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I've decided to have a crack at getting some images onto Alamy, I'm still awaiting the QC test so I don't know if they will be accepted yet.

Should I start removing any pics I might have here on TP or any other photo sharing media that I might upload to Alamy if succesful.
 
I wouldn't bother.

The Alamy Prices look great, but they keep selling my Royalty free images for a tupance, and you need to get $250 before they pay you.

So you have to be REALLY serious about it before you see anything out of it. I have been a member for two years with 123 photos and I have $35 sitting in my account.

Mind you I know what people are looking for in stock images now and I am not interested in making images like the ones they want. so I have no right to complain.

Stuart
 
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Jimmy_Lemon said:
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If I was 100% sure I knew the why's or why not's to what I asked Jimmy I wouldn't have had to ask the question in the first place.
I was hoping someone who has already got pics up on Alamy or similar might have offered a bit advice.
However if I get a knock back then Stuart I'll probably forget all about it as he advised and was good enough to offer his opinion.
 
If I remember frank, you can just register on the site before uploading any images, and once registered you have access to the alamy forum which will probably answer all of your questions..but basicly it's a numbers game..the more images you upload the more you sell, i use alamy and other sites as well and soon found a hundred odd images is nowhere near enough.at the moment I am trying to get about 40 a month accepted at the moment because thats all I have time for....you want hundreds and hundreds then you will start to get regular sales..have you looked at shutterstock or istock, I tend to get more sales from them than any of the others.
 
It was a genuine question that I couldn't think to ask in any longer more meaningful way. Why would you have to start deleting your photos from photo sharing sites because you had joined Alamy? Looking now I would guess to make some of them exclusive (can't remember if Alamy do that) but if that was the case the surely that question answers itself?

I have had a bunch of photos on there for years and never get any really views, and had no sales. It takes a lot of dedication to get any return from it. You need thousands and thousands of photos covered anything and everything. I had the idea of going for the more obscure things, but there is so much on there that very little isn't already covered in some form or other.

All my Alamy photos are available on my flickr and most on my blog or website(s) and to be honest I get more sales through these than Alamy (though that isn't hard with the zero sales on Alamy).
 
Turned out I got a knockback:'( got the message a shortwhile ago, one pic "soft or lacking definition" the other "chromatic aberations" which I didn't really noticed until I zoomed far into the pic. Ah! well lesson learned, their hard taskmasters.
 
Ive found alamy QC quite a lot looser than other stick sites (especially microstock). Generally Alamy will allow a picture if its technically correct - ie sharp, not covered in noise, white balance correct.
Microstock goes into "no commercial value" and other very subjective stuff for rejections and on those its quite common to have a picture rejected by 1 reviewed and resubmitting immediately getting it approved by another.

That said for me at least Alamy isnt useful - got roughly 90 photos on there but no sales at all (roughly 9 months period). 2-3 zooms per month so i doubt i'll ever get anything.
 
My understanding is that Alamy is not exclusive, so you can even have your images with other stock agencies (depending on their conditions).
 
Its also in the conditions you can still share and display your own images. There is also a clause in there about selling your own images aswell I recall.
I have about 90 images on Alamy, been on there 2 years and had one sale. Not exactly a great money spinner.
 
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