Quote from: jonbull on November 24, 2016, 12:55

so far i haven't seen any of this 0,02....even when people see a lot of 0,1 0,06 i never saw nothing less than 0,28....
now i'm ready for 0,15m as minimum...o will upload less....also stock review seems a lot slow with non exclusive.... and see.
if i begin 0,02 simply i will leave my image there and not upload nothing more. very simple.
petition and useless fight are time consuming and will not end to nothing.
i see fotolia increasing a lot their sale and shutter stock recovering in the last 2 months...strangely i have my best month in stock from a long time. i repeat till they grow my per month income i will upload if not bye bye.
in my opinion they are simply moving their effort to exclusive contributor.

You will get $0.02 when they make the change and if you leave your images there, it will only get worse.  They presume a lot of people wont bother leaving and they have been right until now.  The problem is, why would other sites pay us more if we tolerate $0.02 with istock?  Staying with them is going to cost you a lot of money.  I remember saying this when they cut below 20% and I was right.  Shutterstock used to give us a raise every year and that stopped.  BigStock, I23RF and other sites have cut the amount they pay us or made it impossible to reach the levels we used to get paid.  At some point, contributors have to take action or we will see all the sites paying us less until there's no point in uploading.

let's see what happened.
clearly this company don't know nothing about business...i remember when shutter stock change price making the buy of extended license redundant and expensive...my extends license are fallen down since then...now this....luckily the dollar is getting stronger...so i will earn more euro:=

personally where does the 0,02 come from? the 15% rate of one dollar is 0,15....now i earn 0,25...they sell images at 9 cent?
good for them.

150000 files as a backlog in a hard disk... amazing story

However, i hardly can imaging how uploading files (at any places) will even cover costs for keyword & upload time
unless they are specific produced concepts in high demand

clearly i expect from 150000 10% of sellable images, of those 2,3% will go to rm and offset...the rest to micro.

0,01?

i don't believe sorry.
i repeat bio trace in my account of anything less than 0,25...even  from partner program.
i expect 0,15 minimum. anyway i always smell more with credits than sub.

we accepted micro stock many years ago because it was easy and good money even with poor, for nowadays standard, quality photos.
we accepted 0,2, 0,3 for photo and now complaint that they cut at 0,15.
personally i don't care, micro stock is the lower end of my production, photo that will be buried in hard disk , or i will never use for nothing. i will upload the more i can, micro stock for me is only about quantity, the more images you have the more u earn...
personally i grow all portfolio in any site in the last 4 months, cleaning a massive backlog of more than 150000 files who stupidly i kept in my hard disk without selling them when was the timer making good money. anyway i see a trend of growing. the fact that an agency cut my rates doesn't bother me, i learnt that in micro what counts is the number at the end of months. till it grows i upload.

serious photography goes to offset, and other agency where a customer want buy good quality and pay for them.

as somebody said this industry will begin just a hobby for 99% and only big producers with low cost ( soietic union thailand and some other country with cheap model cheap cost of production) and some lucky who found a niche ( but what is a niche in micro stock?)....microstock for me will be a good sideline to earn more money but if i had to trust this to make a living out of photography i would have already chosen another path.
and it will be worst and worst.
the more i upload, better content for sure than in past, the earning seems stall at the same level. they not moving from that level in any site. probably i am wrong with keyword or i don't know what to think....but when i re people with 500 600 images earning thousand of dollar it makes me think a lot.

Quote from: jonbull on September 13, 2016, 11:04

off topic...

can anybody explain the adobe deal? i don't understand the difference between fotolia and adobe now...

adobe has also a premium service...

how one can apply to adobe only content?

thanks

In practical terms for contributors there is no difference....expect the Fotolia brand to dissapear at some point

thanks a lot.
i wanted apply for premium category but i'm more interested in applying for offset

off topic...

can anybody explain the adobe deal? i don't understand the difference between fotolia and adobe now...

adobe has also a premium service...

how one can apply to adobe only content?

thanks

Quote from: jonbull on April 13, 2016, 15:00

i don't want to be critic but all this portfolio looks really the same...pale skin tones, same pose same color...i mean stocks is full of this style, flickr is full especially russian artist, 500 px is full....when i read " my style"....im not harsh but this is the style of everybody in instagram, in any hipsy stock agency.. i don't see nothing original. they are good done but nothing creative. anybody really can do this in any corner of the world right now.

I can agree with some things you said, but keep in mind that I'm still young and new in photography, so my current goal is to master all technical stuff first (lightning-pre and post production, photo montage, combination of photo and cgi etc), so there will be time for other things, but first things first.
And this is where I can't agree with you, because not anybody can do this, and there are actually small number of people who mastered all those skills.

http://www.jelenabalic.com/beauty - This girl is example of how I see my work will be in a few years...  (yes it's fashion, beauty and commercial but I like it and it's not easy as you think)

So we're gone too far.. I just wanted to put my other work somewhere and... something that I do when I'm walking down the streets, or travel, or catching random moments with my friends... because I'm aways photographing something. That's why I'm here asking for your thoughts and thanks to everyone who shared their opinion

Ps. I don't know how you managed to put together so called "russian" style and hipsy - totally different styles.

last i add that the secret what makes a photographer really stand is the master of shadow and light, even in beauty. that makes tridimensional. beauty shot like the one you show are these days too common,. one beauty dish, maybe a reflector, tons of pp to smooth skin and color..

Quote from: jonbull on April 13, 2016, 15:00

i don't want to be critic but all this portfolio looks really the same...pale skin tones, same pose same color...i mean stocks is full of this style, flickr is full especially russian artist, 500 px is full....when i read " my style"....im not harsh but this is the style of everybody in instagram, in any hipsy stock agency.. i don't see nothing original. they are good done but nothing creative. anybody really can do this in any corner of the world right now.

I can agree with some things you said, but keep in mind that I'm still young and new in photography, so my current goal is to master all technical stuff first (lightning-pre and post production, photo montage, combination of photo and cgi etc), so there will be time for other things, but first things first.
And this is where I can't agree with you, because not anybody can do this, and there are actually small number of people who mastered all those skills.

http://www.jelenabalic.com/beauty - This girl is example of how I see my work will be in a few years...  (yes it's fashion, beauty and commercial but I like it and it's not easy as you think)

So we're gone too far.. I just wanted to put my other work somewhere and... something that I do when I'm walking down the streets, or travel, or catching random moments with my friends... because I'm aways photographing something. That's why I'm here asking for your thoughts and thanks to everyone who shared their opinion

Ps. I don't know how you managed to put together so called "russian" style and hipsy - totally different styles.

don't wanted to sound ruse, you are very good photographer and has a clearly a good tendency to shoot girl....your photos are well done, but what i'm saying is that there is an overflow of this style in every website, stocks being the last.
especially from eastern europe and balkans. what i 'm saying is there is such a market in the world to fulfill the economical need s of all those people?
i live often in kiev and i know hundred of young people with portfolio like yours. in eastern part of europe building such portfolio is pretty easy. in my opinion you are good should go for more direct approach to your field, beauty and  fashion. but with more complex lighting scheme and pose.

in addiction you said you want relocate...but where? pay attention that big cities are full  of photographer. i suggest u go asia right now to have chance.
looking the girl you posted the link, she's clearly good but looking her publication she has local success, most of time this success come for personal preference not skill...had she gone to milan for example i doubt she would have chance to shoot fro grazia or elle italy for example. so even relocation right now is very complex. i don't know how big is your city and what opportunity u have but maybe just going to capital of your country could be a good idea.

The answer is simple: your images are too good for them.  These are correctly exposed, correctly lighted, nice images. Really nice images!
Good images are boring for them. They already have some... so now they need trendy, surprising, spontaneously taken images. Different looking images. Much worse images then yours. Buy an iphone  and forget about lighting and composition and they will let you in. At least this is my impression while I am browsing Stocksy.

agree...i wanted to apply , but I'm mostly editorial and travel and don't see they will need me, my goal right now are mopstrlfy enter off set and gallery stock for rm, then i'm done considering that i am also with alamy for rm and i'm a contributor at redux pictures for editorial serious photography.

Two of the three illustrators' portfolios you link to are absolutely terrible. I wont say which ones, but I am shocked by what SS is accepting now. Some of the photographers are very good though.

photo good?

oh god, this are the most amateur portfolio i have ever seen...i understand why big customer buy from rm agency,...look food photo in alamy, or other big rm agency. this guy probably use even other photographer to shoot everything they have around.
we must see what they sell and how much earn, but being often in ukriane i'd say that this guy can earn very good money for living there.  10 photographer account for more than 5 percent of all photo fun ss...unbielevabel