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« on: February 17, 2015, 21:28 »
Most of them have put ducks in a row to reap millions in the near short term and their plans count on us funding their success. However just as in the sub prime scam they will be happy to let us pay for their folly's at the expense of our port assets. We are well on our way to Free.
they won't be needing us anyway as they are using it for moneylaundering too, like as suggested by one of the plot of some terrible B movie. can't remember the title of that 2012 movie , i thought it was written by perharps a microstocker who got pissedoff with the business. poor theory, still can still be true like some baseball cards or telemarketing companies have been known also to be moneylaundry . some of which were closed by the narc in the late early 2k. true or not, it certainly is a good idea if you are into writing a B movie
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« on: February 17, 2015, 20:48 »
I just heard of a study where they discovered that people who complain live longer than those that don't.
We should be grateful these stock agencies extend our lives by giving so much to complain about! 
LOL only a little shorter in life span than the following: 1) Keith Richards (all sort of stuff) 2) Rod Stewart (beer) 3) Emperors, Queens, and other politicians (since they execute all healthy opposition) 
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« on: February 17, 2015, 18:52 »
first, let me say, i never met a cow that is bad. humans yes, cows never. it's why the hindus worship them. cows are like all mothers, they see their kids hue and haw and kick from even inside their tummy , and once they come out into this world, nothing her kids do is that intolerable as when she was carrying the rascal second, to whine is human nature, to listen is divine , to enjoy wise. some of us enjoy leaf's forum as something we accompany our pint(s). normal ppl read the papers to enjoy headlines of countries killing each other and big corporations eating up little ones,etc microstock-ers don't enjoy reading the papers, they prefer msg with their glutamate take it with a great of cyanide, it's mostly tongue in cheek , don't ask me to specify which cheek
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« on: February 17, 2015, 15:42 »
It not actually in anyones interest to report how great they are doing it will encourage others
quite so. like a fisherman telling u where his catch is always good. why should he be that stupid??? i think ss email approval glitch is endemically affecting sales, client locating images,etc etc too . we all had some good months with SODs last 6 months then bust back to zero days. it can only be that someone screwedup . as i say if ss just don't screw things up search flip etc they dont have to worry about the other sites replacing them. ss just have not to screw things up and leave things as they used to be so working well before all this loose screws made contributors pissedoff. who wants ss to fall??? it would be madness since we make the most from ss.
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« on: February 16, 2015, 20:18 »
it does certainly seem like it doesnt it??? like it all averages out to say 300 dls per mth. you miss it a month ago, the next month it averages back to 300. i am not including the SODs as someone already stated in another thread that is volatile so it's not really something regular.
perharps we never know. but if you pls everyone and everyone gets a bit of the pie, it will make everyone happy. it works for most of us, so long as we get a payout each month, who's to complain.
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« on: February 16, 2015, 19:57 »
what i mean is just this, look at how much whiners here.
OMG! Look who's calling the kettle black here! If there was a whiners wolf pack you would be an Alpha Male!
wo, how dya know i'm black, dude??? waka waka!!!
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« on: February 16, 2015, 18:20 »
1333
« on: February 16, 2015, 18:13 »
lol, this is what i mean about ss not having to do anything but not f***up on their IT these days.
i have not done anything to check up on canva or stocksy or offset sort of neo-types new kids off the block. they all have teething issues, and it's natural for a new agency.
but u have to let them and not whine and throw sh*t in their face while they r trying to get a lift-off.
what i mean is just this, look at how much whiners here. and u want a new direction and alternative to ss???
c'mon give them a chance to iron things out before you start crying like babies.
or just go back to fotolia dpc, dt dead , and ss as they are looking pretty screwy now with their latest issue.
canva is only what??? one year old??? stand back and look at it first, huh???
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« on: February 16, 2015, 18:00 »
u know, looking at the other adjacent thread (envato, 500 px, ) ss can do no wrong just letting the other new hopefuls screw things up in their own way. but the IT at ss is a total f* head to flip switches and play with the search . and now this email thing , no doubt has alot of sh*t flying around in ss these days.
why they mess thing up in ss , this is a mystery. they must either think ss is invincible or some new kid off the old block is being given free rein to eff things up for all of us...let the goon(s) play around like this. and we all still think the other next 11 should smart up and give ss some competition.
not unlikely .
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« on: February 16, 2015, 13:50 »
Also I never considered keywording key to success. The most successful contributors keyword the same as everyone else. It's your style, quality and concept that is key to success. But now even that seems to become irrelevant to the agencies.
If you are still making success, then congrats and keep it up!
u know the saying, when the scallop and the skpe battle each other, the fisherman is the only winner??? all this doom and gloom is to get u to skip away so the fisherman is left with a big catch. u flood the market with selfies, u say crap will bury my work . all this is those gurus painting a grim picture so no one comes in every one leaves. reading the experienistas /ppl who sell and have been in the race from the beginnig / here and u see that their earnings have not dwindled. they do not come here whine. only the handful of territorialistas keep pushing the rumor that the end is near. ooh i am so scared, don't join ss , the scenery is no good anymore there/ go join stocksy etc where they are more fair and neo-age. if u read between the lines, that is as the saying goes . there is still money to be made. no, not as good as before. but what is good as before??? as we already mentioned, we made more money in one day during the 35mm and medium format age than one month in the digital microstock dailies. so what??? we pack it in  yes, do that and the fishermen will sit and sip their beer that u fell for it.
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« on: February 16, 2015, 12:03 »
My point was that they'll be getting tons of smartphone photos from people who don't understand keywording and won't even bother with it. They'll add a couple and click 'submit'.
so much the better, the more the merrier. u know and i know that keywording is the key to success in microstock, that's why top-sellers are top sellers. we only start to earn $ when we learn keywording, as too many keywords or too little will only end up with your pix buried and forgotten. so let the smartphone come in. the clients already know who has the stuff they need. i am sure they already bookmarked those ppl, (like myself, lol), and they come back to see if we have new stuff for them. even if they, like pixelbytes fear, clog up the new images page, clients i am sure do not look at the new page like we think they do. if they did, we would not be getting those dls that someone else here mentioned of old forgotten pix of ours. it only means the clients come back to your /my port to buy and buy from us. i know it is so because the dls are from the same area on the map. bam bam bam ba da boom... same spot on the world map.. dl dl dl.. smartphoners will like all those newbies lose interest once they see no dls. and they will go back to play games on their smartphones and go back to texting their friends to death as before.
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« on: February 14, 2015, 16:01 »
I think finally their changes and search result manipulations will bring them to disaster. They left nothing to regret for contributors. Another player will come, the place cannot be empty for a long time.
i was going to say that but i didn't want to speak the obvious. i remember in one of the firms i used to work, the new IT was related to some CEO. the company gave the IT guy full power to flip around with the programming. it ended up effing up the whole company's workflow. i say the same thing is happening now with the flipping of switches once you reach a certain payout point, and as you say the search manipulation. you think today with so many geniuses and wunderkins, someone would remember the old adage don't fix it if it ain't broke, and keep it simple stupid
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« on: February 13, 2015, 20:09 »
1339
« on: February 13, 2015, 13:52 »
Too bad they don't give contributors stock options based on sales ...
Has anyone here ever traded SSTK? Daily, long term, or swing? It makes sense to invest in what you know. I've seen many 5%+ gain type days, if you can catch it right. Beats throwing your savings into an IRA or CD, with current bank rates. But it could always go the opposite way, too... so use your stops.
even if u think of making money in the markets, ss would not be the one any savvy investor would add to their portfolio. not comparing blue chip, just taking internet stocks, there are far more better and safer bets than ss
1340
« on: February 12, 2015, 22:11 »
...Funny to think how invested she was in IS
Haven't we all been heavily invested in one company or another at various times? I've backed certain companies only to see things change and need to shift my focus elsewhere.
iStock was a company worth backing at one time. Obviously those days are long gone, but up to a certain point I think it made complete sense for Stacey and others to be so personally invested in the company. Sean was another big proponent of iStock. Things change, that's just how it goes.
yes, so true embermike. newman was more or less the last to jump ship from exclusive and no doubt it worked for her with is. as far as i know, there are still a lot of top sellers still with istock, so we cannot say it is not working for them. the whole world does not revolve around certain microstockers top seller or not. if they don't revolve around Yuri, etc they sure don't revolve around much lesser notables ( and i am not referring to newman).
1341
« on: February 12, 2015, 21:53 »
The Adobe / FT deal should make 2015 interesting.
yes, as in any business, competition is healthy for everyone. monopoly is never healthy for anyone save for the firm. but look to your right >>>> 91.7% and the next 3 is no more the 31,28,16. not exactly healthy competition. even you added the 3 together = 70/90 and combine all the mid tier 52 + low earners 15 . ss 91 vs 3 big 4 70 and the combined mid and low 67% not very good competition,if u know what i mean
1342
« on: February 12, 2015, 18:38 »
SS lets thru junk because the storage cost is so low it's a non-issue, and boasting about the numbers is usually effective marketing.
well yes and no. as i said in the other thread, it's like the rental guy trying to sell his bldg. new rentors and full occupancy = effective marketing. but if with the annual report, new images increase is not followed by the same percentage of downloads increase, that is not effective marketing. that is telling shareholders we are letting in more unsellable crapola.
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« on: February 12, 2015, 17:06 »
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Had a chuckle when considering a glaringly obvious DT failure . . . that they have spent the last 10 years insisting on a mad "similars" policy.
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dead yet??? what??? it was comatose a long time ago since they rejected anything more than 2 similars and got the IV drip pulled off from the veggie-in-coma, when they added fb like.
it also didn't help when serbian came in here to scold everyone who did not like dt . he should come in now to let us know if it is going to be exumed for autopsy
it's a great pity because eric, carmen, all were very good 2 us. only somewhere along the way, they f**ked-up
1344
« on: February 12, 2015, 14:01 »
They can't possibly sustain the costs of reviewing millions of mediocre, repetitious cell phone photos. Even saying "no thanks" will be expensive.
All these clueless newbies thinking they'll make hundreds per month off of their phone won't even spend the time keywording them - which would be a pain on a phone anyway.
It seems to me like the end result, for SS, will be an absolutely enormous archive with ever-worsening search results. The amount of junk will overwhelm them, unless they rely totally on past-sales-based ranking. What am I missing in this picture?
u may be right !!! but stressing on look we have so many new images everyday we can stretch to the moon from here , could be like the landlord of an old bldg planning to sell his apartment portfolio take the money and run... stressing the same ploy on look all my apts are filled with old tenants and new tenants i am overcharging them with increased rents you can make big bucks buying over this bldg. or ss could just be moving into traffic like dt with ads or whatever those social media earn their keep sustaining boredom pop of nerds airing their dirty laundry. what dya think???
1345
« on: February 11, 2015, 21:39 »
ha anyone taken a look at the ads on youtube??? they are worse than amateurish. ppl talking about degrees and changing the world, and each one of the models stammer and stutter like the valley girls of yesteryears. how can anyone pay for such ads??? microstock is the same. it's not for us to decide whether it is fair that a 2015 ansel adams genius cannot earn any more than some dude who shoots absolute rubbish. if anyone ever worked in marketing, they too will tell you, just do your job and give the clients what they want. no one asks you to be a genius here, we are asking you to sell an idea the clients are happy to pay. so what is the problem??? are we all too prima-donna to accept the fact that we should not make those stinking images that clients want? so, we come back here over and over again, whining why our masterpieces don't sell. well, we can die and hope our posthumous microstock will suddenly gain value, or we can just shut up and shoot what the client wants. how difficult is that??? esp when you get a copy for the sales stats which ss provides us so kindly. if my dog crap sells, i will shoot more dog crap. if my rembrandt night watch pefect copy has not sold nuts, i won't waste my time trying to do another rembrandt. (no, i did not do a derivative of night watch, just using it as example). or is it just much easier to whine and whine and whine? like rinderart says, c'mon kids, stop!!! i am guilty of causing a few waves here , but it is more to stir up the other guys and gals to write something here . leaf has a good forum here for us, and hopefully we don't waste it over character assasinations , or start another hate club or territorial dogshit. let's all remember we are fighting the same battle. why are we killing each other???
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« on: February 09, 2015, 17:55 »
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« on: February 09, 2015, 17:54 »
I've said it before, Tyler has the power to turn this forum into a successful stock agency. We've got the sellers who are tired of being ripped off and we got enough buyers reading this forum. MSG is well known out there. There are enough skilled designers and programmers here to get started. Just imagine if this forum turned into a stock agency one day, the potential it could have, agencies would freak out and maybe that is exactly why this will never happen. I would like to know what Tyler thinks of this idea though, then again maybe he gets enough return from this forum and his portfolio and doesn't care.
Deep down we all know we are being ripped off but since the money is still good we let them abuse us a little longer, which seems to last forever 
even if Tyler wants to start his own agency, why would he want all the headaches??? he already knows how many trolls he gets here, and he will get more death threat from the agencies he collected affliates commission when we all started becoming microstock-ers, as we all joined the agencies from clicking the links to the right. i am not saying Tyler is ill-suited to start an agency. just saying he would not want to be the one to kill microstock. and eventually, he would in turn face the barrage of protestors because next time, they would all be whining here on msg about Tyler-stock
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« on: February 08, 2015, 12:22 »
Looking at the new uber canon in a few weeks. Only one big..BIG problem. Nikon Nor canon have the glass that can resolve More that 18 or so MP's.
Luminous Landscape seems to be saying that it is technically impossible for the lenses to resolve more than that on a 35mm frame http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/resolution.shtml but it's all very complicated. However, if that's right then the 36 and 50MP sensors are just a nonsense. You're just recording a lot of blurriness.
nikon and canon are here to sell cameras. they have the biggest collection of gadgeteers who will sell their still workable and no doubt full of mileage left less recent model as soon as the next new model arrives. these bunch of (photographers) GWCs keep camera sales people keeping their jobs , as they buy new stuff all the time. and many are not working photographers, much like guys who used to play in the band with tone-deaf singer, out of tune guitars and drum sets ... just to pick up girls and get drunk. so no matter what the truth is about optics, nikon and canon will sell cameras even if we get to 75 MP. same for the mobile phones which users swear is better than a nikon or canon lens even though that is like using an instamatic to take photos, even if you say it can use kodachrome 25. the painter keeps his brushes and pallet until he dies or those utilities break or wear out. the wannabees will keep buying the next best thing so they can paint like the master even though they have not even learn the basics . photographerscamera users are the same
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« on: February 06, 2015, 15:50 »
If "LCV" shots are making money they can't be LCV can they? Customers will buy what they want to buy not what we think they should buy 
If that was actually the case, shutterstock would not have needed to completely kill off our best selling images so that they could reduce their "Cost Of Sales".
Buyers kept those images there because they chose them over new content that we all added. Shutterstock worked in the past for me because it was merit driven. My good images rose to the top because customers wanted and needed them and the others faded away because they deserved to fade away.
i am not even sure the reviewers know what is LCV or what is HCV. that is all subjective. if the reviewer(s) know what is HCV, they would not have to work there as reviewers. they would just create images that are HCV and make tons of $$$$ on their own. BOT, the " customer" still have the last say using keywords properly, as i have been seeing some of my most obscured images earning me the odd SOD of 28 to 100 dollars a shot. only wish it is more often that we see this happening. i am still not sure if i believe there is no flip switching whenever we make a big SOD sale . it sure seems like it. even when you just missed payout, the next month seem to die a slow death, as if the switch was flipped to have you stop earning any more once you reach payout in the opening days following.
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« on: February 06, 2015, 12:48 »
I am so frustrated as I have just purchased the excellent Sony RX10 (or so I thought was excellent after all the reviews) so I can get excellent video as well as stills. All shots submitted from this camera have been rejected for just
Focus--Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
Even though I nailed the focus, got the confirmation beeps. Even in LR they look sharp enough but for some reason this camera does not fit their taste.
Tried posting an image here but when loaded all my text had gone blank.
i think you should stop relying on beeps or what other professional say about stopping it more than F8 can give lens refraction issues.etc there are variations even with the same camera and same lens. i do my own test-shoot for as long as i can before i shoot anything for stock or business. these days in the internet, everyone is a guruthe only guru i believe is my own test. and yes, you will get problems with softness if you do shoot at wide open as BT pointed out. all these points tell me you have not been doing your homework with this camera, and just point and shoot. you will be far better off with a PNS and a well-tested knowledge of what makes the PNS tick. Sony RX 10 or Nikon or Canon, does not make it a good image automatically. that's like i overheard someone asking a salesguy in the store, can you tell me what camera xxx use , i want to buy one so i can shoot like a pro like him.
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