Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, I seem to recall that once you posted a guide or book to selling stock photography, which I now cannot find. If so, could you please repost? Regards, Ken Carney Oklahoma City, Oklahoma On 8/7/2010 7:04 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Thanks, Nathan, but Alamy will allow any kind of garbage, as long as it > passes the technical quality control. Alamy does not edit for content. > They leave that totally up to contributors. That's why Alamy currently > has > almost 20 million photos on file. If anybody needs a photo of anything, > Alamy has it. In some ways that is great. I've sold photos through > Alamy > that I would never think of submitting to any other agency. In some ways > it's awful. Buyers have to wade through pages and pages of garbage to find > the nugget that they want. Accurate keywords and searches are the secret. > The approved camera list at least weeds out some micro-stock wannabes. > Since they have 20 million photos on file and many searches return an > unmanageable number of photos, the only way to cut down on submissions is > to > limit approved cameras and to crack down on quality control - which they > have done. > > Tina > > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman<photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >