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Alamy.com / Commission lowered to 20%
« on: May 17, 2021, 07:34 »
I just read the new contributor contract.  The highlight: if you make less that $250 in commission during the fiscal year will, your commission will be lowered to 20%.   

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General Stock Discussion / Quality of stock photo
« on: March 07, 2021, 17:24 »
Hello:

I am preparing an article about stock photography.  Those of you who have been in this business for a number of years, do you agree that

-over the years, the quality of stock photo increased tremendously

-Prices and commissions decreased dramatically and out of the millions of stock photographers, very few make a living from stock photography and those who do have highly specialised portfolios

-Would you advise a young photographer to join the industry?

Thank you for your feedback


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Doing image reverse lookup, I found the portfolio of this guy contains two fractals that I created, he simply recolored them and offers them on sale.  Looking at his stuff, he travelled the whole planet...

https://stock.adobe.com/ca/contributor/780/joel-behr?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

Will report it again and I hope this time it will be taken down...

The Tinyeye results reveals that many others - or the same person under different names - made different copies...
https://tineye.com/search/a4cec0ebeb7bd389a382945bf4c88f9277cd3f79?sort=score&order=desc&page=1

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Pond5 / Pricing photos on P5
« on: June 07, 2020, 08:48 »
Hello:
How do you price photos on P5?  Photos available from other stock agencies and photos exclusive to P5? Almost all of my pics are high rez-6000x4000. 

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Adobe Stock / Creative cloud membership
« on: March 17, 2020, 13:40 »
Hello:
I started to receive a notification when I sign-in Adobestock that I got a free subscription a few weeks ago.  I activated my current plan last November, I received a complimentary 12 months because I am an Adobe contributor.  So receiving this recent notification surpried me and I have  not activated it yet.  I saw on Twitter that Adobe cloud subscrbers are getting a 60 fee holiday?    So I wonder if the code I received is to add a 60 day to my current plan.  I coud not find information on Adobe site. I want to ensure that if i redeem the code recenttly received it will add to the current one, not cancel it.  Have you received a code too?   

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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock QA
« on: September 13, 2019, 07:31 »
Hello:

It became obvious over the last year-after submitting many thousands pics to different agencies- that ShutterStock systematically rejects all photos if the focus is not dead center.   I think its AI that tags and rejects those as if a human was to take a look it would be obvious that the focus is not on the center and why.  Dozens of my pics were cleared-sold via other agencies but rejected by SS.  I find that unfortunate.   What can I do besides submitting to ss solely images where he focus is dead center?         

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General Stock Discussion / Model release
« on: March 26, 2019, 12:27 »
Hello:
Do you get models to sign multiple releases for different agencies or just one release that you sumbit to all?  If so, do you have a template that satisfies all agencies that you could share.  Any problems submitting a release from a different agencies? 

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General Stock Discussion / keywords for images
« on: February 21, 2019, 20:15 »
Hello:  What keywords would you recommend for images where there is place for text and that contain no people?

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Flickr / Flickr pro accounts
« on: January 31, 2019, 15:34 »
Posting this just in case the people at Flickr monitor. I have a free account and I am a bit over the new 1000 limit. I received notifications that confirm that I can not upload unless I upgrade and that some of my photos will be deleted starting from the oldest.  Turns out many of these photos got lots of views and appear in different groups.  Not certain at all that its a good business strategy to delete them.  Flickr should definately consider giving away pro accounts to selected contributors who produce quality work and generate traffic as an incentive to post....     

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General Stock Discussion / Images on Getty via 500px
« on: October 22, 2018, 11:49 »
Hello:

Some of my photos on 500px are now on sale via Getty images following the sale of 500px last summer.   Anyone here in the same situation and has actually sold under that scheme?  Worth adding to my portfolio on 500px ?   

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General Stock Discussion / Licensing via pixel.com
« on: April 12, 2018, 16:37 »
Greetings all,
Anyone here using licensing.pixels.com for licensing?  If so, I would love to hear about your experience.  Flat rate of 30% commission over the price you set.  Do you know of any other similar service anywhere else to compare with?

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