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« on: March 25, 2016, 16:50 »
Thats a good write up.
I just want to point out that going from 70% to 30% is a 57% percent decrease, so saying it is a 40% decrease actually makes it sound less bad than it is.
Thanks, I have since clarified in the post. I "liked" the Premier so I could tag her and the Toronto Star. It is crazy that they are endorsed by the Provincial Government, yet as a company they are getting away with a crime. I would love a big paper to investigate the Wild West of the Internet where noone has rights and Istock, Getty, 500px, et all can promise the world and then give you nothing and where lone wolfs can register a business in the State of Texas - Revostock, not file bankruptcy and still close the doors and walk away with money from artists and from credits purchased by buyers.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 09:51 »
Have they really gone from 70% to 30%? Alamy went from 60% to 50%, that was palatable, 70 to 30 is a real kick in the teeth.
Kelly is just getting his mojo back. Totally out of character, he appears to have made this big announcement on a Monday morning (or that's when MSG'ers started discussing). The next big announcement - the one knocking everyone down to 15% will be on a Friday at 4:55 EST.
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« on: March 23, 2016, 09:38 »
Did Alamy ever lower their payment threshold? Wasn't it around $250 or something unattainable by a lazy uploader like me?
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« on: March 22, 2016, 13:04 »
This video that was on facebook yesterday reminded me of who is running. I am not going to fact check so I may be passing on more propaganda but quite interesting. https://youtu.be/aAHMJs-jaDY
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« on: March 22, 2016, 11:37 »
I am a neighbor to to the North. I keep comparing Trump to Toronto's Rob Ford (who passed away this morning). If you don't remember the name he was the obese, crack smoking, heavy drinking, straight shooting, lovable, hateable, football loving kid next door who became Mayor of North America's 4th largest city. People loved/loathed how utterly real he was and the $hit that came out of his mouth was deliciously entertaining (even more so because I was not longer a Toronto resident). He got more than his 5 minutes of U.S. Media and tabloid attention - even appeared on Kimmel. RIP Rob
And how the heck was a baffoon like Rob Ford elected? They say that he was elected by people that never vote. I'm afraid this may happen with Trump. The haters will get off their lazy boys and vote, because for once there is someone who is as much of a racist and misogynist as they are.
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« on: March 21, 2016, 16:45 »
So, let me get this straight. They charge you an annual fee to enter into an agreement to sell your photos at a specified royalty - and then they decide they aren't going to pay what they agreed to? Are you kidding me?
You guys aren't going to sue them for breach of contract or whatever pretty words? Wasn't the letter from Mr. Money Doesn't Make Us Happy signed on Duncan St in Toronto unless I have another post confused with this one (not going back to check). Ontario observes contract law.
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« on: March 21, 2016, 15:25 »
Thanks but I can't launch the program to reach the edit feature  Modify.... I'm now reading the rest of the help article.
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« on: March 21, 2016, 11:17 »
I am stubborn and still using CS5. I've had a couple new hard drives and a challenging Windows 10 update. But, just before Windows 10 update - Illustrator stopped launching. It used to say something about a missing registry file, but now the Illustrator badge pops up, it will say cannot complete the requested operation and disappears within a couple seconds. I use Photoshop, Bridge and Lightroom every day. Also InDesign still launches. Anyone know if I have to uninstall everything and install again? Or do I just pop the disk in and run a .exe file from an Illustrator folder. I'm afraid to do too much in case I mess up Photoshop and lose all my presets. Yes, it's a legal copy. No I don't want to go CC (yet) and I don't use Illustrator often enough to pay what they ask for it on CC. Thanks! (I'm turning into my 90 y/o mother, afraid I might break the computer if I push the wrong button 
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« on: March 21, 2016, 10:21 »
I know some photographers have clients come over for a "proofing meeting" and go through them but that is another hour of time for me and not worth it when charging $100 for everything.
I just wish I had a better way to streamline the process without editing all of them and showing unedited ones.
You sell WAAYYY more if you have a proof meeting. If you show a 20x30 canvas, they buy a 20x30 canvas when all they wanted was an 8x10 print in a cardboard folder.
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« on: March 21, 2016, 10:09 »
It's pretty sad when I've earned more on Canstock than I have on Dreamstime so far this month.
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« on: March 20, 2016, 11:25 »
Then the problem is they get an unedited image with the old dude that snuck in to feed the birds in the background or the squirming kid. They always pick the worst one to blow up and hang above the fireplace and this in no way represents your work. Do you want unedited images on facebook?
For $100 you could offer a 45 minute session, 1 location within 15 miles of your home for a maximum of 4 people. $25 each additional person. (But you are such a nice family of 6 I won't charge you the $25/per unless Grandma and Grandpa and sour Auntie Cecile show up.) That would basically pay for your hour and travel. But they should also pay for the product. (You don't pay for a hair cut and leave with a free bottle of shampoo and conditioner).
Free (watermarked) proofing gallery that will be live for 5 days. If you take 10 shots of the same setup, display the best 1 or 2. They don't need 10, it confuses them and they can't make a decision. Make sure the mother looks fabulous in what you select.
I still offer bundles of sizes of the same photo. They think wow, that's a really good discount, you will think wow, I only have to retouch a couple photos.
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« on: March 19, 2016, 17:05 »
Sigh. Opted out as well.
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« on: March 17, 2016, 09:37 »
But they aren't charging 200 for 1 hour. They are charging for:
1. Consultation (Emails, phone calls, location/light scouting)
2. Travel time to and from shoot
3. Early arrival, pre-shoot consultation
3. Gas, use of vehicle
4. 1 hour photo session
5. Travel to office/residence
6. Dumping cards, backing cards up
7. Making selections, running through lightroom, photoshop, preparing for viewing
8. Uploading to server for proofing
9. Consultation with client over order
10.Final retouching
11. Transmitting order to lab
12. Drive to lab, collect order, return to office, package order,
Or burn discs (how did you get the discs, did you drive to Staples?)
13. Prepare invoice on a printer that you had to pay for with software that you had to pay for
14. Drive to post office to ship to client : or, set aside time to meet with client. You are always early.
15 Collect payment, make a bank deposit, make journal entry, allocate tax portion to tax account, submit monthly/quarterly/annually to tax agency
$200 is a pretty low wage if you ask me. If everything considered only took 4 hours, that would be billing at $50 per hour. Where does the money to pay for CC, equipment, wear and tear on vehicle, personal taxes, business taxes, insurance come from? That $50 per hour is likely less than minimum wage.
P.S. you may not take cheques but you should look into a square credit card reader, their fees aren't too bad and people will often spend more than they have.
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« on: March 16, 2016, 15:12 »
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« on: March 04, 2016, 00:22 »
Just noticed that my unpaid earnings have been transferred to pending payments. I thought they were not closing till the end of March? If we have any sales over the rest of March I wonder if they will even pay them out? I've already had my one sale for the month of March so chances of it happening again are teeny anyway! Would like to just see my portfolio removed.
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« on: March 03, 2016, 22:21 »
It's fascinating to watch that poll these days. More fascinating still is the spectacular drop from 3rd to 6th place for DT in less than a year. How does this happen?
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« on: March 02, 2016, 15:59 »
Wouldn't a flurry of credit sales be nice (if they pay on the 15th like they say they will).
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« on: March 01, 2016, 15:32 »
Dashboard was there 2 minutes ago and now it is gone! They would hate for anyone to screencapture what they are owed!
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« on: March 01, 2016, 12:10 »
"Dreamstime is the best curated image collection in the world, with more than 41 million online images, which are taken out of nearly 80 million submissions"
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« on: February 29, 2016, 10:19 »
If we ever get our act together and get a union/coop we should demand a delete button on these sites. Most important to get it off the partners, but if they are too incompetent to pull the plug at least we could ourselves....
I see B&H workers solved some problems with that ...
Did they (or was that sarcasm)? I read the first stories about how bad they were treated but I never followed after that.
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« on: February 28, 2016, 18:22 »
If we ever get our act together and get a union/coop we should demand a delete button on these sites. Most important to get it off the partners, but if they are too incompetent to pull the plug at least we could ourselves....
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