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Messages - Caz
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« on: April 08, 2009, 06:17 »
Sure they are.
Dear DT, please disable my contributor account and images as I do not wish to sell there anymore. Thanks! Love A. Con. Tributor
How hard is it not to be a jerk about doing that?
I'm certainly no apologist for DT, but as I don't know their back end system I wouldn't presume it to be a quick thing for them to do. If it is a simple matter of one click and you're history then indeed it would be a friendly extra thing for them to do. But if it took more than 5 minutes of staff time per contributor request, I personally wouldn't expect them to allocate resources to it.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 05:45 »
The 6 months are fair play, you're agreeing to it when signing up.
When I joined DT there was no 6 month lock in period. That was introduced long after I joined. But when it was introduced it was only applied to new images, so if I didn't upload anything new I was free to leave without notice. When I went exclusive with iStock I had to delete my portfio, image by image from DT, Shutterstock, Fotolia, BigStock and Stockexpert. None could offer a back office service to delete my portfolio for me, and nor did I expect them to. When I decided to go exclusive, I factored in 20 hours of time to delete my images. They give you the tools to delete your images, just because you'd like the tools to be easier/faster doesn't mean they're being unreasonable.
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« on: April 08, 2009, 02:42 »
I don't consider an image to be a success unless it has an average of above 10 downloads per month.
I don't factor in the cost of producing an individual image when judging its success. If something took less than fifteen minutes of my time from shoot to upload and didn't involve any costs, it will be making money from the first download, but that doesn't make it a success if it only gets downloaded 12 times a year.
In my experience, images that get to the magic average 10 d/l per month (in the iStock Dls/mo column) within their first few weeks continue to be consistent sellers and therefore successful.
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« on: April 01, 2009, 05:46 »
I don't think I'm excited about the launch of life.com The images I supply to Getty (through the iStock/Getty agreement) are all there. Yes, you can click on the "licence this image" button which takes you off to the Getty site to buy a licence. But the one click to share, email and blog with my images for free doesn't thrill me at all. Specifying that the free use is for personal use only doesn't cut much ice with me, as the Vincent Laforet article mentions, many bloggers earn money on their blogs and that to me makes them commercial. Life.com is making a song and dance about bringing free images to the masses. It seems to be their marketing drive. I think that ethos is devaluing my work at Getty, and I'm going to have a long think about whether I continue to add images there 
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« on: December 16, 2008, 07:30 »
Can someone please put in a payment request between 16th december and the 31 st december as i am curious to see what the error message might be if in place!
If you don't make enough to be able to request a payout yourself, why are you worried by any of this? 
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« on: November 28, 2008, 05:44 »
I pre-ordered with Warehouse Express, but I guess not early enough! I just called them, they say they had only 40 bodies delivered and have no idea when they will get more to fulfil the rest of the back orders.
*snif*
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« on: November 24, 2008, 06:16 »
I don't see how the image depicts "joy". She's smiling a little bit, but to me I'd say joy would have to be represented by more than a little half smile. And the keyword "twenties" maps to young adult which would have covered her (without chosing the "be more specific option") if indeed she is actually in her twenties.
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« on: November 10, 2008, 07:36 »
Great for me so far. On course to at least equal October figures, which was my BME. Fingers crossed that posting this doesn't have the downloads grinding to a halt
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« on: October 28, 2008, 03:26 »
You mean on iStock? Not StockXpert? As long as the phrase you want to enter is in the CV, you enter it without quotation marks. For example, studio shot is in there, just type in studio shot and it'll come up. If you enter From Above it maps to Elevated View (Viewpoint) in the CV, which is what you want.
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« on: September 25, 2008, 03:25 »
thanks for the heads up - interesting turn of events. I hope this doesn't have any poor affects on the direction and momentum of fotolia.
Actually Dietmar Frohmann wasn't good at all but he knows all fotolias customer contacts in Germany,
Can you elaborate on what you mean he "wasn't good" ?
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« on: September 24, 2008, 05:10 »
What has bothered me with the same IS emails I'm getting.... is the words they are objecting to...
I never uploaded!! Heck, some of them aren't even in my vocabulary! So,where'd they come from? I mailed back those sentiments several days ago but have not gotten a reply.  =tom
p.s. I agreed with their observations, the words weren't applicable, but the fact remains, those words aren't in my data base, I didn't upload them.
It's up to you to make sure the cv has mapped correctly to each of your keywords. For example, if you had the word orange, it's up to you to check or uncheck the drop down boxes asking if you mean orange colour or the fruit, or both. If you ignore the options, then it's likely that some alternative (irrelevant) meaning will be selected. People might say it's a time consuming process, but that it the process and it's your responsibility to check everything you submit is correct.
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« on: August 15, 2008, 06:10 »
I agree with you Dan.
I think it's generally accepted by everyone that images from exclusive contributors are favoured in the best match placing. That's not the debate. The point is that the OP stated that "every single one of the images/videos listed was from someone who is exclusive to IS" when they looked at the "most popular" images - and that is obviously untrue as Bittersweet has been saying.
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« on: July 02, 2008, 05:07 »
... Apparently they like the images they DO pick, the reviewers keep rating them 5 cameras as soon as they are approved, so I guess that's a good thing, but I haven't seen increased sales from it...
Ahh well, ONWARD!! 
A little off topic, but just to clear up your confusion... the inspectors (reviewers) aren't rating your images (at least, not on the many I just checked on your portfolio). The ratings you have are from fellow contributors, not image inspectors. A rating from the inspector who reviews your image will show as "Initial Rating" and they're fairly rare. Nothing wrong with ratings from contributors of course, but I just wanted to clear up why you thought there was some inconsistency in inspectors rejecting some of your images and rating them (they're not)
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« on: June 05, 2008, 12:33 »
I have 
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