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Shutterstock.com / Bloody hell!

« on: May 03, 2016, 17:00 »

I just made $60 in commission on one image! I didn't know that was even possible in SS?

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Shutterstock.com / SS FTP upload down

« on: February 06, 2016, 22:21 »

Is it just me or are others having trouble uploading to SS via FTP.. I can't upload via PicWorkFlow either.

The wep upload works.. but smashes my internet to pieces.

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Shutterstock.com / Milestone!

« on: February 05, 2016, 04:35 »

I made my 50th sale with SS today!

I've only been doing this for just over 4 months so im delighted.. No idea if 50 is good or bad for that amount of time, but I am very happy so far

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Citizen Journalism Forum / Newzulu

« on: September 18, 2015, 23:12 »

So I'm thinking of uploading my news images to Newzulu - has anyone had any experience with them?

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General Stock Discussion / Editorial shots - where to put them?

« on: September 13, 2015, 18:29 »

Ok so yesterday I squeezed of a couple of hundred shots of a stunt motorbike rider doing a show at a car show. The guy was amazing - as a rider myself, he did things that defy physics.. it was a great day...

The focus gods were looking down on me because I have an extraordinary number of tack sharp images

Not sure what went wrong there, but I'll take it!

Anyway, given the show was in a regional town, and not really newsworthy, I don't expect to make much on them but I'd like to maximize my return as much as possible.

I'm drawn to uploading them to Alamy because I prefer their pricing model, but that prevents me from uploading anywhere else.

So I'm looking for advice here - I upload to SS, DT, CanStock, iStock, 123RF, Alamy, Yay and others but they don't accept editorial.

To get the best return, should I just upload to Alamy, or alternatively, all the others? Who's the best for Editorial?

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iStockPhoto.com / Um.. no views, no registered sales - but there's $0.56 registered to my account?

« on: September 08, 2015, 02:33 »

So I haven't been with iStock long but I have about 70 images up with them. I thought it a bit odd that to date, there's not been one single view..

But just now, i notice I've made a whopping $0.56!

Weird thing is - I still have no views, nor has Deepmeta registered any sales against any of my images.. I checked their website and the same thing.. I have a balance, but i can't work out which image sold?

Any ideas?

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iStockPhoto.com / No views yet

« on: August 27, 2015, 02:21 »

Hi all

I'm very new to microstock, having had images up for only about two weeks on Fotolia, Bigstock, iStock, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Alamy, Canstock, DP, and a few others..

I have between 15 and 80 images up on each agency - the average being about 40.

So far I've had 7 sales:

Fotolia - 1
Dreamstime - 1
Shutterstock - 4 (with only 15 images up! - I am amazed)
Bigstock - 1

Not many sales but admittedly, more than i expected!

I have a varying number of views on all the agencies except On iStock...

Not one single view and I have about 65 images up with them.

By all accounts iStock is a strong agency, not as strong as it once was I know, but referring to the polls, it's the second highest revenue agency after SS...

I'm not all that worried about it as I know as my work improves and i upload more images, things will change. I am more interested as to whether others have a similar experience?

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Shutterstock.com / image rejected based on IP infriingement

« on: August 17, 2015, 06:07 »

Hi All!

I've recently been accepted into Shutterstock which I'm really happy about.

However i have a couple of images of a vintage camera that keeps getting rejected based on intellectual property rights.

I don't understand it, it's a 1950's camera and I've removed any identifying features such as numbers and brand name. yet when I search for camera's in Shutterstock there are hundreds of images of cameras, some similar to mine.

Here's one of the pics:

I'd love to have some insight as to why so many other similar images are allowed, but this one isn't?

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Newbie Discussion / New member!

« on: August 06, 2015, 20:19 »

Hi all, I just joined and thought I'd introduce myself.

My name is Dave, based in Melbourne and I have just entered the world of microstock with about 40 images up up on Dreamstime, Fotolia, Alamy, 123RF, iStock and Big Stock. Two weeks in and two sales! yay

I'm still trying to get accepted at Shutterstock, and for some reason Canstock just rejected all my uploads - all of which are on other sites too. oh well.

Anyway, looking forward to getting to know you all!

Cheers,
Dave

Edit: oops - I didn't have enough coffee this morning, Canstock have accepted a 3rd of my shots.. so there you go.. seems their standards aren't so good as I thought! haha