Quick update here. I got an email from Alamy this morning regarding my images I submitted for QC. They completed their review much more quickly than I had expected, only taking a week instead of the stated 25 days. Of the ten images I submitted (I was only supposed to submit four)nine passed QC. Unfortunately, 90% isn't good enough for them. The one that failed was the shot of the kid's sandals on a ramp down into the water with a pair of feet wading in the background. Their stated reasons for failing the image were "Interpolation artifacts" and "Soft or lacking definition" Pictures and thoughts after the jump.
Although I knew their policies going in, this seems a bit silly to me. I'm undecided as to whether I want to re-upload four of the images, leaving out the failed one, or just take a pass on the whole thing and stick to one agency for now. PhotoShelter has been very good for me so far, I'm thinking that using them exclusively for a while might be a good plan.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Alamy update: 90% Success = 100% Failure
2 comments:
photoshelter collection is nice, but it is brand new and hardly makes much sales (yet).
Alamy is a well established and growing business.
The choice in indeed yours but I wouldn't give up with Alamy just yet. Despite their weird rule of rejecting batches if one photo failed QC, in general they are quite easy with acceptance.
With stock, as a strategy, more agencies is definitely better than fewer. Yes, alamy has gotten very strict about image quality (i had to resort to submitting images one at a time for a stretch until I figured out what step in my new post-processing workflow was messing things up), but they do a solid business, probably the biggest for a portal. Of all the agencies I'm with, they've made me the most money, which as a pro, has to be a major concern. (And I have had numerous images accepted by photoshelter than were rejected by alamy; which actually makes me worry a bit about photoshelter.)
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