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Messages - Sean Locke Photography

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1401
"I don't see a wall in front of me...just an open field."

Ah, bliss.

1402
General - Stock Video / Re: How to Embed Metadata in video files?
« on: February 29, 2016, 10:17 »
I select the file in Bridge and enter the meta.

1403
Sigh.

1404
@Sean Locke Photography I noticed after I posted and stop attacking the poster and add to the conversation if your going to post in this thread.

Yes sir!

1405
Yes I saw that post but folks don't seem to get what is happening here...P5 just played everyone...they stalled for months about approvals only to be creating this VB clone product that vastly negatively impacts contributors.  Anyone that is their 'Ambassador' program should really feel duped.

Just because you don't think your view is represented in a thread doesn't mean to start another one.  Just add to that one.  Otherwise you get duplicate discussions.

1407
Stocksy / Re: Stocksy's call to artist
« on: February 24, 2016, 20:32 »

1408
General Stock Discussion / Re: creativemarket.com Any thoughts ?
« on: February 24, 2016, 17:37 »
New licenses are live:
https://creativemarket.com/licenses

Which include "free" items for resale in the standard license, up to 500 items.  Be sure to set your items to draft or up the price if you aren't interested in giving away what is an EL everywhere else.

1409
123RF / Re: Unusual high downloads (520 USD) at 123rf
« on: February 24, 2016, 10:24 »
I had a download on January 25th for $21, but I didn't see anything from yesterday, unless it disappears completely from the records.

1410
Thank you eyewave

So, how contributors deal with their accountants about income from different stock sites if there is no receipts?

You tell them how much you made?

1411
Fotolia/Adobe is nowhere near SS for me, with around the same amount of images.  But it is a nice alternative to have.

1412
Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock Tax Download
« on: February 18, 2016, 08:12 »
I go to this page:
http://submit.shutterstock.com/legal/taxes/external/download
Follow the steps, check the box, and click to download, but all I get is a modal popup telling me to download my tax forms, but there is nothing to download.  Is there a trick to this?

1413
Sorry pal, you can come up with whatever argument you want, but if the agency says it ain't taking it, it ain't taking it.

1414
I do everything myself, and I do what I think will pay off.  Which is most for Stocksy and a few for micro.  Why waste the time there?

1415
You started a new profile just to discuss this?

1416
Newbie Discussion / Re: File size and payout
« on: February 14, 2016, 15:30 »
It depends on each site and how they do the licensing.

1417
Hell, they re-licensed my files after I was booted.

1418
Shutterstock.com / Re: New EL royalty poll on surveymonkey
« on: February 11, 2016, 09:34 »
$17.88 today.  Lost out on more than $10.

1419
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Regular sales at IS
« on: February 09, 2016, 17:42 »
That place is such a quagmire these days, honestly, I'm glad to be free of it.

1420
Pond5 / Re: Pond5 review times
« on: February 08, 2016, 15:42 »
I have valentine images I put up a month ago, still sitting there.  I sent them an email that I'm holding off until they get things in order.

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In my case, tax is pretty bad, and (in my microstock earnings bracket) accounts for roughly 45% of "lost revenue". I mean, for each 1000 USD that I make on microstock, I need to pay around 450 USD for taxes.


I am not a tax expert, but that sounds awfully high. Here's a tax bracket calculator.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm

The highest tax they have is 39.6% and this for someone making over $413,200. Hope this helps.


"That's crazy, and I'm actually thinking of relocating due to that. I'm in the EU."

1422
Adobe Stock / Re: Images with qoutes not accepted
« on: February 04, 2016, 14:07 »
It really doesn't seem like a complete illustration.  It looks like you just dropped text on top.  The font doesn't work for me.  I don't see a path, so I don't see how the quote applies to the image.

1423
CanStockPhoto.com / Re: Exciting announcement
« on: February 03, 2016, 15:54 »
"These are higher-priced retail items with a 10% royalty, which will result in higher commissions (up to $49.90) than most digital image sales."

There's the golden part.  "We charge more for these things, so we think we can get away paying you a lower percentage, because it still seems like a lot."

1424
I wouldn't sell that kind of thing as stock.  They will always be misused, and you might end up like this:
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed/

I'm not sure why anyone would want a fine art print from the boudoir session of someone they don't know.  Where are you going to hang something like that?

1425
As far as trusting Shutterstock to see how things pan out with increasing the volume of ELs with price changes, I would point out that the prices for ELs are still unchanged, so right now they're not doing squat to increase ELs by lowering prices. All they're doing is taking in an increased share of what the buyer pays.

If they really were serious about their stated goals, the prices would have changed the same day the royalties did.

Just FYI, I got this answer to my inquiry today:
" If your earnings was $21.06 and you are in the 30% group then the sales price was $72 dollars. it is very common for us, like any other business, to give discounts for bulk orders or special offers with coupon codes etc."

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