10 top tips to improve your Stock Photography

photo credit: Suzie T 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! Get on over there and inwardly digest this great [...]

Soft and lacking definition… just what do Alamy QC mean?

photo credit: DerrickT 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. [...]

Breaking news: Alamy allow 2 week Novel Use opt out from 10th June 2008

photo credit: C.P.Storm 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:

Alamy go all ‘microstock’ with ‘Limited Use’ scheme

photo credit: rastafabi 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?

Five practical tips to help increase your Alamy Rank

photo credit: Gaetan Lee 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 division three of search [...]