Posting real names doesn't tell me much, I haven't had a chance to look at everybody's profile, to me most of you are still your user names. So, is mavrik one of those? Or did he give up, I believe he threatened to cause of a problem with his pics. I hope he didn't, he sounded so determined to see how this process worked and I know we could all learn from any problem he might have had. I don't know if I have PM capablity, so could someone PM him and asked him to come back to this thread with an update?
Alamy is one of the bigger names in stock photography although not as big as say corbis or getty images... However they a quite a step up from microstock sites, you get paid real money for every shot you sell. I guess the question we are all trying to figure out is how often images get sold.
Mavrik hadn't got accepted last time he mentioned it (that I saw) because he'd overlooked one or more of their submission criteria - I think one was the instruction to save TIFFS according to PC Byte Order (rather than Macintosh) and possibly on of their other requirements too, I don't recall. I do hope he'll have another go.
Mavrik = Matt Antonino
On that note, can I stress that it's very important to read through their submission guidelines IN DETAIL before prepping images to send - you're wasting your time and theirs if you don't.
As for sales levels we haven't had any yet but we haven't got many images up and they are somewhat specific rather than what one might call more generic product stock. We have travel and animal stock up with Alamy rather than everyday items and I don't know how well they do on those type of images.
Still. You got to be in it to win it, right? I KNOW I ain't gonna sell anything if it's sitting on my hard drive at home!
I just resampled them in the photoediting program i use, corel photopaint 11. It's generally very similar to photoshop (but better :P). They were mainly wildlife shots with only slight crops, so i only had to upsize to 150% at most. The automagic resampler photopaint uses makes it look very smooth at that sort of increase. Seems the 20D is easily capable of producing shots that look great at this size, even with quite strong crops, as long as you do all the postprocessing after the resample.
It's worth noting that Genuine Fractals gives 20 rescales in the demo version, so you can go through and resize enough shots for the QC submission. :-D
There's not a huge amount of difference between that and even normal PS7 rescaling (not stepped), but if my shots get accepted and I'm submitting more I think I will buy it just for that little extra help.
Mavrik hadn't got accepted last time he mentioned it (that I saw) because he'd overlooked one or more of their submission criteria - I think one was the instruction to save TIFFS according to PC Byte Order (rather than Macintosh) and possibly on of their other requirements too, I don't recall. I do hope he'll have another go.
On that note, can I stress that it's very important to read through their submission guidelines IN DETAIL before prepping images to send - you're wasting your time and theirs if you don't.
Actually I only missed one thing - I didn't submit in 1x write speed and for some reason they couldn't read my DVD. *sigh*
Ok, thanks to some motivation, I'll try again. I will put a new dvd in the mail tomorrow.
Well, my shots are up now so this led me to wonder... who here has actually sold something yet? Is anyone making a fortune on alamy? Has anyone been a member for years and never sold anything? Tell us your story!
Well, my shots are up now so this led me to wonder... who here has actually sold something yet? Is anyone making a fortune on alamy? Has anyone been a member for years and never sold anything? Tell us your story!
Riot,
And other Alamy contributers... you'll find a lot more info when you join this group: //groups.yahoo.com/group/AlamyPro/ For Alamy shooters only.
Well, my shots are up now so this led me to wonder... who here has actually sold something yet? Is anyone making a fortune on alamy? Has anyone been a member for years and never sold anything? Tell us your story!
Riot,
And other Alamy contributers... you'll find a lot more info when you join this group: //groups.yahoo.com/group/AlamyPro/ For Alamy shooters only.
- John
Gee, your exclusive club sure sounds exciting, but i'm in no mood for being datamined tonight. Still, i'd like to know about DPCers on alamy.
riot, I just went and tried the link to your images again, figuring they're bound to be up now (mine took 24hrs), but it still shows nothing...? Does it show up for you? Just wanted to let you know, in case something is broken and you hadn't realized it yet. I'm sure Alamy makes mistakes every now and then, just like everybody else.
And I haven't sold anything there yet. But only been a member for about 2 months, and only 15 approved images in that time. My second DVD is just now in the QC line.
