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General Stock Discussion / Do HDRs sell?
« on: December 19, 2008, 13:40 »
I got lots of rejections on SS (for incorrect exposure/WB) but some were accepted/sold on FT.

1227
Shutterstock.com / Re: SS rejections explosion!!!
« on: December 19, 2008, 10:18 »
So it was not only me :-) At first I was pissed when go 100% rejected but then I decided keep trying since same images are accepted and sold on other agencies.

1228
I got a feeling that it may be worse than previous one. I guess everybody is cutting corners.

   Dec   Dec/Nov
SS   62.20%   74.61%
123RF   16.09%   126.98%
FT   5.77%   449.06%
StockXpert   4.36%   28.13%
DT   2.72%   20.54%
IS   2.71%   68.37%
CS   0.81%   80.00%
BS   0.40%   50.00%
      69.44%

1229
SnapVillage.com / Corbis just sent you $15.00 USD with PayPal
« on: December 16, 2008, 19:41 »
I earned $14 in October, then almost nothing in 2 months so I was surprised when I received notification about transfer to PayPal. I did not request money so why now, why not in November?

1230
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Rejections increasing?
« on: December 16, 2008, 15:02 »
My theory is that most reviewers are on holidays and rest of them overwhelmed so they rejecting more to keep up with load :-)

1231
General Stock Discussion / What happened to Getty's Flickr deal?
« on: December 15, 2008, 18:05 »
I haven't heard anything for months...

1232
Off Topic / Re: Is it Holiday Season Already?
« on: December 15, 2008, 17:50 »
It has been slow so I thought that making some Xmas cards for sale on Zazzle would cheer me up. Nobody wants them too :-)

1233
General Stock Discussion / When you loose patience with an agency
« on: December 15, 2008, 16:16 »
I do not really see why I should delete account. I'd rather stop submitting and check once in a while if I am having any sales.

1234
Off Topic / Re: be careful wink is a trademark now ;-)
« on: December 15, 2008, 16:10 »
Thanks God they did not patent internet :-)

1235
Off Topic / Re: Hey Merry Christmas, everyone
« on: December 15, 2008, 16:07 »
Merry Christmas everyone!

PS. It's going to be first one for my daughter, I am so excited :-)

1237
Adobe Stock / Re: deleting ugly images
« on: December 11, 2008, 17:39 »
I do not even have 376 images :-)

1238
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Best Match 2.0
« on: December 09, 2008, 17:43 »
Are we going to see this keyword ranking somewhere? So we can remove keywords that drags us down or replace them with better ones.

It looks like they are introducing something like Google's search engine optimization (SEO).

1239
General Stock Discussion / What's your niche?
« on: December 09, 2008, 15:12 »
After half a year on microstock I am not sure if I actually found my sweet spot. I probably have no chance to compete with people like Yuri on studio shots of business situations. So far my most viewed/sold images are nature landscapes.

1240
Maybe flash card are cheap (thanks to competition) but Canon batteries a really overpriced and this is a main reason for creating market for cheap replacements. I actually use some of these third party batteries for years and some of them got better parameters than originals from Canon.

1241
Tried to optimize catalog, restore previous one from backup and reinstall. No error message so I cannot guess what's wrong. It was working fine until yesterday when asked to make backup. Then I imported some pictures and tried to edit them. No changes to system that I am aware of.

1242
Alamy.com / Re: Two Essential Links to Read from Alamy
« on: December 05, 2008, 15:56 »
It is too much hassle to upsize my images for them, then when they find something wrong with one picture they reject entire batch so it means I have to upload one picture at the time. I will wait till I got better camera.

1243
More so with about 20-30% rejections on the same "overfiltred" and "artifacts" my upload limit is actually only about 20-25 files per week. I simply cannot maintain my income. :(

Attached are my earnings.

I wonder why I haven't given up yet if pros got such problems :-) I was able to put whopping 90 files online in half a year period. No way to have income with such limits :-)

1244
General Stock Discussion / Re: November 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: November 30, 2008, 13:38 »
My November results show that 123RF is slowing down while Dreamstime is growing.

SS 58.06%
StockXpert 10.98%
DT 9.39% (BME)
123RF 7.99%
MSP 7.15% (BME)
IS 2.80%
SV 1.03%
FT 0.91%
CS 0.72%
BS 0.57%
FP 0.40%



1245
Microstock News / Re: Moodboard
« on: November 26, 2008, 15:13 »
I just finished application. Files were 1.9MB on disk and no problem with upload.

1246
I actually use their software but I guess it can export in  NMEA, GPX, KML, and HTML formats.

1247
I got GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr Lite



1248
General Stock Discussion / Re: Tear Sheets - Post your finds here
« on: November 24, 2008, 23:00 »
I found out where my image went because Fotolia provides buyers details.



It was used on a website of some computer services company from England.










1249
General Stock Discussion / Re: Shooting Images That Sell
« on: November 23, 2008, 23:03 »
8 of 10 advices are for model shots so it seems I am in wrong department with my photos :-)

1250
123RF / Re: Poor Lighting/Composition getting out of hand
« on: November 23, 2008, 23:01 »
I guess it's crappy excuse cause if you designer you job is to create, compose, etc. Just get larger image and crop as you wish.

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