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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS initial evaluation
« on: May 07, 2009, 09:58 »
Yipeee!! 9/10 were accepted on my second try... Talk about being on the edge of my seat.

The first time I tried, I uploaded some photos that I thought was cool and SS was the first that I tried. None were accepted. In fact, all of the photos were refused by all the places I tried.

After a week, I smacked myself on the forehead and decided to try what I do best illustration... These are just plain rasters.

I'm happy that I waited instead of giving up. So keep trying.

Congratulations!
At the weekend, I was accepted with 9/10 on my second try too! And on day one, I had 5 sales just with the 9 approved images online. I must have been really lucky with the reviewer I had though, because I had 6 food shots, 2 isolated object and 2 spa-stills - so not much variety.

I agree: Keep trying!

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia not showing buyer info anymore?
« on: March 22, 2009, 22:23 »
I don't really care much about knowing who bought one of my pictures, except for it being interesting for me to know from which country the buyer was. But: fotolia like other sites strongly encouraged amateurs to join, and there must be another way to react to amateurs behaving like amateurs than to stop giving that information to all contibutors without notice. Before that happened, instead of emphasizing the fact that it is forbidden to directly contact buyers, one moderator on fotolia Germany asked us to please "spread the word". That's the fotolia communication we know.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia changes to Exclusivity and other News
« on: February 20, 2009, 12:50 »
Yuri must have become rubis in September, the changes to the ranking were made in the middle of december.
And yes, we did all keep our ranks.

In the German Fotolia-forum it was announced by a moderator today that a new, corrected version of the newsletter will go out "soon". It was admitted that the original newsletter had "mistakes" in it, i. e. the price for ELs.
Is it too naive to assume that the price for ELs can't have been a mistake because the newsletter went out in many different translations, each containing the same mistake?

I've been with Fotolia for only 9 months now, and this is the third time I've been surprised by an out-of-the-blue change for the worse. Both times before they have changed their mind (correcting the ranking change and the commision for subs) about it without informing me.

Everything happening there has not encouraged me to go exclusive with them (although they are by far my best earner), but to put more emphasis on building a reasonable port on istock, so that I can afford to delete my port on fotolia in the end.

In being innovative, which they are so proud of, they are always one step behind istock. And because of that, they keep copying istock's moves. But if competition got really tight, and only one single site of the big 6 survived, I am very sure that it wouldn't be fotolia!

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I voted for fotolia - they are my best earner, the communication with them ist quick and polite, the review time is ok, and I like the community there. On the other hand - their information policy is awful, and they are starting to copy what works for istock (gang shoots and introducing video stock). Also, regarding rejections, contributing to them seems to be like playing the lottery (not for me so far, though)

Dreamstime is my worst earner of the 4 of the big 6 I contribute to. But they have great statistics and my favorite feature all over the sites: showing the keyword by which the costumer found a downloaded image. And I think it is very fair that the price of an image increases not according to your status but to the number of downloads of that image.


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General Stock Discussion / Re: My day with Yuri Arcurs
« on: December 12, 2008, 00:06 »
I think most of what Yuri shares with others isn't so much about his techniques and lighting and things like that - most of it is about what stockphotography actually is supposed to be. Things you can't copy but you must have understood before being successful in this field. So I'm not sure that he's training his own competitors. I have learned quite a bit of useful stuff from him in my first six months in the business, although I have never produced images of people (only food so far - the fish are much more patient with a beginner like me).

Also - I teach university students (I'm a research linguist) and enjoy that very much. Beyond the subject itself I love to help these chaotic people find their way through the crazy institution. From a more general point of view I think it's very human - at a certain point in life - to want to begin to give after you have taken from others. Of course it is also a marketing tool to make tutorials - but in wondering why people put themselves out doing things like that, I have come to the conclusion that they might just be decent people. So maybe Yuri's just a decent guy (eventhough he has a very strange notion of "natural", I must say).


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Adobe Stock / Re: deleting ugly images
« on: December 11, 2008, 16:25 »
It might sound silly, but every time I'm just above a round number of images in my portfolio, I delete a few images from the early days. I only have about 250 images online, and I think that in a small portfolio the ugly ones stick out a mile.

I think I'd find it really hard to delete more than 1000, though, even if you have 7000 left!

I wish more people would clean up at fotolia, there's stuff there from the early days that's undescribebly ugly and that's never been sold either.


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General Stock Discussion / Re: What would you do?
« on: December 01, 2008, 13:20 »
I agree with Einochi. And not only would I take no photos, I wouldn't even watch the scene any further.
There used to be quite a lot of trouble in Germany with people stopping and staring at accident scenes, even producing new accidents. When there was a bad flood in the south, members of the public took day trips down there to watch, take photos, and make videos of people fighting against the water in the streets. I think it's human to want to know what's going on and to have an urge to stop and stare to find out, but as long as I'm sure nobody needs my help, I'll look away and carry on.
And as the photographer, I wouldn't take the blame either. It's the driver whose responsibility it is to keep his eyes on the traffic.
 

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Off Topic / Re: remove please this topic
« on: November 27, 2008, 16:23 »
 :o You weren't going to let this topic die, were you?

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Shooting Images That Sell
« on: November 23, 2008, 09:51 »
Thankyou for sharing this!
As for tip number 10: I (and others) always have fun with the props afterwards - I shoot lots and lots of food!

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Well, I can't say that I liked the video much. I learned more about what he does and how he does it by reading interviews with him and by looking around on his homepage. Much more informative, I must say. But I'm still looking forward to the next episodes.



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Adobe Stock / Re: FT rank
« on: September 21, 2008, 19:15 »
My figures are hilarious compared to yours:
Overall rank 16757
7 day rank 5079
The nice thing is that sale by sale (only had 18 so far) I'm taking leaps of about 5000 a time!

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General - Top Sites / Re: Yuri Arcurs earns more at Fotolia then IS
« on: September 21, 2008, 19:07 »
I really don't know where the problem is (whether it's a cache-problem or something else). But people seem to be complaining about that quite often.
BTW - Going through the thread (thanks to you two for taking me there ;) ), I realized that other agencies than FT were being mentioned all the time (well, naturally, that's what yuri started the thread about) - I don't think that would be tolerated on German FT, even if the point you are making is a positive one for FT. It says explicitly in the forum rools that they don't want other agencies to be mentioned. Which I understand and stick to.
What's it like in the other FT-forums, I wonder?

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General - Top Sites / Re: Yuri Arcurs earns more at Fotolia then IS
« on: September 21, 2008, 05:02 »
Ah, great, Sudo, that worked. Thanks!

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General - Top Sites / Re: Yuri Arcurs earns more at Fotolia then IS
« on: September 20, 2008, 20:39 »
:) I love Fotolia....

I was just thinking about whether I love Fotolia too or not whilst clicking on the link to the forum to read the post. And then I remembered: No, I don't - I hate the fact that as a member of Fotolia Germany I'm only allowed to read the German forum which is awful anyway. And BTW their translation tool is the worst ever - the search results you get on the German site are grotesk. Say that on the forum, and you're chucked out.
Sorry - a bit off topic I suppose!

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Yaymicro / Re: Did u know this?
« on: September 15, 2008, 16:27 »
 :D Do you think THEY know that?   :D

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Adobe Stock / Re: EU FOTOLIA
« on: September 15, 2008, 07:03 »
do our images get the same search engine placement and visibility for all the different "versions" of fotolia (US,UK,eu...)?

I don't think that it's possible for the images to have the same placement in all the different versions: their translation tool is the worst ever! I'm with German Fotolia, and I don't think many English-speakers will find my images to buy them.

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New Sites - General / Re: A new website: Craptorstock!
« on: September 06, 2008, 16:44 »
Don't try and play on people's envy, that's cheap.

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New Sites - General / Re: A new website: Craptorstock!
« on: September 06, 2008, 16:26 »
Not a funny contribution at all!  >:(

Do you think so   :D

Now listen to me, I will put my efforts to this site and I am gonna make it BIG, with my dedication  ;D I suggest you do the same, because you don't want to regret this for the rest of your life in case this site becomes the next IS..

This is only not funny if you seriously came to this topic looking for your 25th useless website and could not find it! In that case, sorry to disappoint you.. it is really not funny! If I knew you would come here with expectations and I was going to disappoint you, then I wouldn't post it..

How could I know it was gonna hurt you ;)

I didn't come to this topic looking for my 25th website - when I looked it up, Peter's reply was the last, and I like to read Peter's comments. Sorry to disappoint YOU, I'm not one of the type you might think I am.
And you didn't hurt me - you can't, sorry!
You must be a really sad person to react like that

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New Sites - General / Re: A new website: Craptorstock!
« on: September 06, 2008, 15:53 »
Not a funny contribution at all!  >:(

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Adobe Stock / Re: FT rank
« on: August 14, 2008, 17:23 »
Well, I've improved my rank quite a bit. A few weeks ago, it was about 30.000, now I've sold 7 images and it's 22.332. :) (I only have 45 images in my portfolio).
If it's true that FT has about 80.000 contributors, there must be about 50.000 people out there having no sales at all.

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P.S.: @ faber: Ja, Harald Schmidt macht im Stockgeschft ne Mark nebenbei!

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@rjmiz: I'd really like to know where all the figures are from!

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