Around 16%...

But don't get excited, both numbers were pretty low, even for august.

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi all,

I received this today

Hello!

My name is Kinya Horikoshi at StockphotoPro in San Francisco, California.

I saw your images on the web and was impressed.   We would love to represent  your images on our site. 

Stockphotopro is a portal site for RF stock images.  We represent traditional stock agencies as well as individual photographers, and some midstock agencies.   You can visit our web site at http://www.stockphotopro.com.   

Before StockphotoPro I was the head of Photonica USA based in New York City for about 8 years and I have more than 10 years of experience in stock industry.   

Please let me know you have any questions.


Kinya Horikoshi
Co-Founder
[email protected]
(415) 287-4188
StockphotoPro, Inc.


The site is www.stockphotopro.com and it has a fresh look, but i wonder whet's the performance and number of images, etc... Anyone has had a contact with this site ?? Sales, numbers, etc ??

Regards

Hi!

I think it's a nice application and i guess you should do something to guarantee that those passwords are not used in any other way. Something like providing the source code so that some expert could analyse it...

(that's why microstock monitor makes you log in everytime... but i also think that's why microstock monitor is useless)

Other thing you may consider is to make it minimize to the icon tray and it could pop up a small window with the earnings on mouse over and making the application fetch the earnings at startup, instead of having to wait the preferences specified amount of time...

Otherwise i like the app

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi All,

Just a quick question... Do these guys still review all the photos before we categorize them ? Normally i used to wait for them to review all and then only categorize the ones accepted, does this still work ?

I ask because i've uploaded a few pics some days ago (about a week) and they are still pending...

Best Regards

Francisco Leitão

Is it just me or their FTP is sloooooow At least today, i can't upload anything faster than 3 or 4 Kb/s, where i normally have 35 kb/s on other sites. I'm also trying the web feature and seems it's just the same. Is this normal behavior or a temporary problem ?

Regards

Quote from: stock_fan on December 29, 2007, 07:03

Quote from: fleitao on December 29, 2007, 00:55
... but nevertheless even if i paid the same kind of attention it wouldn't matter that much in the long term.

Are you sure ... as far as I read the statements from the "large portfolio guys" like Yuri, AndresR and iofoto ... SS is not their number 1 or 2 earner anymore?!

Well,

that maybe (i'm sure it is), but you can't compare those portfolios with mine and secondly their biggest seller is IS, which it's not just a case of dedication, but of uploading limit and patience to deal with that gruesome application. If you ask me, i'd say that if i had the same portfolio on IS than on SS, their earnings would be more or less the same, i guess. But this does not happen with FT and DT (which were the ones i was mainly referring to). They are doing fine and every month better, imo, but they cannot provide yet 100$ per month with my current portfolio. Surely i could have earned more 30 or even 50 bucks more with them in this year if i uploaded more and more often, but then that would be time taken out of feeding SS, so i don't know if it would be a good trade off.

Editing just to say that all of my images go through an upload process for every agency i'm in. All my pictures get the same chance in every agency, like i think most of us do, it's just that on SS i upload 10 or 20 or 30 per week or two weeks for example, on the other agencies except IS, I upload like 200 or 400 each two or three months or so. So what i really miss is they being there sooner, not they being there.

Regards

I started on MS about one year ago (end of Oct 2006). In this year, SS has earned me more or less 1000$, DT and FT more or less 120 to 140$ each, IS and StockXpert nearly 60$ each (these two are low because IS is a pain to upload and i started on StockXpert only in July 2007). Alamy has earned me around 300$ in this same year.

So make your assumptions... Surely that i pay more attention to SS than anywhere else, my images go first there and sometimes only 2 or 3 months after are on other sites, but nevertheless even if i paid the same kind of attention it wouldn't matter that much in the long term.

As for market share being reduced by large collections and other subscriptions/competitors, we also have China starting to appear on this market (as buyers), aswell as a clear increase in European business. So, one hand will wash the other, ans as SS guys are not here to lose money, i'm confident that they will do what's best for them and us, adapting wherever necessary.

well,

i don't know if this is the reason or not, but i'm getting a lot of sales since late october. It's not everyday, but normally i have 2 or 3 sales per day when i sell, i even had an EL a few days ago and some days i'm earning more than in SS (of course SS beats the crap out of fotolia for it's consistency). Nevertheless it's a very good sign...

Regards

Francisco Leitão

yep... i also did that when they first said it, but still the same...

is there any configuration item i should look at to see if it maybe wrong or something ?

Regards

Francisco Leitão

No i haven't. I use Fire FTP for everything else and am not too keen on changing programs.

But i have tried Ws FTP just to see if it could do and still have the same problems

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi,

Still no word on this ? I still can't manage to upload anything to LO through Fire FTP. Has anybody found a solution yet ?

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi all,

Wonder if anyone can help me on this. Recently, every time i use neat image on a picture (from Photoshop) after i apply the noise reduction my workspace goes blank. All the tools and all the opened photos disappear. I really can't figure out why... The workspace i can recover easily by reloading the default workspace, but i can't see the pictures anymore, unless i close them and reopen (sometimes i must even reload Photoshop). Does anybody have any idea what may be causing this ? or away to go around it ? Can it be some defect on the plugin installation or some strange interaction ?

I still haven't got around to reinstall the plugin, but i'm considering it if all else fails.

Any help is appreciated, thanks

Quote from: madelaide on October 21, 2007, 14:21
I'll try that.  Any alternative to the auto curves?  I don't think I have that in PSP7.

Regards,
Adelaide

Try the equalize tool... create a layer and equalize it, then, paint over the spots on the first (background) layer... then delete the layer and you have a clean image.

As for dust i use a blower, not a rocket blower but is similar, and i use it occasionally before a big session or every few weeks. I blow it to the sensor with the camera facing down so dust will fall as much as it can and do it several times, inspecting the sensor in between blows. This at least removes the big stuff, as for the rest, i don't have really that much of a problem with dust.

Hi,

I guess that what most people are saying is true... You have advantages in thinking forward and having a brandable name, and not one directly related to your business, so you can expand if needed in the future, and even if you don't need to expand you still have a great name.

Just about a year ago i had to make such a decision and went with fnalphotos.com
The reasons are simple, i wanted an international name, one where you could easily know the subject when reading it (photos). While i agree that fnalphotos is not very easy to remember and may seem a bit strange (even more in portuguese), it's working and i'm getting a few results, also due to some adwords and some direct marketing i'm carefully and slowing putting into practice.

btw, fnal are just my initials... so no big mystery there.

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi All,

Alamy has 3 different license types, Royalty Free, Licensed and Rights Protected. Both L and RP licenses are RM type licenses with one big difference. In L images they will ask you if anyone wants exclusivity, with RP they assume the images are exclusive to them so they won't ask before selling an exclusivity license.

As for that old discussion on having the same images on Alamy and microstock, i believe that the contract differences (limitations with microstock) and size of the images available may justify the price increase... What is not very good is the extended license prices on most places. Those should be more like alamy prices.

By the way, Alamy has just changed dramatically their database approach and most probably their search engine. Now we have 3 keyword fields (Essential, Main and Comprehensive) and a lot more fields to identify and catalog the images like if it is a cut out, how many people are in it, date taken, etc.
The only problem is for those images already online, which will take a great deal of work to set them up according to this scheme (not mandatory, but advisable).

Regards
Francisco Leitão

I voted on the 100-250 interval, although if the question was altered to "How much have you earned in Stock (not just micro) photography?" I would have to vote on the 250-500 interval...

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Quote from: digitalshooter on September 11, 2007, 02:23
Ok then, since this seems to get MORE confusing with every post. LOL...

Just let me ask this... if someone wanted to upload an image to Alamy then via their web site upload feature, and they're using a 10D (6MP) or XT (8MP) camera - what exactly should they do?   Resize the image to 3455 x 5150 (abouts) first, then just save it as best quality as a .JPG, then send it that way?     I use Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop, but you can of course save it as quality "1" which in Paint Shop is the least compressed save.

What i do is after i done all the editing to the photo i upsize it by 144% if it is an original 8MP file, or as needed if i cropped or is some other file. I can see that through Photoshop resize dialog, where it shows the uncompressed size when you select the percentage or pixel number you want. Photoshop shows what you had and what you will get in terms of pixel size (which is no more than uncompressed size). I don't know about PSP, but probably there is something similar also on the resize dialon, no ?

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Yep,

That was probably the problem... it's allright now... problem solved but left me a whole weekend without stats

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Quote from: leaf on September 10, 2007, 22:53
then why does the Raw files that come out of the 5D range from 12 - 17 MB.  They aren't compressed.

Hi again,

Just because RAW files save 4096 levels of luminosity and JPEG only has 256 (for each pixel). That's why RAW files take up so much space, and when you save to JPEG it shrinks... And that's also why you can adjust so much more on a raw file than on a jpeg... you have so much more to work with... 16x more data (even tough it doesn't necessarily reflect 16x more space occupied because it's just a matter of adding 4 bits to each color channel and 4 more for the luminosity channel). RAW is 12 bit data while JPEG is 8 bit data.

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Hi all,

just to say that the wedding was last saturday and it wen't ok... i got 900 pics so i think i found what i needed... of course i will not use all, but i'll use around 500 which is very good...

Again thanks for everybody's help

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Quote from: leaf on September 10, 2007, 22:24
i still don't get why they don't just say how many pixels they want, because the image size depends a lot on if there is dark or white or colored pixels in the image.

It doesn't Leaf... when you measure uncompressed pixels, they always occupy the same amount of data (the maximum). What is affected by the value of the pixels is the compressed size, due to the JPEG algorythm.
So an uncompressed image of all white or all black pixels with 5000x3350 always has 48MB uncompressed (you can see this if you save tiff uncompressed).

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Quote from: Lee Torrens on September 10, 2007, 20:37
JPEG is compressed. When you have a JPEG image open in Photoshop it tells you the uncompressed size in the bottom left-side corner.  If your camera is 6MP it'll be 48MB uncompressed.

Thankfully you can upload it uncompressed!

No it won't... I shoot with a 8MP EOS 20D and still have to upsize it by 144% to meet the minimum requirements. With this i end up with a image that's roughly 5000x3350 pixels which in fact is 16,75 MegaPixels. So that's more or less you're minimum requirements. But there are things that people normally confuse, is that the demand an uncompressed size of 48 MegaBYTES, which means 16,75 MegaPIXELS. And the file shouldn't be bigger than 25 MegaBYTES in a compressed form (actuakky my files, saved in Photoshop JPEG 12 vary from as little as 2 MegaBYTES to as much as 17 MegaBYTES, until now...)

Regards

Francisco Leitão

After a lot of hours of no response, my situation is now like yours Paulo...

Loads up but no pictures. I can access the forums though. So seems that it's coming to a solution... Hopefully tomorrow it will be ok...

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Can this be a problem related to the origin IP's ??
You're connecting also from Portugal, right ? So they must be unavailable to our IP's, or even our ISP (if it is the same). I'm on Sapo.

Does anybody mind putting a request on the support forum for them to take a look at this please ??

Thanks

Regards

Francisco Leitão

Thanks for all your help...

Unfortunately nothing you suggested is working... Guess i'll have to wait... Not my favourite option, but... I can't see what else can i do !

Regards

Francisco Leitão