Author Topic: Ken Rockwell's in-depth look into Microstock (Read 11703 times)

RT · « **Reply #25 on:** February 13, 2009, 15:19 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on February 13, 2009, 15:12

I suppose I'm not the only math wizard here, but he says half the CD is things we already knew and 40% is about how to make money with microstock. So what's the other 10 percent?

Probably Rinder telling how he's been in the industry for years and that he shoots like Photoshop doesn't exist, or some other fanatsy.

Xalanx · « **Reply #26 on:** February 13, 2009, 15:53 »

Quote from: RT on February 13, 2009, 15:19

Quote from: RacePhoto on February 13, 2009, 15:12
I suppose I'm not the only math wizard here, but he says half the CD is things we already knew and 40% is about how to make money with microstock. So what's the other 10 percent?

Probably Rinder telling how he's been in the industry for years and that he shoots like Photoshop doesn't exist, or some other fanatsy.

Hahaha... Richard, you surely have something with him. I wonder if you're the reason for which Laurin Rinder doesn't come around helping people here on msg too...

cmcderm1 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 13, 2009, 15:54 »

Don't you hate it when one of the 1,000,000 monkey writers out there try their hand at some subject which they barely know and hype it as in-depth. He admits he doesn't know much about microstock at the end of the piece. WHAT??? Then why write about it at all if the monkey knows nothing about the industry.

Just another case of the stock boys looking back and not some hobbyist photographer looking forward. Look out, here we come, FAST!!!

RT · « **Reply #28 on:** February 13, 2009, 16:16 »

Quote from: Xalanx on February 13, 2009, 15:53

Hahaha... Richard, you surely have something with him. I wonder if you're the reason for which Laurin Rinder doesn't come around helping people here on msg too...

Oh I'm sure it is, I don't do anything to him other than ask him to provide proof of what he say's, if he chooses to avoid me that's his choice and we can guess what his reasons are.

I am quite surprised though that Shutterstock have allowed five pages of people personally insulting this Ken Rockwell guy just because he said what he did about Rinders book.

Xalanx · « **Reply #29 on:** February 13, 2009, 17:29 »

I don't think ss gives a * about rinders book, frankly. But the rockwell dude called all of us monkeys and so on. Now you can expect everyone to bash him in various ways

- and the guy really deserves it.
Rinder's book - well, I'm not in the target audience, I don't know what's inside. I can only guess but... I suspect that I can't really add anything more valuable to what you can (and did) say about this matter

jim_h · « **Reply #30 on:** February 16, 2009, 14:22 »

Rockwell may not know anything about stock, but he knows a heckuva lot about photography in a technical sense. If he sounds puzzled about how stock works, or why anyone would do it - maybe that's because he thought about this logically for 5 minutes and realized that for all but a few dedicated pros, there couldn't possibly be any money in it. Is he wrong? I don't think so.

Danicek · « **Reply #31 on:** February 16, 2009, 14:53 »

Quote from: jim_h on February 16, 2009, 14:22

Rockwell may not know anything about stock, but he knows a heckuva lot about photography in a technical sense. If he sounds puzzled about how stock works, or why anyone would do it - maybe that's because he thought about this logically for 5 minutes and realized that for all but a few dedicated pros, there couldn't possibly be any money in it. Is he wrong? I don't think so.

You are right. No money to be made here...

yingyang0 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 16, 2009, 23:57 »

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Again, I know nothing of micrtostock [sic] and leave it to you to figure out if it makes sense for you.

The quote above from the post should have been at the beginning of the rant so that no one had to read it.

RacePhoto · « **Reply #33 on:** March 04, 2009, 14:45 »

Quote from: nruboc on February 13, 2009, 01:01

I guess I'm 1 in 1,000,000 monkeys.

See how this works? Nothing personal or really about MicroStock. It's got to be one of his catch phrases. One more comment from "Monkey Boy"

March 2009 CES:

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Sony's $500 DSC-HX1's only clever new feature takes "spray and pray" photography to a new low. "Spray and pray" is how people who don't understand composition try to photograph, much like millions of monkeys banging away randomly on typewriters might hope to write like Vonnegut. Spray and pray is where you shoot everything at random, and hope that God helps you sort out what you got and maybe that there is one good photo by dumb luck.

MatHayward · « **Reply #34 on:** March 04, 2009, 15:17 »

The cold truth of the 2/12 blog post about Microstock is that is the reality of perception of this industry by most pros. I don't know anything about Ken Rockwell, never heard of him before I saw this thread but I have heard similar comments countless times by very well established professional photographers that won't even entertain the thought of submitting their work for such small money.

I worry the reality for all but a select few of them may be a bit grim in the future if they aren't willing to open their minds and at least listen, read or do any form of research. Photography is a constantly and rapidly evolving industry and if we don't work hard to keep up with the trends we'll all be dinosaurs some day.

That's my .02 for what it's worth.

Mat

digiology · « **Reply #35 on:** March 04, 2009, 15:48 »

The domain for sprayandpray.com is taken BTW.

Be on the lookout for a new micro site announcement any time now.

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