Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Ken - Alamy and Getty are definitely not micro-stock. Those would be iStock and Dreamstine - two of the biggest. Some of the prices I've been getting lately from Alamy and Getty seem like microstock (!) but everything I have with them is Rights Managed. They used to say you needed 5000 marketable photos to approach a stock agency but the internet changed all of that. With Alamy you need to have 4 that can pass their QC. With Getty, just go to their Flikr page and start uploading. They'll pick out what they want. Photographer's Direct is a great way to sell stock without spending anything. Sign up for their want list and upload anything you have that fits the requests. I've made some really good sales through them. http://www.photographersdirect.com/ Alamy is the best route, though. Just be sure to examine everything at 100% because if there is one dust spot on one photo, they will fail them all. Good luck!! Tina On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > Thanks, Tina > > You are of course right. I think I was a little intimidated by comments as > to the number of images needed for a stock portfolio, but then Engh's book > is I believe directed toward those looking for a significant revenue > source. > Plus, for some reason I had it in my head that web services like Alamy and > Getty were the microstock sites. I may go ahead and post 10-20 > rights-managed images on Alamy a month - that can't take too much time. > I've given up on Powerball so I'll give this a try. > > Regards, > > Ken Carney > > On 8/27/2010 9:50 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> Right, Ken ;-) I like to separate work from fun but my fun is making >> photos >> and my work is selling stock photos. I think there is a possibility for >> part-time hobbyists to make money with stock but they do have to be >> dedicated part-time hobbyists! ;-) You profit in proportion to the time >> and effort you put into it - just like any other job. The great thing >> about >> stock is that you can do it part-time and get just as involved as you >> want. >> At your own pace ;-) There is no pressure from anybody to do anything. >> If >> you don't like it, quit. If you do like it, keep uploading photos and >> downloading money! >> >> Tina >> >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com