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Messages - Evaristo tenscadisto
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« on: June 29, 2022, 21:39 »
What happened to the Roe v Wade thread?
I really don't know Annie. I was the one who start the topic "off-topic" and my guess is that probably was removed by some moderator. Maybe some people did not like and report it. I care about people and my concern was genuine about what was happening in the news. And I know this is a forum about microstock but despite being an off-topic subject like this one, it didn't seem very democratic to end it.
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« on: June 28, 2022, 22:06 »
It is worth watching, but I doubt it will replace us in the next 10 years.
But it is fun to use, I play with the nightcafe creator.
I think part of the idea is not actually replace us but increase the volume of our work. 10 years ago i barely could do 10 pictures a day with all the steps of cleaning, some rotoscopy, colorize etc... Today with AI in photoshop or LuminarAI and some scripts i can easily do 40 in a day. But if we talk about cleaning for just green screen my personal record is 327 pictures in a day. In ten years perhaps volume will be so easy to create digitally than a lot of individuals can actually have a personal microstock site store with millions instead of thousands. But for news or documentary stuff i think this will continue shy with no big changes
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« on: June 28, 2022, 16:21 »
Hi all. I've been blown away by how the A.I software Dall e 2 can make any image possible and when it goes live I just wonder what impacts it will have on the stock photo business. The future looks scary and it's fast approaching. I've always been one to look at the future and evolve my talents to fit. It's going to be kinda hard with Dall e around.
A friend of mine has early access to it and the results are just astonishing. Especially if it's in its infancy. Where this all goes is mind-blowing. Thoughts???
https://openai.com/dall-e-2/?labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBEumeXY4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fDJXmqdN-A
This is really nothing new to me in terms of technology. Go search in github or deep ai. you have a lot of AI trials that you can test. In fact i already sold some stuff made with AI with my database. Also videos and animations. Scary is what we can do with Metahuman plugin for Unreal engine. Deep fakes are very accurate with this technology.
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« on: June 20, 2022, 12:38 »
SSTK rate i think it's just stupid in any perspective.
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« on: June 16, 2022, 11:18 »
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« on: June 09, 2022, 08:08 »
I was only a buyer in envato. Last 2 years I've been purchasing more stuff from envato authors in their independent websites. New stuff is never upload in envato. I wonder why? 
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« on: June 06, 2022, 10:10 »
Hi,
As far as i know It's a South Korea company and i don't use it since they ask for the raw footage and wanted to edit it themselves the clips. Raw footage is the best proof of ownership.
It came to my knowledge too that they are to slow to put online the clips (2/3 months). They offer a high % and they will do the keyword but 0 sales after 6 months with 10K video portfolio.
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« on: May 22, 2022, 20:58 »
if they shutter pond5, they will start making restrictions on buying and selling to get people to move to shutterstock
so if you see pond5 start to have new restrictions added to make your life more difficult, you will know why
I am sorry but it does not make a lot of sense to me. Big Stock was bought in 2009, Premiumbeatin 2015, Turbosquid last year. All sites are online and still selling like stand alone brands. I see already "restrictions" in Adobe too and that doesn't have to do nothing directly with SSTK, right? Actually I have been seeing "restrictions" to contributors for years now....It's call market. 
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« on: May 17, 2022, 21:25 »
...they don't respect Biden, kinda like the rest of the world.
I can assure you, the 'rest of the world' (I can't speak for everyone, but from what I'm hearing and reading) respects Biden.
We didn't respect Trump, recognised him as an idiot ("does China have hurricane guns?") and couldn't imagine why anyone would vote for him.
I'd vote for Howling Laud Hope before I'd vote for Trump.
I am from EU country and i can say that I will always respect any President from USA. I like Biden but had difficulty to understand Trump.
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« on: May 16, 2022, 17:24 »
Because of low price share of income of big platforms my guess is that, slowly, this market will be following the trends of other markets. Just like Amazon, Etsy or Skillshare contributors, i see a lot of them migrate to personal websites. The old stuff is still in those platforms but new is not.
Buyers will always follow the new stuff.
Markets are always evolving....probably this will be the future: using a few old eggs in big platforms and link the rest to your website with new fresh stuff.
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« on: May 10, 2022, 17:37 »
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« on: May 05, 2022, 10:47 »
Hi,
For my perspective P5 is doing ok for me.
If sales went down it probably has to do with a number of factors but for sure is not the quality of your work.
Pond5 hit 30 million clips and 100.000 contributors. Trends are always changing and algorithms revised too. Also if you sell your clips in other microstock sites for less this can be a factor too.
Perhaps diversifying your database or betting on a niche in a lot quantity can help you get more sales.
All the best for your sales!
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« on: April 20, 2022, 12:46 »
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« on: March 17, 2022, 03:09 »
The "big" difference i find between contracts is that GPP and LPP are not a option anymore.
I got this GPP/ LPP program turned on. Usually i don't get much of LPP sales but GPP sales comes quarterly and it's ok for me.
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« on: March 13, 2022, 17:34 »
Fine with this as well... 60% of my income comes from sites that only offer unlimited subscriptions. Take Storyblocks for example... my best year with them prior to them going back to 100% subscription was $2500, and last year I made $8500 with them. Probably helped by all the contributors leaving as they assumed their earnings would be decimated... so thanks for that!
Well if it works for you, good. But i've been there and done it for 4 years. Since 2020 I have tried a different approach: my income comes 100% from no subscription and with better total income (30-40% increase). Probably both ways work. My guess is stick with the one it works for you best.
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« on: March 11, 2022, 20:57 »
More exciting news. The last thing that still provided decent return is gone. I used to upload my videos to Adobe first, see which ones would get traction and only then upload the low earners to SS. Now this is pointless.
Spend a pile of cash for very expensive 3d software and a powerful enough PC, spending hours and sometimes days modeling, texturing, lighting... Then rendering which also takes awhile, then editing, then keywording...
Good effort, here's a buck...
Full agree with you. The price and time spent in making a 3d video cannot be compared to shoot video camera or something done in a simple after effects program. Also let's not forget to mention the electricity too. A 3d video in 4K usually takes me 2/3 days to model and composite a and then week (non stop) to render. Less than 250$ a clip is bad business. forget adobe for that! just shoot videos and photos with your phone. For a buck that is what clients or Adobe deserve.
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« on: February 01, 2022, 15:24 »
i wonder if people will still post the SS earnings when things looks 10 times worse....In a way it seems like a "dark" pleasure of continuing to post the fall to abyss instead of shutting the account in SS. Its obvious that its not profitable. So why continue SS? i can't understand it. Anyway best of luck!!
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« on: December 15, 2021, 18:41 »
Define what is bad or good material? For example if it's Editorial footage from a good camera, not shaking and without grainy noise i will usually not buy it! Normally when i buy, i buy more doc stuff so i prefer rather natural and more amateur than "candy" Pro stuff. It seems more real, believable and natural. So maybe what we think it's trash perhaps is gold for others. In my opinion Content is King no matter the "quality". I rather use "Demand" to define what you call bad or good. If there's demand then you probably sell more then something that have few demand. Now if you don't upload i am sure that you will never sell.
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« on: December 10, 2021, 09:34 »
Hi, Still doing HD for footage. Still selling some. Doing 4K/8K for 2d/3d animations but mostly are sold in HD too. I don't see big point in uploading 4k or higher. Probably most of people will directly migrate from HD to 8K in the following years. The only advantage i see is that its less saturated markets and maybe its easier to a customer find our work in millions of clips if they use 4k/4k+ filter. I think the the rule maintains "content is king" but let's not forget that someone can rescale HD to 4K nowadays with AI pretty good or near to amazing. Maybe it makes useless to a customer to pay for a 4k clip. For me the question is ....who needs 4K, really? I never had a client that requested a "normal" 4K film, only HD. My other works are for arenas projections - requirements are mostly unique Huge formats or 8k/16K. In my opinion i see 4k has nothing really special since I don't need for most of my projects. I upload just a few of 360VR footage and animation. never sold. Tried Verticals videos too. never sold.
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« on: November 18, 2021, 07:28 »
Good move European Union! Hope they get SS asap
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« on: October 04, 2021, 20:28 »
I find kind of "cool" FB being down. Just a little vacation from these social networks can be good for all of us. Maybe it should even happen more often
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« on: September 26, 2021, 10:45 »
Just arrived from 8 days trip in mountains. I used my dslr with tri/monopod. Actually most of time just the monopod. I did use my phone too and it's very convenient and enough for some moments. I still use the same smartphone for 7 years which is fine for calls/net/drive drone. I see great future in smartphones but i will not spend 1.000 for a tiny sensor that comes in a phone. Plus i cannot use my lens. I rather wait a little more or pay that money for a new body to use my lens
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« on: September 09, 2021, 11:47 »
I had this tattoo issue two year ago. I was shooting a crowd with unfocused blur but suddenly someone passed near my camera where my focus was pointed. It revealed a hand with a part of tattoo for a moment. I was told that i need a tattoo copyright and from the person too because it also reveals the person's identity. I end this by deleting the shot. Anyway this will be more confusing for me if this laws goes for "Carnal art" where Plastic surgery is considered an art form. Works like ORLAN are Art but the line is thin for me between reconstructive surgery/cosmetic surgery and if surgeon has copyrights too. Now let's imagine how Hollywood Vip's world would be if each time we took a picture from an actor we need to pay to the surgeon a copyright release too.
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« on: September 02, 2021, 20:47 »
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« on: May 10, 2021, 03:52 »
Laws tend not to be black and white....you may have a right to take photographs of people in public places but they also have a right not to be harassed by people coming up to them and poking a lens in their face. The grey area in between is why we have lawyers and courts. If someone doesn't want their photo taken and tells you that then I think its a matter of common decency to respect that.
I couldn't agree more with you. However, in the grey area there are countless photos that go to the world press photo and that do not contain the rights signed by the person photographed. This is the case of war scenarios, among others. I recall that one of the most celebrated photographs of the last 100 years is Robert Capa's The Falling Soldier during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Or even Napalm girl, the South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph. Not to mention The Falling Man of World trade Center taken by Richard Drew. The photos had no consent. This paddles to the terms of what is "common decency". You will see that have a lot of grey areas too.
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