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General Photography Discussion / Re: DPReview closing down
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Good luck DPReview!!!!
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General Photography Discussion / Re: DPReview closing down« on: June 22, 2023, 08:46 »
Good luck DPReview!!!!
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Fraud account on Shutterstock.« on: June 16, 2023, 04:34 »For all the (deserved) criticism of the use of AI more and more it strikes me one area it could be useful for is detecting similar images *and video* to stop this sort of thing.There are 2 problems: convince the giants (a quality AI works need a decent investment) and the interest of the business shareholders - they have money from all accounts. And then - what the next? The law enforcement needs also good money. And finally: does the criminal a money to pay? Otherwise again - the government have to feed them in prison. 3
Alamy.com / Re: Is Alamy off line today?« on: April 21, 2023, 14:34 »
I cannot login. Something is wrong there, reset does not send email. Contacted support
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock "Contributor Fund"« on: December 31, 2022, 06:02 »They don't care about how you feel, how comfortable are you with their interface. For them is more important to redirect you to sales pages. No matter you, contributor, you have no value at all and already for a long time. They gave just a clear message for those to whom this was not clear yet.I was scratching my head to find it and just did before I read this comment. Where did these people learn web design? Awful!Where is this option? 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock "improving" the Contributor dashboard again« on: December 19, 2022, 12:20 »Hi,Yes they "modified" again - you open url of your contributor's page, SS redirects you to the buyer page again - after a short period they removed this rubbish but today again the same. Disgusting and hypocrite. M...e. PS: today a client was looking for a stock library advise. I didn't advise SS. 6
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate« on: October 16, 2022, 14:25 »Thank you very much, Pete for the advises. BTW, they started again these redirects++Thank you. It was always submit.shutterstock.com so i was surprised with those redirects. They survey? I use the same URL, no redirect today :-)SS desperate to sell? Already several weeks on first load of the contributors page i am redirected to the sales page of SS and only after that step i can access a contributors page. Useless movement as i don't buy there 7
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate« on: October 05, 2022, 03:13 »++Thank you. It was always submit.shutterstock.com so i was surprised with those redirects. They survey? I use the same URL, no redirect today :-)SS desperate to sell? Already several weeks on first load of the contributors page i am redirected to the sales page of SS and only after that step i can access a contributors page. Useless movement as i don't buy there 8
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate« on: September 28, 2022, 08:36 »
SS desperate to sell? Already several weeks on first load of the contributors page i am redirected to the sales page of SS and only after that step i can access a contributors page. Useless movement as i don't buy there
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Mother kissing daughter considered "inappropriate" on Dreamstime« on: May 26, 2022, 01:52 »
The AI is a human product. Reflecting sick dreams about more suitable world for its creator(s).
Who is creating and on which level - it can be a politician, an owner, manager, software architect, finally developer... Alltogether can act as a criminal band. And of course collateral damages. There is already enough reports mentioning forced biases and opinions. Several weeks ago i removed one app where i posted sometimes. The reason? Suddenly ALL technical content stopped to show up. I had to open myself accounts which i followed and verify that there were posts. Instead of content to which i was subscribed or liked, the app started to bring only babies photos, children food, stitching, promenades with families, happy pregnant bellies etc. Some cinema content was kept (they found it neutral for this soup?) Ok you understood? They just wanted to show which subjects i must receive because of gender and age. I find my content without this app. They can keep amateurs of prefiltered content. 10
Off Topic / Re: Russian photographers should be banned!« on: March 13, 2022, 03:02 »
And continuing the logic. Efforts of many countries were needed to end the II war. Ordinary Germans who was against the regime were powerless to accomplish it. It was before the nuclear era. Now the collective efforts are needed again. But the political and economical ones, otherwise we probably will not see what happen after. The game without rules it is just a non-stop change of the rules. Call for a collective responsibility brings nowhere. If it was applied to all Germans, the modern world could become a dystopia. In the news i see a lot of messages that russians started to leave their country too, about 200 000 for now. Who cannot change the regime, can at least stop feeding it by living and working there. The regime loses its brain capital. The world become too small to use a war for conflict solving. And the world has many other problems.
I sent money to a charity. Everybody does what he can to help Ukrainian population. Status quo of the borders should be restored. Without starting a III war. Call for a highest qualification of politicians, elected in the democratic part of the world. 11
Off Topic / Re: Can anyone ID this logo or shape?« on: March 05, 2022, 05:27 »
ancient axe (as a weapon)?
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Off Topic / Re: Will the Russia/Ukraine war affect sales?« on: March 02, 2022, 02:02 »All dictators have identical pattern of their end of life. 13
Off Topic / Re: Russian photographers should be banned!« on: February 27, 2022, 03:56 »
Requests to sanction ordinary people there to force them to change the power are naive. The power there is separated and self-protected from the citizens. People have memory in their blood about the repressions, demonstrations shot, psychiatric actions, isolation, brainwashing, manipulations. The war will continue till the sides have their resources. In Russia government will not pay much attention to the people. Re-read the history. First priority there is the interest of those in power. Politicians of the world have never faced this level of threat of the red button even in the 60ths. The solution should be political and the war can be ended only when politicians find a solution, at least temporary for the moment.
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Off Topic / Re: Will the Russia/Ukraine war affect sales?« on: February 26, 2022, 10:42 »This is a good example of "shoot where you are with what you have as best you can."Editorials will contribute for the future court in Hague. 15
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy sale for 7 cents« on: January 11, 2022, 14:56 »Amount of jobs ads never shows the real status of the market. Huge layer of intermediates ("body shops") repost the same or slightly changed texts. Many employers cannot find employees being linked to aggressive contracts. Many job seekers cannot find a job because they cannot go through "culture" filters of intermediates (understand this as age-gender-origin-agree-with-everything-shut-up) or requirements without any practical base written by people "not in the subject". The things are more complicated. Look for the root cause.For the sake of balance, if you mention 7cent sales I feel I have an obligation to also mention the huge sales that may occur at Alamy. Two of my examples from the 8 months. $250+ gross each x 40% for the net. 16
General Stock Discussion / Re: Selling digital drawings« on: January 06, 2022, 03:08 »
Can it serve as an IP property registration in one place?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Comparison of Standard RF License Agreements« on: January 04, 2022, 05:11 »
Just requested to delete my images.
The worse the site is, more problems to delete images. These even don't give such option for a user. 18
Off Topic / Re: New Years topic« on: December 22, 2021, 08:14 »
I have only empty section. I use Opera
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Security guard doesn't like my "professional" camera« on: November 30, 2021, 03:19 »
This is about technique and your personal ability to keep the camera movements steady, maybe some training also. Software does the magic but limited. For 1/15 and sometimes 1/8 i go without tripod. Of course, the object should be still, like architecture or plants in the calm weather. "Fly around" camera movements for festivities i did only with a phone, because of its weight, but without helping gadgets.
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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy Demographic Survey« on: November 18, 2021, 03:54 »It is just a new direction of their business. The data have their own cost and become a commodity.I did not receive this. This kind of data collection, especially by a private company, is forbidden in France. 21
Shutterstock.com / Re: Murdered Shutterstock Forum Refugee Thread« on: October 03, 2021, 01:42 »Someday there will be company run by us (the artist) where the commission is 70% plus for the us and our voices are heard and changes are made to benefit us. Someday...This kind of projects are not a new invention, there were many. Some of them even started here, between this forum members. None of them gained a visible place on the market. Ideas were different: from an agency run by the artists to the network of standardized websites with a common search and interlinking. Lifecycle of these projects is usually very short and they fell because of limiting factors like investments, time, human psychology (and especially artists specific) etc etc. And there will be people which will start again. Wishing them good luck, even with the references to the failed before projects. A neutral to artists agency was the mostly competitive type in microstock, but this neutrality also does not live long. How this model works and evolves everybody sees in the income digits, very different for an agency and an artist. 22
Image Sleuth / Re: Shutterstock portfolio with other people's images in it« on: September 11, 2021, 12:00 »
Was there a case when name of a thief on SS become public and he was prosecuted? Most of thieves accounts look like generated AI personas
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion« on: September 03, 2021, 00:49 »
"Reset" of search results will happen. For many of portfolio holders it is not physically possible to rename and re-keyword their photos and videos. SS of course will promote the "correct" ones.
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Image Sleuth / Re: Another blatant thief at Shutterstock« on: August 23, 2021, 07:11 »
Somebody wrote that because of low pricing there is no benefit for SS to keep the thieves online. The real life shows the opposite. Otherwise they just investigate quickly and take them down. There is enough money flowing in with such accounts and all are kept by SS, no need to share a fraction to contributors. Not sure which is the real % of such accounts found by the contributors, it can be very small compare to not discovered ones.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock+AWS press release: your images as AI training data« on: July 30, 2021, 12:31 »
Comments in this thread can be qualified as a brainstorming for a company which puts efforts to pay less for us. Especially when it is, indeed, possible to separate a background info noise from the value data.
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