Level 5 photography
Professional Studies
Week 21
Alamy- stock images

1999: Alamy is founded

In 1999 James West, along with his uncle Mike Fischer, founded Alamy.  John Smith  have been making money on financial markets for years and over the time he has been spend on trading he met people making mistakes just as him when trading. John decided to create the program that allows less experienced traders to be as successful as him without exposing risks. By signing up to Alamy for free by using the student code that is given by university. Signing up you will receive free capital and find out about your future profits.

Changing industry with technology

buying stock images by entering keywords into their search bar and if see what you like that you think will be helpful in blog, campaign, reports and powerpoints for meeting and interviews you can purchase image online or chat or cal them.  Mike Fischer experience in technology and James West enthusiasm for new ideas that challenged the stock photo industry. Alamy was formed and James became CEO and Mike became business mentor.

 licensing stock imagery

RM stands for rights managed- with the image you only pay for what you're using the image for. Rights managed license define exact use in terms of where, when and for how long an image used.

RF stands for Royalty Free- you pay a one off fee to use the image with no restrictions on how you use image, how many times you use it or how long you use it for. you can use the image across multiple projects for life. there are some restrictions on image use for reselling.

Getting permission

-plan to use an image commercially you might need a model or property release

- model property release is signed permission from an individual or owner of a property, or owner of a photograph to be used commercially

- you will need to contact Alamy to check if you can clear extra permissions in these situations above

Alamy live news, contributors from all over the world reach news events from award winners to specialists in their field, got the best creative and editorial imagery from around the world. 

The ME Awards is one of the biggest mobile entertainment industry called stockim which is their iPhone app that lets you seel iphone images on Alamy.

40% to the distributor, 30% to Alamy, 30% to you.

Join Alamy as a contributer

• you get 50% of each sale, the largest royalty paid by any of the major players in the Industry
• you have a non-exclusive contract with a 45 day notice period
• you retain all copyright and editorial control of your images
• you can sell through our network of overseas distributors
• you get dedicated email support
• your images will be for sale to thousands of buyers on a super-fast, easy to use website

Alamy packaged digital photography in a way that grabbed the markets attention, and allied with the equitable approach to its photographers the company reached its first million images in just over 4 years and became profitable in 5 years.

And now, fourteen years after it was founded, Alamy has the largest online collection of images and video clips.

The first digital photograph

first digital photograph had only appeared on the internet in 1992.