how much do you end up with out of the $190.00 Alamy gets for a 1/4 page, Eastern US, Construction Industry brochure with a print run of 1000 for a month (what ever that means I guess you have month to print your 1000 copies).
And I didn't even click the "Royalty Free" section.
The sample image I calculated required some overhead (remember overhead, it's an old bussiness term ) or at least access to the site/set, travel expenses etc, meals.
Are you saying this is a good deal for the photographer?
I realize there is alot at play here, ie. how many salable images could you produce at this shoot etc. and I didn't see if this was for exclusive rights but I doubt it (it better not be for that price or maybe that's what the month time frame stipulates?)
I get 65% of it. As does every other contributer I think.
brucemuir wrote:
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how much do you end up with out of the $190.00 Alamy gets for a 1/4 page, Eastern US, Construction Industry brochure with a print run of 1000 for a month (what ever that means I guess you have month to print your 1000 copies).
And I didn't even click the "Royalty Free" section.
The sample image I calculated required some overhead (remember overhead, it's an old bussiness term ) or at least access to the site/set, travel expenses etc, meals.
Are you saying this is a good deal for the photographer?
I realize there is alot at play here, ie. how many salable images could you produce at this shoot etc. and I didn't see if this was for exclusive rights but I doubt it (it better not be for that price or maybe that's what the month time frame stipulates?)...Show more →
TBannor wrote:
My mistake, it's 60%. Still better than most other agencies.
Yes, 60% except for partner agency sales. My average sale is $100 commission, which is well above what magazines or newspapers pay per image. I'm quite pleased. Yes, I shoot mostly editorial, I think in those terms. I also forget that many other people don't shoot the same type of work so it may not meet their demands or expectations. Fair enough.
2007 - 34% of Alamy revenue came from RF sales at an average price-per-image of $155 and 66% from RM at an average price of $222. About 90% of their sales were for editorial use with an average price of $130.
That was 2007 and this is 2009, the sales and prices have probably dropped.
The questions were:
Doesn't Alamy rob you? NO
How much do they pay? See Above
People need to stop giving away work. I'm not from my perspective.
If I'm defending Alamy, it's because I think the conclusions in the form of questions were misleading and uninformed. I felt the facts are available and everyone can determine for themselves if their answers are different than mine.
Back on topic. I've found that having a good calibrated monitor, shooting everything at ISO 100 and only sending in clean sharp images will do the trick. Edit everything from RAW or convert to an Alamy size TIF and only edit the TIF if you shoot JPG. Never edit a JPG.
If that's confusing. I shoot JPG. Convert it to a TIF. If crop is necessary do that first, then re-size to 5100 longest side. If not just upsize. Edit the full size file, instead of doing all the editing and upsizing later. Otherwise you are upsizing all the flaws, instead of correcting them.
Yes, the 40D with the 17-40 f4 and 70-200 f4 should pass just fine. I started there with a 10D and a 28-135, which is minimal image size and a notably soft lens. Now I have all L lenses, which makes life easier.
Alamy also seems to have changed their QC, although they say they haven't. They have a list of unsuitable cameras on the site now that includes almost every P&S digital known to man, including several that used to be perfectly acceptable. The license fees I received from images taken with a Canon Pro1 paid for the camera many times over. Now it's on their unsuitable list. The G10 isn't and I asked them about this. The response was that G10 raw images carefully processed in a raw convertor are acceptable. I recently had a G10 image license for use by a travel magazine, albeit for their website. The new S90 is on the unsuitable list, but the G11 isn't, which is strange since they use the same sensor.
I think that most of the images Alamy rejects for being soft or lacking definition are rejected due to camera shake. Since that old Pro1 lacked image stabilization, I always carried a small tripod designed for small digital cameras. If the light got too low, I used it. Now, I use stabilized lenses with both a 5D MkII and Rebel XSi and never get rejected.
) or at least access to the site/set, travel expenses etc, meals. 