, I noticed that they didn't have a date showing on their images. I thought we were obliged to show at least the year . . . and I think that is the year/date the image was uploaded. I'm just wondering what the rules for dates are at Alamy, what most of you do, and why we would want or not want to show a date? Some reasons, pro and con, are obvious, but perhaps some other reasons are not? Edo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Think it's date taken not date uploaded…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 Sure it weren't scanned slides? Does don't show dates. Cheers, Philippe Not sure about anything, Philippe. That's why I'm posting these questions. Not that I remember, but I wouldn't want to post the member's name for others to look. I'm not trying to out anyone here. That would be inappropriate. It is a puzzlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 All my images show dates taken but that is from digital cameras where the information is already in the exif file. I would imagine that if no dates show then it could be the tog has not set the date in camera or it was a lack of commitment to adding the dates to film images. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Date field...is when the image was taken. http://www.alamy.com/contributor/help/captions-keywords-descriptions.asp Years ago on the old Alamy blog (can't find it now, is it out 'there' ?), there was an article about dating the images. Picture researchers often want to know the date, even if the image was made a long time ago - eg. picturing the era (fashions/cars), or a changing skyline (like New York post 9/11). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Some of my images are kinda sexy but I wouldn't dare date them......; ) Yuk yuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 My early scanned transparencies images had an option to enter date either exact or year only but if I didn't offer a date back then, it could be left bank. If I venture back now and open any of those files, the Alamy system will insist I enter a date before closing, but it will be happy with year only. Most agencies don't go there. Any new images from a digital camera will grab the date from the camera data. I haven't uploaded any scanned images recently, so don't know how it would work to-day. Likely the same as Alamy is still taking on agency bulk collections Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Having a quick look at someone's Alamy collection yesterday, I noticed that they didn't have a date showing on their images. I thought we were obliged to show at least the year . . . and I think that is the year/date the image was uploaded. I'm just wondering what the rules for dates are at Alamy, what most of you do, and why we would want or not want to show a date? Some reasons, pro and con, are obvious, but perhaps some other reasons are not? Edo Edo,I saw your heading,'Dating Your Images' and I felt bad that things have gotten that bad in the Big Apple! I kid...You were talking about putting a date on images. All of my images in the past few years have the date written into the fields from the camera. I do add it into the caption and Alamy field if it's relevant to the image such as a skyline or area of town or a news event. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Edo,I saw your heading,'Dating Your Images' and I felt bad that things have gotten that bad in the Big Apple! Hehe! That's what I thought too. I even started wondering if there was a space in the market for an Image Dating Agency... but then I realised that's all that most of them are anyway. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 Must you hold a candle to my shame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickJ Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I just looked at some of my scanned images that are awaiting key-wording and they have the upload date supplied by Alamy. Since my images filenames contain the date, I will change them to when they were taken when I keyword them. I have always filled in the date taken field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I always date my images, next time around I might marry one of them..... Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I seem to remember Alamy saying that if you don't date your images month AND year they won't show at all if the client searches within a specific date range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I always date my images, next time around I might marry one of them..... Be careful if it's a trannie, though. You might get more than you bargained for... Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSnapper Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I always date my images, next time around I might marry one of them..... Be careful if it's a trannie, though. You might get more than you bargained for... Alan Especially if the trannie is over exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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