The Real Thing!
This week we got told that we would be able to take photos for stock photography company, Alamy. A stock photography company like Alamy is often based online and is a website where photographers can upload and submit their images to sell them through the company. Other companies that need images for their businesses, websites, or magazines etc, can then go onto the stock photography website and buy a photograph. The photographer then gets paid for every photo they sell.
Alamy is one of the leading stock imagery websites however there is lot's of companies in competition. Shutterstock is arguably another huge stock imagery company, as well as Getty Images and Istock. However I chose Alamy because for students (as I am) they don't take any commisions for what the buyer pays for the image. Students get 100% of the money the buyer pays. If you're not a student they still offer 60% of the money which is still a very good deal.
Stock photography can be pretty much anything, from landscape to macro, to black and white imagery. You can be so free and random with you photographs as you like, as long as they are sharp, quality photographs. There is a rules and regulations page on the Alamy website that tells you all the dos and donts of how to submit your images to Alamy. Before you can upload any photo onto their website you have to submit only 4 photos through Quality Control (QC). Here is their submission guidlines:
They then go on to say that they reject any images that contain:
Alamy is one of the leading stock imagery websites however there is lot's of companies in competition. Shutterstock is arguably another huge stock imagery company, as well as Getty Images and Istock. However I chose Alamy because for students (as I am) they don't take any commisions for what the buyer pays for the image. Students get 100% of the money the buyer pays. If you're not a student they still offer 60% of the money which is still a very good deal.
Stock photography can be pretty much anything, from landscape to macro, to black and white imagery. You can be so free and random with you photographs as you like, as long as they are sharp, quality photographs. There is a rules and regulations page on the Alamy website that tells you all the dos and donts of how to submit your images to Alamy. Before you can upload any photo onto their website you have to submit only 4 photos through Quality Control (QC). Here is their submission guidlines:
They then go on to say that they reject any images that contain:
These are things I needed to make sure I didn't have in my photos. My plan was to shoot objects and scenes in my house that could possibly used for companies. I also thought about doing some macro photographs with an emotion incorporated into them. These are my four images that I chose from my independant shoot.
