I sent them a test batch and they rejected everything. I think this recent campaign is an effort to lure some of the big names in microstock into their fold, but I don't think it will work.

what have you sent?.. I have really average portraits, little concept and they are getting in.. don't get why they are acting like that with you..

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 29, 2010, 18:55

Quote from: shiyali on November 29, 2010, 17:30

I sent them a test batch and they rejected everything. I think this recent campaign is an effort to lure some of the big names in microstock into their fold, but I don't think it will work.

what have you sent?.. I have really average portraits, little concept and they are getting in.. don't get why they are acting like that with you..

It's my usual non-people average stuff. I get 60 - 70 % approval on stockfresh so they should have taken some at least. The other thing is they require you to put a category and a dominant color for each image as part of the submission process. That's not worth the effort for me. You can't just upload and forget about it.

Yes it hard work.. (how about I am waiting for 6 months at stockfresh )

anyone getting paid yet ? 

yes a few bucks so far but still waiting that they fix IPTC (isn't working at least for me)

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 30, 2010, 00:05

Quote from: yuliang11 on November 29, 2010, 23:31

anyone getting paid yet ? 

yes a few bucks so far but still waiting that they fix IPTC (isn't working at least for me)

That's because they use Adobe's XMP for metadata, same as Istock.

Only keywords get imported..

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 30, 2010, 00:19

Quote from: shiyali on November 30, 2010, 00:14

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 30, 2010, 00:05

Quote from: yuliang11 on November 29, 2010, 23:31

anyone getting paid yet ?  

yes a few bucks so far but still waiting that they fix IPTC (isn't working at least for me)

That's because they use Adobe's XMP for metadata, same as Istock.

You have to convert IPTC to XMP or copy the IPTC metadata to XMP, I use the free program XnView for that.

Only keywords get imported..

thanks for sharing!

Quote from: sharpshot on November 24, 2010, 18:01

Where do they get the money to pay us?  I'm not interested in sites like this anymore, I want sales.  I have been paid to upload a few times and my portfolio just sites there for a year with hardly any sales.

I did a quick search and wasn't impressed.  They shouldn't be selling this one as RF, it's a trademark.
http://www.viscoimages.com/photo/17658_underground_sign_against_the_blue_sky_london/

they have also Eiffel tower by night, but they will change that for sure

The claim that the lighting is protected has never been challenged in court, so it's just a nice assumed legality until then. Maybe some day?

If that's gibberish, no one has ever defended their right to use the night shots of the Eiffel Tower.

There are many others like this and some agency CYA policies which are not law but chicken S4!^ that they toss out at us.

As for uploading for money, It's About Time that people stopped wasting their time and sending off everything they own to some relatively anonymous place, for some crummy payment, only to have the images languish or worse yet, get sold to another partner or some distribution site, or stolen by one of the free sites so they can make CDs with your images and pay you nothing. About time that people woke up and discovered there isn't some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if they can catch the Microstock Magic Leprechaun hiding behind the latest "me too" new site, with all the same images from all the same people, trying to sell to all the same customers. Usually by subscription or price cutting. The first place where the price is cut is from the artists commissions.

No more dilution and price war. YEA!

7 photos rejected and 120 online but I'm still on Level One...

So I'm unable to submit more than 20 photos/ day.

A ticket was sent to support but no answer !!!

 

7 photos rejected and 120 online but I'm still on Level One...

So I'm unable to submit more than 20 photos/ day.

A ticket was sent to support but no answer !!!

 

send another

Quote from: RacePhoto on December 01, 2010, 03:41

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 24, 2010, 18:13

Quote from: sharpshot on November 24, 2010, 18:01

Where do they get the money to pay us?  I'm not interested in sites like this anymore, I want sales.  I have been paid to upload a few times and my portfolio just sites there for a year with hardly any sales.

I did a quick search and wasn't impressed.  They shouldn't be selling this one as RF, it's a trademark.
http://www.viscoimages.com/photo/17658_underground_sign_against_the_blue_sky_london/

they have also Eiffel tower by night, but they will change that for sure

The claim that the lighting is protected has never been challenged in court, so it's just a nice assumed legality until then.

No. It has been challenged in court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_claims

Never taken to court. No one has been charged. Just  an opinion of the court without a trial. At least that's the take I've seen. One Wiki quoting another website, quoting another site that interviewed the people behind the light show, isn't a trial, it's a legal opinion that was issued.

And as usual, I reserve the right to be wrong, but with case law, you need a case.

Problem is, if they take it to court and lose, then everyone can take all the pictures we want and they lose their protection. Interesting situation. So cease and desist letters and posturing, threatening, usually stops the use. In this case it stops the agencies, before they think about selling a picture, so it has been effective.

This is the same issue with "property releases" which the agencies have created and may create a precedent for future challenges, where there was nothing to challenge before. If it's not illegal to use a picture of an old building, and agencies require it, it could become law. That would screw up everything that was fine, before the microstock sites created the need for an unnecessary release.

I stopped uploading after a few initial files and deleted most of my approved files. The site does not seem to be run professionally to me. Even Depositphotos had their act together way better than this outfit.