Robert Brook Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Another thing to consider, particularly with travel images, is that some places actually looked better years ago than they do now. Quite often "restoration" and "development" end up ruining once-picturesque archaeological and historical sites. If you got there "before they built the road" (as the saying goes), then you might have some hidden treasures in your files. At least that has been my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Another thing to consider, particularly with travel images, is that some places actually looked better years ago than they do now. Quite often "restoration" and "development" end up ruining once-picturesque archaeological and historical sites. If you got there "before they built the road" (as the saying goes), then you might have some hidden treasures in your files. At least that has been my experience. The other thing is that often places in the past allowed photography where nowadays it is forbidden Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dov makabaw Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 A third of the images that I have sold this year were taken, and loaded onto Alamy, prior to 2010. During this period my portfolio has more than doubled. Makes you wonder why we bother to buy new kit. dov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 A third of the images that I have sold this year were taken, and loaded onto Alamy, prior to 2010. During this period my portfolio has more than doubled. Makes you wonder why we bother to buy new kit. dov In five years time one assumes you will be seliing this years production - a bit like whisky or wine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dov makabaw Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 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. Just sold, for the first time, an image that was part of my initial submission to Alamy. It has also never had a zoom. Cannot understand why people purge or delete when you can open another pseudo and put those images into it. Apart from everything else it is less work. dov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Yesterday I sold one from 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 14, 2014 Author Share Posted November 14, 2014 I like hearing this and only wish I had not purged a couple of hundred some years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Turning this topic the other way round... I've just realised that in 6 years with Alamy I have never sold an image that was shot in the same year as the sale. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I like hearing this and only wish I had not purged a couple of hundred some years ago. It might be a good idea not to purge the ones you think had seen better days but to move them to a new pseudonym. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Brook Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Morley Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 About two-thirds of my pics on Alamy are scans and provide the majority of my licence sales, with timeless landscapes from the 80s and 90s being used regularly. Other licence sales have been of more unusual subjects from years ago. One image from 1970, of a top racing cyclist has licenced three times for books in the past few years, whilst a pic of Concorde in flight in the original BA livery taken in 1980 was used recently for a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Old photos certainly do sell, in fact in my collection they account for almost all the sales. I do a little jig about the office when I sell a relatively recent shot shouting something along the lines of "There's life in the old dog yet" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Old photos certainly do sell, in fact in my collection they account for almost all the sales. I do a little jig about the office when I sell a relatively recent shot shouting something along the lines of "There's life in the old dog yet" Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I'd say that my old images outsell my recent ones by about 10:1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have only sold 3 out of my 319 2014 images. It's rare for me to sell an image that I have taken that year. I've sold most from 2009. I've only sold 8 images from 2013/14 from a total of 1565 images. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I guess a lot of what we shoot is seasonal so it will be a minimum of 6-9months before researchers will be looking for the topic again. For example (except for news) this years autumn pics will have no market until about June next year at the earliest. Similarly with the Diwali, Christmas, winter and so on; shoot now, sell later. I guess designers are looking for spring, Easter etc now. My sister when she worked as a designer in retail here in the UK, her work year was around 4-6 months ahead of the real world. She was workingon Christmas when she left for her summer holiday! But that doesn't explain the 4-5 year wait before stuff sells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I don't think I've sold more than a couple of pix within six months of uploading them. It's like they're sitting on some dusty shelf, then, after six months, they're dusted off and put into the window display. Weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Mitchell Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Alamy is one of the best - possibly the best - place in the world to archive old imagery. Very true. And kudos to Alamy for realizing that oldies can indeed be goodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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