Jools Elliott Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Thanks Niels. I will bear in mind And thank you for the comments on my photos. I do hope that they sell somewhere too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 This is a local site here in NYC that specializes in these type stories: https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/13fd4b33796493a1 Keith has a "nose for news." Ha.....i guess... my photos of people in the hot weather from friday and yesterday are running in 6 uk papers today. Weather (good or bad) is a consistent feature of Uk newspapers.. It's not 'hard' news, but it runs km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Elliott Posted July 14, 2013 Author Share Posted July 14, 2013 What I'm curious about is how much the french newspapers use Alamy images. Or any other news outlets other than the UK. Last night, I made the effort of getting down to the 14th July celebrations in Tours. Was very pleased with one image of an official. Keith, you have certainly sparked something of which I am planning to keep on pursuing in addition to what I normally do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 What I'm curious about is how much the french newspapers use Alamy images. Or any other news outlets other than the UK. Interesting question. My gut reaction is: in France probably never. You live in France: have you ever seen one? In the Elle or Elle Decoration, yes, but not a lot: mainly in articles originating from other editions, like the Canadian or the US. To test your question I ran 100 recent, but random, editions of Le Journal du Dimanche L'Equipe La Provence Le Journal du sud Ouest Le Parisien El-Watan Le Figaro Libération Le Monde Les Echos L'Humanité 20minutes La Tribune La Croix Le Buteur Le Républicain Lorrain Questions internationales La Gazette ( La Nouvelle Gazette de Charleroi ( Le Temps Algérie through Adobe Reader and found none. These were all true pdf's with proper captioned images (not like UK newspapers). I included some sports newspapers and some papers from the weeks that Wimbledon was on. The result: zero Alamy (100 is of course a very small sample) wim Maybe check your Summary of items sold - set to all. Mine: 1 sale ever to France: a textbook 1/8 page for $97 edit: the smileys are supposed to mean (Belgian) I just hate it when a program (or a camera) thinks it should do the thinking - and decides things for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Elliott Posted July 15, 2013 Author Share Posted July 15, 2013 The thing is though, if I don't take it someone else will! At least if I try then the images are there Surely there is a market somewhere for news images coming out of France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Park Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I checked my sales since 2005. Appears I have only sold 7 images specifically in France via Alamy, 5 of these were of subject matters shot in France (and 3 of these sold this month). None of the sales show as newspaper, all are Editorial, books. None of my Tour de France sales have sold in France. Different story with one of my other libraries where I have multiple sales in France, including newspapers and news websites. I can only surmise that Alamy is possibly not as well represented in the French market as the other company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 "Surely there is a market somewhere for news images coming out of France." For the sort of imagery that sell by the bucketful in the UK, probably not .....I can imagine two situations where French imagery could find a UK press market: - when activity in Franjce is directly afffecting UK interests (think strikes/protest/buring sheep/air traffic control/ports) - when the image is funny/quirky/odd and fits into the UK stereotypical view of the French (think man in beret eating snails...) - and then only if France is somehow in the news in general (maybe at Presidential election times)km(kids jumping off jetty into sea pix i made saturday running in Guardian/Times/Express print editions today) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 also bear in mind that AlamyLiveNews works in two ways: passive: you upload to the newsfeed and hope that buyers come and search/browse and chose your image(s) active: you upload to the newsfeed and the AlamyNews team pick and chose the images that they think are of interest and they send them out to the relevant picture desks at the national/regional papers your chances of getting work used are much, much higher if your images are in the 'active' stream km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Douglas Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 also bear in mind that AlamyLiveNews works in two ways: passive: you upload to the newsfeed and hope that buyers come and search/browse and chose your image(s) active: you upload to the newsfeed and the AlamyNews team pick and chose the images that they think are of interest and they send them out to the relevant picture desks at the national/regional papers your chances of getting work used are much, much higher if your images are in the 'active' stream km I assume that the entry point is the same for either stream, and the choice of stream is solely down to the AlamyNews team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 also bear in mind that AlamyLiveNews works in two ways: passive: you upload to the newsfeed and hope that buyers come and search/browse and chose your image(s) active: you upload to the newsfeed and the AlamyNews team pick and chose the images that they think are of interest and they send them out to the relevant picture desks at the national/regional papers your chances of getting work used are much, much higher if your images are in the 'active' stream km I assume that the entry point is the same for either stream, and the choice of stream is solely down to the AlamyNews team? How would you know if Alamy has pushed out your photos to picture desks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 In the have you found images June thread Sprocket just reported these two from Le Figaro: Posted 2 hours ago Le Figaro 17 mai 2013, p25D3GW50.jpgD3GW50 Tokyo, Japan, urban scene in Akihabara electronic district. Crystite licenced Le Figaro 28 juin 2013, p23BCHM8R.jpgBCHM8R Heavy traffic in Munich Germany Moon Yin Lam wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 And here another one from Le Figaro in the May thread by Sprocket: Posted 2 hours ago Le Figaro 2 mai 2013 p19D5HGG4.jpgD5HGG4 Technician repairing a washing machine Minerva Studio wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 An yet another, now in the April thread: Le Figaro 22 avril 2013, p36D3JFJ0.jpgD3JFJ0 PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius appears for his bail hearing in the Pretoria Magistrate Court on February 20, 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa. Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with the murder after he allegedly shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Silver Woods last Thursday, is appearing in court today for his bail hearing. (Photo by Gallo Images / City Press / Herman Verwey) Photographer Nerissa D'Alton Agency Gallo images wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Looking for Alamy on Le Figaro in Google Images, I get close to a 100 Alamy images (plus a couple of thumbnail repeats) over the years. So the myth that there are no Alamy images in French newspapers is squarely busted.As far as I can see most if not all images have their metadata intact, so if you want to know if you have been published in Le Figaro, go have a look here:http://tinyurl.com/p9nyu8g wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I assume that the entry point is the same for either stream, and the choice of stream is solely down to the AlamyNews team? yep only a fraction of the images sent to LiveNews are ever actively punted out again.......have a look at what comes in...to be honest, a lot of it is either rubbish, or up against much stronger material from the agencies, or just too blinking late..... km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Elliott Posted July 15, 2013 Author Share Posted July 15, 2013 Interesting you say about the rubbisg Keith. When I had a look at the News Feed following your suggestion, I couldn't believe some of the what had been uploaded as "news". When i did the TDF stuff, I only uploaded something I would have been happy passing regular QC. I also wanted to make sure that what I did upload look half decent in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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