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 04/04/2006 07:14:28 AM · #26
100% of my sales have been RM; but then, I'm not sure a single sale means that this is a statistically valid observation :-)
 04/04/2006 08:03:04 AM · #27
on a related note, I am curious what kind of model releases do you all use for these?
Do you just use a standard one or do different stock agencies have different releases they want you to use?
If anyone has one i could see it would be great.
I use one now that I am not sure would hold up in all situations.
 04/04/2006 10:16:48 AM · #28
Originally posted by KHolt:
jodie (or anyone else)
do you generally do better with RF or RM images at alamy


This is information that Alamy put out last year and it is very, very close to what I've found my own sales to be:

Average price RF image - credit card customer US$ 240.00
Average price licensed image - credit card customer US$ 201.00
Average price RF image - account customer US$ 212.00
Average price licensed image - account customer US$ 161.00
Average price licensed image - editorial use US$ 135.58
Average price licensed image - commercial use US$ 453.86
Average price all licensed images US$ 172.92

(Credit card customers are people who go to the website, do their own searching and buy the image. Account customers tend to be large printing corporations (newspapers, book publishers, etc. who buy in bulk, are billed monthly and get a discount.)

Alamy sells a LOT of editorial images to newspapers and textbook publishers, so editorial images sell well and those sales are more common, while commercial images sell for much more, but maybe not as often.

Hope that information is helpful! :)

04/04/2006 10:20:46 AM · #29
Originally posted by ichiro17:
Jodie, how long did it take you to get to the level you are at now?

Would it be possible to see constant sales within 3 months or so? I know that the QC process may take a while, so lets say 3 months after you finish the QC process.


I started listing images at Alamy a year and a half ago, though I've been doing stock full time for over two years and part time for a couple of years before that.

I'd say that after you have a good number of images up, you'll start seeing sales within 3 months, easily. Then it's another couple of months before the payments clear, so I'd give it 6 months before you start actually seeing the money roll in.
 04/04/2006 12:24:35 PM · #30
Last few batches I've sent were made exactly you outlined: raw to tiff, 8-bit, upsampled to 48M. Although, I was sending some upsampled jpegs shot at high res and they didn't mind anyways. I've figured out that Alamy sells an image or two just as I become desperate about no sales :) None since September, then two in December, then two in March. Amounts pretty much correspond to the ealier lowdown. I think I cleared around $1200 last year, which is around $6 per image I placed. Never had any troubles with QC apart from a missed un-upsampled file. From what I see on random searches you need to fall quite low for your pics to be barred or maybe I got in the queue quite early and am trusted now. I haven't been following the microstock debate and I am sure I am 1000th in the queue of people asking the same question: if there are agencies where a stock image of two apples can be bought for $10, how is it possible for Alamy and other biggies to sell an identical picture for $200? And will Alamy last long with this order of things? Again, sorry if I am misposting.

Message edited by author 2006-04-04 12:26:50.
 04/04/2006 12:32:48 PM · #31
Just out of curiosity, for you guys who do sell on Alamy, what would you say does sell and what doesn't?
 04/04/2006 01:17:07 PM · #32
Up until very recently I didn't make any effort to shot anything for them, just uploaded my travel shots and general street scenery. This being UK agency, Scotland doesn't sell at all probably too much of that stuff, but Spain and Italy does and you'd be amazed how uneventful a seller can be. I got one shot, blazing daylight, dense shadows etc and it sold 6 times. I shot some apples at a friend's farm and those sold a couple quite soon even as the season was over. Almost no black and white. Got some good market food shots - none sold. RF outsold RM 3:1 for the past year. I guess if you are really thinking about making money out of this you should follow their monthly and country guidelines and work in volume.
 04/04/2006 02:04:33 PM · #33
Originally posted by olbol:
Up until very recently I didn't make any effort to shot anything for them, just uploaded my travel shots and general street scenery. This being UK agency, Scotland doesn't sell at all probably too much of that stuff, but Spain and Italy does and you'd be amazed how uneventful a seller can be. I got one shot, blazing daylight, dense shadows etc and it sold 6 times. I shot some apples at a friend's farm and those sold a couple quite soon even as the season was over. Almost no black and white. Got some good market food shots - none sold. RF outsold RM 3:1 for the past year. I guess if you are really thinking about making money out of this you should follow their monthly and country guidelines and work in volume.

What monthly and country guidelines? They have guidelines?
 04/04/2006 03:03:41 PM · #34
They have bi-monthly edition which lists current thrends. It's not too extensive now, but I remember it featured something like 'elderly couples in pink celebrating their 80th anniversary on a beach' kind of themes. It also lists most popular destinations/activities as cited by press which is a heavy hint to what is demanded by publishing industry. Of course, you can totally disregard this, go Antarctic and bring back awesome shots of penguins which will sell 5K apiece (they did, a few years back).
 04/04/2006 03:08:00 PM · #35
Originally posted by olbol:
They have bi-monthly edition which lists current thrends. It's not too extensive now, but I remember it featured something like 'elderly couples in pink celebrating their 80th anniversary on a beach' kind of themes. It also lists most popular destinations/activities as cited by press which is a heavy hint to what is demanded by publishing industry. Of course, you can totally disregard this, go Antarctic and bring back awesome shots of penguins which will sell 5K apiece (they did, a few years back).

OK, so where do I find that bi-monthle edition?
I have a lot of travel photos from very off the beaten path locations
 04/05/2006 10:33:33 AM · #36
Can I use Bridge to keyword my pictures for Alamy? Will they be automatically recognized? Anyone know?
 04/09/2006 01:07:56 PM · #37
Originally posted by maggieddd:
Can I use Bridge to keyword my pictures for Alamy? Will they be automatically recognized? Anyone know?

I'm reliably informed by my CS2-using wife that yes, that works.
 04/09/2006 06:59:30 PM · #38
Originally posted by ganders:
Originally posted by maggieddd:
Can I use Bridge to keyword my pictures for Alamy? Will they be automatically recognized? Anyone know?

I'm reliably informed by my CS2-using wife that yes, that works.

Thank you. Althought I sent my initial batch this morning without keywording (I figured I may not get in so why waste time). It's good to know for the future.
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