This is where you can find some answers to some of the questions we get a lot. But please do feel free to ask any personal or other questions!
We are always happy to read comments about this website, the photography or possible publications and/or assignments.
How fast can I get a high resolution photo?
You usually receive a high resolution file within 24 hours.
Can you help with searching the perfect photo?
Of course…although all photos can be found on the website we understand that it is sometimes hard to search for that one special photo in the entire database. Especially if the photo you are looking for is not related to a certain place or country. We´ll be pleased to help you find exactly what you have in mind.
I did not find photos of…, can you make them?
If you are in need of photos and are going to do an article about a certain country/place/festival/market its always a good idea to let us know about this. Maybe Wilmar can go and shoot the photos you need, even without paying for the full assignment. As we do a lot of stock photography we gain income out of the photos anyway (if the job is done right). If there is a good change of delivering some photos directly after shooting it’s a plus. We realize it is hard to promise buying photos before they are shot. If this construction is interesting for us all depends on the place, needs and costs involved. Please contact us if you have certain ideas.
Do you deliver to Photo Stock Agencies?
Yes, to be honest this is the main source of revenue for us. Its impossible to represent the Wilmar Photography.com images worldwide in every market ourselves. Besides that we like to concentrate on shooting the images rather than selling them. If you work for/represent a Photostock Agency and would like to know if we can work together than we would most certainly like to hear from you,
Click here to go to the contact page. Please keep in mind all images are sold on a Right Managed (RM) base (never Royalty Free) and due to the fact we supply more agencies we can not offer Exclusive sales right (unless maybe for special assignments).
What is the maximum resolution of a photo?
Although at present we use a Canon Eos 5D some of the photos are shot on slide films. These photos are available as digital file with the sizes of approximately 5600 by 3700 pixels. Saved as TIF (without LZW compression) this is about 60 MB file. Saved as a good JPG file this will be somewhere between 2 and 5 MB. The Canon Eos 5D creates a 8 bit- 37 MB tiff file with the resolution of 4368x2912 (enlarging/interpolation of this file is very well possible because the photo is very clean)
I can not find a list of photos you have in stock, what do you have?
You can first of all find photos when using the browse by country menu. There are over 16.000 photos on this site. Besides searching for a certain country, you can also search for cities, areas or certain moods. To sparkle your fantasy we have summed up some example keywords that give nice results in the search engine (just click on the word):
freedom,
flowers,
smile,
sunset,
sand,
portrait,
castle,
beach,
fly,
curious,
cow,
landscape,
nature,
drugs,
church or
fields.
Also a combination of keywords does the job well (but please keep out words like in, and, or , to) :
castle Scotland,
colosseum Rome,
windmill Netherlands,
Eiffel tower Paris,
Sagrada familia Barcelona,
Trinidad Cuba,
canals Amsterdam,
beach Croatia,
Amazon jungle,
mountains France,
Pyrenees Spain,
mosque Iran.
If you are looking for photos from a centain place or city just look for that, e.g.
Agra,
Algarve,
Alps,
Amsterdam,
Antwerp,
Aragon,
Ardenne,
Athens,
lake Balaton,
Bangkok,
Barcelona,
Basel,
Berlin,
Bruges,
Budapest,
Cairo,
Canberra,
Cape Town,
Catalunya,
Champagne,
Cologne,
Copenhagen,
Cordoba,
Costa Brava,
Delft,
Delhi,
Dijon,
Dover,
Dubrovnik,
Edinburgh,
Eifel,
Esfahan,
Fes,
Fyn,
Girona,
Granada,
Graz,
Havana,
Holland,
Istanbul,
Jodhpur,
Kuala Lumpur,
Leiden,
Lisbon,
London,
Luxor,
Marrakesh,
Meknes,
Nancy,
Normandy,
Odense,
Paramaribo,
Paris,
Peloponnese,
Porto,
Prague,
Queensland,
Rajasthan,
Rome,
Rotterdam,
Santiago,
Santo Domingo,
Scheveningen,
Sossusvlei,
Sousse,
Sussex,
Sydney,
Tehran,
Tessalia,
The Hague,
Tunis,
Utrecht,
Valencia,
Parc naturel Regional du Verdon,
Vienna,
Wellington,
Windhoek or
Zagreb.
Do you shoot digitally?
Yes….although most material is shot on 35 mm Kodak slide films and are scanned afterwards at 4000 dpi., this generates a 60 MB tif file. Nowadays Wilmar uses a Canon Eos 5D. In his opinion the first full frame camera that is made for the job as travel photographer. The biggest drawback of this camera will probably be the fact that a flashlight is missing. Even a travel photographer doesn’t like to get a big flashlight out of the backpack if one decides 2 seconds before shooting that a small fill-in light during the day would be slightly better for the shot.
Where can I find published work?
Anywhere! Photos made by Wilmar are used for the production of calendars, postcards, newspapers, magazines and advertisings. But to be honest we do not put our effort in showing you what was used in the past but would like to spend our time in creating more photos for the future. As most photos are sold through photo stock agencies we most of the time do not even see the published work ourselves. We understand that sometimes you would really like to see some previously used photos before purchasing a photo or giving away a travel photography assignment. If you would like to receive examples of previously used photos you can always request a zip file by email. This will normally be send to you within a day.
Who/what is Wilmar anyway?
The name Wilmar came out of a name book and was given to him by his parents. Wilmar is a 33 year (young) single male working out of The Hague (The Netherlands). If you’re curious just search on this website by clicking here:
Wilmar.
Does the Wilmar Photography.com site get a lot of visitors?
It is depending on what you call a lot. On average there are between 1200 and 2500 visitors a day, generating about 9.000 - 14.000 page views a day.
Can I link to your website?
Of course. Maybe we can even place a return link from our linking page. Please keep in mind we can not link back to all website. Our goal is to reach as much as possible picture buyers. We know each visitor can be a picture buyer, but about 99% is just browsing. When linking to this site you can just link to the home page, but also to a certain country : http://www.wilmarphotography.com/travel/thumbnails.asp?country=France or any keyword/place : http://www.wilmarphotography.com/travel/thumbnails.asp?q=barcelona . If you need a banner please give us the size you need and we’ll send you one as soon as possible.
I’m a webmaster; can I use the photos for free if I link to www.WilmarPhotography.com?
No. Sorry, but creating travel photography is not cheap. Of course we understand that we can get some visitors from your site and all promotion is really welcome, but this does not mean we can give away our trade ware for free. Nevertheless if you have a good and creative idea you can always send an email and we will certainly think about it!
Can we advertise on your website?
That’s a hard one...As you can see there is no advertising on this website yet. This is because the main purpose of this site is to sell the photos and show the world to the world. We are not actively searching for potential advertisers. But if you think you have an interesting offer we would certainly like to hear about it.
