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1001
« on: February 13, 2012, 10:22 »
hi guys
have you experienced that new uploads don't sell as much as they used to be in the first 2 weeks? I've done 4 shoots this year, and noticed that on SS new content still sells but at much slower rate, for example, if i upload 50 new images on SS, it used to sell +/- 20 pics per day, but now only 5 or 6 in the first two weeks. it looks like that it will take longer to recover shooting cost for each shoot, at least it's my case.
what's your experience?
Do you not read the SS forums? This started last year and has been talked about in numerous threads in the Bugs/General/Anything go's and Questions and Answers forums! Take some time and read the forums and do some research.
1002
« on: February 13, 2012, 06:31 »
They have changed the link for Shutterbuzz which may be creating other problems?? This is the new Shutterbuzz link. http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/
1003
« on: February 11, 2012, 00:19 »
You can fix the perspective all you want and add a sky but you cant without a whole lot of work rebuild the top right side of the building wall that is blown out creating uneven lighting. 
1004
« on: February 10, 2012, 19:25 »
Well I've just had a small batch of 3 images approved just 5 hours after I uploaded them. Maybe the reviewers like to deal with small batches?
Now, we're getting little close to the issue. As I wrote before, my (smaller) batches were recently approved within 24-48 hours.
My latest batch was about 30 images and now it's sitting in there for 4 days.
Batch size has nothing to do with it! I have three waiting right now and they have been waiting for going on two days so that shoots down your theory of batch size. It is a bug has to be. The new TOS email they sent out yesterday, alot of people got within minutes of sending or within an hour while mine and others arrived today but said it was sent out yesterday?  ?
1005
« on: February 10, 2012, 19:21 »
Some here must be fairly new to SS because i was asking and talking about this for over a year where some people were reviewed in a few hours after uploading days after i did and they were approved yet i had some waits upwards of ten days!
And then the response from the forumguru is a joke i wrote to her many times about it and all i got was the same thing about 7 days!
Normal times are supposed to run no more then 3 days but on average were around 2 unless you were one of a limited few who could get them approved in under three hours after your upload.
This is no way anywhere near a new problem but is an ongoing and progressively worsening issue that for some people think it is nothing just a glitch when in all actuality it appears to be a worsening bug.
I'll be glad to go find some of my old threads about this and or even the emails i sent out.
1006
« on: February 09, 2012, 06:40 »
I got a full batch of editorial images refused with the following reason "Please identify Team/Drive".
Images came from 2 different events:
A)- Kart race between National Auto Club members ( Some pilots participate regularly on Portuguese national, open and classic rally's ). Karts were rented for the race ( nothing professional
B)- 4x4 "adventure" with a off-road club members.
After a look on some editorial images at SS, over same subject, I notice that no one have such identification....
Should I batch it with justification ( with a sample over already accepted files on database ) or the main reason for refusal was the fact of being "non-official" race?
How did you describe the events? SS has a strict way for an editorial description and if it isn't right it will be rejected . So if you could include the description you wrote it would help.
1008
« on: February 06, 2012, 06:45 »
Yes is this a norm this is by far one of the longest waits for a review going i believe.
1009
« on: January 31, 2012, 22:36 »
17,863,136 currently 92,198 added this week means in approx 1.5 weeks it will hit 18,000,000 images leaving 2,000,000 more to go-
So that is an average taking all things into consideration of approx 90,000 per week give or take here or there.
So that would be approx twenty three weeks from now give or take.
So i would care to guess around July 4th 2012 @ 9:00pm EST.
1010
« on: January 28, 2012, 18:57 »
Is there any plan to add other agencies other then the two you use?
I mean there are many others out there as well.
You have SS, BS, CanStockPhoto, DP, YAY, 123, PD, AYCS, FT, Alamy, and many more!
1011
« on: January 27, 2012, 09:29 »
Let me ask a question here if i may! I submit to 11 sites 12 if you include this one that i just joined and none of the other ones tell me my title is wrong and then give me no way of changing it like they do here at PD. Is there by chance a way around it somehow because i title all of my files a specific way so that when i need to find it all i have to do is type it in the search and hit enter and there it is. There is no way i am going to go back and re-title every file i have just to get through the submission process. Any ideas? ?
1012
« on: January 25, 2012, 13:08 »
Heres the problem regardless.... Whos gonna catch these people and whos gonna spend the countless hours and days searching to find these people....The sites?? Forget about it. They help when and if we find them. There was a site posted on SS last week in the Netherlands that does nothing but put up Images to use as Prints and wallpaper for your living room at prices in the thousands of dollars. No credit is given. I wrote them as did others asking to see the license they have to do this. They wrote back saying all is legit. they bought them at DT and can do anything they want. OK....lets see, If I spend a few thousand dollars and buy the top Landscape Images and open a POD site and charge $500/$1000 for a print. Im good to go? The artist gets nothing except a Sale....Once. The site makes Money and I can print as many as I can sell without so much as a credit to the artist.. That sucks Big Time and sites should be ashamed for allowing this. Thats a big Black eye in My view about this business.
+1 that's the site i was speaking about somewhere on theses forums where they buy an EL and then do POD's for upwards of $3000 a pop and all you the photographer gets is the measly $25!!!! Something is really wrong with that.
1013
« on: January 25, 2012, 11:56 »
I didn't think CanStockPhoto allowed print on demand?
POD is permitted only if you purchase the Enhanced License. Our standard license does not permit print on demand usage.
Cheers,
Duncan
1014
« on: January 25, 2012, 11:32 »
Ok lets see what everyone thinks about this one!
I am talking about the licensing uses for EL's at varying agencies and what everyone thinks about them!
Take for instance Fotolia you get an EL and they get to run print runs on it and make a fortune off of it while you pretty much get pennies for it.
This is why i halted uploading to Fotolia once i found out about the licensing terms of usage.
I am spread over some 11 or more sites and cant remember all of them and have to write them down to keep track of them.
So last night i found out that CanStockPhoto has a similar EL license terms of use as Fotolia has.
Take for example:
They buy an image for $25 and use it 10,000 times so their cost per POD is .0025 or pennies now if the average POD sale for them is lets say $50 and they get that for 10,000 POD's then they make $500,000 AKA one half million dollars!
Looks like i need to stop shooting and start buying so i can sell the stuff on Ebay, Graiglist, Fine Art America, Zazzle and wherever else i can.
So does everyone like their work being sold this way or not?
I mean why should someone other then me be able to use my work to get rich and i cant?
If you are able to turn your images into items that sell 10,000 times at a price of 50$ - go for it.
If you assume it happens all the time just because it is possible in theory - you have lost all sense for reality.
Of course I would like to get more money for ELs or sometimes stricter license terms by the agencies (did you know that FT not even requires an EL for unlimited print run? That is covered by the regular license, so you could see your image on the cover of a magazine with over a million print run and you just received a sub download for it...).
But if you look at it from the other side: Lower prices for ELs might mean that you get more sales. If somebody is trying to sell products with images on them (t-shirts, posters, mugs,...) he will need to factor in the license price into his calculation (on top of production and marketing and other costs...). If prices are too high, that will mean less business. The big question (where I don't think anyone has the answer) is where the sweet spot is...
I dont need to sell my images! I can go buy some of the best around from Micro sites which allow POD with an EL and then do what i want with them like sell them as fine prints at Fine Art America or even create a Zazzle store and sell all kinds of things.
1015
« on: January 25, 2012, 09:59 »
Well, you are selling on microstock agencies. That's what microstock means. You could always pull your photos and place them on midstock agencies like Alamy, or get into Getty or Corbis and place your images there. Those would make you far more money.
I understand what you are saying and agree to a certain point, but no one is holding a gun to your head to sell on any agency. It's your choice.
If you noticed what i said about what i did with Fotolia.
1016
« on: January 25, 2012, 09:35 »
Did everyone know that CanStockPhoto allows your images to be used in Print On Demand products up to 10,000 times? "(i) produce physical items for resale, including t-shirts, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, mugs, and mouse pads, provided the aggregate quantity is ten thousand (10,000) or less (Physical Items for Resale), and " I dont know about anyone else but you are loosing some serious money allow your images to be used in this manner! They buy an image for $25 and use it 10,000 times so their cost per POD is .0025 or pennies now if the average POD sale for them is lets say $50 and they get that for 10,000 POD's then they make $500,000 AKA one half million dollars! So what if they are getting more then $50 per POD WOW! People can you see the legal theft of your works? You get pennies they make Millions. Looks like i need to stop shooting and start buying so i can sell the stuff on Ebay, Graiglist, Fine Art America and wherever else i can.
1017
« on: January 25, 2012, 08:26 »
Ok lets see what everyone thinks about this one!
I am talking about the licensing uses for EL's at varying agencies and what everyone thinks about them!
Take for instance Fotolia you get an EL and they get to run print runs on it and make a fortune off of it while you pretty much get pennies for it.
This is why i halted uploading to Fotolia once i found out about the licensing terms of usage.
I am spread over some 11 or more sites and cant remember all of them and have to write them down to keep track of them.
So last night i found out that CanStockPhoto has a similar EL license terms of use as Fotolia has.
Take for example:
They buy an image for $25 and use it 10,000 times so their cost per POD is .0025 or pennies now if the average POD sale for them is lets say $50 and they get that for 10,000 POD's then they make $500,000 AKA one half million dollars!
Looks like i need to stop shooting and start buying so i can sell the stuff on Ebay, Graiglist, Fine Art America, Zazzle and wherever else i can.
So does everyone like their work being sold this way or not?
I mean why should someone other then me be able to use my work to get rich and i cant?
1018
« on: January 25, 2012, 06:54 »
1019
« on: January 24, 2012, 18:33 »
It's way to busy there is no one central area of interest to focus on and it makes your eyes wander around looking for the main point of interest in the shot. Also it is what is known as a snapshot because of the way it is taken. anyone could have walked up and took the same shot standing up shooting down onto them it would have been better composed to have lowered yourself down and to have shot across the stand instead of shooting down onto it. There is no space for designers to use. You cut things off as well. And there is a copyright/trademark visible in the shot as well. There is also nothing that is what would be considered newsworthy about the shot. Reviewer was right. 
1020
« on: January 23, 2012, 20:38 »
1021
« on: January 23, 2012, 10:13 »
Never ever delete images!
1022
« on: January 23, 2012, 08:30 »
As of recently everyone at SS is questioning the sales of old sales skyrocketing and new sales being invisible.
Most of everyone seems to think it is a bug that needs fix and a few small others think that the new VP of content may have changed the search algorithm.
So the days of feeding the beast will be long gone if the search has been changed because there will be no need to rush and get new images in for sales because of older files selling.
So what do you think about it?
Here is what i wrote on the forum at SS.
If you look at it from a business standpoint.
You have a site with almost 18,000,000 images and with the old search and newest always selling the buyers were probably looking at the first 2,000,000 images leaving SS holding almost 16,000,000 images sitting in the dark available but unseen to the buyers because they are only looking at the newest in the search and probably only the first few pages.
So now perhaps SS has decided it is time to put those other 16,000,000 images out there in a search instead of leaving them unseen and buried from the buyers by changing the search somehow.
Just a thought.
I mean if you had a business and had merchandise not selling wouldn't you find a way to move it?
1023
« on: January 22, 2012, 09:29 »
Thanks BT... I know I don't have the answer, but I was hoping someone might  Basically, I'm trying to piggy back off people who have already done this experiment, so I have less chance of just killing some images, haha.
Yes, by RM/RF I meant Alamy/Micros.
It's Miami. Thanks for the compliment on the mangroves... I wanted them lighter, but merging the holes in the leaves was becoming nearly impossible for any bigger exposure difference. Also, mangroves are pretty movable by the wind, so that also wasn't helping the blend. But yea I'm moderately happy with the result.
Maybe I don't understand the question or my answer is not what you are asking, but why don't you just sell it RF on both sites? No conflict, everything is just fine without potential licensing conflicts.
You might also have noticed it's in the Alamy contract that you can not sell images as RF in one place and RM on Alamy. Spelled out, clearly. So I'd guess my second part of the answer is, you can't do that.
http://www.alamy.com/contributor/contract/default.asp
"2.2 You cannot submit identical or similar images to Alamy as both Royalty-Free and Rights Managed. The licence type on Alamy for an image must be the same as the licence type for that image and similar images which you have on other agency websites. "
This is true but you can still sell them on places like Fine Art America.
1024
« on: January 22, 2012, 08:16 »
It doesn't make any sense at all! Be registered by the 1st of February but have to have had 150 images approved by the 9th of January? ?? I believe if you weren't registered before the 9th of January there would be no way to get 150 images approved by then! And then having to have had 10 downloads by the 27th of January! That's 2.5 weeks after you would have had to have had 159 images online so they better be dam good or you are SOL! Either way it sounds as if they are out after really big time Microstock photogs that are above the rest and are now going to treat the rest as just that "the rest". Even if some of the big dogs didn't make it in time they will now be small dogs because of the requirements. Flat out discrimination the way i see it. Perhaps a little more clarification would be nice because the statement doesn't make any sense at all!
1025
« on: January 21, 2012, 18:50 »
Also is there ever going to be a way to upload more then one image at a time?
ask for FTP, they have it 
Cool when did they add that?
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