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« on: April 24, 2016, 13:35 »
Nice website! Can you comment on how many direct sales you are making a month? I think you are a good example of traditional stock which most people do! I'm using Symbiostock, an open source platform. It's easy to customise and the result is excellent. Also transactions are 100% safe for your customers as the payments are made via paypal.
For example I have developed my personal site using this technology. Check out my site at
www.millionstock.com
Have a nice job!
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« on: April 21, 2016, 08:54 »
I think for it to work you really need to be working in a hard to do Niche, where regular clients will come to.
Not something which is on all the stock sites.
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« on: April 20, 2016, 07:42 »
What would be the total cost of hiring a helicopter plus red camera kit?
The other thing is you would never make your money back on micro, where would you sell it?
I guess micro aerial work has a market but pay will be low.
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« on: April 19, 2016, 10:11 »
For what I can see on line, the footage filmed with cameras up to $ 1.000,00 is very bad.
Which cameras were they? Are they for 360 specifically?
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« on: April 19, 2016, 08:45 »
How much demand is there for aerial footage do people think?
When I seach London on Pond5 the bestsellers are timelapse then a ton of aerials from a helicopter!
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« on: April 19, 2016, 08:36 »
Apart from the Ricoh Theta S what other cameras are good for 360?
The Ricoh does not look great quality. There was another camera but it costs $50,000 which is out of my budget.
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« on: April 02, 2016, 14:00 »
Boycott Kelly Thompson!
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« on: April 02, 2016, 13:52 »
People will tell you that we are living in the best times ever for selling stock.
The average income for shutterstock shooters is $1200 per year.
Let's have a party. Bring peanuts and water!!!!!!!
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« on: March 31, 2016, 12:52 »
In the boom years people were making $20-25,000 a month on average travel pics, more on lifestyle pics. Then came micro which devalued the whole industry, and Shutterstock was the King at that. People think Shutterstock is some great agency but they have done more damage than anyone else. Just imagine you were earning $250,000 a year, living a great life, nice house, nice lifestyle then Micro comes along and you find yourself earning $10,000 a year! Pity!
I become a Getty contributor a year ago. Ten years late!
2006 was an exciting year for Getty contributors i think.
Someone from the golden years here in the group?
Best regards,
Martin
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« on: March 29, 2016, 13:32 »
My 2 cents:
Shutterstock saw good money from the REX purchase and a ton of new clients.
AP is more of the same but they dont have to buy AP.
AP is a cheap skate organisation. I remember their day rate was something like $160 when I was trying to be a press photographer.
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« on: March 26, 2016, 13:46 »
They don't make any direct sales, they make plenty of tiny sales through distribution.
It's a real leeching system which I am not impressed with. I've been thinking of dropping them.
You get 40% of what they get. So you end up with tiny net sales.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 16:47 »
Most people are reporting declining sales on Getty.
The search ranking changed recently to favour RF resulting in people saying sales have dropped off the cliff.
Also Shutterstock are taking alot of their business.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 15:46 »
From what my contacts tell me travel/landscape does not sell there, if you have trendy lifestyle material that sells pretty well.
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« on: March 21, 2016, 16:36 »
"Money won't make you happy" Kelly Thompson
I'm amazed anyone would employ this disaster case. Time to pull all our ports. Not going to be squeezed anymore. Disgusting corporate greed.
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« on: March 19, 2016, 15:01 »
Anyone making regular sales here.
A friend made one sale for $25 through Getty but that's about it?
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« on: March 19, 2016, 06:08 »
I have applied for a few briefs and been shortlisted a few times. Personally I think it is a waste of time as nothing comes of it.
Alot of the briefs are probably fake or few are commissioned. And most of the briefs are very cheap - $250 is not a good price in my opinion.
I am getting alot of messages to sign upto their promoted photographer scheme which at $20 and $60 a month I think is very risky and possibly a waste of money.
I would rather distribute content to my agencies which make regular sales each month.
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« on: March 02, 2016, 06:51 »
I'm looking to buy a smooth tilt and pan head for my GH4? I have the Manfrotto 701HD but when I pan with this I get jerky footage. I have read this is a GH4 issue, Im not too sure if its the GH4 or head that causes this jerkiness?
Also can anyone recommend a quality slider, Im looking to buy one with smooth transition, does that mean a motorised one?
Thanks for tips.
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« on: February 12, 2016, 14:42 »
This photographer is pretty famous on Alamy for his snapshot style. They do sell but for a lot less now. But imagine the amount of work it takes to process and upload 100,000 pics!
It appears people with large portfolios on alamy seem to sell more pictures. I think $1 per picture per year for good portfolios is a good estimate, less for this kind of work. Alamy does sell for for larger fees, I often get sales for $150-300.
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« on: February 12, 2016, 14:30 »
I'm curious what Corbis photographers are going to do now? What are the options?
With the transfer of files to VGC/Getty I feel images will be lost in on the Getty website, placed in low ranking collections like photo library resulting in low sales.
There does not seem anywhere else to go? Alamy possibly but for lower sales. Specialist travel libraries like Robert Harding, but I was told sales are low there.
Are there any other good options?
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« on: February 12, 2016, 14:00 »
Pro-res 422 HQ for 4K are huge files of around 3GB and take approx 1 hour to upload via fast broadband!
Getty are not taking hard drives now either. Very slow process.
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