Woo hoo Alamy!

Just applied...sent mine in and when I woke up the next morning I had an email starting with congratulations! Time to start going through my hard drives to post up some stuff and see if I can get some sales from images just sitting and doing nothing for me at the moment....

i applied once and go rejected and yet istockphoto.com which is super picky accepted me.

this is kinda strange to me but go figure.

i'm giving it a shot on both ends and see which one works out better for me. so far i have only made one sale on istock which is a whopping .90 cents! hehe

only time will tell. =P

asty80 wrote in post #8343058
Thanks for the quick help guys! I was able to change it in the suggested way and upload the snaps!
Now waiting for a reply

Got in!! Woo Hoo!!
Now time to upload some stuff...

I had submitted 1 snap with f/2.8. It really had a very shallow DOF.
And it got accepted. So just wanted to mention that since I read some posts mentioning the shallow DOF's are not picked..
I guess in the end, its just a question of luck (as always )

Since I started shooting in RAW only recently, all my old images are only in jpg formats.
Is there a way to upsize them? ..... Or have they missed the bus?

SwtSarina wrote in post #8355396
i applied once and go rejected and yet istockphoto.com which is super picky accepted me.

this is kinda strange to me but go figure.

i'm giving it a shot on both ends and see which one works out better for me. so far i have only made one sale on istock which is a whopping .90 cents! hehe

only time will tell. =P

I have about 50 images now up on Alamy, put up since January and have one "zoom" with no purchases. As an experiment, I put 2 images on istock and both have sold. Granted I have made all of $3.60 with istock but I am now going to start uploading a lot more images there to see what happens.

The other thing I noticed is that with Alamy my images have always been approved. With istock they are VERY picky. The nice thing though is when they decline you, they give a very detailed analysis of your photo and what is wrong with it. Very nice educational tool! Each time I fixed the image per their direction and was then approved. My images are better quality for the effort and I have learned something in the process.

The experiment continues....

asty80 wrote in post #8356654
Got in!! Woo Hoo!!
Now time to upload some stuff...

I had submitted 1 snap with f/2.8. It really had a very shallow DOF.
And it got accepted. So just wanted to mention that since I read some posts mentioning the shallow DOF's are not picked..
I guess in the end, its just a question of luck (as always )

I've also submitted a few things between f/2-2.8 and they've gotten accepted....but I did make sure they were SHARP where they should be, which often doesn't happen when you're shooting at f/2, but for portraiture sometimes it's ok to be a little off. In stock, not as much it seems.

Stuart Leslie wrote in post #8356860
I have about 50 images now up on Alamy, put up since January and have one "zoom" with no purchases. As an experiment, I put 2 images on istock and both have sold. Granted I have made all of $3.60 with istock but I am now going to start uploading a lot more images there to see what happens.

The other thing I noticed is that with Alamy my images have always been approved. With istock they are VERY picky. The nice thing though is when they decline you, they give a very detailed analysis of your photo and what is wrong with it. Very nice educational tool! Each time I fixed the image per their direction and was then approved. My images are better quality for the effort and I have learned something in the process.

The experiment continues....

There are different models for both. iStockPhoto works well with some images, especially images that are "played out" in the stock market -- i.e., the cliche stuff. Basically, if you don't think an image is worth much to anyone but might be worth a little to a lot of people, iStockPhoto is the place for that image. If you think your image has large value to someone, then a traditional agency is the way to go. With Alamy, a thousand images may only sell 10 or 15 sales a year. But all you will make much more than $3 off of each sale.

There are some clients that will happily pay $4000 for a single image for a limited amount of time. That image, however, will probably need to be something beyond the usual iStock picture of cats or flowers or ethnic people shaking hands on a white background.

My images have been 'ready' for a couple of days now...How long does it take before they go 'on sale'? Or do I have to do anything to make them go 'on sale'?

It should happen automatically... they seem to be moving pretty slow right now. I think it is supposed to take 24 hours, however I have had a photo awaiting QC for almost a week now.

hmm...blame it on the recession...just as we do for everything else!

thanks for the rply

WHen my images take a more than 2 days in Awaiting QC it usually fails. The ones that past are almost always within 12-24 hours.

I thought that as well,have been having a very low sucess rate to the point of submitting one picture at a time and considering giving up completely.
Thought I would give them one more go ( all pictures taken with my 17-40 which is fairly new ) submitted two batches totalling 15 pics and amazed they passed. This took about 40 hours. Just need to sell a couple now !!!!

I submitted a few batches on JULY 28 through Aug 3 that still havent made it past "QC" .

I just got all four of my images rejected for being soft or lacking definition. One was shot with a tripod. I have an XTi and used a Tamron 17-50 2.8 lens. My images don't look soft to me, but maybe they would compared to images shot with more expensive equipment. So could this be an equipment issue?

glockamole wrote in post #8431923
I just got all four of my images rejected for being soft or lacking definition. One was shot with a tripod. I have an XTi and used a Tamron 17-50 2.8 lens. My images don't look soft to me, but maybe they would compared to images shot with more expensive equipment. So could this be an equipment issue?

This is an "Alamy are idiots for requiring you to upsample images creating data that wasn't there in the first place" issue, to be brutally honest. Of course it's going to look soft after you upsample it, but they somehow expect that it magically won't. There is NO REASON whatsoever to upsample aside from them marketing "This image is 1.21 gigapixels, holy cow!"