i still have to understand why every big sales is ALWAYS and i mean ALWAYS 100% of time followed by 3 4 crap days. ALWAYS. when something happen always it's not a coincidence. and this is experienced by many authors.

I experience exactly this with a lot of frequency for the past years. After a great day it's almost certain that the following days will be a disgrace.

I'm a microstock "veteran", with many thousands of images and a level of income that's relatively solid. I always noticed the seasonal changes or the big holidays in US or Europe like most people, but apart from that things were more or less stable.

But from some time now I get what it's mentioned above. Some days are terrible without any reason, and almost certain to happen after a great one. And in the end of the week the number of downloads end up being more or less the same of the previous weeks.

In fact, even before people started to talk about this in MSG I had noticed it but never said anything, and one day my wife (who works with me) also commented how odd things were happening and then we started to pay attention.

I was to post a graphic (even had the screen-capture made), but after reading the concerns about SS terms I will not do it. But I can guarantee you that it's really obvious what is happening. (I edited this paragraph since I believe it disclosed some information that SS could interpret and who knows link to me, and I'm not in a position to have problems with SS)

I've noticed several other things too, but I cannot bother too much with them since it will change nothing. And who knows, maybe I'm even being benefited in this scheme and I am protected by SS guaranteeing me a slice of the pie! Without it maybe I would drop like a stone? Who knows?

Quote from: MicroVet on January 23, 2018, 09:58

Quote from: dirkr on January 23, 2018, 07:26

Just use -site:fotolia.*

That should do the trick.

It works on the first site, but if I want to exclude several sites using the same formula, all the following will not be excluded. Imagine that after fotolia I want to exclude SS, IS, DT and so on so I only get the results that are not on the agencies sites.

The second site exclusion and others that follow are not recognized in the following formula, so i keep getting FL and DT site links:

-site:shutterstock.* -site:fotolia.* -site:dreamstime.*

Strange, works perfect for me.

Did you test in a normal google search but in the image tab, or did you use the Google Reverse Image Search, like we do to specifically find one of our images in use?

I think that in the regular search that works. I'm trying to filter the results of the Google Reverse Image Search.

Just use -site:fotolia.*

That should do the trick.

It works on the first site, but if I want to exclude several sites using the same formula, all the following will not be excluded. Imagine that after fotolia I want to exclude SS, IS, DT and so on so I only get the results that are not on the agencies sites.

The second site exclusion and others that follow are not recognized in the following formula, so i keep getting FL and DT site links:

-site:shutterstock.* -site:fotolia.* -site:dreamstime.*

Hi!

I'd like to know if there's a way to exclude the microstock agencies websites from the results of the Google reverse image search.

When I search for an image to see if I find it in use, most of the result pages are from the agencies, and frequently multiple results for the same agency when the result page is translated into several languages like pl.fotolia.com, ru.fotolia.com, etc.

If I use the following filter to the search I only get the first site excluded, but not the second:

-site:shutterstock.com -site:fotolia.com

So, in this case I do not see the image on the shutterstock site but fotolia still appears.

Does anyone knows how to exclude multiple url's from the reverse image search?

Thanks.

One more reason to submit premium images to Midstock, especially as RM.

On Alamy, which can be considered traditional/midstock, RM never gave me a better sale value average than RF. And I sell there hundreds of images per year.

I do not see a motive to sell RM anymore, especially when agencies don't care about chasing infringements.

Copyright law states that a work becomes public domain 70 years after the artist's death. If Turkey signed the convention they may have the same law. The people portrayed on the picture have nothing to do with it because most of the times they do not have the copyright over the images.

For example, if the photographer had 20 years in 1938 when he took the photo and died 60 years later (1998), that means that the image will only be public domain in the year 2068.

The fact that it's in Wikipedia means nothing. There's a lot of stolen images there. I found some of mine, for example.

No one cares anymore what happens or where this is going because it's so disappointing. Am i right???

Oh, I do care! And I'm pissed as hell!

In my portfolio it looks like a random collection of old, unsold or rarely sold images.
The least likely adjective describing the collection of images found on the first page would be "popular".

That is an exact description of my popular images today! 10 year old stuff that never sold are now my most "popular". It's embarrassing and absurd.

EDIT: I've now realized that my least popular images (the absolute last ones of all images)  are the ones I've uploaded in the lasts weeks and have sales! Great way to kill new images that people actually bought within hours of approval!

When an agency considers to be unsustainable to live with a commission of 80% of each sale, and raises it to 85% cutting the measly share of the artist from 20 to 15%, I think it deserves all the hate and then some more.

Especially considering that several agencies have survived all these years splinting the sale 50/50 with the artist.