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Title: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: Brasilnut on September 01, 2022, 05:46
Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my August 2022 earnings report including highlights.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/08/31/august-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a successful August as you also gear up towards the business-end of the year.

Alex
Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: Wilm on September 01, 2022, 06:17
Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my August 2022 earnings report including highlights.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/08/31/august-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a successful August as you also gear up towards the business-end of the year.

Alex

Without Arcangel it would look sad with you. But I am happy for you that you had this high income there, Alexandre!
Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: StockGuy101 on September 01, 2022, 06:19
Congrats on the book cover, but I'm confused: they bought your image and mostly changed it?  Other than the concept, I don't see much of your original image in the final.  New hair, new coat, new bokeh, etc.  Seems like it would have been less work for them to just shoot what they wanted rather than heavily Photoshop a stock image.

But I guess paying one Photoshop guy is cheaper than paying a model, photographer, and scouting a location.
Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: Roscoe on September 01, 2022, 07:23
Congrats on the book cover, but I'm confused: they bought your image and mostly changed it?  Other than the concept, I don't see much of your original image in the final.  New hair, new coat, new bokeh, etc.  Seems like it would have been less work for them to just shoot what they wanted rather than heavily Photoshop a stock image.

But I guess paying one Photoshop guy is cheaper than paying a model, photographer, and scouting a location.

Came here to post the same, but thinking it over you're probably right.
Way less effort and money to have the adjustments done in Photoshop than starting from scratch an organizing everything yourself.

Sill weird to see how little is left from the original shot.
Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: Mimi the Cat on September 01, 2022, 07:29
Congrats on the book cover, but I'm confused: they bought your image and mostly changed it?  Other than the concept, I don't see much of your original image in the final.  New hair, new coat, new bokeh, etc.  Seems like it would have been less work for them to just shoot what they wanted rather than heavily Photoshop a stock image.

But I guess paying one Photoshop guy is cheaper than paying a model, photographer, and scouting a location.

Its common with book covers.  I had one where my photo was used as a background overlaid with models in period outfits. 

There's a lot of fiddling and adjusting with book covers
Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: cascoly on September 01, 2022, 12:32
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Title: Re: August 2022 Brutally Honest Earnings Report
Post by: csm on September 01, 2022, 16:26
Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my August 2022 earnings report including highlights.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/08/31/august-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a successful August as you also gear up towards the business-end of the year.

Alex

Very photogenic woman in red :)
I hope you took a lot of pictures that day :)