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Messages - alan b traehern
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« on: October 31, 2022, 11:34 »
Justanotherphotographer, so write right away that you have stocks and more than 100 thousand dollars a year and no one will argue with you. I don't think there are many people on this forum with that kind of income. But the rest have to earn some money. Not everyone here is in the professional league.
If that's true? Anonymous can make up anything he wants. He's in Indonesia and 0.0053 Indian Rupee to a pound. 6 figures doesn't include the 2 to the right of the decimal point. Do you have more than $100,000 per month?
Why are you wasting your time on this forum then.
That's the most dumb reply. If someone makes six fig earning, one should appreciate his guts to come out and tell the positive side when everyone talks about the negative.
And he is not wasting his time on this forum, Forum is for everyone.
If he is and do you believe anything that anyone says. I'm the ruler of a small country, you need to listen to me and believe.
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« on: October 12, 2022, 09:33 »
Feels more like january than october. Obvious decline all across the board in what is usually the best selling month of the year
Me too
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« on: October 12, 2022, 09:29 »
The copyright law changes in favor of physical artwork because artist organizations are lobbing and advocating for the changes.
If stock artists always accept whatever pittance without doing anything about it, the status quo will always be the same.
Given the number of stock artists in the world, it is sad that we are so weak. The basic problem is that there is no leaders among us.
Stock Coalition, how did that go? This is not about leaders it's about power over the agencies. What will you do to demand better pay that would force them to pay more?
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« on: October 12, 2022, 09:25 »
Didn't receive any letters. I don't think this is true.
cretino would say that inside only their own head.
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« on: October 06, 2022, 08:06 »
Keywords seems to have become a necessary evil, with most submitters putting in all 50 keywords just to maximise chances of a view.
This is clear in the kind if results stock sites show up even for very specific queries. So it'll be interesting to kmow how buyers are actually searching for stuff. Is it a word, aeries of words, an actual sentence etc
In my opinion, the Alamy Zoom statistic gives a very good overview of how and with which terms buyers search for images. Some of the searches here are very complex. If you then come across search queries such as "OMEGA 3 AND RED FRUITS", "Fried chicken breast and fresh salad" or "16th century farm house", it makes sense from my point of view to use as many meaningful keywords as possible. But that is somehow also a question of faith.
If the extended keywords, or complex description are important and the image shows something specific, they are necessary and good. If someone just adds close words and similar meaning words, you're wasting time with words that buyers don't use to find image. If you were searching for your image, what words would you use to find it? If you were describing your image to someone else, what words would you use. That's what good keywords are.
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« on: October 06, 2022, 07:58 »
As Jo Ann said, it is not hard to do - checking the new contributors and detecting frauds... But they do not want to do that, since they gain anyways. Maybe even more if they let fraudulent activity happen here and there.
Going after that money - it won't hurt them much, but I guess it would be something every lawyer would be keen to do.
No lawyer will want this work, unless you can pay thousands of dollars to get $5. If this happens to you it's happening to many others, but no one is taking action. Why do you think that is? Lawyers don't work for free.
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« on: September 18, 2022, 09:13 »
There is nothing to be proud about if you give your work away for free.
Or for $5
Or $50? I like the pay.
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« on: September 18, 2022, 09:10 »
There's a quickly diminishing amount of creative/artist jobs already and this will just accelerate the decline. Once this is perfected over the next 5-10 years stock agencies will adopt AI and have little need for contributors. Free money for them and less of having to deal with us. AI wont kill the industry but it will be a big shift much like macro to micro. People will need to adjust to the shift and find a profitable niche. Editorial cant be replaced by AI.
I wonder how many buyers will want images that are authentic and real versus artificial.
Eventually there will be an agency with no artists where the buyer types in what they want and gets a selection of AI images to choose from.
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« on: September 10, 2022, 07:09 »
Two accounts and they are noticing the same images uploaded to both. You won't last long.
Calling ss racist rejections for same images uploaded to another account?
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« on: September 10, 2022, 06:56 »
What' is selected? And what's the criteria?
I've had some of my images selected by Adobe to be part of the program. Is it something to be proud about or they just select something randomly to be part of it?
Thanks for any info.
An image that made me .78 since uploaded, will now get me paid $5. That isn't giving away for free and I made more money than it ever did before. Not random, they want free images to attract new customers.
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« on: July 29, 2022, 06:02 »
...It's the agencies that decide the price and they aren't the ones who have higher porduction costs, so they see no reason to raise prices for end products as, unlike contributors they have no financial loss due to rising production costs.
That's the whole problem. In microstock producers can't decide their prices. We can't forward our rising expenses to customers and microstock agencies don't have high enough morality standards to do it for us.
i agree with your analysis, except (of course) another reason ms dont raise prices is competition - if one agency raises prices, they're at a competitive disadvantage w other agencies
cascoly,
I don't follow your argument, because the same laws apply to MS agencies as to the rest of the free economy. If your argument was, true, no gas station would raise prices, no craftsman, no parcel service, no fast food chain, no supermarket, etc. because of competitive disadvantage.
But they all do - only the microstock agencies don't. Why not? Because we put up with it. From my point of view, it's as simple as that.
in most of those cases you cite, they're near monopolies; also, many have prices that can easily be raised / lowered (sometimes of a daily basis) - eg, without explicit coordination, most gas stations raise prices immediately when oil prices increase, but only slowly decrease when oil does. if a major portion of the suppliers don't participate, prices revert.
MS don't have that option as their market is both more muddled, less structured & less correlated - the market is splintered- it's also not as easy to change prices, to test the response of other agencies. so, when one agency raises prices, the others gain a competitive advantage by keeping prices low
as far as "Because we put up with it.", that has near zero effect, as the SS boycott showed - the number of suppliers is huge and constantly increasing, so there's not been any way to get a co-ordinated reaction from a critical mass
The FT boycott before that and the IS boycott before that, had no effect. We can work for what agencies offer us or do something else.
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« on: July 09, 2022, 08:34 »
Old novelty photo trick, no market, no demand.
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« on: July 09, 2022, 08:31 »
Hello
A little rant from me for hearing too much about Wirestock: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/never-use-wirestock/
Let me know what are you thoughts! Do you think this is all wrong and actually WS is a good time investment?
I was there for a little while amd left once I found my images were being given away in a free site just because they didnt sell well. That really sucked.
You mean the instant pay program? I cant recall Wirestock giving images away for free other than instant pay, which you can opt out of.
They don't give away photos that don't sell well, Wirestock sells nothing, doesn't give away anything, and some of the other comments are also nothing but what if, as they go out of business? Facts are they distribute our work and take 15% for doing that. Like it or don't, but that's not why "you should never ever work with Wirestock". [end of quote] [repeat line] Wirestock sells nothing, the agencies, which are the same agencies, are the same as if we upload ourselves. How can anybody blame Wirestock!
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« on: June 07, 2022, 15:04 »
What does this mean, when does it end? Pride month and another letter added. LGBTQIA I get the first 4 but then things start to get lost. Is Q for questionable, I for I don't know.
LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviation that stands for:
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Queer or questioning
Intersex
Asexual
And more, with the "+" representing other sexual identities
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« on: May 28, 2022, 20:32 »
I went exclusive on Pond 5 and I made less. Exclusive just doesn't work.
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« on: May 04, 2022, 08:57 »
Urgh never mind.
Pond is not a concept it's a Noun.
Obviously. Pond wasn't meant to be a concept. Pond was just an obvious word in the title and keyword that someone would type to find dragonflies. The title that was rejected stated something like "Golden ringed Dragonfly basking in the sun after feeding near a pond. Scientific name (Latin name). It was rejected for the scientific name and keyword pond, life. Pond insects. Flying pond bugs all find dragonflies in the search bar. But I wasn't allowed Pond because there was no pond. It was a stupid refusal. I won't debate that any longer because it is patently obviously a pond related subject. Or stream either is correct.
I believe I did point out various examples of this rigidity being lame. I stated that we could no longer have conceptual titles because a photo titled meditation would now have to become "woman sitting oddly alone in room. But we cant have room because only one wall can be seen. Prisoner becomes "young man sitting on generic bed against a wall wearing grey overalls. No prison visible.
I guess it comes down to how badly do adobe want their photos to be found. Not very in that case. And I'm a native speaker of English. So to throw these subjective obstacles in the way is tiresome. It was removed on my behalf and then published. Well I say refused it was placed in a limbo state until I corrected mistakes. After 3 goes I couldn't work out why which is why I asked for help and the explanation given that title must be in English not foriegn languages (Latin is the only name for some insects but whatever) that I can only title what is visible which makes conceptual ideas risky and that future repeated instances of rule breaking like this could result in 'keyword spamming' and closure of account.
Pond. Ok lol jeeze
Obviously you are wrong. I find many images with Latin names in title and many with concept words that you claim they don't allow. You are wrong or lying. https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=dragonfly&search_type=default-asset-click&asset_id=469521372Maybe you are just watched more because you are a keyword spammer and got caught.
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« on: April 21, 2022, 07:42 »
There's a reason for new images getting downloads right away, A giant vacuum * every new image and saving them. Next year you will have no new downloads. US members have to pay $85 a year to give away work for free.
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« on: April 09, 2022, 11:14 »
Luckily I don't really do many editorial photos in general, so it isn't that much of a big deal to me. They are just a tiny fraction of my port. It just always puzzles me when people here say that Adobe basically accepted everything as editorial as long as there are no people in the photos. For me, unless it's a product photo, my editorial photos get rejected more often than accepted and I can't even figure out a pattern.
The thing is that a " Illustrative Editorial Guidelines" rejection could be for a number or reasons. For example, maybe they didn't like your annotation. A colon out of place for example.
Vague rejections are the way of AS. Maybe Mat can help?
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« on: April 09, 2022, 11:13 »
Here's how to be accepted. From SS, Heres a tip to stand outinclude a mix of diverse ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, and body types, as well as LGBTQ+ and non-binary people. Content with recognizable faces must also include model releases, as well as property releases for recognizable locations.
They really push this down our throats don't they?
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« on: March 28, 2022, 06:21 »
I have images reviewed as far back as 15 days now that still haven't shown up in my port. 
I start to doubt that this issue will really be fixed.
They added a catalog tool for buyers, Try before you purchase with downloadable comps. Add a new tool, break the old.
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« on: March 19, 2022, 07:41 »
Shoot new world order, transhumanism, central banks, social credit systems, loss of personal property. More bioterrorism. Frankenfood made from soy, disappearance of beef. Plant-based food. Big agriculture.
Excellent ideas Cathy
More ideas. Neuralinks, crypto, space travel.
From Elon Musk. The billionaire who also spoke about space travel, colonies on Mars, crypto, artificial intelligence and Covid-19 vaccines said Neuralink is trying to figure out if it can use its chips to get monkeys to play mind Pong with each other.
That would be pretty cool, said Musk, who is CEO of Neuralink, in addition to SpaceX and Tesla.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/elon-musk-neuralink-wires-up-monkey-to-play-video-games-using-mind.html
Great ideas. Thanks for the link, Cathy.
The so called "lifestyle" photography with lazy drug-addict multi-gender individuals chilling out is so OLD. The next trend is people communicating with machines and robots; maybe we can have microchips inserted also in the brains or our pets? To make them do things, or to communicate with them? To find out what exactly is going on in their minds? (May be more than just "food" and "walk")
Maybe cyber threats and surveillance can be combined with the idea of neuralink in stock photography.
Anything that includes LGBTQIA+ I don't know what all those letters mean, transgender athletes who beat real women, avocados on toast or Starbucks latest cups.
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« on: March 11, 2022, 06:16 »
In Ukrania there are neonazis, in Germany there are neo-* , in Russia there are neo-*, in United States there are neo-*. Do you think because some crazy extremist minorities a country has the right to bomb and kill innocent children , women, men, many who are totally against any radicalism. You are totally out of your mind if you think the same way as the leader of Russia.
Putin will pay for his genocide. Have no doubt about it. If you ask me, it will be sooner than later. The whole world is against him.....well not the whole world. It seems North Korea, Belarus, Syria, Eritrea support him. Great partners.......
Except only in Ukraine they are killing civilians. 13.000 of them. Your evidence of the genocide? Let's say he is guilty of: Native Americans genocide, Aborigines genocide, Colonialism, WW1, WW2, atomic bombs, Vietnam, slavery. Are you good now?
If you would stop supporting the lies and stop defending the attacks on civilians with not related whatabout, you might see the truth. Anonymous has successfully breached and leaked the database of Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling and censoring Russian mass media, releasing to the public over 360K files. Russia has a federal agency that controls the media and distributes the Russian government the lies. Why does Russia want to block ban Facebook and Wikipedia. Is there something in the truth that they can't tell the Russian people? Putin will be tried as a war criminal.
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« on: March 03, 2022, 08:49 »
Thijs has departed this forum, I see. What a shame. He was much too nice for this group, I think.
I've decided to follow Thijs out the door. No more interest here for me either.
So bye, ya'll. It's been a hoot!
Take your sexist attacks with you.
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« on: February 21, 2022, 09:25 »
Earnings on FAA last year blew away all my stock earnings by a mile
You are lucky with FAA. Because you signed up in 2010 and the FAA greatly favors the artists who signed up early. If we look at recent sales, 90% of them are made by artists registered before 2013-2014.
I have more than a thousand photos, but for their search engine I am practically invisible. I sold 9 prints in 2021, but 6 are from clients I personally referred to the FAA/Pixels from my website
With my 4 POD shops I only made 4% of my total earnings with microstock. PODs for photographers basically is a waste of time. It is difficult for photographers to sell prints, perhaps for a painter or illustrator it is easier.
FAA is just a popularity contest and old people are favorites? Seems like the search engine everywhere always favors someone else, not people on this forum.
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