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09/30/2005 02:55:16 PM · #376 |
Originally posted by digitalknight:
Hey, challenge successful for me - I thought they would notify me upon a sale, but they didn't.
Just found out I sold one earlier this month, a cover for some magazine no less - made my day.
My first stock sale at real stock prices - now the challenge is to get to 30 sales a month... |
Congrats! |
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09/30/2005 04:55:21 PM · #377 |
I'm absolutely stunned...
My QC images were keyworded two weeks ago and I got a sale today for $547. Not even managed to send in my first real submission. Pure luck to make such an early sale but I am real happy. =)
Alamy is my first attempt to sell anything.
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09/30/2005 05:19:31 PM · #378 |
wow, way to go.
which image was it... if you care to share
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09/30/2005 05:29:10 PM · #379 |
I hope this motivates people to yank ALL their photos from the microstock sites. :D
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09/30/2005 09:37:40 PM · #380 |
Zorba that's great!
Mine was for $347, but it is on the cover of a magazine with 45,000 printed this month - in London where I'll never see it - however, I still think this rocks.
To your microstock point - I was on three micro-payment sites for five months - between all three of them I made $80 - that's over 100 of my images, the same ones selling on Alamy, for $80.
This is better - much better! I have two other sites in the states that are starting to rep the images too.
So congrats zorba, and jump in everybody, the water's fine.
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09/30/2005 09:42:00 PM · #381 |
The one I sold was from this shoot. 5.4 in the people II challenge I entered this - I was happy with that result, this selling the same images for real money is fun too.
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09/30/2005 10:24:05 PM · #382 |
Originally posted by digitalknight:
Mine was for $347, but it is on the cover of a magazine with 45,000 printed this month - in London where I'll never see it - |
you should post a thread on here and request a londoner (there are tons) to send you a copy. :) that would be a really cool piece to have.
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10/10/2005 09:00:00 AM · #383 |
I am happy to report that on my second submission 13 out of 15 images were accepted . . . . . . . I've keyworded them and I am assuming they will be available beginning tomorrow.
While I still have questions . . . . . . at least I feel like I have a foot in the door. |
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10/10/2005 10:28:29 AM · #384 |
This is very inspiring...
I know my chances of sales are low as Alamy is not a specialist travel or wildlife stock site and I've been told by a number of industry experts that they tend not to search Alamy for this kind of image.
Incase you're wondering why I don't put my images at those sites, some are still slide/ film only and others have a really high minimum volume of contribution that I can't hit yet.
Still, I remain hopeful and am working on additional images to load soon.
BEST OF LUCK TO MY FELLOW ALAMY DPCers!
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10/10/2005 11:13:24 AM · #385 |
Kavey, I'd be curious as to where your industry expert friends do go to search for travel images in particular. I've just started with Alamy as well and being that travel is my principle area of photography, I'm curious about where I would have some better chances of getting sold.
Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated! |
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10/10/2005 11:16:31 AM · #386 |
| I would disagree with your experts. I think alamy is primarily travel and editorial photography... and a big number of their buyers are for travel type publications. |
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10/10/2005 11:52:00 AM · #387 |
I have 42 images of Hurricane Katrina damage from around New Orleans sitting in their "submissions queue" to be reviewed. I hope they get approved quickly enough to still be relevant, and that someone would actually buy just one... :-)
Congrats to all who have recently sold. It brings new hope to those of us who haven't yet.
Doug
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10/10/2005 11:58:22 AM · #388 |
| make sure you tell us when they are approved |
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10/11/2005 05:15:48 AM · #389 |
Leaf,
They are not claiming to know the make-up of Alamy clients, they are simply editors and journalists owning/ editing and writing for one large UK travel publication and some smaller ones and have let me know what THEY do. Plus someone who used to sell his photography regularly as stock.
So I am certainly not suggesting that travel images do not sell on Alamy OR that other editors don't go to Alamy first, only that the ones I happen to know and have asked about it don't, as a rule, go there first.
They said that it's often quicker and easier for them to find what they need at a subject specific stock site than at an open themed one.
But, they have not said they would never use Alamy, infact they mentioned that they'll go to it if they can't find something at the specific stock sites - it's more a matter of trying those first.
Sorry if I made it sound other than advice from a limited number of people within the industry - I didn't mean for it to sound to general. There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of magazines about all subjects just in the UK alone, not to mention the various newspaper supplements also about travel and related subjects, plus all sorts of non-travel articles that require images of locations as illustration. I'm sure that many do use Alamy as their first port of call.
However, the advice I got was that at an agency such as Alamy I'd do best with more open, stock images of people, kids and objects than of travel. I wasn't told I wouldn't sell travel images, just that sales might be slower. That's all.
Dsawchuk, I've forgotten the names of the sites we were discussing, I'll see if I can check for you.
Message edited by author 2005-10-11 05:16:09.
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10/11/2005 08:25:14 AM · #390 |
For those that might want to see my new images at Alamy
Message edited by author 2005-10-11 08:27:08.
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10/11/2005 08:44:09 AM · #391 |
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10/11/2005 09:40:35 AM · #392 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
Leaf,
So I am certainly not suggesting that travel images do not sell on Alamy OR that other editors don't go to Alamy first, only that the ones I happen to know and have asked about it don't, as a rule, go there first.
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10/11/2005 11:27:05 AM · #393 |
| Since this thread has referenced many resizing / upsampling / interpolation software packages and techniques, I thought I'd point out this visual comparison of a bunch of different interpolation algorithms. (It includes Genuine Fractals 3.0, but note at the top where it says there is no discernible difference between Genuine Fractals 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0). |
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10/11/2005 10:16:58 PM · #394 |
Originally posted by Kavey:
Dsawchuk, I've forgotten the names of the sites we were discussing, I'll see if I can check for you. |
Much appreciated. :) |
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10/12/2005 05:13:37 AM · #395 |
Interesting comparison, EddyG. I know some of us in this thread have stated we use SI Pro(Fred Miranda), or Genuine Fractals. I have heard (from //www.interpolatethis.com) that SSpline (now Photozoom) is very good. Does anyone have/use it?
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10/13/2005 04:40:42 PM · #396 |
I submitted a test cd of 14 images to Alamy today!!!
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for the next few weeks :-)
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10/13/2005 05:55:01 PM · #397 |
Good luck! Hope you get your acceptance email in a few weeks!
Message edited by author 2005-10-13 17:55:46.
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10/13/2005 05:58:40 PM · #398 |
| good luck. Assuming you followed the rules, I am sure you will get in. :) |
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10/13/2005 06:19:00 PM · #399 |
So, my largest uncropped image is 2048x1536 or 9MB in uncompressed TIFF. It would have to be upsampled by about 110% to 4800x3600 to get to the Alamy minimum.
I can do step-interpolation in PS 5.0, or take them to work and use PS CS2 and Bicubic Sharper to go up in one step.
Is it worth bothering trying either technique? (Making the somewhat tenuous assumption that the images are "worth it" in the first place.) |
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10/14/2005 06:05:24 AM · #400 |
I would use CS2 and batch process them up to the required size. Don't use bicubic sharpner because they might get rejected.
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