Who else is currently with Alamy?

08/17/2010 08:54:39 AM · #3

Hey all you Alamy contribs, if you have won a prestigious photography award within the last 12 months, let them know. They do stress the word prestigious, and don't count things like local camera club awards - don't go flaming me, that's what they say themselves.

//www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2010/08/16/4830.aspx

Meanwhile, as winning a ribbon here is certainly no walk in the park for 99.5% of us, and that dpc is seen as one of the toughest competitive-photography sites around, I might fly Plane of Perspective by them.

Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L USM II

07/18/2010 12:11:43 PM · #4

Originally posted by AWGD8:

New here. I`m also a Creative Collection contributor at Alamy. Sadly, I just started and only have 7 pictures in there. So why the heck Istock photo keep failing my pics while Alamy accepting it? Seems like Alamy is more into art or creative looks while Istock is a fast
photo business machine (simple subjects).

Hmm sorry can't answer your question, but good work getting accepted into the CC at Alamy!

AWGD8

Canon EOS-5D

07/10/2010 09:25:12 AM · #5

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro

07/02/2010 06:31:49 PM · #6

And now for your ~~daily~~ err, weekly monologue on Alamy, a la

snaffles....who is apparently dumber'n a box of rocks. I thought I was getting all kinds of zooms. And uhmm err I wasn't, I was reading the Total Zooms instead of Your Zooms. So zooms and sales so far...nada.

On the plus side I now have 38 images up (yes, more are awaiting QC) and so far 21 views. So I am getting nibbles, just no bites. In the meantime will continue shooting seasonal stuff as that seems to be hot right now! Bahahahahaaa...

Hope all Canucks had a good Canada Day, and an early Happy 'Murrica Day to our buddies south of the border!

Message edited by author 2010-07-02 18:33:09.

oboy

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

07/02/2010 11:47:19 AM · #7

I am with Alamy, but it takes time to build an portfolio with them. And the submitting process is slow. Sales are low to, but then there is always the change with them to hit a really big sale.

simontaylorphoto

Nikon D50

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

07/02/2010 05:17:29 AM · #8

Ok I forgot all about this site for three years, and just found the link in an old back up. So here i am.

Put 4 images on Alamy last week and got accepted within 2 days. I was shocked to say the least. Now just trying to get some stock shooting done as i know numbers and keyword is what is needed to succeed with Alamy.

06/16/2010 10:28:28 AM · #9

Alamy just made a liar of me, my latest batch of images - basically exactly the same images except the one marginal one - just all passed QC. I do agree though that if they don't pass fairly expediently, then yes someone else is giving an opinion on the marginal ones. This batch took approx 36 hrs to pass QC.

So onwards and upwards! :-) BTW

ganders, is there a link to Alamy on your profile? No, not interested in copying anyone in terms of style or content when I ask, just curious to see what others are putting up. And apologies in advance if you do, I haven't yet clicked on your username.

ganders

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/16/2010 09:46:37 AM · #10

Meh... I'm not convinced that's true. Looking at submissions for this year, things generally pass QC within 24 hours, although there are occasional (presumably busy) times where that can stretch out to 2 or 3 days. The only real exceptions are one or two batches that have taken nearly a week, when I suspect I've had some marginal pictures that have had to have a second pair of eyes checking them.

During that time I've had 3 failures - one for a dust bunny I missed and two for pictures which I frankly knew were marginal. In all those cases, the next batch got approved within 24 hours.

edit to add: that said, I've got an established record of QC passes, which may make them more forgiving of my occasional hiccups!

Message edited by author 2010-06-16 09:47:41.

06/16/2010 09:07:46 AM · #11

And now for your morning monologue on Alamy from snaffles...

I have heard that if your images fail QC (and yes they DO single out the offending photo, give you the reasons why and expect you to either fix it (which I can't in this case) or fuhgedaboudit. Anyway seems that if you have failed QC recently your photos are bumped down the line, probably as a form of reprimand, so it will probably be another week before this Monday's batch passes QC. However, nothing says that in the meantime you cannot continue to upload more images, so I am prepping another batch to upload later today...once I get my studio tidied up BAHAHAHAAHAAAA!

And that is it for today's morning monologue.

06/14/2010 05:17:58 PM · #12

That's my guess, too. Generally I do between 6 and 10 per upload. And from the looks of it, the only one that they actually had a problem with was the one flagged with the reasons why they rejected it. Everything else was jsut collateral damage...I hope! :-)

06/14/2010 03:49:28 PM · #13

That's probably deliberate to keep the batches small. No one wants to risk having hundreds rejected because one is bad. ;o)

06/14/2010 03:23:41 PM · #14

Originally posted by serdar415:

They should be inspecting every photo separately even if they uploaded as a batch. A problem in a photo should not affect the others.

Sadly, that's how it is at Alamy, and I knew that if there was one bad shot the whole batch would be rejected. That's just how they do it, they are very straightforward about it.

I don't mind the slap on the wrist, serves me right for getting lazy.

btw

serdar415, do you have a link to your stock images?

serdar415

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

06/14/2010 03:20:22 PM · #15

They should be inspecting every photo separately even if they uploaded as a batch. A problem in a photo should not affect the others.

06/14/2010 03:04:04 PM · #16

Apparently! :-)

And for today's Alamy monologue...well I did decide to upload a pic that I was NOT 100% sure of in terms of quality (looked a teeny tiny bit soft) ...and yes *sob, sniff* got a batch of 6 photos rejected, all because 1 had faults with it. So entirely my fault.

As a result I will delete that pic, resubmit the others (though I may as well be on the safe side and check them over again, too) and see how it shakes out.

06/13/2010 11:43:40 AM · #17

Originally posted by snaffles:

Morning monologue, with your host snaffles...

The first few batches I sent Alamy cleared QC within 24hrs. However as I am painfully learning, it can and will take a week. So by tomorrow I should know if latest batch has cleared QC.

ETA:...remember how I mentioned it's good to always put in the Latin name of flora and fauna? Yesterday I saw a member of the species sitting on its haunches, one of which whose images got seen only because I had used its Latin name. So I said 'Hi, Lepus americanus', and after looking at me like I was completely daft, the snowshoe hare bounded off into the woods....so Disneyish it's sickening! :-0

So now you're Dr. Doolittle? hehe

06/13/2010 09:41:59 AM · #18

Morning monologue, with your host

snaffles...

The first few batches I sent Alamy cleared QC within 24hrs. However as I am painfully learning, it can and will take a week. So by tomorrow I should know if latest batch has cleared QC.

ETA:...remember how I mentioned it's good to always put in the Latin name of flora and fauna? Yesterday I saw a member of the species sitting on its haunches, one of which whose images got seen only because I had used its Latin name. So I said 'Hi, Lepus americanus', and after looking at me like I was completely daft, the snowshoe hare bounded off into the woods....so Disneyish it's sickening! :-0

Message edited by author 2010-06-13 09:44:57.

06/12/2010 09:18:44 PM · #19

Originally posted by snaffles:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Originally posted by snaffles:
evening bump

What? No addition to your monologue? ;oP

lol nope not today...except my last batch of pix which I uploaded Monday morning, still have NOT cleared QC yet...not worried but in meantime in no rush to send in more pix. Why add to an existing backlog?!

I still haven't put my first batch together. It'll have to wait until the middle of next month since I have too many other things to deal with at the moment.

06/12/2010 09:12:17 PM · #20

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

Originally posted by snaffles:
evening bump

What? No addition to your monologue? ;oP

lol nope not today...except my last batch of pix which I uploaded Monday morning, still have NOT cleared QC yet...not worried but in meantime in no rush to send in more pix. Why add to an existing backlog?!

06/12/2010 08:29:02 PM · #21

Originally posted by snaffles:

evening bump

What? No addition to your monologue? ;oP

06/12/2010 08:21:42 PM · #22

evening bump

06/11/2010 08:10:41 PM · #23

Welcome to the

snaffles monologue on Alamy...:-0

Today's helpful advice, when keywording animals/plants, make sure you put in the Latin term...one of my images got zoomed and was in a fairly small field of only 117 images, and the search used by the client was only its Latin name.

06/10/2010 07:07:59 PM · #24

Thank you very much for the advice, doing my best to vary my portfolio! :-)

serdar415