Doug, no Alamy sales for us yet - mine only appeared for sale today, and there's just 26 of them. Pete has even less and they've been there only a couple of months, less I think.
We'll work on adding more when we can.
But we're more likely to make a sale if they're on there than if they're sitting gather digital dust, so to speak, on our hardrives at home!
Well, it's been a long, slow road getting there... :) I try and make between 10 and 20 images a day and send off a CD every week or so.
It's turned into a living for me, but only because my very understanding husband thought I should follow my dream to be a stock photographer and was willing to live frugally for a long time while I built up my inventory of images. :)
so - are you literally just shooting with the D70 - upsizing, and sending off?
my workflow for my own prints is more long winded, as theres only select shots which i upload to my gallery after some touching up.
I can only answer for me but... the ones that just got approved for me were D70 images, taken last summer as jpegs not raw, processed in Photoshop for levels and everything else I felt they needed included masked layers to burn in skies etc. Some had minor crops too. Then upsized. No noise reduction. No sharpening.
I know have a Canon 20D and shoot in RAW so will change that workflow somewhat as more processing will be done during raw conversion but, otherwise similar.
No sales yet...
I've since heard that Alamy isn't the first call for travel photography which I kind of knew already but I can't get my stuff onto those sites as they either have minimum number requirements that are far above my portfolio or they are still accepting slide only.
Still... one never knows.
I have too few images there to expect much though I have sent another CD with another 66 images and will try and build on that as and when I can.
has anyone tried upsizing with the newer Photoshop bicubic smoother and bicubic sharper algorithms?
i demo'd genuine fractals, but i found the results using bicubic smoother to be just as good. we'll see what alamy says, i suppose.
rob
How do you do that Rob?
If you shoot RAW, in the RAW pluggin (CS 2), you have the option of upsizing directly. From what I've seen, it looks just as good as GF if not a bit better when looked at 100%.
My original submission of 15 has been up for a couple weeks now, and no sales. :-) We can dream about quick results, huh? :-)
I've got another DVD with 41 images on it just waiting to be mailed. Hopefully that will help.
The one thing that bugs me is that you can't even see how many times your images have been looked at on Alamy. So you don't know if nobody has even SEEN your images yet, or maybe 100 people have looked at them but nobody has thought they were good enough to buy... Which is it? Or am I missing something? Is there a way to see how many times they've been viewed by people? Anyone found it?
Interesting... to my eye the GF version looks to be sharper than the PS one, but I'll be interested to hear if that's just my subjective eye!
On the TIFF compression front, I have been using uncompressed TIFFs but looking at their submission guidelines they don't seem to insist on this - I've dropped them an email to check, and will let you know what they say!
I agree about the Geniune Fractals one being sharper. I think the simple shapes help. For the kind of work I'll be submitting I think I might invest, not sure yet..
On the TIFF compression front, I have been using uncompressed TIFFs but looking at their submission guidelines they don't seem to insist on this - I've dropped them an email to check, and will let you know what they say!
They do allow you to use LZW compression, though it doesn't say it on their site. I've received confirmation from member services on that and it makes waaaaay more images fit on a CD or DVD. I've been sending my images that way since last November.
