Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Compact cameras
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:42:32 -0400
References: <AANLkTikv_KEm9JT7pbuh=2zF56LaxFFy9o19MTf6ax=s@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim5Rqf43OTZJAMN062+zZis4HAFHqpYyVpREnFA@mail.gmail.com> <7DBBB0EA-DCDA-4120-BFB7-424511951AED@frozenlight.eu> <AANLkTiknEgKeeTzLpuALopN4B8AnSfN9VQJy3WCNVWCg@mail.gmail.com> <4C5DFBA0.7070002@cox.net>

Rohn Engh's Sell and Resell Your Photos is the best:

http://www.amazon.com/Sell-Re-Sell-Your-Photos-Rohn/dp/1582971765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281228120&sr=8-1

<http://www.amazon.com/Sell-Re-Sell-Your-Photos-Rohn/dp/1582971765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281228120&sr=8-1>It
will tell you everything you need to get started.

Tina

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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