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Shoot! The Blog over at the Photoshelter Stock Library has posted a great countdown of 10 top tips to help you improve your success with Stock Photography. I have to say that I agree with all of them, and especially Tip 1!
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Quick heads up for Alamy contributors having Alamy QC failure paranoia. I’ve been alerted to some great examples of Soft & Lacking Definition failures from Alamy QC over at andysmee’s blog here where he explains each type of failure with good 100% crops so you can see exactly what is being failed. […]
Just what is this “Orphan Works” thing I keep hearing about. It’s all over the web now. It sounds pretty serious. Trouble is, there’s just so much out there to read (just Google ‘Orphan Works’ if you don’t believe me) and this is legislation, so its not exactly written in plain English.
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Welcome to the final part of the tutorial on pricing up assignment photography. This part is going to show you how to apply your base usage rate (BUR) to assign license extensions for re-use of your images in a real world example.
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Following yesterdays controversial decision by Alamy to sell RM images for as little as 60p today Alamy CEO James West has announced an opt-out period for those seemingly locked into Novel Use participation until April 2009:
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I predict a riot. Alamy appear to have gone all microstock on us today. No, seriously. No, don’t look at your calendar - its not April 1st.
So just WTF (as teenagers say in text speak) is going on over there?
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OK so you’ve discovered your Alamy Rank and where your work sits in the grand scheme of things. You want to get off page 45 so you can get some views, zooms and increase your CTR. You want sales of course! Fed up with languishing in the […]
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So you’re underway with selling stock photography on Alamy. You’re getting some views and some zooms so you’ll have an Alamy Rank. How do you know what your Alamy Rank is ? How can you improve it?
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Another common cry and cause of much angst and grumbling is Alamy Rank. Just what is it about search positions on Alamy that get contributors so hot under the collar? Is it weighted against photographers and for Agencies or vice-versa? Is it possible to work out your Alamy […]
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Doom mongers and naysayers have been predicting the collapse of the stock photography industry almost as long as Nostradamus has been predicting the end of the world.
So who is right?
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