phteeven Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Hello guys, I'm a 24 year old male student from cologne and just started to upload some pictures to Alamy. About 1 1/2 years ago I startet uploading some pictures I took with my smartphone to a german app called "Eyeem". Since then I uploaded about 500 random pictures without really thinking about my compositions and tags. If pictures pass the Quality-Chheck they are selected for a premium collection wich is accessable for Getty-Buyers. About 113 Pictures made it throug and earned me a total of 250 dollar over the last year. I now started to buy several photobooks and consumed a lot of online courses to step up my photography game (also switched from my Smartphone to Fuji X-E1). I'm also reading a lot in this forum to get an idea of what it takes to sell on Alamy. I now started to upload my first pictures. I really like alamy because of a it's low number of rejections and the community. I couldn't find any other stock plattform with such a nice and large community where everyone is welcome. I figured out that Alamy is mainly a platform to sale editorial pictures. I really like this idea and would like to start capturing editorial topics, but I'm not sure if Alamy is the right place to sell editorials from germany. So i would like to ask, if anyone of you has some experience with this topic or if you would advice me to upload to a german editorial stock agency instead. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 (edited) I can't answer your question about German stock agencies. However, you need to do some work on your captions. For instance, in M7R7E5, I don't see a "male with white hoodie on staircase." Welcome and good luck. Edited April 24, 2018 by John Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phteeven Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 Thanks for the advice John, I still have to get familiar with the Alamy Uploader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Shantz Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I cannot help with how well German editorial images sell on Alamy, but I do see quite a few for sale here. A couple of comments on your images. Unreleased model / property should be marked RF editorial only if sold as RF -- the optional tab on Alamy Image Manager. Your M7R76D for example. You also need to work on captioning and tagging (keywording). For example M7R7G6. I would have the name of the chapel (if known) and its location in the caption. Your tags have France -- wouldn't think this appropriate for a photo taken in Monaco. Inappropriate tags can lead to views that won't be zoomed, which will tend to lower your ranking. You have made a good start -- nice photos and good variety. Best of luck. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phteeven Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 Hi Robert, thank you very much for your honest and very helpful advice!;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rodgers Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Good luck and welcome Phteeven. It's good to know you made some money on EyeEm. I uploaded about 40 before my phone broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phteeven Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 @ John I had to upload about 300 pictures of wich only 113 were selected by Getty, because I had no idea of what I was doing. But these few pictures gave me a lot of sales between 2 and 15 dollar and even two sales of 50 and 60 dollar. Until today I have sold 26 licences, wich is very good for a time span of one year and 113 pictures I think. But It does take about 3-4 months until pictures are gooing online on getty. So be patient and keep on uploading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Unfortunately most sales to German markets are via distributor, so you only get 30%. You may be better off going direct to the distributor. I can't name it here, but Alamy's distributors are listed on the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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