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1026
« on: November 12, 2017, 07:30 »
I disagree with 19. Don’t try to analyze this business. We can analyze as we wish, use math and just don't over analyze. I agree. I think that's what he meant, not to over-analyze. Best to use energies positively to create new content. I'll add that we all need to be aware of which agencies are more likely to bring us the most $ for our style. Also we need to be aware of which are Agencies may be struggling financially and threaten to lower their fees and/or broaden RF licensing rights to customers. Just look at Dreamstime's latest "Royalty Free Limit Free" marketing scheme.
1027
« on: November 11, 2017, 17:49 »
It will only be useful if she reveals e.g. why she wouldn't have 'empty airport' or 'jeans'; or why she used 'girl' instead of 'young woman'. These may be trade secrets, but without them, the posts would be pretty useless. All I see from the post you linked to above is that probably you stuck in poor keywords to show the sort of things far too many people do on all the sites, and she cleaned them up a bit. Sadly, the sort of people who keyword so badly generally don't want to learn. I have lots of evidence of this, but best not to name and shame.
These are valid questions and I'll ask why she chose one word or another. Perhaps she may post on here and if so I would appreciate if you all would make her feel welcome I did my best to keyword to the highest standards. I admit that sometimes I rush through keywording, especially when I have 100s of images to get through. From the corrections, my weakness is overkeywording. I have a limit on the number of images (hours a day) I can a day before I start to go crazy - probably about 3-4 hours worth/day, so any help from a profession is appreciated.
1028
« on: November 11, 2017, 11:34 »
My prediction is that I'll gain 10lbs in December
1029
« on: November 11, 2017, 10:32 »
The truth is that I don't class them as "premium", especially the way you describe them but they are still editorials. They are not many around 100, so i may as well leave them only on Alamy and see what happens. In that case, I would suggest that they be everywhere and RF. Good luck
1030
« on: November 11, 2017, 07:27 »
I have some editorial only on alamy, not many but they are from popular events here in Corfu like Easter and carnival. Should i upload them to shutterstock as well or leave them to alamy exclusive hoping that if someone wants them they have to pay a higher price for them? Thanks in advance Dimitris I'm of the opinion that SS isn't the best place to upload premium editorials. Alamy would be much better, not only because you can license them as RM (which has its benefits) but also that many buyers on Alamy are editorially-orientated. It depends on how "premium" these editorials are. What is 'premium", in my opinion?: 1. Images which took considerable expense or time to capture and/or post-process (least important but still relevant for deep expedition type shots); 2. Unique lighting condition; 3a. Unique editorial of a 'story' which isn't sufficiently covered by other contributors; 3b. Shooting niches (breaking news, medical, science, biology, chemistry). I'd give a 25% weight to each one of them. If they're "popular events in Corfu like Easter and Carnival", I'd have to see them first but I would imagine that they aren't that premium save for a few (perhaps you caught two men kissing during carnival). There's a theory that buyers shop around and there's a risk that a non-corporate buyer at Alamy may see the same image on SS and license it for much much cheaper. Still trying to gather evidence on whether this really happens (relation between zooms on Alamy and purchases on SS). To avoid this, as you suggested, I would advise to keep your most premium images at Alamy and even as RM. Hope that helps! Alex
1031
« on: November 11, 2017, 06:27 »
I should write a book.  Go for it!  ------ Anybody have any top tips to add to the list for newbies?
1032
« on: November 10, 2017, 18:40 »
Ladies,
I'm not making this man up. He was a regular but is taking a break - I forgot his alias but as soon as I have it I'll post it. His nickname was "outoftheblue" and had a previous nickname which I forgot. Account is now disabled.
I think it's a great list, nevertheless. Feel free to add some tips for newbies.
As for the Michelle comment, he apologises as he meant it as a joke. I didn't delete it..only put a strikethrough.
1033
« on: November 10, 2017, 18:07 »
Am I the "Michelle" in question? I have no idea, I'm just the messenger
1034
« on: November 10, 2017, 17:58 »
Tom (Old Sheriff) has asked me to start this thread. He's currently taking a break from this forum but I trust he'll be back soon as most us miss him lol
These are his top tips:
1. Never be emotionally attached to an image
2. Learn what the buyers want
3. Being willing to change your style
4. Work long hours
5. Expect few sales
6. Don’t spend too much time on MSG or other forums
7. Never stop learning how to better process images/videos
8. Don’t let others determine your fate
9. Find a mentor
10. Buy a Microstock book and read it from front to back cover
11. Study the most popular images
12. Take your time correctly labeling and keywording images
13. Never fight rejections
14. Laugh a lot
15. Drink good beer or wine while processing images
16. Listen to good music while processing
17. Take days off- spending with family or friends
18. Don’t quit your day time job
19. Don’t try to analyze this business
20. Learn how to correctly compose an image
21. Learn lighting inside and out
22. Watch free on-line videos on Processing, lighting
23. Ask for opinions – help
24. Stay professional
25. Never get cocky
26. Try new things- get out of your comfort zone
27. Set one day each week for pure production
28. Know all your International and National holidays
29. Submit three months prior to each special season
30. Get at least 7 hours sleep each night
31. Take your time when processing images. Quality must be very high.
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32. Never listen to Michelle
1035
« on: November 10, 2017, 12:43 »
Are these keywords for a particular agency? I had Alamy in mind for these types of keywords, except for the passport which has gone to micros (not iStock though since i don't submit to them). Just my 2p worth. Thanks for your input Today I had something in the form of my tag 'Brasilnut Centre for Microstock Information" showing up on a search for Brasilnut, which wasn't what the buyer wanted.  ------- Clemency Wright and I will be collaborating on future blog posts about keywording, in particular in regards to keywording for Alamy. The way their system works appears to be mystery even for Alamy veterans (which I am not yet)! Still trying to figure out the best practice and when to use single words and phrases. On the plus side, their Alamy Measures tool is extremely valuable.
1036
« on: November 10, 2017, 11:27 »
@Brasilnut Thank you very much my friend.I really appreciate four feedback. Very valuable and some good tips.Thanks again. You're welcome. I would also add that you need to improve your keywords. You have the following keywords for the attached image (removing the following irrelevant keywords): architect, background, beautiful, beauty, building, city, country, europe, greece, green, hill, house, landmark, landscape, mountain, nature, north, old, rock, scenery, sky, small, tourism, town, travel, vacation, view, village, whiteI would add the following more relevant: st mathews village, matthews, St. Matthew village, southwest Corfu, aerial, sunset, desaturated, terracotta, Municipality Corfu, picturesque, 16th century, settlement, lush countryside, blue flag, Chalikounas, castle Gardiki, Pantokratora, greek village, bird's eye view, travel greece, greek tourism, rugged mountains, greek islands, horizontal I've written a lot about keywording on my blog: https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2017/10/04/advice-from-a-leading-keywording-and-search-specialist-clemency-wright-consulting/https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2017/11/08/three-professional-keywording-examples-by-clemency-wright-consulting/
1037
« on: November 10, 2017, 10:06 »
Hi there, I have around 500 images and just to speak with numbers i`ve made 118 sales so far.Do you think that my images don`t have commercial value or they are not well executed? Or just maybe the stock is very saturated and i shouldn`t expect anything better. For me this is a part time job and i`m trying to increase my portfolio and whatever comes.I love photography and i will keep shooting whatever what but i would like to know if i can improve. Yassou Dimitrios! My first comment is that you have almost no editorials and as a travel photographer it can be extremely difficult to capture places without people. I would advise you not to be shy about submitting editorial images...they can do as well and in some cases even better than commercial images. As for your existing images, you embrace the dark side as many of your images have quite dark undertones / themes. This is cool but I must say that for stock it's not ideal. If you're going to do travel photos, it's best to have them bright, vibrant (not saturated) and full of copy space (for buyers to insert text if they wish to do so). Some of your beach scenes are nice but they're not stock, they're fine art prints...to make them into stock you have to think about how a potential buyer would use such scenes to promote a product and/or service. Let's suppose a travel company wants to promote Corfu, they'll more likely use a sunny image with happy smiling tourists and delicious food, in my opinion. Some of your fine art may do well as Print on Demand on Fine Art America, for example. As for still life, it's not really my thing but from a quick glance, they also look underexposed and or badly executed as the attached. You're lucky as only a few years ago Shutterstock would have rejected this for weak composition. Good luck file
1038
« on: November 09, 2017, 17:02 »
I have a message from "The Old Sheriff": "The Shows Over! Get back to work you complaining cry babies before I hog tie you! "
1039
« on: November 09, 2017, 13:27 »
And I'm just wondering what's taking my rejection so long? I mean that. I thought I'd apply just to see but I'm pretty sure they want models, lifestyle, trendy artistic, stylish, no bright typical micro. I'm none of that, but still, I thought it made sense to at least apply and hope? I'd look forward to sending them the more artistic works and not waste time with the same on Micro. I'm still in the running. I'm out of discussing it here as I'm obviously annoying people (which is not my intention).
1040
« on: November 08, 2017, 12:05 »
I'll wait till the end of the month and then I think I should contact Alamy. I must say that Alamy have the best customer service I've encountered. They'll help you out.
1041
« on: November 07, 2017, 13:56 »
brasilnut is starting to annoy me. I'm out. Best of luck to everybody.
1042
« on: November 07, 2017, 13:25 »
no they want images who fit the collection for style creativity and colors palette. I see some VSCO. Just need to gauge more of their style. I'm a big fan of KODAK Portra 400.
1043
« on: November 07, 2017, 12:48 »
one question..did you manage to spend one hour browsing the stocksy collectioN? I do sort of get what they want and I did browse. They want something that has a start, middle and end. Like a patient going to to the doctor, there's the sickness, getting out the door, arriving at the office, checkin with receptionist, seeing doctor (most important part) then the rest. I captured a screenshot of an interesting story of an ethnic woman at the track, highlighting back to health issues since it appears that she recently gave birth (as per the stretch marks). All this is cool and I could do...but don't want to fork out expenses on models at this stage before getting accepted (chicken and egg scenario). I have included some images of friends/relatives but the story isn't complete. Anyway, it's all cool...happy either way if I'm in or not.
1044
« on: November 07, 2017, 11:11 »
If they want "storytelling", this is my story.
This woman collects stray dogs and makes them into fancy jackets to sell in the boutique shops of Milan. The cuter the dog, the softer the fur.
1045
« on: November 07, 2017, 10:42 »
What I don't like is that you have to wait so much for the payment (from buyer). I have files downloaded in May and still not payed for. Yea that's annoying. Alamy bend over backwards to please their clients, I suppose that's how they remain competitive.
1046
« on: November 07, 2017, 03:58 »
Have to ask, why RM and not Royalty Free to Alamy? Should I also tag them editorial only, or not? Personal preference, although not a huge difference between RM and RF on Alamy anymore. If you license unreleased RF you'll need to tag them as editorial only, however with RM that isn't necessary (Alamy do a good job to make this as confusing as possible). be a minimum of 50mb uncompressed (panorama’s 100mb) This is uncompressed. Not sure the exact number but it's about 12mb min after exporting as JPEG. I've had issues with these requirements in the occasions when I've had to crop and they wouldn't accept, but at worst cases, I up-size some of the images. Of course this isn't the best solution as it fks up the resolution but what else could I do but for re-shooting (which isn't possible since I've had to travel far).
1047
« on: November 07, 2017, 03:17 »
I didn't know of Robert Harding - they seem a great fit for my travel & landscape photography (see the pics I posted to Stocksy above) so if I don't get into Stocksy I'll give RH a try. They'll have no issues accepting some of your images. My rejection rate with them is about 80%, which is fine because I put the remainder of the images on Alamy as RM.
1048
« on: November 06, 2017, 14:21 »
Now I understand why Brasilnut mentions you have to slowly build your portfolio there! I'm just wingin' it. Just hope they like my style.
1049
« on: November 06, 2017, 12:27 »
I strongly believe they rejected me because my photos doesn't tell a story. I guess this is "storytelling"...
1050
« on: November 03, 2017, 15:44 »
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