Alamy

Alamy is a stock photo company , under the website alamy.com. Photographers can request to create an account to upload their images to the website but to do so you need to upload 4 photograph's under strict guidelines that they set. 
Here's a link to their guideline page : http://www.alamy.com/contributor/help/prepare-images.asp

Some of their guidlines include ;

1. No camera shake
2. No data loss or corruption
3. No high contrast (due to blown out sections etc)
4. No watermarks

Along with many more. I think it's actually really good that Alamy have so many guidelines because it prevents the website from being filled with not so great photographs so basically it filters out all the bad photo's. The website also tells you what Cameras they accept for you to use to take your photographs and which ones they don't accept too.

There are other stock photography websites other than Alamy such as ;

istockphoto

shutterstock

gettyimages

Alamy is a good one to pick because as students we don't have to pay any commission for our images if they are sold, also there isn't a limit as to how many photo's you can upload (if you are accepted). They also don't edit any content that is uploaded by the photographer. Alamy is a great way to make money as a photographer, you upload your images and if a company/business (or anyone really) wants to buy your images, they can. The photographer picks the price and can decide if the person buying the images owns complete copyright (forever) or just for the one photo, without full copyright. 

Once I looked at the images on their website that other photographers have submitted , I got a pretty clear image of how the type of photo's I wanted to create to fit the brief for the website. I reflected on previous photo's I have taken and thought about how I want to approach the brief and I have decided to create still life images. 

There are 52.41 million photographs on Alamy.com and so far I have seen so many creative photo's and I look forward to seeing If I will be accepted or not to add my photo's to the pool too. My favourite categories to look at on there is ;

Love

Travel

Still Life