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« on: January 01, 2014, 15:59 »
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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


lisafx

« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2014, 16:27 »
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Are you affiliated with Fox Newscorp?  If not, you might want to change your name. 

« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2014, 16:34 »
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Unfortunately, I don't have any fox images.

;)

EmberMike

« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2014, 16:36 »
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What does the fox say?

 ;)

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

« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2014, 16:43 »
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What does the fox say?

 ;)

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


Nya, Nya, Nya, da da da.

« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2014, 16:46 »
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I had a quick look at your site and I may have missed some important aspects of it, but what I saw did not impress me.

The prices are all over the place - some images are free and some are so ridiculously overpriced and of such low quality that if I were a buyer, I think I'd just go to one of the more established agencies.

Which brings me to the main thing you didn't talk about in your post - why would buyers come to you versus Shutterstock, iStock, dreamstime, Fotolia, etc.? If you can't answer that question, a 50/50 split and setting your own prices doesn't matter.

Your video about uploading shows a browser based upload and entering details about images. If you expect any large portfolios to be uploaded you'll need FTP and to read IPTC data - is that in place?


marthamarks

« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2014, 16:46 »
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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
« Last Edit: January 01, 2014, 16:52 by marthamarks »

« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2014, 16:52 »
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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?

marthamarks

« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2014, 16:55 »
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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?

« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2014, 16:58 »
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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 ??

marthamarks

« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2014, 17:04 »
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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.
« Last Edit: January 01, 2014, 17:16 by marthamarks »

Ron

« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2014, 17:22 »
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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 ??


A court case at your expense

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2014, 17:30 »
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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?)

marthamarks

« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2014, 17:35 »
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For some reason that photo is in the animals - wildlife category
...
 is it supposed to be 'strumpet' rather than trumpet?

LOL!

« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2014, 17:42 »
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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.

marthamarks

« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2014, 17:44 »
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Yep, cobalt. That's one heckuva strange apple in the selected image.

« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2014, 18:09 »
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Its not so bad, there is some talent there.
Ill observe and see what happens.


« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2014, 16:44 »
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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 newbielink:mailto:[email protected] [nonactive], our review team will send out invitations.

Kind Regards
Foximages

« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2014, 16:50 »
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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.
« Last Edit: January 18, 2014, 16:56 by Mantis »

« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2014, 16:55 »
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Overall a nice  site, good luck with  it.

« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2014, 18:35 »
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rename the site Ifoxstockphotos nothing like two lawsuits at the same time.

« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2014, 16:09 »
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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

« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2014, 18:19 »
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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?

« Reply #23 on: June 09, 2014, 06:14 »
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After few months it's so quiet around... Let me ask how is your success here? Did anyone have sales lately?

« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2014, 06:55 »
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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?


 

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