Luis,
I forgat to reply to a couple of your questions/comments. I'll do it before I must get busy as I am soon off to the original Ageland where it's nice and warm.
I don't regularly get 6's on PD, it's either 7 or 8 but for shots that are genuinely not that well taken or that are picked by AGE are often rated 6 - to the extent now that I cannot trust PD judgement anymore. It goes against what Alamy and Age sell, and PD is supposedly fighting in the same ring with them.
Age QC rejects any photo that is not up to standards, and it does not affect rest of the batch. They don't give you a reason and you are welcome to try to submit a photo that was rejected on technical grounds if you can fix it. I have had a few technical failures, but those are hardly anything to worry about - it's their editing system that is the hardest to get by.
They edit tightly and their average is only around 11% accepted. I have had acceptance rates from 8% to around 60% and I send them completely unedited batches, same as go to all other agencies. But like I said I am lucky with the locations etc.
Prepare your first submission well, have variety there, and be prepared not to get that many photos in there at first if you are accepted. Sales take ages to appear at first and a lot longer to get a monthly payment from there. Many of their choices surprise photographers, but there is a clear pattern there and I always can guess which submission gets which acceptance rate beforehand.
Peter Forsberg
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, Luis Dafos <luisdafos@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Well
> i´ve been with PD for a year or so and have no complaints. With only
> some 400 photos on the site i did make some sells and never thought
> of buying disc space since every time i upload a file i have
> more space than i had before... I would never pay for disc space,
> nowhere.
> But,
> Peter, i have to say that i´m really surprised your photos are
> regularly rated 6... Can´t believe it, your work is really first
> class travel stock, just the kind of work i´d like to do!
> On the
> other hand i´m really interested about AGE, I´m right now preparing
> my portfolio for them and i´m wondering how hard is their "quality
> control"... Are they harder than Alamy?
> Do they
> really sell?
> Thanks
> and congrats for your work,
> Luis
> Dafos
> http://luisdafos.weebly.com/
>
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