I still get sales from this shoot I did about three and a half years ago. It was really my first proper model shoot. Before this I'd shot the daughter of a portraiture client who wanted to get into modelling, and I booked a model to run a session on doing portraits, but this was really my first ever model shoot. To be honest the lighting's not brilliant on it – the exposure if off. But it sells!
Country: United Kingdom
Usage: Editorial
Media: Newspaper – national
Print run: up to 500,000
Placement: Inside
Image Size: 1/2 page
Start: 30 August 2011
End: 31 August 2011
In album Alamy Sales (7 photos)
B1TCAC Sucessful young businessman holding a wad of money.
congratulations Ian :)
Good for you :)
Nice one, I just love the way all our back catalogues sitting in stock sites just keep coming up trumps. Even with images we are not that happy with a few years later.
Thanks folks. Matt, I do like the way the back catalogue provides some income…. the only problem is it is getting less and less these days. Gone are the days when I could think of my stock catalogue as part of my pension plan! :-(
My thoughts exactly, I was just saying that the other day. My stock was part of my pension plan but not any more. Do you think it's due to the free images available or just the amount that gets uploaded to stock these days ?
It's a combination of the "microstock" sites, the free images, and sheer volume of images. Alamy alone has in excess of 20 Million images. You need vast numbers to photos to just stand a chance of having your images seen by potential buyers.
Very true, the markets are saturated with millions of images. The future for stock is in the balance I guess. I have had more sales via contact from Flickr over the past few months than Alamy, and for images that where not great ! Who knows what the future will bring Google + Stock !
I like the name GoogleStock – it has nice ring too it!
the Google stock idea has been discussed in the last few hangouts with Trey.
Thanks Heidi, I am away from civilisation for a while, with no Internet and poor phone signal will have to check it out when I get back ! Can you send me the Link.
+Matt Hart here you go Matt I think it was this one http://youtu.be/tafnJ-eo8gg :)
Thanks Heidi :)
+Heidi Anne Morris Thanks for the link. I'll have to have a listen/watch of that.