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I do not know where you find the time to make and upload such large numbers of quality images.

 

Delegate  -_-

 

Cheers,

Philippe

 

Delegate? OK! Phillipe, would you add a few hundred quality images to my portfolio please. ;)

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I do not know where you find the time to make and upload such large numbers of quality images.

 

 

Delegate  -_-

 

Cheers,

Philippe

Delegate? OK! Phillipe, would you add a few hundred quality images to my portfolio please. ;)
Right after me, I'll take 5,000 please. Off the top.
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I find this thread a bit worrying - I understand that some submit as agencies (i.e. more than one tog taking the actual pics) - but it makes me wonder .......... there are some huge numbers here ...... is it just a numbers game? Sounds like a recipe for eventual market disaster - the supply side is out of kilter with the demand but the supply just keeps increasing.

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It is not about making "Sausages" it is not the number or images, it is the image.

A lot will not agree with me, but I only work on and upload images that I care about, today

tomorrow and hope that my children receive $ for during their life.

 

I see a lot of groups of images of thousands that could be properly edited down to hundreds

or less...

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I do not know where you find the time to make and upload such large numbers of quality images.

 

Delegate  -_-

 

Cheers,

Philippe

Delegate? OK! Phillipe, would you add a few hundred quality images to my portfolio please. ;)
Right after me, I'll take 5,000 please. Off the top.

 

 

But you all can. Bunch up (is that proper English?  :huh:) with a some good photographers, invest in a website and a few external harddisks ....... and that's about it. The rest is spending time, time, time. 

 

Cheers,

Philippe  ;)

 

Team up. Bunch up is maybe for a group of cyclists on the road, or people listening to a tour guide.

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I have 2-300 going back almost 2 years that I want to go through and upload, but finding the time is the problem.


As soon as I have uploaded them to my computer I cherry pick any good ones but there are still some potential gems (hopefully!) that I haven't processed yet.


I process them in Lightroom as a date batch with any adjustments that are the same done as a preset, like remove chromatic aberration, increase vibrance and lens distortion.


I go through them individually and any tweaking is done in Elements, like removing dust bunnies and any cloning etc.


So quite time consuming - hence the backlog!


 


John.


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I have 2-300 going back almost 2 years that I want to go through and upload, but finding the time is the problem.

As soon as I have uploaded them to my computer I cherry pick any good ones but there are still some potential gems (hopefully!) that I haven't processed yet.

I process them in Lightroom as a date batch with any adjustments that are the same done as a preset, like remove chromatic aberration, increase vibrance and lens distortion.

I go through them individually and any tweaking is done in Elements, like removing dust bunnies and any cloning etc.

So quite time consuming - hence the backlog!

 

John.

Get after it, John. But I understand, since I just processed a two-year-old folder!
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I have been uploading about 60/month, recently I have fallen behind with key wording, I have  several in my "not ready" folder. Granted, I don't have a "stock" so as to say, only about 200 pictures so far here. Taking pictures is easy, handpicking, post-processing, key wording and uploading is a huge task.

 

As many others here, I have a full time job and still want to have a life despite Alamy and stock in genera. 

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Rather than a given number of images per month or in total as a goal, I'm trying to achieve a low ratio of my images to the field of available images for any given keyword set.

 

If there are 100 images in the field and I have 10 of them, then obviously the ration is 1:10 and if there are 10,000 in the field, then the ratio would be 1:1,000. The lower the ratio for each image I submit, the greater my chances of sales.

 

Anyway, this is how I have interpreted advice Wim Wiskerke has offered here, so I'm looking for things to shoot that haven't been done to death by everyone else and yet aren't so obscure that no buyers will search for them.

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Rather than a given number of images per month or in total as a goal, I'm trying to achieve a low ratio of my images to the field of available images for any given keyword set.

 

If there are 100 images in the field and I have 10 of them, then obviously the ration is 1:10 and if there are 10,000 in the field, then the ratio would be 1:1,000. The lower the ratio for each image I submit, the greater my chances of sales.

 

Anyway, this is how I have interpreted advice Wim Wiskerke has offered here, so I'm looking for things to shoot that haven't been done to death by everyone else and yet aren't so obscure that no buyers will search for them.

Finding those gaps isn't easy.
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Rather than a given number of images per month or in total as a goal, I'm trying to achieve a low ratio of my images to the field of available images for any given keyword set.

 

If there are 100 images in the field and I have 10 of them, then obviously the ration is 1:10 and if there are 10,000 in the field, then the ratio would be 1:1,000. The lower the ratio for each image I submit, the greater my chances of sales.

 

Anyway, this is how I have interpreted advice Wim Wiskerke has offered here, so I'm looking for things to shoot that haven't been done to death by everyone else and yet aren't so obscure that no buyers will search for them.

Finding those gaps isn't easy.

 

 

If you can find a productive gap that hasn't been filled, it can be a real boon. For example, I have a series of older images that -- amazingly --  no one else has, and they have been selling regularly for almost ten years, including three licenses this month. Finding new and fruitful gaps to fill is definitely a real challenge, though. Have to stay that I haven't stumbled upon any winners recently, but they are still out there, of course.

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I did find one recently, John, but I doubt the subject is much in demand. You know what they say about a blind squirrel finding a nut once in awhile. <chitter-chitter>

Yet I have it if anyone decides they need it 5 years from now.

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Rather than a given number of images per month or in total as a goal, I'm trying to achieve a low ratio of my images to the field of available images for any given keyword set.

 

If there are 100 images in the field and I have 10 of them, then obviously the ration is 1:10 and if there are 10,000 in the field, then the ratio would be 1:1,000. The lower the ratio for each image I submit, the greater my chances of sales.

 

Anyway, this is how I have interpreted advice Wim Wiskerke has offered here, so I'm looking for things to shoot that haven't been done to death by everyone else and yet aren't so obscure that no buyers will search for them.

Finding those gaps isn't easy.

 

 

If you can find a productive gap that hasn't been filled, it can be a real boon. For example, I have a series of older images that -- amazingly --  no one else has, and they have been selling regularly for almost ten years, including three licenses this month. Finding new and fruitful gaps to fill is definitely a real challenge, though. Have to stay that I haven't stumbled upon any winners recently, but they are still out there, of course.

 

 

Finding the gaps is not that difficult. They are those images that we all see everywhere but think that we can not do that (access, technique, models, style, specialist knowledge, etc etc). The difficulty is to turn abound and learn and shoot those images. Shooting typical "found" images is not likely to fill the gaps, it becomes a matter of luck which does not come around often. Just my opinion.

GI

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Rather than a given number of images per month or in total as a goal, I'm trying to achieve a low ratio of my images to the field of available images for any given keyword set.

 

If there are 100 images in the field and I have 10 of them, then obviously the ration is 1:10 and if there are 10,000 in the field, then the ratio would be 1:1,000. The lower the ratio for each image I submit, the greater my chances of sales.

 

Anyway, this is how I have interpreted advice Wim Wiskerke has offered here, so I'm looking for things to shoot that haven't been done to death by everyone else and yet aren't so obscure that no buyers will search for them.

 

Finding those gaps isn't easy.

 

If you can find a productive gap that hasn't been filled, it can be a real boon. For example, I have a series of older images that -- amazingly --  no one else has, and they have been selling regularly for almost ten years, including three licenses this month. Finding new and fruitful gaps to fill is definitely a real challenge, though. Have to stay that I haven't stumbled upon any winners recently, but they are still out there, of course.

 

Finding the gaps is not that difficult. They are those images that we all see everywhere but think that we can not do that (access, technique, models, style, specialist knowledge, etc etc). The difficulty is to turn abound and learn and shoot those images. Shooting typical "found" images is not likely to fill the gaps, it becomes a matter of luck which does not come around often. Just my opinion.

GI

Good opinion, but most of us can't afford professional shoots with hired models. And those are the images in demand. I've already got my family members running for the hills when they see me coming.
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I occasionally look at  the customer search activity, which is a valuable resource for finding gaps in Alamys picture base.

Searchable history goes back one year and if then narrowed down to one of your favorite search term(s), you can see which combinations yielded only little result. 

 

say iron is a favorite topic, see all search terms in combination with iron for the past year.

Then look at the views - if under hundred it may be an interesting topic to exploit. 

 

Result from the above: "Iron Maiden Album" only yielded 9 results - of these 9 actually only 2 fit what I believe the clients searched for.

If only I had still one (and the topic interested me enough), I would take pictures and upload  

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I occasionally look at  the customer search activity, which is a valuable resource for finding gaps in Alamys picture base.

Searchable history goes back one year and if then narrowed down to one of your favorite search term(s), you can see which combinations yielded only little result. 

 

say iron is a favorite topic, see all search terms in combination with iron for the past year.

Then look at the views - if under hundred it may be an interesting topic to exploit. 

 

Result from the above: "Iron Maiden Album" only yielded 9 results - of these 9 actually only 2 fit what I believe the clients searched for.

If only I had still one (and the topic interested me enough), I would take pictures and upload

 

Great! I am woefully ignorant on how to use the various functions of Alamy. I need an Alamy 101 class.
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  • 1 month later...

I'm a 'newbie' so still keen and full of the joys of spring. Probably average about 200 - 300 a month ish. Someone told me that you should, eventually, be aiming to sell about 10% of your images but at the moment my sales are more like 1%! :-(

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As a matter of interest do you think images get faster approval in Quality Control if you are a more regular contributor?

 

Yes, if you are a successful at passing QC contributor.

 

John.

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