Betty LaRue Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Just curious. I mentioned in another thread that perhaps a portion of my portfolio taken and uploaded years ago would probably not pass QC by today's standards. My last two sales are from 2007 and 2009. Somebody dug deep for those. One had been zoomed a few times but never sold, but one had never been zoomed or sold. Looking at your last handful of sales, how many are from 5 years or beyond old? Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Pretty well all my sales in last 2 years are from 2007 or earlier, a fair few much earlier and from film. Most exceptions were from 2009. Prior to that I did have some images from 2011/12 sell. That is partly because I went a bit quiet until 2013. It will be interesting to see if the new efforts I have been making in last year or so will pay off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 I only started in 2009, but my best year for this year's sales is 2012 (half of sales) followed by last year(about a third). I've yet to sell an image taken this year, but this may have something to do with 6 months in the sinbin. I'm sure it depends on the content. I have very few DT searches and barely 5% of sales were in the year the image was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 From the eight licences from last month and this month, three were taken more than five years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Included in my last 10 sales are photos taken in 1994, 1996, 2005 and 2006. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 In the past three months, including November, half my sales were from images captured in the past 1.5 years and the other half dates back to my first two years. It's interesting that the best prices Alamy arranged were $180 (taken in 2007) and $235 (taken in 2006). I don't think 'somebody dug deep,' Betty. More likely, your keywording was good and led them to your pics. I would never delete an image because of its age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Yes, absolutely, the oldies are still goodies!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biel Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 I have the same problem, no sales from 15 months ago. I think the idea for mantain possibilities of sell something is upload some "fresh meat" every 3 months at most, but the problem is how the search algorithm work. and when I upload some pics with another poind of view of some location NEVER before seen, fast, very fast, I see a lot of similars from anothers guys, AMAZING this is an exemple: http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-Giant%27s-Causeway-Wishing-Chair-The-Keystone-World-Heritage-Site-1908315.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid={3942B8A3-5E51-4F59-9E82-50825FC5D5B4}&p=7911&n=43&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26sortby%3d2%26qt%3dgiants%2520causeway%2520Eire%2520%26qt_raw%3dgiants%2520causeway%2520Eire%2520%26qn%3d%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26aoa%3d1%26creative%3d%26videos%3d%26nu%3d%26ccc%3d%26bespoke%3d%26apalib%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26ot%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26name%3d%26groupid%3d3758%26pseudoid%3d3758%26userid%3d%26id%3d%26a%3d%26xstx%3d0%26cbstore%3d1%26lightbox%3d%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26apalic%3d%26simid%3d%26cap%3d1%26nasty%3d0%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d%26t%3d0%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d&IsFromSearch=1 and another: http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-Sagrada-Familia-1908275.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid={A4492F56-78A1-426A-BA35-89161BE860B2}&p=7911&n=43&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26sortby%3d2%26qt%3dsagrada%2520familia%2520antoni%2520gaudi%2520i%2520cornet%26qt_raw%3dsagrada%2520familia%2520antoni%2520gaudi%2520i%2520cornet%26qn%3d%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26aoa%3d1%26creative%3d%26videos%3d%26nu%3d%26ccc%3d%26bespoke%3d%26apalib%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26ot%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26name%3d%26groupid%3d3758%26pseudoid%3d3758%26userid%3d%26id%3d%26a%3d%26xstx%3d0%26cbstore%3d1%26lightbox%3d%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26apalic%3d%26simid%3d%26cap%3d1%26nasty%3d0%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d%26t%3d0%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d&IsFromSearch=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York Photographer Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 most sales I have are not particularly recent, most off my frequent flyers are at least 3 or 4 years old (but don't look dated) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 I suppose that's the point. Barely a tenth of my sales are readily dateable from the content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy deWitt Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Yes they do sell. I have 5 sales just since 1st Oct from the 1970s 1980s. And many right through the decades. http://tinyurl.com/nyr66gb http://tinyurl.com/lmf8z5y Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 These replies are proving a point. And guys, remember, these are images taken with older gear, usually, and developed with software that doesn't compare with what we have now! A lot of my older images had noise in the sky or shadows, and I routinely had to use selective noise reduction on them. I had noise software for that.(what was that, Noise Ninja?) Now LR and PS takes care of it, besides the fact that most of us now have cameras that handle noise 10 times better than the older cameras. Plus with the older gear, I often had to do color correction, and seldom have to do that now. On a promising note, I did have zooms today of new (last couple of months) images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Looking for images that the newspapers have used I often see those with an Alamy reference starting with A, so from the early days I guess. Personally, I have sold a few shots, dating back to the 1970s, of things long gone, wish I had been more active with the camera then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 My older images sell much better than my newer ones, but that is due mainly to different subject matter. I can't afford to travel the way I used to. Having said that, I made a nice textbook sale ($180) yesterday of a local shot taken last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickJ Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Almost 25% of my licenses are from images taken in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq in 1968 and 1969 on Kodachrome. Many have been licensed multiple times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Of the sales so far this mth: 2008 - 1 2009 - 3 2010 - 1 2011 - 1 2012 - 3 2013 - 3 2014 - 3 to be honest, unusual not to have sold anything from 2004-2007 member since 2004 Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynn Palmer Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 I've been on Alamy for just a year and a half so I have a question for contributors with more experience. Does it take time for a portfolio to "age" and begin producing regular sales? In other words, will 2000 images all posted within the last year produce as many sales as the same 2000 images posted say 5 years ago? Also, it sounds like I should start going through my thousands of old slides and negatives from the past 60-70 years (some from my parents and grandparents). I even have some that are probably 100 years old. And what about all the old videos from the 50's and 60's? "I'm thinking there might be gold in them thar boxes!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I license or do hundreds of print sales in various outlets including my own sites every year of older images. Today we sold 2 prints and 9 licenses for images for 1978,1981,1990 images. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I've been on Alamy for just a year and a half so I have a question for contributors with more experience. Does it take time for a portfolio to "age" and begin producing regular sales? In other words, will 2000 images all posted within the last year produce as many sales as the same 2000 images posted say 5 years ago? Also, it sounds like I should start going through my thousands of old slides and negatives from the past 60-70 years (some from my parents and grandparents). I even have some that are probably 100 years old. And what about all the old videos from the 50's and 60's? "I'm thinking there might be gold in them thar boxes!" Tough question to answer because it depends on the subject matter and whether or not there is a demand for it. When I started uploading to Alamy in 2007, I literally began making sales right away; and they increased steadily as I added more images. If I were beginning today, I'm sure it would be a much different story due to increased competition (an understatement). Having said that, it does seem to take some images a while to "age." Can't think of a rational explanation for this phenomenon, though. The marketplace works in mysterious ways. P.S. I too am planning to submit a lot more oldies but goodies (hopefully) this winter, assuming that my geriatric scanner doesn't decide to give up the ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Endicott Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Last two months I've licensed images taken on.... September 21, 2014 (fastest I've ever licensed an image) April 22, 2014 October 23, 2011 July 9, 2012 March 11, 2007 Oldest licensed image that has been licensed this year was taken on October 7, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Hawkins Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 My last two sales (August and September) here were from a Fuji medium format film image circa 2007 and a renewal sale from a Nikon D70 in 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinS Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Yes, my older shots do sell. I think subject matter and the overall impact a photo has trumps technical perfection. My older images are film scans (35mm mostly) and the lack of refunds is telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Brook Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 13, 2014 Author Share Posted November 13, 2014 Didn't I see a thread recently where someone was purging his collection? Oh, dear, I hope he didn't purge the older ones based on age alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotoDogue Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Out of my last 10 sales, half were shot prior to 2002, including one from 1987. My oldest Alamy sale is from 1979 but these older images were only uploaded in the past few years. I presume these older images sold, mostly, because they're old and there's an historic factor. fD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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