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Messages - melastmohican
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1401
« on: August 20, 2008, 14:43 »
Some sites upsize pictures anyway so it's just waste of bandwidth when uploading... At the moment I got two buckets:
2M - StockXpert, FP, BigStock
4M - SS, 123RF, DT, FT, IS
I could upload 4M to everyone but I do not see any value in uploading original size which is 8.3M
1402
« on: August 20, 2008, 14:22 »
I have been uploading for last 3 months. From the beginning I assumed that I am only minimal size required per site. Do bigger photos sell better?
1403
« on: August 20, 2008, 14:00 »
That's true. I got couple pictures with this category but the best one hardly gets 20 views ;-) It seems like I am too late into this game :-)
1404
« on: August 20, 2008, 13:46 »
1405
« on: August 20, 2008, 13:22 »
Occasionally I am finding pictures with clear trademarks, names, etc. I wonder how that could be accepted? I was making this mistake at the beginning uploading shots of my car on the desert. It's obvious what model and make it is at first sight but I got even they got small part of the word "Nissan" under 2x magnification it was rejected so I stopped to do this cause it cannot be accepted as "suv on a desert" ;-)
I wonder who would be responsible for copyright violation in these cases, photographer who uploaded this photo or agency who accepted it against its own policy?
1406
« on: August 20, 2008, 12:25 »
1407
« on: August 19, 2008, 18:56 »
It seems that nothing changed after I reached $500 mark. It still adds .25 per each photo. When is thing going to change, next day, next month?
1408
« on: August 18, 2008, 14:17 »
I am $5 short so I guess it might be today :-)
1409
« on: August 18, 2008, 09:42 »
Everybody there on vacations, one rookie reviewer has no vacation this year so he is pissed off and sends everything to void 
1410
« on: August 17, 2008, 17:47 »
I think sites like IS or FT are barely usable for contributors. When they sit on 3-4 millions of photos that cover mostly any subject possible they only care about buyers and do not want to take any risk improving side of the business they do not really need so badly anymore. It's good enough to filter out some extraordinary shots from huge flow of the contributors. New sites need to ingest as many pictures as possible in order to compete with older one so they made process very smooth. They also got less contributor so they have to compensate with higher acceptance rates. For newcomer contributors it's frustrating experience. You may easily upload to smaller site and see no result for long time or try to work you way on old sites. In both cases it will take long time to see any results. I have been doing this for 3 months so maybe my perspective is to short to draw any valid conclusion but this is how I feel it.
1411
« on: August 17, 2008, 14:07 »
Same to me, everything is similar or overabundant :-) I was able to add 9 photos this month and had no sales at all so I start moving FL to the end my my queue.
1412
« on: August 17, 2008, 13:36 »
It seem like when sales take off site is firing developers and hires more sales people :-) I have not seen any usability enhancements on top 6 sites for a while. Almost any of newcomers got better UI: YAYMicro, Cutcaster, Crestock, Mostphotos, Zymmetrical. Do you think that top ones wait until they will bleed themselves to death and them snap one of the small ones for their software?
1413
« on: August 16, 2008, 01:22 »
1414
« on: August 14, 2008, 15:44 »
It looks like you are going to be in Northern California. If you got time go to Yosemite National Park too.
1415
« on: August 13, 2008, 23:47 »
Usually more expensive ones are more stable and for me is the most important feature. Mine is very heavy so I am sometimes sorry when I go on mountain trail but I would be sorry if I do not take it :-) Modern tripod use carbon fibers so you can get something which is not as heavy but still stable.
1416
« on: August 13, 2008, 12:04 »
This is Lake Tahoe in California.
1417
« on: August 13, 2008, 10:40 »
$28 in one sale and it was already my best seller so far :-) 
1418
« on: August 13, 2008, 00:27 »
I am thinking about rapid lens  Next, after a while full frame body....
1419
« on: August 12, 2008, 16:08 »
The one thing I can agree with is the fact that new agencies can only compete by attracting contributors. The only way to do that is to provide better experience for photographers. I guess that was the reason everybody jumped on YAY wagon. Fantastic workflow for contributors. It true that if you are already working with 5-6 agencies you would consider new one only if there is an easy way to migrate your portfolios. Today I started uploading to MostPhotos. I run ftp script over night and with few clicks later I got couple hundred pictures online. I guess I stop uploading to CS, BigStock, they put too many restrictions on contributors and payout is microscopic ;-)
1420
« on: August 12, 2008, 13:51 »
I am on the same boat with Karimala. I am not doing this for living so every penny makes me happy. I've just started 34 months ago and this month received first payout from SS. If I can finance my future photo upgrades from money earned on microstock I would be satisfied. I also try many site before I can finally decide which are most productive for me. Since it seems like nowadays most for the my downloads comes from subscriptions I need to build larger portfolio than people who started 2-3 years ago. Also I am not shooting specifically for stock. I shoot what I like and upload to as many sites I can. They can select what they like. I stop wondering why I could sell almost 1800 photos on SS and got only 49 accepted on IStock. I let them to decide what they want.
1421
« on: August 11, 2008, 19:26 »
I just wonder if top 10 bestselling contributors magically disappear from they site. Would not next 10 best become top 10 and fill the gap instantaneously? At the same time somewhere at the very bottom of this stack 10 newbies would fit into this pyramid. And the balance would not change at all :-) I guess one person with 5000 great photos is no difference that 1000 people with 5 great photos :-)
1422
« on: August 11, 2008, 18:55 »
Individual contributors do not matter any more. How much do we all, members of this forum, own? 1% of the market, probably less. If we got abducted by aliens tomorrow there hundreds of newcomers waiting to take out places :-) Point'n'shot cameras are now 12 mpix :-)
Yes, go to sites that "pay" more. More of nothing, since they have no traffic, is still nothing.
Sooner or later this market will start consolidating and subs will be 15 cents. I guess we all will be dreaming about old good days when we got 25 :-)
1423
« on: August 11, 2008, 17:27 »
I guess new buyers will choose agency which comes on a top of Google search page :-) Unless Google Images provides search options similar to specialized stock search sites like http://www.imagetrail.net/search.php I do not believe searching across agencies would be possible.
1424
« on: August 11, 2008, 14:21 »
I just wonder if I should keep uploading?
1425
« on: August 11, 2008, 13:16 »
Do not give up and in meanwhile also upload to other "easier" sites like 123rf
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