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Title: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: DiscreetDuck on March 09, 2018, 06:40
Hello,
considering how things go, I think many of us are facing the sames questions about the strategy for the best future. I hope this poll is well formulated enough, being not anglosaxon native.

Please choose the nearest answer that corresponds to your reality.
2 votes possible, but 1 preferred for better consistency.
Poll active for 30 days.
Thanks!!! :)
Title: Re: Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Brasilnut on March 09, 2018, 06:48
Interesting poll.

As for what I consider my "best images", unfortunately they rarely translate in being the most profitable.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Chichikov on March 09, 2018, 11:36
My best images are sold directly to my customers.
I don't even think a second to put them on a web site.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: PaulieWalnuts on March 09, 2018, 12:04
My most highly sellable images I only sell through my own business stock/print website or direct to clients at premium prices. Stuff that's oversaturated in micro I submit to micro.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: derek on March 09, 2018, 14:10
Best images through my own library and after that as RM!
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: DiscreetDuck on March 09, 2018, 15:42
Quote from: Chichikov on March 09, 2018, 11:36
My best images are sold directly to my customers.
I don't even think a second to put them on a web site.
Do you consider them as stock images?
If not, I placed this poll in the good section : "General Stock Discussion" ;)
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: angelawaye on March 09, 2018, 15:46
Very interesting poll and thank you for creating it.

I have so many sitting on my hard drive now. I don't know where to put them. I was really hoping to get into stocksy.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Chichikov on March 10, 2018, 07:00
Quote from: angelawaye on March 09, 2018, 15:46
Very interesting poll and thank you for creating it.

I have so many sitting on my hard drive now. I don't know where to put them. I was really hoping to get into stocksy.

You should be, you deserve it (more than some already being there IMHO)
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: DiscreetDuck on March 10, 2018, 09:39
Quote from: Chichikov on March 10, 2018, 07:00
Quote from: angelawaye on March 09, 2018, 15:46
Very interesting poll and thank you for creating it.

I have so many sitting on my hard drive now. I don't know where to put them. I was really hoping to get into stocksy.

You should be, you deserve it (more than some already being there IMHO)

Thanks Angela.
I totally agree, there is a subtile and nice taste in your work.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: angelawaye on March 10, 2018, 09:44
Awe Shucks, thanks :)
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: stockastic on March 10, 2018, 11:39
What is "non numeric media"?
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Chichikov on March 10, 2018, 13:49
Quote from: stockastic on March 10, 2018, 11:39
What is "non numeric media"?


Oligo is French and in french they use « numérique », not "digital"
So, I think he wanted to say "non digital media", like magazines, catalogs, brochures…
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: DiscreetDuck on March 10, 2018, 14:50
ooops, yep, I did the correction on the poll. Thanks
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: PhotoBomb on March 10, 2018, 16:48
So far it looks like most of us (me included) have no idea what our best is nor what to do with it.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: stockman11 on March 11, 2018, 03:07
When I click on "view results" it doesn't show me the results, just the same list with boxes for selection. This should be fixed.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Me on March 13, 2018, 06:43
You can see the results once you have voted
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: BalkanskiMacak on March 13, 2018, 07:57
Much more than the term of "best images", I would use the term "most valuabale", and I would divise them in three categories:

-no value (they look nice, but no particular meaning, and no potential of any use)==> no use at all, except for one or two to fill in a portfolio, or a photo contest
-valuable asset: I would put them on microstock.
-outstanding valuable asset: pictures that have been made on request (for a client for instance), that are only meaningful in bulk (for instance a series for a documentary), or whose topic could be sensitive (my last issue about this topic: children refugees, for instance)

For the last category, I would actually lose a lot if I were uploading the pictures on microstock platforms. Maybe not financially, but in terms of image and reputation. On my journalistic works, it could even be in some case a pretty big violation of the code of ethics.
Title: Re: [Poll] Where do you put your best images?
Post by: Stock4Me on March 15, 2018, 11:07
I put on sites where the photos match best what sells micro and keep best for macro or direct sales.