Licensed or Royalty Free

One confusion that faces a lot of stock photographers when submitting for agencies is what type of license should they choose for their images. What license you should choose ?
Well Royalty free pictures have shorter shelf life but they work good with easy to shoot subjects
So if you have an image that any one else can replicate you might want to set this as RF, but if you have a hard to get image then L is the way to go.
The RF Vs L war has been on since the introduction of Royalty free and will always be there
You must realize that you can not license the same image or similar in both L and RF.
One of my images was licensed to the same magazine four times I was lucky I had that one as L because if it was royalty free I would have lost three sales and whatever more is coming.
Although I have chosen to diverse my licensing type on Alamy but I am going more towards Royalty managed from now on.
All the best