Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] Stock Photography
From: boklm at mars-attacks.org (nicolas vigier)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:09:03 +0200
References: <4ADF0E4A.2010400@comporium.net> <20091021160228.GZ8159@mars-attacks.org> <C2BC592E-3483-4741-AFC7-9EBDCB7740CA@frozenlight.eu>

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Nicolas,
>
> If you are thinking of uploading 10-12 images a month to Alamy, forget it. 
> I have several hundred images there, many quite good, but I have come to 
> realize that if you want to make real money (i.e. enough to pay for an M 
> lens or body and not just a dinner now and again) then you must upload 
> hundreds of images every month (or every week). And you must invest the 
> time to keyword them properly etc. etc. In other words, yes, it is 
> possible 
> to make a living from sites like Alamy but you need to work more or less 
> full time at it. As in most other areas of life, there is no free lunch 
> here.

Ah, ok, then it's probably not worth it for me as I don't have a lot of
time to spend for this. I'll rather spend that time taking photos or
doing other things I like, as I already have a job for making money.

Nicolas
-- 
http://n0x.org/


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