NYCat Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Try zooming on one of your images. Under "Similar Stock Photos" you will see images by other photographers. I've only checked a few of mine but some definitely do not show my own other images of the subject -- just images by other people. Grrrrr. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 And what's more amazing is the others are not particularly relevant. Gotta be a glitch (I hope) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 It's not on all images? Or not yet? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyAppleRed Images Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The sample I viewed seem mixed - One shows two other of my similars only A few have some of my similars mixed in with other photographers Where I have no similars they sometimes show other photogs and sometimes nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The ones I looked at in the main had quite a few other images, a few of which were mine but most of which were not Whats going on Alamy? Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Strikes me that this is a Buyer function which attempts to cut down search time. This search may deflect to other Contributors but conversely your images could show as similars from a search on others images. Swings and roundabouts! Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 To be fair, Alamy is about selling images and helping buyers to find the right image rather than helping individual photographers. There is still a function in the search results to see other images by the photographer. However, the selection of similar images when you zoom seems to be, at least for the ones I've tried, almost identical to the search results I was just looking at before choosing one to zoom. I can't really see the point of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Strikes me that this is a Buyer function which attempts to cut down search time. This search may deflect to other Contributors but conversely your images could show as similars from a search on others images. Swings and roundabouts! Jim. Yes, I can see that. I still think my own images should be favored though. I have some of a cocoi heron fishing that, in my opinion, belong together. In that example the "similar" images only show one heron fishing and none of my heron images. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armstrong Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 It's enabled on my images. Personally I think you stand to gain as much as you lose. After all the buyer has just clicked through from a page where your images are in a thumbnail grid with everyone else's, so they were never viewing your images in isolation anyway. I do have think Philippe has two good points. Firstly regarding 'More from the same photographer". Maybe two columns or rows: 'More from this photographer' and 'Similar Images'. Secondly relevancy is key. However this is down to us as contributors keywording accurately and not keyword spamming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy deWitt Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I don't know what effect this will have, or if it is a temporary experiment or how it is affecting searches but from the beginning of January until the 13th or 14th I was having excellent zoom results and CTR. Since then CTR has dropped considerably. Sales seem okay though, at least for this month. I do long for some kind of consistency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 ... Edit to add: First test I did is already COMPLETE RUBBISH ! Searched for British garden birds >>> clicked on one of mine and what shows "Similar stock photos"? Two northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) and two black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) which are NORTH AMERICAN birds and certainly NOT British. ... Cheers, Philippe Good grief. Is that image a composite?? I'd love to see all those birds on my feeders at any time, let alone at the same time. In our neck of the woods all the little ones scatter as soon as the collared doves turn up, even the sparrows. Nice image. I shall have to try harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 And what's more amazing is the others are not particularly relevant. Gotta be a glitch (I hope) It's not a glitch; it's a stab in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Oh dear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Come on guys/girls, if their images turn up underneath your results, your images will show up under their results. Any which way you compute this, the other results will be more than yours alone. So your images will show up under more searches. The only thing you will now have to do is to make sure yours are better. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 No Wim. I spent a while and looked for cross referencing and there isn't any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The only thing you will now have to do is to make sure yours are better. Wim Yes - and customers will most likely make a general search on Alamy and pick the best ones for zooms. If yours are zoomed you are up front. I remember e-mailing a lightbox of photos to a company in the travel sector. A general search on Alamy was done shortly after - and one of my images was chosen - and has resold a number of times for the same purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I see no point in the change. What's the difference with looking at the thumbnails which showed up first? The way it was showed at least the same style (because the images were from the same photographer). But now? Just a repetition of the search page. Cheers, Philippe Yes, in fact an unnecessary and indifferent change... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Seems to me that the significant change is that a few days back I was competing, now I'm promoting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Seems to me that the significant change is that a few days back I was competing, now I'm promoting! And the others are promoting yours! Because there are more others, more are promoting you. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 ^ hope so. Time will tell I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan_Andison Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Come on guys/girls, if their images turn up underneath your results, your images will show up under their results. Any which way you compute this, the other results will be more than yours alone. So your images will show up under more searches. The only thing you will now have to do is to make sure yours are better. wim +1 No problems with seeing similars That said, I think they need to slim down the volume. One I checked had 27 more images under mine and made it look very confused, which is not good from a customers perspective. Restrict it to 4-8 with a link to "See More" otherwise the "Zoom Page" starts to look messy and confusing. Or, make the thumbnails a little smaller and have 1 row of 8 similar images from the same artist and 1 row of 8 from other artists..... this is how it is managed at other libraries and if kept to an acceptable size, will not look overly distracting as it does now (with a massive 27 other images :-) Edit. Thumbnails definitely need shrinking, they're too similar in size to the zoomed image, which should be the main focus of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan_Andison Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 And on what basis do they select the similars on the zoom page.....???? Is there some poor soul selecting them manually? Come on, it's bullshit! Doesn't serve anyone. Did some more tests: "Ile de Ré island France" Guess what pictures comes up ....... World Trade Center / Niedersachsen / Salisbury cathedral / Red Square in Moscow / ... Anybody see the connection 'cause I don't "city Ghent Belgium" Guess what pictures comes up ....... Sydney Harbour Bridge / Beijing, China / Blackpool illuminations / .... Anybody see the connection 'cause I don't 'blood pressure elderly" Guess what pictures comes up ....... lady drinking her midday sherry / hands checking calendar / .... Anybody see the connection 'cause I don't. Hell, "blood pressure" isn't even the keywords Well done! I'm impressed Cheers, Philippe While I said I had no problem with similar images being displayed, I was of course assuming the similar images were indeed similar and relevant If the above searches are representative of the whole system, then it should be stopped until it does work..... and, that the similar images are at least 50% smaller than the Zoomed image. Some examples I've seen show similar images that look the same size / bigger than the zoomed image due to the similar being Portrait instead of Landscape! This is not right and takes away attention from the zoomed image. Insufficient testing before implementation?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 "city Ghent Belgium" Guess what pictures comes up ....... Sydney Harbour Bridge / Beijing, China / Blackpool illuminations / .... Anybody see the connection 'cause I don't = illuminations / illuminated km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I don't know what effect this will have, or if it is a temporary experiment or how it is affecting searches but from the beginning of January until the 13th or 14th I was having excellent zoom results and CTR. Since then CTR has dropped considerably. Sales seem okay though, at least for this month. I do long for some kind of consistency. +1 Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I really do not see how this is supposed to be helpful. If a customer wanted to see so many thumbnails from every contributors, a simple click on the "previous" button of the web browser -> Back to the main thumbnails gallery… But if the customer wanted to see other images from the same contributor, they were just below. That seemed so logical to me… Now we have thumbnails galleries everywhere! Just looks MESSY… Absolutely agree - and particularly given that it has not been implemented well, all it will result in is lower customer satisfaction Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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