Have a link by chance for this?

My time usually is minimal also, excluding keywording but that is cause I hate it. Not the greatest in photoshop and so usually it is just fast global edits or some minimal contrast, dodge, burn in Camera Raw. Not saying I don't sometimes do more but those are few and far between. Usually my goal is to learn how to be efficient and quick with it the edits.

Either way I do try to improve my own work overtime. I've seen it grow quite a bit from when I've first started and my goal is to keep growing it.

Part of the reason I would like to compare is it's one of the things that helps keep me going. I like being a little competitive. Don't get me wrong I love doing photography as is, but it's still nice to know where I am in relation to others. Also by doing this comparison it allows me to see what subjects might be selling and allows me to see even if mine are selling maybe they aren't selling as good as others. Then I can go in compare why. Is it the image, is it the keywording and what not.

Let me ask would you handle things different if you found out your portfolio was considered sub par in sales vs if you found out your portfolio was doing above average?

I've heard quite a few different rates as to what peoples RPI's are but nobody I've seen ever really gave over what the time range was just that they had a RPI of X. That's why I was curious as to if there was a standard time frame RPI is given over. Usually I just hear that the average for an RPI is $1 but I've never heard someone say is that per month or per year so I was curious from there.

I'm curious on what others RPI's are for just to compare to see how my portfolio is doing vs other peoples. I know it's not a tell all and that depending upon what you are photographing you can get different RPI's. I can see that in my own portfolio even comparing editorial vs non-editorial shots, or even comparing my prison photo's vs photos of me laying on the couch. I've used it for that for a while though to see what sets are working out and which ones are not working out. I already have done that and have my images seperated out by sets, whole portfoilo, editoria vs commercial, even among different topics. This way I can compare images within my own portfolio vs others within my own port.

Still curious though where my portfolio stands compares to others. With that it gives me somewhat of an idea of how my images are earning against the "average" portfolio. Comparing only among myself might help out with seeing which of my sets work well against each other but if I'm taking images of crap compared to other peoples gold and I don't realize it then I'm going to keep doing crap. Here at least if I see my RPI is crap I realize that I am doing something wrong somplace compared to that "average" and from there I need to either change my images or something.

Yes I know in the end the goal is to always drive to higher sales and get a stronger bottem end as that is what pays the bills, and either way I'm going to go out and take more images and always try to get better this I believe can still be used as a tool to see my standing and see how far off from where I should/could be.

Unless anywants to look at my portfolio and point out things that can be improved but usually when someone does that I start hearing complaints about eyes getting poked out and needing bleach to wash the crap away, so with that I think RPI is where I'm going to stay :-)

More or less trying to compare to others. I've seen numbers thrown about from .40 or so up to 5 or so. Doesn't help though unless I know are we comparing by the month or by the year.

No word yet. I'm at this point left in the dark as well and hope I can get some sort of information as to what is going on.

I'm hoping the person who is making this claim didn't just silently drop it

So you have several (or more)images of yourself in various outfits doing various things with various expressions. He says you look like him, so it must be him, so give him some money. Has anybody asked if he remembers these particular photographs being taken? Is he saying they were taken without his knowledge? At some point in his life, was he minding his own business, standing in front of a black background with his shirt off, wearing a Santa Claus hat and playing with his nipples, then, without his knowledge, someone took his picture and is now getting rich selling his image to publications around the world? 

Yup, seems pretty likely to me.

The picture of the Santa hat isn't him. He has a list of five images that he claim are him and has proof a such that those images are him. The rest of the images on my profile it seems as far as he is concerned are not him. Only this list of five he is requesting to be taken down. What confuses me is even though out of all the images have the same face how he came up with choosing only five of them claiming those are him when the rest of the images have the same face on them.

With the images in question he knows when the photographer took those images and knows for what use those images are for. He has proof that the images he is complaining about are his images and he even has made claims that he has physical proof that this is him. This is going by information he has made public on both his facebook and twitter.

Disorderly he very well could be mistaken and really believe it is him. I'm not sure how as our looks are quite different and from what I have seen comparing his images vs mine only one look even close to the same but really even as such it's about the same as Ron and I look.



I also just want to add that so far my understanding is based upon what little information I have recieved from SS and the rest seems to be based upon what he has posted in public about this.

Quote from: txking on July 18, 2013, 22:21

well hell if you and I look somewhat alike and he thinks him and I look alike maybe you can sue him for looking like you?

Just a thought :p

I'm an overweight bearded white guy too. I'm suing you both. Expect to hear from my lawyer.



Edited to add: Good for you for not backing down. I think this is a pretty significant issue, especially if it comes down to a legal battle. Really this almost reads like a major headline. "Photographer sued for use of himself in a photo." Major photo news sites and blogs would be all over this.

Well on an interesting thing with that reading his twitter and facebook he is trying to push this out into the media and to other people. It seems that he is wishing others to spread the word on this. I know that it has spread a little bit as people are sharing the story and I have even found the story on some third party site.

well hell if you and I look somewhat alike and he thinks him and I look alike maybe you can sue him for looking like you?

Just a thought :p

So far mike there has been no sentence against me. They took the complaint and let me run open and free while they investigate. I'm assuming that the other person has sent a photo of themself or ID, something at least to give some sort of proof. It sounds like SS knowns who the person is and I believe they even said there are some things that look the same between him and myself. With that SS I believe has to at least do due diligence and verify the claim as I'm sure not doing so can open them up to liability.

Ron wouldn't mind that pint but me being in the western US and you I'm assuming being in ireland chances are won't work out too well. Btw I have some new images comming up soon on shutterstock that hopefully I can get some sales on. Figured I can let my nipples rest for a bit before I bring out the clamps and do something else instead.

Nope no vendetta that I'm aware of. Most people don't know where I submit my images or the name that I put my images under. Shouldn't be anyone that I'm aware of who would even know where to start to cause my problems.

As far as the images I recieved a call from shutterstock today (big thumbs up for shutterstock being proactive and not shutting me down right then and there and instead trying to get to the bottom of things first) and the person who filed the complaint as I understand it thinks I took their face and transposed it on someone elses body. I ended up finding and sending the RAW over to SS and hopefully this goes away soon enough.

I can sadly say that face and that sexy body is mine. Who really would want to claim both of those :p. As a side note if you do the search for just the word nipple on SS and have it sorted by popular I hold three of the top 6 images.

So far I admit that I pushed back. I'm asking to see the complaint itself as I believe the complaint is filed in bad faith. Asked to see what proof the person who filed the complaint gave to show that this is his work. We will see what they say.

What is the scam with this though? It doesn't let them use the images right just takes down my version of the images. So what is it they gain by this?


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Quote from: cgartist on July 01, 2013, 12:36

Quote from: ruxpriencdiam on July 01, 2013, 12:24

Quote from: cgartist on July 01, 2013, 06:34

Hi, the review process is now correct. There was a time when it took 2week for reviewing any batch. But now it is super corrected. The latest review of my batch took not more than 11hours.
I would recommend you to contact the shutterstock support and see how can they help.

Lucky you!

And a few others.

On day 4 and waiting still.

So that throws out the first in first out since yours were submitted after mine and got reviewed before mine huh?

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moderator wrote:   
Images are reviewed on a first-in, first-out basis depending on the content type (for example, illustrations vs. editorial images).

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129782

Not sure what could be the case. Happened to me yesterday... uploaded in early morning and was approved later in evening.
The First-in and First-out depends to which reviewer the batch went to.

No it doesn't it goes by Batch #'s and picture ID#'s.

Doesn't make a difference who the reviewer is.

It doesn't seem to by go batch, image ID.

I have batch number 33820565 with image ID's from 145877702 to 145877714 and batch ID 33883202 with image number 146125073 waiting in line right now to get accepted.

I've already had batch number 33883202 with image numbers 146125043 to 146125085 approved.

batch 33883202 was just submitted today 7/15 while batch number 33820565 was submited two days ago on 7/13.

First in does not equal first out from what I see.

agreed. Great idea but the program kind of falls flat in how I've seen it work.

My biggest complaints are it seems like a big black hole once you put your info out. From there you either don't hear anything at all ever at all, or you get an approval. I think only once did I get a "ok we are in talks please be on the lookout", though that one turned into silence after that as well no denial, no approval just be on the lookout. Some kind of quick feedback would mean a lot even if it was just a hey sorry didn't work, sorry no reply, hey we are checking. At least at that point it stocks the black hole feel.
The other thing that adds to that is I've had talks with a few PR people got the info that's required and carried on a decent conversation with them with a few back and forth emails, send to on the red carpet and from there it just vanishes.

I admit I don't know what goes on form there once I pass it off. They could be working their little bums off trying to get things going. I really don't know but that is part of what frustrates me so much is I don't know. I never know what is going on or what happens from there. It's honestly made me tempted to ask if I could just have SS fill out the forms and send them to me and then I would deal with the PR myself as at least that way I would feel part of the loop.

Please don't get me wrong I love the idea, love the program in ways. It's just at points the program as trofia said though it doesn't seem 100% reliable.

I do hope you continue it though just would like to see some improvement on it.