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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2013, 07:22 »
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We will check the browser issue.

Linma we are having problem with the ftp account but your photos can never go to other users.

Sharpshot, you can change prices of your photos and you can also change your default prices (go to your personal page and modify).


ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2013, 07:45 »
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Thank you all again for your comments, we really appreciate them.

Thank Gillian, can you suggest another word?
There is no man who searches for the word "Dome of Milan".
Still a translation problem, I guess, as duomo doesn't translate as dome in this context.

2) keywording is always ambiguous because of the language itself (many places have the same name), because of the translations from different languages and because there are places that can not be precisely defined with words (think, for example to a specific location in the path of paris-dakar or a specific place where there has neither address nor name). If you write "Milan"+"Duomo" you expect to find what you are looking for, if you go to "Duomo di Milano" in the map you do actually find it!
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You are assuming that people will correctly geotag their images.
You clearly don't know how ignorant or spammy some people can be.

jareso

  • Boris Jaroscak
« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2013, 07:53 »
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We will check the browser issue.

Here is dump of if my configuration if it will help you somehow:

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Monitor/Display: DELL U3011, 2650x1600 pixels, 32-bit color depth
OS: Windows 7 Professional
System: Intel i7-3930K s2011, MB MSI X79A-GD45, 16GB (4x4GB) RAM, HDD 2TB, VGA GeForce 560GTX-Ti 1GB

The problem with your website when it is accessed through my Mozilla Firefox is still there.
I tried restarting of my Firefox and even whole PC to see whether it is not some problem with my Firefox. <- The idea that problem can be even on my side came to my mind because error message on your website is now in Slovak (with the same meaning as that one in English). The language to which my Windows 7 is primary set.
Anyway it is strange. As I said maybe it is just me, maybe it is everyone from Slovakia with Firefox , I am not sure.
But this never happened before and it only happens on your website.
« Last Edit: April 12, 2013, 08:03 by jareso »

« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2013, 11:10 »
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Thank you Jareso for your detailed report. It will help.

ShadySue, we know people may geotag photos in wrong position but we also know that a lot of photographers add wrong keywords just to be shown in more search results. Also, it is quite simple to check if a photo is in a wrong position by looking at the satellite view of the map or by looking at the nearest photos. In this case, if our users find one of them, we will provide an easy way to report a wrong position and suggest the correct one.

This whole conversation will be of much help for us.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2013, 13:26 »
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Your agency is certainly the most interesting new start to me of all those we've had coming on here in the last couple of years. The one person I know who buys stock imagery always has a problem finding the exact location she needs. All in the UK though, but when you have more UK content, I'll let her know.
Good luck!

« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2013, 15:30 »
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I think it's a great idea, especially useful for travel related businesses.
Am having a problem with the ftp though, it won't log me in.
« Last Edit: April 12, 2013, 15:39 by flotsom »

« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2013, 15:54 »
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Thanks flotson and ShadySue!
Please spread the news if you want more photos in UK and all over the world :-)

We are working on solving some issues on our ftp server. Hopefully they will be fixed in 24 hours.

Pinocchio

« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2013, 16:22 »
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As far as I can tell, many promotional organizations have learned they can get all the images they want at very low cost by organizing a "competition".  Here https://fotoweekdc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167 is one example (take a look at who the board members are in this particular case - very illuminating).  The organisers just write the rules to give themselves free, perpetual, fully paid licenses to use all submitted images - with no payment to any but the few who win prizes.

I wish you good luck, will keep watching, but trust you have taken this into account in your business plans...

Regards
 ;)

« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2013, 16:50 »
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I haven't tried submitting but the major things that you'll need to have to get people involved is that the system needs to be very simple and quick.

If you can make it a 2 second process to submit you'll get alot more images than if it is a 7 step process with drop down menus etc.

Does/can the geotag location go the correct basic area from reading the keywords if you don't have the co-ordinates embedded. eg I have london as a keyword, can the map centre on london to start and then I can fine tune its location. eg Tower Bridge.

Make categories optional, auto-populate. The members here have hundreds to thousands of photos.


Do you have particular market areas in mind ? 
Europe, USA, Asia ?

I wish all startup the best of luck.



« Reply #34 on: April 12, 2013, 16:59 »
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submitted 3
one rejected for focus - on ALL other sites I'm with , AND its my best seller on SS --hellooooo

So far I am a bit disappointed with that, not a good first impression with me

« Reply #35 on: April 12, 2013, 19:25 »
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Thanks Pinocchio for your information, we were not really aware of that.

Qwerty, we have been working hard on having a fast and easy submission process. Right now we have:
- 3 methods for upload (ftp, plugin, html form)
- fast submission in just one page (upload, selection, editing info and submission)
- single and multiple selection of uploaded photos
- only 3 fields required (title, category, position)
- exif used for populating title and position
- service that you can use to send us a phisycal storage device with all your photos and we provide to upload and submit them (this is a pay-per-photo service).

We will have the category auto-populated from your keywords in the future. But we have planty of other ideas in mind.

Noodle, I will check your photos and get back to you explaining our evaluation process.

« Reply #36 on: April 12, 2013, 19:34 »
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I was about to forget...
We are based in Italy so our target area is Europe right now. But our CEO Marco Cannizzaro is moving to New York City in two months, we believe he can bring GeoStockPhoto to the US market as well.

« Reply #37 on: April 12, 2013, 20:38 »
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the map used to geotag location looks too small, not easy to fix the location exactly.

BTW, 1 credit = 1EU?
« Last Edit: April 12, 2013, 20:40 by linma »

« Reply #38 on: April 12, 2013, 20:41 »
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Linma, click the "edit" button to have a bigger map (you can also select multiple photos).
Remember that you can change the position even after the photo has been approved.

« Reply #39 on: April 13, 2013, 01:15 »
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...Sharpshot, you can change prices of your photos and you can also change your default prices (go to your personal page and modify).
I did change my prices but I see lots of photos being sold for 10 Euros with an extended license.  So most people just seem to accept the default prices.  You will lose money on this, as buyers are used to paying $100 or more.  In my experience, most sites that charge less have failed to sell many extended licences.  Shutterstock sell more than any site at $100.  Your site could be good for people that buy extended licences and I don't see why the default price would be so low?

« Reply #40 on: April 13, 2013, 03:47 »
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I did change my prices but I see lots of photos being sold for 10 Euros with an extended license.  So most people just seem to accept the default prices.  You will lose money on this, as buyers are used to paying $100 or more.  In my experience, most sites that charge less have failed to sell many extended licences.  Shutterstock sell more than any site at $100.  Your site could be good for people that buy extended licences and I don't see why the default price would be so low?

thanks sharpshot's, I treat RFe as editorial before. I need to change the price accordingly. Thanks again!

Carl

  • Carl Stewart, CS Productions
« Reply #41 on: April 13, 2013, 05:35 »
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The multiselect function doesn't work for me (using the latest version of IE).  I need to be able to assign categories and location data to several photos at the same time in order to manage my time wisely and efficiently.

« Reply #42 on: April 13, 2013, 06:12 »
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Thanks Sharpshot, we will definitely review our price of the extended license. We did not care to much about it since photographers can change it but we are seeing everyone is accepting the default one. So yes, we are going to change it.

Csproductions: which operative system and IE version do you have? Does the "Select all" button work?
Thank you for your patience, our website is still in beta version and we are working hard on it.

« Reply #43 on: April 13, 2013, 12:23 »
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Anyone willing to share their price levels? Is anyone filling in keywords and description?
« Last Edit: April 13, 2013, 12:26 by Firewall »

« Reply #44 on: April 13, 2013, 14:32 »
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Buona Sera, m.panzarella,
Come Va?  Mi piace il tuo nuovo sito :) Vi auguro buona fortuna con esso.
My Italian is not very good anymore, so I hope I got that right. I hope to add some photos soon.
Ciao Ciao

« Reply #45 on: April 13, 2013, 15:00 »
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I was just looking at your site. I don't see any information about Model Releases or Property Releases. I did see this in the 'submit' section:

"Submitting your photos, you declare:

    to be the author of the picture as well as the owner of all rights to use;
    that photo does not infringe any third party rights (eg copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy);
    that the photos do not constitute nor contain material that is defamatory, unlawful, libelous, vulgar, obscene or otherwise harmful to the other person. "

Does that mean you are leaving it up to the photographers to police themselves?

« Reply #46 on: April 13, 2013, 18:30 »
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Ciao JohnItalia, siamo contenti ti piaccia il sito  :)
We look forward to seeing your photos.

Hi LesHoward, you are saying right. Let me explain our philosophy which also replies to Noodle's question about the evaluation process...

GeoStockPhoto is not like other microstock websites. We offer a competitive platform for photographers so they can sell their photos in a free market. You are free to choose prices and licenses, you get from 50% to 85%, you have a personal page... and other services are coming soon. Following this philosophy, the evaluation of all photos is done by our users who can give a vote (from -5 to 5) to the submitted photos. Every vote has a different weight depending on the level of the photographer who is voting.

So we are not in charge of the evaluation process. LesHoward, the owner of the photo guarantees that he is the owner of all rights to use on the photos (including rights on people and private objects pictured therein), so we do not request photographers to submit any release (although we may ask it in the future if so requested by customers).

« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2013, 02:22 »
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I don't see how a voting system can work because people will abuse it.  It's been a big failure on other sites that have tried it.

Carl

  • Carl Stewart, CS Productions
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2013, 05:53 »
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I'm using Windows XP and IE8.  When I click the "select all" button, an error message appears in the lower right corner that says, "error on page."  When I press the multiselect button, all of the images just disappear.

Screen shot:


ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #49 on: April 14, 2013, 05:58 »
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I don't see how a voting system can work because people will abuse it.  It's been a big failure on other sites that have tried it.
To spell it out:
Photographer A has a photo on the site of famous landmark X.
Photographer X submits a similar viewpoint but with better light.
You have given A a moral dilemma, especially if its a long way away and s/he can't go back and reshoot.


 

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