FT article
Latest stock sale - ironically it's an article by Roger Protz, who writes regularly for me in my day job.
Image zoomed end of August, article dated 17 Sept, sale of image only turned up on my Alamy records today - again proves that zoomed images months before may turn into sales.
Brings total earned from the stock experiment to just over $500 from around 450 images.
Showing posts with label pitiful earning potential. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitiful earning potential. Show all posts
Friday, 12 November 2010
Monday, 21 September 2009
Alamy musings
Give or take a few days, this time last year was the momentous day when I took my first steps towards stock photography wealth and had my first batch accepted by Alamy. ;)
Year on, have had a look at how things have gone and may, or may not be useful to share:
Yet to have a major problem with passing Quality Control. Learned very early on to be extremely harsh with my own QC and if I had even the slightest doubt about sharpness etc, I didn't even bother to try putting it through QC - because of Alamy policy of rejecting all photos currently awaiting QC if just one fails, it's not worth it.
Be careful if batch processing and upsizing. My only QC problem came from a handful of pics within a larger group which I'd forgotten had been slightly cropped before I batch uprezzed...which meant they didn't quite reach the min uncompressed size required. Thankfully, and another important lesson, this is a rare case where Alamy will only reject individual photos rather than the whole batch, if this is the only QC problem.
Have now got 233 photos on Alamy. Have currently sold just under $250 worth (annoyingly tiny amount under $250 (about £150) in fact, which is the threshold for Alamy sending out a cheque!). That means average earnings per photo uploaded is 66p. If images continue to sell at this ratio, I'd need about 2,000 images up there to pay for a D300 each year.
Keyword indications seem to show most popular images (for viewing and zooming at least, if not buying) are location based photos (Orkney, Newcastle etc), rather than objects or specific identifiable places. My three sales have all been "landscape" locations.
"Zooms" on Alamy have really dropped off recently (mainly because the image you see when you hover over a pic with the mouse is now more detailed than the zoom), which makes it difficult to assess how attention grabbing images are. On the plus side, the only reason for zooming an image now is to see the price/licence restrictions or add it to a lightbox - so it's been suggested a zoom on an image is a much better indication someone, somewhere, is thinking about buying it.
This isn't going to make me rich - but the time invested is relatively small, especially if I'm just reusing photos I would have taken anyway, and once they're uploaded, they can potentially make money with no further work.
Cheers - Tom
Year on, have had a look at how things have gone and may, or may not be useful to share:
Yet to have a major problem with passing Quality Control. Learned very early on to be extremely harsh with my own QC and if I had even the slightest doubt about sharpness etc, I didn't even bother to try putting it through QC - because of Alamy policy of rejecting all photos currently awaiting QC if just one fails, it's not worth it.
Be careful if batch processing and upsizing. My only QC problem came from a handful of pics within a larger group which I'd forgotten had been slightly cropped before I batch uprezzed...which meant they didn't quite reach the min uncompressed size required. Thankfully, and another important lesson, this is a rare case where Alamy will only reject individual photos rather than the whole batch, if this is the only QC problem.
Have now got 233 photos on Alamy. Have currently sold just under $250 worth (annoyingly tiny amount under $250 (about £150) in fact, which is the threshold for Alamy sending out a cheque!). That means average earnings per photo uploaded is 66p. If images continue to sell at this ratio, I'd need about 2,000 images up there to pay for a D300 each year.
Keyword indications seem to show most popular images (for viewing and zooming at least, if not buying) are location based photos (Orkney, Newcastle etc), rather than objects or specific identifiable places. My three sales have all been "landscape" locations.
"Zooms" on Alamy have really dropped off recently (mainly because the image you see when you hover over a pic with the mouse is now more detailed than the zoom), which makes it difficult to assess how attention grabbing images are. On the plus side, the only reason for zooming an image now is to see the price/licence restrictions or add it to a lightbox - so it's been suggested a zoom on an image is a much better indication someone, somewhere, is thinking about buying it.
This isn't going to make me rich - but the time invested is relatively small, especially if I'm just reusing photos I would have taken anyway, and once they're uploaded, they can potentially make money with no further work.
Cheers - Tom
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Another Alamy sale!
Bizarrely same image - which still doesn't appear to have been removed as threatened, despite being National Trust.
Magazine in the Russian Federation apparently. Only $44 this time, so still no sign of that early retirement.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Alamy update
Celebrating my first sale on Alamy. A whole £50 - so not quite ready to retire and become a stock photographer for the rest of my life. It's also a picture taken at a National Trust property and NT has just ordered Alamy to delete all non-authorised images taken at their properties - so likely to be the first and last money I earn from that image!
Search for B407D9 at www.alamy.co.uk to see my new favourite picture! (and taken with the D70)
Search for B407D9 at www.alamy.co.uk to see my new favourite picture! (and taken with the D70)
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