[Leica] Easy decisions for M9 or not

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lindnich at tesco.net wrote:
> Hello Tina,
> No I'm not scorning stock photography but really having trouble 
> understanding how it makes sense. 
> If I can understand it I will try it because flipping burgers doesn't look 
> great to me either. In an average year how many pictures do you submit to 
> stock libraries? You have said that you cant predict what will sell so it 
> is a numbers game...you don't study market trends because it is no help, 
> or no fun?
>
> Gordon
>   
In five years with Alamy, I have submitted 7000 photos.  The same photos 
are submitted to selected other agencies.  It really has nothing to do 
with market trends.  Someone needs a photo of Chinese farm land that 
will be under water when the Three Gorges Dam is finished.  I have quite 
a few - some I think are much better than others, but I know that 9 
times out of 10 the photo picked is not going to be one I would have 
chosen so I submit them all.  It used to be the same when I submitted 
slides.  I would pick out about 15 of my favorites for the subject 
requested.  In order to fill out the whole slide page of 20, I would 
throw in a few extra ones.  The ones selected were always in the 
extras.  It just shows how poor an editor I am of my own work!!

Tina
www.tinamanley.com