Octavio Campos Salles 39 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 10 minutes ago, NYCat said: Wonderful images. You have some amazing jaguar shots. Keep up the good work! I don't really know much about RF. I have stuck with RM for my images too. I would suggest putting the scientific names of animals in the caption as well as the keywords. People do search by scientific names and I think having it in both places does help your position. Also I suggest putting both singular and plurals in your keywords. Someone looking for one jaguar might actually search using "jaguars". Paulette Thank you! Yes I do forget to use plurals. Need to go through my images to improve the keywording Link to post Share on other sites
Octavio Campos Salles 39 Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 3 hours ago, GS-Images said: For the number of images you have, you're doing incredibly well. Looking at your portfolio, I can see why! You have some stunning images there. Keep doing what you're doing as you're certainly doing better than most of us for the number of photos you have. RF and RM are pretty similar these days as the RM license often has RF-like terms. If I were you I'd use RM. Others may disagree and I'm no expert on which is really the best option. I tend to stick to RM mostly but have been trying RF on some, just to see if it makes a difference to sales. Geoff. Thank you! Yeah I'll just stick with RM. Never liked the idea of RF anyway. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Kathy deWitt 119 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Great to have work selected for the first instalment of the $100,000 club!! http://www.alamy.com/blog/100000-club-one-alamys-top-earning-photographers Thanks James & Alamy Kathy deWitt 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc 2,128 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 2 hours ago, Kathy deWitt said: Great to have work selected for the first instalment of the $100,000 club!! http://www.alamy.com/blog/100000-club-one-alamys-top-earning-photographers Thanks James & Alamy Kathy deWitt Congrats Kathy! Kumar (the Doc one) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Gillis 154 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Great achievement Kathy, well done ⭐️ Steven 1 Link to post Share on other sites
losdemas 2,981 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 6 hours ago, Kathy deWitt said: Great to have work selected for the first instalment of the $100,000 club!! http://www.alamy.com/blog/100000-club-one-alamys-top-earning-photographers Thanks James & Alamy Kathy deWitt Really well done, Kathy - very pleased for you. I will ll be joining you - sadly it'll have to be in another life! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
vpics 668 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Great to see that Alamy got two images of mine into the The Times and The Telegraph today. The pics were of a world record attempt at building the tallest sandcastle in the world in Germany. TBH, this completely surprised me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
NYCat 2,668 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 I checked for sales this AM and there was nothing new. I don't usually look again but I wanted to check something this evening and I discovered two new $100 sales. So nice. I just have to avoid the temptation to check every hour now. These were two shots uploaded in 2007 so another indication that old images can sell. Paulette 3 Link to post Share on other sites
KODAKovic 73 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Just sold my firt $100+ image!! A portrait... ehhehe... i always thought Editorial is not "portrait" but real time actions without looking at camera. I forgot McCurry probably lol 1 Link to post Share on other sites
skylineboy 36 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 i have just seen a $69.99 sale drop in. from a zoom last week. my take obvs half of that. fingers crossed for 9 of my images zoomed a couple weeks ago (similar but cover a topic completely, so ideal for many uses) all sell! all 9 of mine zoomed, but less than 20 for the customer search in total. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc 2,128 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 20 minutes ago, GS-Images said: A nice $191 gross sale this morning. It's one I knew about already but am surprised at the amount I got. It's for a UK national newspaper print. Geoff. Excellent Geoff! - presumably that was for a live news item? Kumar Link to post Share on other sites
Doc 2,128 Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 1 minute ago, GS-Images said: Thank you Kumar. Yes, it was Live News from a beach shot a couple of months ago. Hope you're having a great bank holiday, Geoff. Weather's great - what's not to like? Kumar 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Foreign Export 305 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 On 8/22/2017 at 03:30, Octavio Campos Salles said: Hi, first post here. Not sure if it's very positive but I'm getting better results every year, despite my small number of images, which is finally getting me a bit more interested in stock photography. Thing is, my type of photography is not much typical "stock" I imagine, and I only work with Rights Managed. Perhaps I should change to Royalty Free for the more common images? Not sure though... My earnings so far this year are $1.137 gross. enjoyed your images Link to post Share on other sites
Foreign Export 305 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 best ever month for me in terms of both gross and net income average is also good - above $60 per sale pleasing 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bryan 15,115 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Just leased an image of a National Trust property, taken from a public road. It has sold before. It gives me pleasure way beyond the monetary value of the sale, in fact it has made my day 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites
losdemas 2,981 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, Bryan said: Just leased an image of a National Trust property, taken from a public road. It has sold before. It gives me pleasure way beyond the monetary value of the sale, in fact it has made my day Your secondary editorial has given me secondary pleasure. If that doesn't sound too weird! Link to post Share on other sites
Robert Shantz 70 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 On August 24th I had 4 sales, each at $100/50 (gross/net) for a total of $400/200. Not a bad day by my standards. All were birds -- two very common here and two uncommon but not rare. The month started off with two sales for 149/74.50 and 175/87.50 so this will be a well above average month for me if no refunds show up. Robert Shantz 1 Link to post Share on other sites
gvallee 3,578 Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 A whole month without any PU sales! Gen 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Webby 269 Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 Chuffed to see one of my pseudonyms with a total/average CTR of a massive 32.14 over the weekends search activity. Average on Alamy for the same period is 0.55. just waiting for sales from the 9 zooms. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Martin Carlsson 433 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 6 hours ago, Webby said: Chuffed to see one of my pseudonyms with a total/average CTR of a massive 32.14 over the weekends search activity. Average on Alamy for the same period is 0.55. just waiting for sales from the 9 zooms. Wow - what the h**k happened? Hope it stays high until re-rank. Good luck! Link to post Share on other sites
NYCat 2,668 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 I had a sale come in today of an image that was zoomed a week ago. I usually don't see an immediate sale like that. I suspect it was in a lightbox for a while as it didn't seem like the sort of thing that would have been decided so quickly. Anyway, it was a nice price at just under $100. Paulette 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Webby 269 Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 14 hours ago, Martin Carlsson said: Wow - what the h**k happened? Hope it stays high until re-rank. Good luck! Thanks Martin. Its a pretty small, unique pseudo languishing around page 19 at the moment. My other two main pseudo's are already on the first page. Webby 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Ramsay 597 Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 One for $119 today - but alas, a distributor sale Alex 2 Link to post Share on other sites
John Richmond 1,167 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Just had the 100th image sale for this year drop in. It's been a good 4th year on Alamy. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Gabbro 306 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 Woke up to find a $250 book sale. I thought they went extinct. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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