Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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: >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com