if you thought photography was already going down the drain, please check this out :

this guy sold a picture of his face on iStock, got paid barely half a dollar, and
now the buyer printed a giant wallpaper advertising with hif face on top of a pickle
advertising expensive financial services :





now he's glad to be called "pickle boy" by his friends, while the buyer is racking up piles
of dollars on his face.

until there's people like this around it will be more and more harder to pay not just your bills
but even a coffee or a beer with photography.

@leaf is there a reason this guy isnt banned yet? 

Dude I could care less.  Yes that's my image, and yes I probably made 50 cents.  This type of stuff comes with the territory.  I sell hundreds of images every single day.  How much money have you made this year from stock?  Hopefully at least enough to restore that hippie van of yours

PEACE LOVE AND HAPPINESS, homeboy.   

You tell him pickle-boy! 

We get it, you hate microstock.  And?  This argument is 5 years old - did you just figure out that you were supposed to hate us? 

Lets stick with the message that the most we ever make is $0.25 and none of us make enough to pay for our cameras.  Hippy, go spread the word  We have heard it here before already, go tell the traditional stock photographers.

Perhaps you could also let the IRS know that it isn't worth withholding 30% of our $0.25 commissions

Wasn't there a song a few years back, "My pickle jar brings all the boys to the yard", or something like that.

@leaf is there a reason this guy isnt banned yet?  

I don't think he should be banned.

Edit: RT beat me...

Wasn't there a song a few years back, "My pickle jar brings all the boys to the yard", or something like that.

LOL!!  "* right...it's better than yours...I could teach you...but I'd have to charge"

There will always be a market for RM, like Millinz said there are certain types of images that do better under those licenses.  

You all keep feeding the troll. Old Hippy is just a figment of someone's imagination!

The guy was probably not earned just 25c in IS, but anyway, it was his choice to have his on image there and all the risks involved.  If he didn't give it a second thought, it's his guilt.

What is OP..?..

Original Poster

too many trolls in this forum.

i give up.

If only. 

I guess we can expect to see you back with another tired rant in a week or so? 

But first, remember to throw a big hissy fit and tell us all off in terms profane enough that Tyler has to edit your post. 

Seems to be your modus operandi,  and interestingly,  that of one other former/current/former/current member. 

Quote from: Old Hippy on June 03, 2009, 11:25

too many trolls in this forum.

i give up.

If only. 

I guess we can expect to see you back with another tired rant in a week or so? 

But first, remember to throw a big hissy fit and tell us all off in terms profane enough that Tyler has to edit your post. 

Seems to be your modus operandi,  and interestingly,  that of one other former/current/former/current member. 

sometimes when uploading huge batches of JPG to your macro agency you wonder what to do in the meantime,
that's why i hang here.

I sleep when my upload script runs :-)

Dear Mr. Hippy,
I have a solution for you: if you don't like microstock, don't submit to microstock. We like it, sorry. 

He is uploading to Alamy. I like Alamy, but it is not traditional stock agency and he is not macro stock shooter. Anybody can upload to Alamy, that is ok, they have their own business model. But, try to get accepted by Getty, Corbies, Veer, UpperCut images etc.

and who told you i dont ?

C'mon Oldie show us your macro portfolio! 

here it is :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hippy/clusters/

...until there's people like this around it will be more and more harder to pay not just your bills
but even a coffee or a beer with photography...

A few sales a year for $300 each, or 1000 sales a year for $1 each... what's the difference?

I don't care who buys my images or where they put them. At the end of the day, it's the same money.

It was a funny headline however. Something you might expect to see in The Onion.

Quote from: Blahh Bamm! on June 03, 2009, 16:51

C'mon Oldie show us your macro portfolio! 

here it is :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hippy/clusters/

they're actually quite good. EXCEPT the volkswagen vans are nice and clean, unlike your own ...
which is unwashed... like you, perharps

Quote from: Dook on June 03, 2009, 16:16

He is uploading to Alamy. I like Alamy, but it is not traditional stock agency and he is not macro stock shooter. Anybody can upload to Alamy, that is ok, they have their own business model. But, try to get accepted by Getty, Corbies, Veer, UpperCut images etc.

and who told you i dont ?

Yes, I guess you try.

sometimes when uploading huge batches of JPG to your macro agency you wonder what to do in the meantime, that's why i hang here.

According to the time you spend on this forum, that certainly must be 10-layer 32-bit TIFFs on a 10-baud phone modem  . Let me think, your "macro site" is Flickr, and you are called "Ansel Adams" by the other inmates of "Forest Peace", a home for retired photographers with moderately advanced Alzheimer. "Napoleon Bonaparte" is peering over your shoulder as you painfully type your unstructured paragraphs on your brand new Commodore 64, just grumbling now and then when you break another wind under your white charity gown. 

Keep posting by all means. It's fun, now and then.

Shame, we'll really miss you 

So did RJMIZ pull another one over on us and come back as Old Hippy?

No, he just hasn't got the Miz's naughty sense of humour.

i just don't get what the kicks you get from telling others how crap they are? really, that low self esteem? oh we know you still read what we have to say about you, don't you?

Quote from: thomasw on June 04, 2009, 09:15

Well seeing as we have all heard the farewells before! How long do you think this cat will stay away this time? gee I miss him already 

Seeing as he has other alias's on this board, he won't be gone, just changing hats.

Yep, we can count on that.

I wish Miz was still around, he's laugh his butt off at my pickle billboard discovery.  Miz was a good pal of mine - we spoke daily over IM and he listened to me piss and moan about my stressful corporate graphic design job.  He'd probably flip over in his grave if he heard that I went from 1000 images to 4000 in a year's time.

The only reason why I saw this thread, was because Matt showed it to me.  I try to stay off the forums lately so I can try and get more work done.  

Old hippy - I hope you can at least support your weed habit off those macro sales

Loop - AMEN.  Get that paper, homeboy.  Pennies per sale adds up a lot by the end of the month when you've built up enough volume and quality.  With the abundance of RF micro and midstock agencies, you can also spread your work out across a slew of agencies across the world.  That alone makes a huge difference in your monthly income, I can't stress that enough...as long as you have the time and prioritize which agencies are worth that time.

Old Hippy, is wrong on so many points, maybe some time on research would help.

It was camera manufactures that created the digital cameras and made them affordable, so everyone could compete on an equal footing where skill not money now matters.
The internet created the distrubution method to upload and display the images to customers all over the world.
The software companies created tools to prepare and correct the digital images and the payment gateways.
The traditional agencies shut the doors on new photographers and microstock was created.
Flickr opened up the social photography sites where photographers can compare images.
Microstock gave everyone images at an affordable price and allowed the use of images for many millions of NEW users, that just want a couple of images for a website or article and would never have brought an image from a traditional site.

I remember the high street with a lot of traditional outlets, they have all gone and we go to the superstores now, times changed and so did buying habits.

There are many other reasons traditional sales are falling, one being the traditional customer base, newspapers and magazines, these are struggling to survive as the internet becomes more available and faster more and more people get the news online, how many 20 somethings do you see reading a newspaper or magazine?

But hey whatever it is the Micro shooters to blame!

David  

Speaking of Miz, I keep seeing his name pop up as "Suggested Friends" to add on Facebook. 

Guess he's reminding us he's still here, in spirit, at least

Gebbie