Why not get a small carbon fiber tripod? This is only 2lbs and folds to 16 inches. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/759477-REG/Gitzo_GT1542T_Series_1_Traveler_6x.html

This is what I have with a lightweight ball head and it works great for travel.  I hang my backpack off the hook and it is very stable.  Not quite stable enough for video in high wind (I discovered recently), but very good in most circumstances and small enough to go almost anywhere so it gets used a lot.

I use NameChanger - it's free, provides lots of flexibility and works great.  It might be only for Macs though - not sure about that part.

I thought I was seeing lots of meteors but they turned out to be snowflakes - drat.  We ended up with two inches and it's supposed to be 12 F tonight - no fun.  Glad I'm going to Florida later this week...

Hope you got some nice images and everyone else is somewhere nice.

So far this month I'm averaging one OD/SOD per every 7.7 DLs, which is better than most months.  Total DLs for me are down about 25% on SS and way more than that on most other sites but at least the OD/SOD rate is holding steady.

Yes, I've had those $2 sub sales - maybe one out of every 15 subs or so is a higher one.

Reviews are still pretty fast based on my last couple of batches - within a day or two, faster than SS - so at least that part is OK.

Quote from: sgoodwin4813 on November 06, 2014, 14:29

They are usually one of the most variable, but the past month or two have dropped off the edge.  October was my WMY and so far this month is even worse.  Numbers of sales have been OK, but now mostly 25 cent subs, which used to be rare.  Of my past 20 sales, 13 were for 25 cents each - that has never happened before and is why they have dropped so far.

Who knows but I doubt it.  CanStock has had 25-cent subs for years but they were always a minority of sales for me until very recently.  I'm not convinced that DPC has been very successful - I almost never get $1 sales at FT.  I assume something else has changed.

Could the DPC program be the root cause?

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Quote from: sgoodwin4813 on November 03, 2014, 09:30

Batch assignment of photo info - how many people, whether a photograph, digitally modified, type of license, that sort of thing on the last page - would be a big help, so we don't have to do it for each similar image individually.

Just a quick point here - you can already do that...

Er - how please? Can you post a link or something?

Drag the images down to the batch edit area, click on the desired option, assign the change you want to make, click save. All done!

I didn't know about that - will have to try it.  Thanks.

Batch assignment of photo info - how many people, whether a photograph, digitally modified, type of license, that sort of thing on the last page - would be a big help, so we don't have to do it for each similar image individually.

Correctly reading IPTC info also would be good - now it often doesn't read in the titles or puts them in the description field instead.

Change the essential keywords to a number rather than character count - e.g., first 5 or 8 keywords rather than 50 characters - and either take the first few automatically and/or display them all and allow the essential ones to be chosen easily, either drag and drop or just by a click.

Thanks for asking and please ignore the squabbling by our colleagues.

I just checked my stats there and almost all subs sales were at the base rate, but I did have two this month that were higher: one for $0.47 and the other for $1.28.  So we are getting some at higher rates but the frequency is very low (for me at least).

There is one potential thing that they could do to right the ship ... and that is to restore the original canister-based royalty rates. That, more than anything else, would actually help their bottom-line. Unfortunately TPTB are not bright enough to understand that and how vital the relationship with the contributor actually was to the success of their business. It was the RC debacle that destroyed IS and it is only the restoration of the original royalty structure that will help them.

Well said!  The RC change wasn't the only problem but it certainly soured contributors.  Admitting that was a bad idea and restoring to the way it was would help a lot from the contributor side.  SS so far hasn't messed with their levels and it seems to be pretty sustainable there.

Not a WMY but close - way behind compared to 2013 and 2012 but at least beat Sept. 2011.  Surprisingly had BMYs at DT and DP.  Had a WMY at CS, and most of the others were at 2011 levels.  SS DL volume down about 20% from earlier this year but money hanging in there due to more than usual ELs and SODs.  SS about 60% of the total.  Like some others, I made more on Canva than GL, even though I only made a small test upload to Canva and only have 11 images online - need to increase that.  iS very weak - the new changes don't seem to have helped my bottom line.