What do you think about that, worth upoading to ?

http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=12292&Title=Moodboard%27s_industry_first


Moodboard.com, the UK based innovative online stock image provider, has launched a new photographer upload section. An industry first, the online function encourages more hobbiest and professional content for consideration by its team of editors by allowing photographers to upload images directly via the site my.moodboard.com

This will result in even better choice for the creative industries looking for competitively priced, highly original stock images.

Moodboard has also introduced customised online sales reports, which allow photographers to track sales of their work quickly and easily. 

As the only stock image supplier to offer the complete price range of stock pictures on one website, from quality microstock right up to premium rights ready shots, moodboard provides photographers with the greatest opportunity to climb the financial ladder faster.

CEO of moodboard.com, Mike Watson said: �Our new photographer upload facility is another stage in moodboard�s continual evolution. We constantly strive to be at the forefront of the stock image industry, pushing technologies to enable photographers to make money easier and faster.

�moodboard 2.0 will open up more earning potential for hobbiest content than rivals such as i-stock; and in these times of economic uncertainty, it is important we support photographers in every way we can and deliver new and more effective ways for them to sell their work. We will also be driving sales with an exciting marketing campaign to raise awareness of moodboard�s benefits to customers.

�The latest enhancements we�ve made to our site not only make it easier than ever for photographers to get work considered and track their sales progress, so they can spend more time taking new photos, it also means our customer�s have the ability to purchase professionally edited images at price points that suit their needs.

�At moodboard we don�t make photographers jump through hoops to see higher earnings.  If pictures are strong enough from the outset, and photographers are happy to give us image exclusivity, we�ll team them with the moodboard collection that enhances their best features.�

Mike added: �We led change in the stock photo industry in the past, and we�re at the forefront of innovation again today.

�Whether photographers are interested in becoming a member of moodboard�s professional squad, are looking for an up and coming stock image agency that will help them shoot more commercial content or simply want to discuss ways to extend their earnings, we�d be delighted to hear from them.�

The new photographer upload function, and other enhancements to the site, can be viewed at http://my.moodboard.com

anyone registered there even?

I think it did once just to see what the back end looks like.  managed to 'get lost password' but then couldn't log in

Ok I am in:) it was fast !

I wouldn;t mind flipping them some exclusives because I have some things that might fly there, but when I looked at things a few weeks ago, it was the watermark that kept me away. This coupled with the fact that you can DL some pretty good size comps and it's just a crop or clone away from using.

i'm in too. Let's see what happens when my portfolio will be online. I'll keep you update.

diego

anyone figure out how to upload via ftp?

i have asked it 2 days ago to Moodboard, their reply: "The FTP will be ready next week"

I'm on there too, only took a few days to be accepted about a week ago,

BUT, at the moment I can't upload anything. The java upload 'thingy', for some reason, doesn't function on my computer (it just hangs firefox). Waiting for FTP (which they advertise as available)...

I have decided to give them a try. Uploaded 13 images as a test. The java interface is very fancy but extremly slow... took about an hours to set up everything for those 13 images. I saw no chance that I'll upload 1000s of images there.
Today I got the first emails from their reviewer team. They liked my images and want me to reupload them but they can use them becuse they are not set to 300dpi. What? It is just a measure! The images are still there and they are bigger then 5000x3000 pixels. No way I'll upload them again. The site is off of my list.

My images have been reviewed today.

I uploaded them on 12 nov, so it took almost 2 weeks. It was a test of 8 images, just to see how tough uploading is and how long it takes to have them inspected....no rejections this time....
I'll give them a try with 200 pics more and see how they perform over the next 6 months before uploading the entire portfolio.

The strange thing is that some images have been put within the "budget" cathegory (i.e. at microstock prices) while others falled into the "value" one, where prices start from �19 to �365!!

what do you think on it?

The real test is if you actually sell anything methinks. I have been looking hard at getting into the bigger priced sites like Alamy and Moodboard, but what is the point if you do not sell anything?

I guess I have 300 or so images on DT and SS which I believe are lesser quality than what I produce now. SS used to bring me $140 a month, but lately it is $75.

Did they change?
Last time i checked they have been exclusive and paid 15% commission considering most of their sales are through partnersites so the actual photographershare will be even far less then the ridiculous 15% !

yes, they changed recently and now accept images for non-exclusive representation as well.

Acceptance criteria were extremely high last year....If I remember right, it was stated on their website that they used to accept only 10% of photos they received. Probably they realized that their portfolio was not growing enough and they changed their mind....

But Litifeta is right! we have to see if they produce consistent sales.

Best,
diego

the percentage is moot. we've seen how already other sites promising you the world with 70% your take, and even if you gave me 95%  , the bottom line is
"but do you sell?"
95% of zero is zero.
so really, if they can sell, even 10% is better than 50 % elsewhere without sales
or even without views.

It's all about the right balance 40% for the photographer leaves the agency enough for really good marketing etc. There is certainly no need for a 5% to 95% split except pure greed on the agencies side.

I just joined and tried to upload my id and 3 initial samples, it timed out after 20 minutes.
Any suggestions?  Never had problems like that before, even with large images at Alamy.
Is there a glitch?

I experienced the same problem, even if the test files were smaller than 2MB each. I tried with both firefox and safari that time.
Then, I reduced their size further so that these files all together were less than 2MB and it worked.

Hope it works for you as well.
Best,
Diego

i will try again.
it's odd though, when you read that they say they want images with 300 dpi for A2 printing, so no 6MP camera need apply.
yet for sample of your work they only ask for max of 2MB, which is more or less a 4MP image like fotolia or crestock requirement, not 49MB tiff like Alamy.

and if they time out at such small image size, i don't know how successful or quick their UL will be when you submit the bigger size.
did i misunderstand something here? 

I just got my 10 images rejected for not having the DPI set at 300   watch out for that!

Quote from: ldambies on November 27, 2008, 06:35

So I passed the test and started uploading pics and the 1st one was rejected :

I though DPI were not important

 "Hi, I really like this, but we would need it in 300dpi. We will be taking smaller files later on, but not quite yet. Be great to see it in a larger size!"

Thank you,

The moodboard team

WOW... they seems not to understand what dpi are and that dpi is not related to the file size 

Incredible stupid i'm in the businesses for several years and i always heard this 300dpi-nonsense. 300dpi means nothing without additional information (size in inch). As agency they could automatically set the file to 300dpi in the moment customers are downloading as it just a tag in the meta-deta which can easily changed without do any processing at the file at all.
The response really is showing that they have no idea and are totally clueless - really really stupid!

Same 300dpi nonsense here, plus their contributor site design is woefully inadequate. They claim to have some 70,000 images online, but if you look at their contributor front page images you will see that 40,000 images come from Corbis. So who does that leave as contributors? I think I will pass on this one until they bring their ranching up to date.

ok, keep us updated....so far all the new sites have not been too successful, Just look at Lucky Oliver, and there was anotherone that gave money and everyone said had potential???

The DPI has some significance for the end user: when the end user opens the file in layout program (for example Adobe Indesign) the size of the image on the page is calculated from the dpi and pixels of the image. 72dpi files tend to open up at annoyingly big sizes and have to be scaled down.

Using 300dpi also reduces the chance for errors; of course every professional layout person will check every images real dpi before printing, but still...

Why isn't every piece of cameras and software set by default 300dpi? Who needs 72dpi or such anyway, the web doesn't use the dpi info to anything!

Is anyone still uploading here? I�ve tried but can�t add categories using a Mac and the login page will not work on my PC. I�ve sent several emails to support but no one appears to know the answer. I�d be interested to know if the site is working for other members.

latest report. first 10 images submitted , culled from a port that were approved by all the sites submitted. results : 1 approved. although i must give them the credit that it took them a day to review, and the image they took was one that sold in 3 of 5 site.

Quote from: tan510jomast on March 04, 2009, 16:17

latest report. first 10 images submitted , culled from a port that were approved by all the sites submitted. results : 1 approved.

Too many sites, too little time.

flemish, you are right. perharps the 1/10 approval is a good omen ( new moon tonight, hehheh)
. instead of just trying for like you say "too many sites too little time", maybe better to concentrate on a couple or the three that are actually selling . i know my port is small, but it could be larger if i stopped having to uploading to "too many sites". spend more time on making new images for 3 chosen sites rather than spending most of the time uploading to all , most of which are not even being seen or sold.
a good lesson for me .