Dear friends, first we want to wish you a Happy New Year with a lot of success in selling your photography.


We hereby want to present the Foximages agency newbielink:http://www.foximages.eu [nonactive] and we welcome all photographers interested.

The aim of Foximages is to be a great agency and medium for selling your work.  We are interested in all fields of professional photography. The contributor photographer and the Agency splits everything 50-50 since its our aim to create a very user friendly environment for you to prosper.

We also want to give you the means to price your own media witch is another step in creating a great ecosystem for our photographers. You will have the ability to price everything except for news photography ( pricing will be standard).

Also Foximages will have a special page for selling digital files for prints where you will also be able to price your own work.

Upload is available via java and ftp.

Thanks a lot,
Kindest Regards
Fox Images Team

Unfortunately, I don't have any fox images.

What does the fox say?

 

(Come on, someone had to do it...)

Nya, Nya, Nya, da da da.

If this image of an overweight model with a bad manicure is representative of the "foxy" photos you're offering, you could be in big trouble before you even get off the ground:

http://www.foximages.eu/photo/11563/Trumpet-Festival.html

Quote from: marthamarks on January 01, 2014, 16:46

If this image of an overweight model with a bad manicure is representative of the "foxy" photos you're offering, you could be in big trouble before you even get off the ground:

I think that this one is news photo editorial use only of trumpet festival so what kind of problem can be?

Guess that depends on how "newsworthy" the Trumpet Festival is. Is there a big market for editorial images of this event? Is this particular woman typical of the people who attend?

apart from that but what kind of a problem can photo cause ??

Maybe no "problem". It's just not a very appealing image, in my opinion at least.

I reviewed the keywords for this particular image. The ones in boldface below don't seem to have any relationship to the image:

Keywords:  brass, color, contrast, dark, dramatic, entertainment, equipment, evening, festival, fire, guca, gutcha, image, instrument, jazz, lit, mile, mile topalovic, moody, music, musical, musician, night, occupation, orange, outdoors, people, person, serbia, shape, sky, style, topalovic, trumpet, trumpeter vibrant

I might suggest a few better keywords, such as: woman, bikini, short pants, torn pants, pink, money, belly, jewelry, dollar, etc.

If this image of an overweight model with a bad manicure is representative of the "foxy" photos you're offering, you could be in big trouble before you even get off the ground:

http://www.foximages.eu/photo/11563/Trumpet-Festival.html

Hmmm, I didn't like the 'overweight' and 'bad manicure' comments, but couldn't resist looking anyway. For some reason that photo is in the animals - wildlife category and has some very bizarre keywords, like fire, instrument, jazz, mile, musical, musician, trumpet, trumpeter etc etc.
Bad keywording like that being accepted = no starter.
(Sorry, I give myself 1000 minuses for this, but again I can't resist: is it supposed to be 'strumpet' rather than trumpet?)

While it is nice to see that an agency wants to share 50/50 with the artist, we still need to be convinced that you are serious about making money and being a professional agency. One important aspect are good search results for the buyer which includes inspecting keywords on upload. Are your images even inspected?

I did a search for apple and got this:

http://www.foximages.eu/photo/6166/photo-details.html

 apple, brandy, drink, exhibition, fair, festival, food, fruits, hand decorating, homemade brandy, onion, packing, vegetables, watermelon, wine

with all kinds of strange keywords. Same goes for many other searches I did.

An agency needs a lot more than just a "buy here" and "upload images" button. I wish you all the best, but it looks like you have a lot of work if you want to make any serious money and still be around  in a year or so.

Its not so bad, there is some talent there.
Ill observe and see what happens.

Respected photographers,

Many thanks for all your posts and suggestions on the forum.
We also thank everyone who made accounts and have begun uploading as well as those who did not pass the review.
We also greet a few very famous photographers with their collections who joined Foximages and are currently uploading.
Foximages will accept a limited number of photographers every year where the goal is to have every photographer represented in the best possible way, with a special emphasis on quality macrostock photography, editorials and news.
 Payment will be conducted once a week via Paypal no matter the amount sold, its our way to additionally motivate our potential contributors.
Feel free to contact us in case you have quality collections that do not fall in the category of microstock photography and send us a link to your portfolios at [email protected], our review team will send out invitations.

Kind Regards
Foximages

If you are truly interested in attracting people from this group, you may want to check in more often rather than wait almost three weeks. Just a suggestion. Also, it's going to be really tough to attract micro images with macro pricing since most of our image are at the other top micro agencies.  Alamy is more macro stock and many of us don't fare too well there in terms of volume and pricing is now beginning its descent to micro levels.  So while we are able to price our images how we want on Fox Images the bigger issue is how are you going to hook buyers into this kind of macro pricing when these images are available for pennies elsewhere? Maybe I am missing something but I just don't get it.

rename the site Ifoxstockphotos nothing like two lawsuits at the same time.

Dear contributors ,
As of 15.2.2014 our new agency policy is that all of our photographers will get 60% on all sales.

Thanks a lot,
Fox Images Team

Do your images get ranked by the vote they get? Say no votes versus someone who has 5 stars?

Dear contributors ,
As of 15.2.2014 our new agency policy is that all of our photographers will get 60% on all sales.

Thanks a lot,
Fox Images Team

Interestingly, we have the content, you have customers?