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« on: November 04, 2009, 11:17 »
How about letting existing contributors participate in 'operation level ground' or whatever it's called?
I don't like fotolia very much at all because they have nearly zero respect for their contributors. You can ask for this kind of thing but are unlikely to get it unless enough people pulled their images and left. This of course will never happen because most of those that stay live by the mantra-- something is better than nothing. And the cycle continues. What surprises me though is there must be enough big contributors out there who do not contribute to FT that an offer like this is made. Maybe there is hope.
1177
« on: November 03, 2009, 21:08 »
"... if more and more shooters pile in more and more similar content, each shooter will make less and less and at some point, its just not worth the effort. So, then the photographer will decide to make less fungible content unique content but truly unique content doesnt work well in the micro environment which requires massive multiples of sales..."
I think that says it all. Either compete with 15,000 other guys for the best "business handshake", or make $2 for a truly unique image.
It's always been a problem and still accelerating. 100,000+ images in one week submitted to SS. That used to be a decent sized library on it's own. Lots of similars I imagine but still such a big number of images for a single week.
1178
« on: November 03, 2009, 15:57 »
What's the opening copy, "The turkey comes to Turkey"?
1179
« on: November 02, 2009, 21:08 »
I had to read the article twice. What a supreme *^#&*%@(.
admin edit: name calling removed
1180
« on: November 01, 2009, 16:34 »
I bought a 70-200 f4 recently and found it's weight makes it fairly easy to use without the ring.
1181
« on: November 01, 2009, 13:59 »
Hi All,
This may be off topic but all of our Macro RF collections grew at a healthy rate last month. A much better growth margin than Micro for me. Micro still showed the best month I have had there but not as big a growth compared to my RF Macro. RM Macro was also way up.
Best,
Jonathan
I think very relevant, thanks, Peter
1182
« on: November 01, 2009, 12:38 »
Me too, I used Square Space. A few bucks a month but great support and easy build. I just need to spend more time on it.
1183
« on: November 01, 2009, 12:14 »
I'm not sure why the argument. PCs are pick up trucks, they get the job done, but for getting around curvy roads in style they just aren't that much fun. Too often too, you end up calling the AAA for a jump start or pushing them down a hill to get a PC going. That's okay I guess, after all it's only time and aggravation. Meanwhile the super cool dude (dudess) in the Mac goes screaming by, laughing, head back, gorgeous girl at his side. Man on side of road in pick-up looks up and dreams, someday life will be the same for him. "Ah well", he says, "the pick-up was good enough for my daddy." Too bad daddy never got out of grade school.
1184
« on: October 31, 2009, 17:43 »
I have always been under the impression that if I own an original work of art (not a reproduction or print), then I am the copyright holder and do not need any further permissions from the artist or estate. It would be nice to find out how art collectors deal with copyright issues when considering reproduction.
I think that in this day and age that the copyright is not likely transfered to who ever owns the original piece. It's a weird situation but is likely this way. I have purchased original pieces and been told the copyright was not part of the deal. Peter
1185
« on: October 31, 2009, 09:50 »
I'm not sure of the advantages of this. Historically, over the past few years, my loss of income to the devaluation of the US dollar has been one of my biggest setbacks (being Canadian). On a short term basis you can watch the currency fluctuate and pick a time to convert to local currencies but it's just as easy to leave it in PayPal. Eventually I have to spend the stuff so short term games aren't that useful. If you look at it in long terms it's a total loss without much prospect. I'd look into keeping it in Euros.
1186
« on: October 30, 2009, 15:13 »
I guess next we will see free images inserted into the an ad created for free and there will be the free image with the ad plus logo, also for free .......
1187
« on: October 28, 2009, 09:01 »
Leaf, no experience but I would find it annoying looking down all the time. I like having my head looking forward. It's much more relaxing over a long period of time. That's because of a few neck injuries so healthy people probably wouldn't see this as an issue.
1188
« on: October 15, 2009, 09:56 »
Given the amount of flack I have given these folks over the past year or so it wouldn't be possible.
1189
« on: October 14, 2009, 21:24 »
Given the constant trademarking of words by large corporations it is conceivable that all words will eventually be brands or trademarks or whatever and we will eventually, as a species, go back to grunting.
1190
« on: October 14, 2009, 18:57 »
Check out the wholly-owned content at JIU/PC for example. As one of their many acquisitions Jupiter bought Banana Stock just over 3 years ago. They paid $20M for a collection of about 15K images which works out at something like $1300 per image. You can check them out on the link below __ I wonder how much they'd be worth today?
http://www.jupiterimages.com/collections/BananaStock
About a buck and half. The hallmark of a great business person is knowing when to sell.
1191
« on: October 14, 2009, 09:21 »
Are other agencies accepting gettys release without the part of "New York, Alberta, England, Australia and new Zeland"?
If removing this part, will Istock accept this release?
Just use it as is.
1192
« on: October 12, 2009, 19:53 »
Interestingly enough, I just noticed that "iofoto" hasn't uploaded to iStock in a year or so.
That is interesting. You would think even if he is off doing something else he would still have lots of material to submit given much fewer allowable submissions slots to iS.
1193
« on: October 12, 2009, 16:40 »
,
Most sales from StockXpert are coming from photos.com or Jupiterimages.
So buy buy StockXpert
It was buy buy StockXpert now it's by-by StockXpert.
1194
« on: October 12, 2009, 14:23 »
I agree with MikLav.
This is the right thing to do with most model shoots, except those with immediate family. One release covering 20 years is obviously too much, but would one per year be that bad an idea?
I used to make up yearly releases for family and close friends but again many agencies seem to have stopped accepted releases with spanning dates so now I get a bunch signed in one go a fill in dates as I need them. If it is obviously family and friends I get the witness line signed in bulk and fill in the date later. Not so for unknown people though.
1195
« on: October 12, 2009, 14:20 »
Release have evolved a great deal over time. It used to be that you could someone to sign a release that was the size of a business card. Simple name and signature, that's it. I wouldn't doubt that they would still hold up in court. Thing is agencies won't take an image with that type of release so it isn't a question of whether it is any good or not it's a question of whether you want your image to be accepted for sale. They make the rules. We abide by them. The good thing is they (the agency) have their and in this case our interests at stake. It doesn't hurt to have the extra protection when it comes to releases. It's true that it can make many older images difficult to place because of the age of the release. However it doesn't mean that the image isn't released and can't be sold as such.
1196
« on: October 10, 2009, 12:27 »
True the 90mm TE is a lot more money. It is only manual focus though so this needs to be considered as well.
1197
« on: October 10, 2009, 11:50 »
I think too it worth considering the 90mm TE from Canon. It really is a great all around lens. Focuses very close. The tilt can make for very interesting portraits and is the best all around still life lens I have.
1198
« on: October 08, 2009, 11:43 »
I am a bit annoyed that Alamy search is picking keywords inside composed keywords.
For instance, a search for "american airlines" resulted in two of my images showing. I have the keyword "airline" in them, but not american. I have however "south american" in my keywords, and I guess that's where the "american" was picked.
I wonder if such false results may affect my ranking, as my images were obviously not what the buyer wanted.
Hi there, I have always thought that the whole ranking system in Alamy does not work. This is just my opinion and is not based on any real data. But to me it is impossible to gain any real information when so few images get sold based on the overall size of their collection. Without information you can't rank. You can attempt to but I doubt it is meaningful. Look at all the problems on micro where there are tons of individual sales. Most agencies can't really get right.
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« on: October 08, 2009, 09:41 »
Finally a decent thread. I use one of those stainless Italian single shot makers for brewing. A hand operated foamer for doing up the milk. The whole thing costs less than a $100 and makes a great cappuccino. If my house was on fire I'd grab my harddrives and the coffee maker.
1200
« on: October 07, 2009, 14:20 »
Basically I think your problem is that your Alamy portfolio is full of sets of very similar images that would get rejected on most microstock sites for "limited commercial value". Just because they don't reject many similar images, and low demand images, shouldn't mean that you treat it as an invitation to upload anything in your portfolio that isn't going to make it to microstock. I mean technically you can, but you won't do well.
Holgs, All advice you give is good even the above with a some exception though. Alamy does sell a lot of stuff that micros would certainly reject. It's nice that there is a different market and that not everything overlaps. It depends somewhat on what you like to shoot. Here's a couple of examples of sales I've made which I'm sure you will agree with me are rather poor images. However they still fill a need for a buyer.
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