Marb Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 On 10/7/2017 at 20:11, JeffGreenberg said: Some of your color images. Nice processing. What I aspire to, but not quite getting there. If willing to say, Clarity +20 / Vibrance +30...? Am sure there's a lot more to it than that, but... A lot of tweaking of many parameters in Lightroom. I tend not to go too heavy on clarity. Just practice (watch some Youtube tutorials) as I am still learning. Having said that I am still getting no sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 October is shaping up to possibly being my best month ever, with half to go. That’s following a poor September. A few healthy $$ totals, one being $250. That one being a RM that had never licensed that I changed to RF a few months back. Two RF licenses this month. Happy.. hoping I’m not jinxing it. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 51 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: October is shaping up to possibly being my best month ever, with half to go. That’s following a poor September. A few healthy $$ totals, one being $250. That one being a RM that had never licensed that I changed to RF a few months back. Two RF licenses this month. Happy.. hoping I’m not jinxing it. Betty This will make you feel even better Betty. I have had 8 sales so far this month and your ONE $250 sale is more than my 8 combined!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 16 minutes ago, Michael Ventura said: This will make you feel even better Betty. I have had 8 sales so far this month and your ONE $250 sale is more than my 8 combined!! Michael, I had a month like that in August. Decent sales volume, low values. I feel for you. This is a crazy business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Betty LaRue said: October is shaping up to possibly being my best month ever, with half to go. That’s following a poor September. A few healthy $$ totals, one being $250. That one being a RM that had never licensed that I changed to RF a few months back. Two RF licenses this month. Happy.. hoping I’m not jinxing it. Betty Ah, so that's where all of the October sales have been going! There's only so many to go around and you may have cornered the market, at least that's what I am telling myself Pretty grim up north I'll tell you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Bryan said: Ah, so that's where all of the October sales have been going! There's only so many to go around and you may have cornered the market, at least that's what I am telling myself Pretty grim up north I'll tell you..... Not so pretty down south! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasilnut Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Nothing from me yet in Oct :-/ I've resorted to making passport composites, maybe will be used on some brexit-related articles: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Betty LaRue said: October is shaping up to possibly being my best month ever, with half to go. That’s following a poor September. A few healthy $$ totals, one being $250. That one being a RM that had never licensed that I changed to RF a few months back. Two RF licenses this month. Happy.. hoping I’m not jinxing it. Betty That's interesting to hear. None of the RM images that I've changed to RF have ever licensed or even been zoomed. Still waiting for my first RF sale on Alamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 35 minutes ago, losdemas said: Not so pretty down south! Not too bad way out west. I seem to be headed for an average or better month with seven sales so far. Zooms are a bit sparse, though, as noted in another thread. What happened to the "last ten minutes" thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sultanpepa Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Up north of north the "last ten minutes" have been dire just like the minutes leading up to it from the beginning of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, John Mitchell said: That's interesting to hear. None of the RM images that I've changed to RF have ever licensed or even been zoomed. Still waiting for my first RF sale on Alamy. The RF license is the highest value one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 20 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: The RF license is the highest value one. Congratulations. Still waiting for the RF fairy to show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, John Mitchell said: Congratulations. Still waiting for the RF fairy to show up. John, I think I changed a decent number of mine to RF a fair amount of time before you did, if I remember your posts correctly. You were still hanging tight with RM. I did it shortly after the new AIM and it seems possibly you waited a few months. Maybe it takes awhile. Then, I.D imagine if you don’t change a decent percent to RF, it’s like the proverbial drop in the bucket and of course not a lot will happen. I didn’t just change the older, lower tier (dogs) of images to RF, but some later ones I believe are just as good as the RM ones. Betty just checked numbers...1263 are RF including some I processed yesterday. What is that, between 20-25%? So I might expect to license 2 RF out of 10? Right now, I’m 2 out of 8. of course that may be skewed because the subjects I sell the most of need to be RM. Anyway, at the moment I’m not doing RF editorial because those particular images I could see being relicensed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Betty LaRue said: John, I think I changed a decent number of mine to RF a fair amount of time before you did, if I remember your posts correctly. You were still hanging tight with RM. I did it shortly after the new AIM and it seems possibly you waited a few months. Maybe it takes awhile. Then, I.D imagine if you don’t change a decent percent to RF, it’s like the proverbial drop in the bucket and of course not a lot will happen. I didn’t just change the older, lower tier (dogs) of images to RF, but some later ones I believe are just as good as the RM ones. Betty just checked numbers...1263 are RF including some I processed yesterday. What is that, between 20-25%? So I might expect to license 2 RF out of 10? Right now, I’m 2 out of 8. of course that may be skewed because the subjects I sell the most of need to be RM. Anyway, at the moment I’m not doing RF editorial because those particular images I could see being relicensed. I currently have only 323 RF images, so not even a drop in the rain barrel. Shall keep adding the occasional one as I go along. Glad to hear that you're having some success with your RF images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roman t Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 October for me is outstanding when compared with September: three sales for two hundred thirty dollar gross. That is three times the number of sales and more than seventy six times more money than the entire last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Absolutely dead. The sales lull continues. Highest priced sale here this year £25.15 Total earnings this year $139. Total at a microstock site this year over $2000. And I am told that the money is better here. Sadly I think I will have to start uploading my exclusive to Alamy editorial images (that also sell on microstock) outside here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasilnut Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Quote Total at a microstock site this year over $2000. And I am told that the money is better here. Sadly I think I will have to start uploading my exclusive to Alamy editorial images (that also sell on microstock) outside here. You have quite a few graffiti editorials. One such large Microstock agency doesn't allow any shots of graffiti, even as editorials. Keep the faith with Alamy a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 42 minutes ago, Marb said: Sadly I think I will have to start uploading my exclusive to Alamy editorial images (that also sell on microstock) outside here. Funny definition of 'exclusive '! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marb Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 7 minutes ago, losdemas said: Funny definition of 'exclusive '! They are exclusive for now on Alamy but I may have to change that if I decide to sell them outside here too. Sorry, I could have worded it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReeRay Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 No complaints here. This month has already surpassed my best ever for volume and we're only half way through. A few more sales and this will become my best year ever for volume and revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 No complaints here either. Good October month, best year ever for volume since 2003, 2nd year ever for revenue. And still 2 1/2 months to go! Thank you Alamy. Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 I know this thread has become tedious -- even ridiculous -- but it seems that whenever I post something here, sales start magically trickling in shortly after. Only five sales so far in November and nothing since the 14th. Zooms not so hot either. Definitely a slow month for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andremichel Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Slow month for me too. No large sales amounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 52 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: I know this thread has become tedious -- even ridiculous -- but it seems that whenever I post something here, sales start magically tricking in shortly after. Only five sales so far in November and nothing since the 14th. Zooms not so hot either. Definitely a slow month for me. So I’ll post here on that premise. 4 for me, but average $$ over $100 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 2 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: So I’ll post here on that premise. 4 for me, but average $$ over $100 each. Wish I could say the same. Good for you. BTW, that should have been "trickling in" not "tricking in" -- Freudian slip on my part, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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