Hi,

Does anyone remember or have the link to the online editorial keywording tool that was mentioned a couple years ago over here.?.

Patrick.

Where will it end..?.  
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1011/10112402kuwaitdslrban.asp

Patrick.

Sorry, corrected

What screen is the stock photographer using... out of curiosity.
Do you calibrate or not..?..
What calibration device are you using.?.

Patrick.

Hi,

I'm intrigued and puzzled by a color profile problem.
I work in photoshop CS4, color space adobe sRGB IEC1966- 2.1. Color profile embedded when saving.
Skin tones are perfect in photoshop, i do not push saturation etc, try to keep is natural as possible.
However after upload the images on-line appear to be pinkish... very unnatural skin tones. Below an example (screen captures with on the left how it appears online, on the right how it shows in photoshop)


Is there a setting i need to change to match the colors.?..

Patrick H.

ps : i'm working on a HP LP2475 w s-ips screen calibrated on a weekly basis with the panthone Huey pro.

I recently came across some images of mine on products, magazines and books....
Simple question before i start searching were the image was sold ...

- Does publication in a book requires an EL license ?
- Does publication in a magazine (Top Gear) requires an EL license ?
- Does the use of an image on a product requires an EL license ?

In case of publication, does the name of the photographer needs to be mentioned... or site image purchased.?.

What I do know is that none of the images were sold with an EL license.

Patrick H.

A glimpse behind the scene, how the "Graffiti urban series" were created.

Colorizing BDF-Studio with graffiti (Urban style)

http://www.dreamstime.com/graffiti-urban-rcollection12584-resi14714

Thanks to Anil for the movie creation.

Patrick H.

A recent discussion triggered my interest about categories.
Bigstock has the "Estimated guess".....

Who is actually checking those categories and correcting them if needed... just a simple yes or no.

Patrick.

Came across this while surfing for info in safety belts :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM&feature=player_embedded#

Patrick.

hi,

Just been reading the announcement of the Eye-Fi  wireless memory card on http://www.dpreview.com/.
Does anyone know if there is a Compact Flash version available anywhere.?..

Greetzz

Patrick H.

A full month on Fotolia with the new prices, time to do some math.

Let's start with the division of the different  credits and how much they are represented  :

Februari            March            Result      

1 credit :    18 %         19 %                    + 1 %
2 credit :     8 %         14 %                    + 6 %
3 credit :   17 %         13 % (4 credit now)      -  4 %
4 credit :   11%         12 % (5 credit now)      + 1 %
5 credit :   11 %           6  % (6 credit now)      -  5 %
Subscription :   35 %      36 %                    + 1 %

-   6 credit sales show a big decrease (former 5 credits);
-   5 credit sales stayed almost the same (former 4 credit);
-   4 credit sales also shows a clear drop (former 3 credit);
-   2 credit sales shows a significant increase;
-   1 credit sales, almost the same, slight increase;
-   Subscription sales a slight increase.

Return per image in :

-   February   0.915 $
-   March   0.825 $

There is a clear inclination towards smaller sizes and cheaper prices. As a result, march revenue is  about 10 % lower than February, despite march having about 11 % more image sales. I could deduct without  excess that there is a drop of 21 %.  So far I'm not seeing the promised increase.  Selling more images should result in a clear increase, not what I'm seeing now.

Patrick H.

Sorry for the rickety layout, made it in office 2007 and just copied over here...

Opted in beginning this year for photos.com and JI on StockXpert.
After two months not a single picture per download from those two sites only subs.
Is it worth staying opted in.?..

Your thoughts.

Patrick H.

Hi,

Today i started the day at  minus 1.85 dollar... obvious, again a refund.
Checked the other credit section, made a note of the day and hour and went to my portfolio to search for that XL sale ,,,,,refund.
Strangely enough i can't find it, even more strange, five day prior to and five day after that supposed sales i didn't have a single XL sale...

Patrick H.

Hi,

Begin october Pentax Belgium will provide me with the Pentax K20D, series of lenses and battery grip for testing in my studio.
Any tips of current users are welcome...:-)

Patrick H.

Hi,

I was wondering, before you calibrated your screen for the first time with the spyder colorpro... what color temperature did you set your screen on... 6500 or 9300 ...?..

A friend swears with 9300, i prefer 6500....

Patrick H.

I have been complaining in the past about credits not adding for sales.  Always got some canned answer from admins.
Contacted Chad, no response... and today, again sales that are not added properly.
A 4 credit sale only added 1 credit.

What do we have to do so that fotolia finally will admit there is a problem.?...
Advice needed. I'm loosing money....

Patrick H.

Hi,

I recently installed an extra 2 gig ram module on the motherboard.  I'm running Windows Vista home premium.
The funny thing however is that when i go into configuration screen, system it seems vista only sees 3 gig or ram while i have two modules of 2 gig = 4 gig.

Is  there a way i can force vista to see the 4 gig.?.

Patrick H.

Hi,

while nothing has changed to my shooting style, studio setup, lights, keywording, editing out of the dark got 9 out of batch of 15 and 8 out of batch of 10 rejected for : Composition--Limited commercial value due to framing, cropping, and/or composition.

Below some excamples from those approved on another site :









I'm puzzled... anyone else noticing same rejects lately.?.

Patrick H.

Hi,

I was going over my spreadsheets from past and this year yesterday evening.
I couldn't go past the fact that lateley the value of our pictures devaluated by about 22 % compared to past year (around same period) mainly due to the increasingly dropping value of the dollar.

The fact that subscription sales on some sites where you can not opt out are increasing which also leads to lesser income per picture doesn't really contribute to the growth and our motivation.

With a portfolio growht with about 150 % over the year and just about an increase of income around 45 % i was wondering how much more we need to produce/upload to stay in the game, to keep it profitable for our time...?..

Any other thoughts.?..

Patrick.

Hi,

This is a rant, a big rant.

Almost 70 % of about 200 of my latest batches rejected for :
Background not white
noise

checking in photoshop at 100 % magnification i can't see any noise.. and i mean NO noise.
We all know how picky SS is on noise issues... they haven't rejected a single one from those batches.
checking background color it shows perfect 255/255/255 white.

If they want me to take my business elsewere, than just say so... don't let me spend hours uploading for nothing.

Patrick.