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Messages - PeterChigmaroff
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« on: October 05, 2009, 13:09 »
Companies don't buy competitors to keep them up and running, offering buyers a multitude of choices and keeping prices down.
Yes they do __ all the time.
There are hundreds of well-known examples ... Manfrotto bought out Gitzo in 1992, BMW owns Rolls Royce, Ford used to own Jaguar but then sold it to Tata, etc, etc.
Read through to the end of my post. The examples you give are companies who bought another company offering a DIFFERENT type of product that complemented their own product lines. It's when there's redundancies that it simply does not make business sense for a parent company to offer multiple, extremely similar products to the same set of customers.
there is no right answer here, there are indeed agencies that offer competing lines that are owned by the same parent. They do just fine.
1202
« on: October 05, 2009, 10:50 »
My enthusiasm for microstock might return if I see agencies starting to offer something new and different in terms of products and services, instead of just more and more whiz-bang pricing plans .
I agree. Although trad agencies are suffering from all the turmoil I am finding they are still a much better bet overall. The good thing is I will never convince anyone of this.
1203
« on: October 03, 2009, 15:05 »
It's a debate between optimists and realists 
I have less than a year's experience and a small number of images. But my intuition is that if you could factor out all the tricky pricing plans, all the hype, all the wishful thinking and all the differences in quality and skill (impossible of course) the bottom line would be that long term return per image continues to declline.
[You may all jump in with your flames at this point.]
And now there seems to be a shakeout in progress, with smaller agencies being bought out. Again, my intuition is that the end result will be that the remaining agencies will eventually raise prices to buyers and lower commissions to contributors.
[Another flame opportunity here...]
You are correct, in my opinion, on both counts.
1204
« on: October 03, 2009, 14:40 »
I can't see how anything will change. Will SS buyers migrate to BigStock? I doubt it.
Who said anything about buyers migrating from ss?
How about NEW buyers coming from the advertising and promotion from SS?
SS is putting up the cash!
Why must nearly everyone think negative about nearly every site ever mentioned on this forum?
-Larry
I don't feel I made a negative comment just one based in reality. Okay so BigStock will advertise with their new found wealth, but will it make that much of a difference to our overall income. Someone will stop buying from StockXpert or maybe iStock and buy a few from BigStock. I guess if your images are on BigStock only you may see a slight rise in income but you'll see a corresponding drop elsewhere.
1205
« on: October 03, 2009, 13:49 »
Thanks
1206
« on: October 03, 2009, 11:53 »
Sorry if this is ben covered but I can't find the info on searches. How do I delete single images on iStock?
1207
« on: October 03, 2009, 09:53 »
I can't see how anything will change. Will SS buyers migrate to BigStock? I doubt it.
1208
« on: October 02, 2009, 17:05 »
I know this has all been hashed over before but, I can and have sold copyrights of groups of images to agencies. I am no longer the owner of those images and I expect the agencies I sold them to would be more than unhappy if I licensed one of those images. Sure I have the original RAW files on my HDs but they are not mine anymore. I see absolutely nothing "technically" wrong with assigning a copyright to another individual for them to do as they like with. Just because I was the original photographer does not necessarily mean I still own the image. Or say a get a summer job shooting for a large production company. Does it mean those images can't be sold by that production company in a market outside my usual exclusive agreements? Some obvious discretion regarding similars needs to be adhered to. I should note that this how I see it and it doesn't really matter what I think if I get turfed cause of my misunderstanding of exclusive agreements. Which, for the record, I am not a part of.
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« on: September 23, 2009, 10:42 »
Example: One gas station in a one hundred mile stretch of highway. = $6.00 per gallon
add 50 more gas stations to the same highway = $3.50 per gallon.
I wish about 20 RF sites would dry up and fade away now. Start on the list at the right of this page work your way up from the bottom.
-Larry
Then instead of making $10 per hour working for a gas station, they offer you $2.50 and of course welcome you to go elsewhere if you don't like it.
1210
« on: September 23, 2009, 08:44 »
I think there are too many small players in the micro business dragging down prices. However most of them are easy enough to ignore. What is not good, and I base this in what has happened in the macro market, is too much amalgamation of the big players. It does not serve the photographer well at all.
1211
« on: September 22, 2009, 09:22 »
I also agree with nicemonkey. My PC is also only used when there is no other option (for example for my bookkeeping program)
Same her exactly.
1212
« on: September 21, 2009, 11:19 »
With BigStock when someone searches using a keyword and the word is in the title, description, and the keyword list, it will be the first found with the search. If used only once in the keyword list it will come up further back in the search.
So the description helps you sell your image.
-Larry
Excellent information Larry. Thank you. It still leaves me wondering of the necessity of it. I mean to say that i have to provide 7 words and this is a tedious process for me at times. Some images just don't need it. The whole uploading process for microstock is hugely unsavory. Every time I see a place where a programmer has inserted a need to do a click when it was not necessary angers me because it is my time he has chosen to waste. Peter
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« on: September 20, 2009, 22:13 »
Hi guys,
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
I've stopped uploading to BigStock. My beef is the 7 needed keywords to describe something. I find it too much extra work for the money.
You mean seven WORDS to describe your image. I find that to be absolutely simple. A big round red apple sitting on the table. Whoops ..... I could have quit two words ago.
-Larry
Sure Larry, I guess we could write an entire novel based on the caption but it is just a Red Apple after all, the fact it is on a table should be infinitely obvious to the viewer who found it by searching on "red, apple, table" which were all keywords that were assigned to the image. Having to pad a caption to satisfy a 7 word rule, in my opinion, is a waste of time. Writing 7 works for 10,000 images is 70,000 words, a good size novel. Peter
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« on: September 19, 2009, 09:06 »
Hi guys,
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
I've stopped uploading to BigStock. My beef is the 7 needed keywords to describe something. I find it too much extra work for the money.
1215
« on: September 16, 2009, 17:08 »
Way to go and yes it shows that the general formulas that most reviewers work to are not always accurate. It's nice when you get a chance to prove them wrong.
1216
« on: September 11, 2009, 13:38 »
It's supposed to be a business so it shouldn't take too long to determine who is a time waster and who isn't.
1217
« on: September 09, 2009, 17:11 »
I uploaded yesterday with no problems - beyond the metadata being stripped, of course.
What is the problem with stripping Metadata? Is that a difficult problem to fix. It seems to be an on again off again problem for a long time now.
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« on: September 08, 2009, 13:26 »
I have been out for a week. All queues are cleared :-) Sales are down due no activity from my side. Need to start uploading again.
Hi, Are you sales down after just one week of no uploading?
1219
« on: September 08, 2009, 10:24 »
One 30" is my vote. It's what I use, it's plenty big enough for most apps
1220
« on: September 07, 2009, 13:49 »
. Just don't admit to skirting any of the agreements and you will be fine.
Nothing wrong with "improvising" on an agreement now and then but just as the man says, don't talk about it.
1221
« on: September 03, 2009, 19:07 »
All subjects are good, you just need to find to photograph them that would be more suitable for commercial stock.
1222
« on: September 03, 2009, 10:34 »
I have a G7 Ikelite setup. Not that cheap but works really well. Trouble with really cheap is the results tend to be really cheap unless you get a good used system someplace.
1223
« on: September 03, 2009, 10:32 »
I got a 4 medium. Good set up. The wheel is not as useful as I first thought. Four positions on it make it too difficult to fly around the different settings. You can program it for one or two usages which is about right. The buttons are a bit stiff for my liking. However they are handy especially for multi command segments. I found the wheel mouse really nice for Lightroom.
1224
« on: September 02, 2009, 20:43 »
Use the Getty price calculator for an approximate price.
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« on: September 01, 2009, 14:03 »
I know the 25/24 fps will have video types salivating. Too bad they couldn't have done this for the 5DII. Oh well, all the more reason to upgrade as soon as the 5DIII comes out. The challenge is to burn out the current camera you are using just as the new model comes out.
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