Alamy QC

[Nigel_O]

My technique / knowledge / experience / is gradually getting better. Last week, I posted a couple of shots that I consider to be amongst my best. This one in particular generated a few Flickr favourite tags and more than doubled my number of followers (to nine....)

DSC_7790 by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr

I've always wondered whether any of my shots are good enough to be used by others, so I submitted the above shot and the one below to Alamy to see what their quality control made of them.

DSC_7843 by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr

I got an email back today saying that the landscape shot had failed because of "poor exposure" and the waterfall shot had failed because of "camera shake"

I'm guessing that the QC system is automated and it has seen dark mountains and blurry water (both by design, obviously)

So - I have two questions....

1) Is it worth persevering with Alamy, or if not...
2) Is there a better alternative?

[silobass]

I'm not sure about Alamy but Shutterstock seemed quite picky to me. One alternative is Eyeem, they're a lot less picky. They have some link with Getty Images so you will get the exposure.