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1426
« on: March 06, 2009, 20:42 »
I remember talking with a photographer with the Image Bank way back when and he was sure sub-agents skimmed from him. Other agents get a bit behind and the first place they get the money is from photographers royalties. There are lots of photographers this has happened to, Now with micro it is absolutely impossible to tell if an image download has been paid for. I think most of them are honest but the ability to be dishonest couldn't be much easier.
1427
« on: March 05, 2009, 23:09 »
There not huge sellers so there would be better places to spend your time.
1428
« on: March 05, 2009, 11:24 »
Years ago I remember visting Photoexpo where SAA members were busy handing out SAY NO TO CLIPART buttons. There way of fighting the incoming RF market. Yes the traditional RF market almost everyone now participates if you are trad shooter. Now they have micro to hate. Nah, it's the same people.
1429
« on: March 05, 2009, 11:19 »
it is difficult to even tell from the photograph that the smaller animal is a cat. Therefore the picture does not even work as a funny.
Oh, it's because thumbnail is small. When you see it full size, it's of course very obvious they are dog and a cat.
Images need to work as thumbnails or it will never be opened to a larger size. Besides the size displayed here is not much smaller than a large view on most sites.
1430
« on: March 05, 2009, 10:29 »
I think a strong conceptual image can have many technical deficiencies. That's one of the things that drives me mad about microstock. Most inspectors lack the savvy to evaluate images for their overall strength. That said I doubt your image would do that well commercially especially in prude markets like the US.
1431
« on: March 04, 2009, 12:04 »
wow, it seems that lots of people here have just as hard feelings towards SAA as traditional stock photographers have had against microstock in the past.
I think things are changing, and that is why i wanted to bring up this topic again. At UGCX there was a very open mix between microstock photographers and traditional photographers. There were many traditional photographers getting involved in microstock, and many microstock photographers getting involved in macro. Agencies were doing with the same. It is clear that animosity between the two camps is definitely dieing (at least in person if not online) and thinking that one business model is better than the other is just naive. They are different - not better or worse.
That's exactly right, most photographers are photographers. SAA has done some good work, I should say that. But they also have alienated tons of photographers. I know a great many who won't have anything to do with them. They started off burning bridges instead of building them and can't seem to stop.
1432
« on: March 04, 2009, 10:38 »
SAA is one of these organizations that is consistently well behind what is actually happening in the world. They spent forever bemoaning RF well before micro. Too much bad blood in my opinion to consider them a viable source of anything.
1433
« on: March 04, 2009, 10:30 »
If your itching to tell someone off I would think Fotolia would be a good candidate. I have been thinking of telling them to take the short walk off the long pier. I agree with most everyone here. Dreamstime is very good imho.
1434
« on: March 02, 2009, 20:43 »
I keep my stack of bills next to my computer.
1435
« on: March 02, 2009, 16:14 »
Wow, sorry to here about that. I think the 5DII will take you a long ways however I'd get the kit lens,, 24-105. It's very good and the extra speed and
quality are better than the extra length.
1436
« on: March 01, 2009, 22:33 »
LR will take care of those fringes easily. Quite common for wider angle shots,especially outside. There is defringe setting as well as CA adjustments. I have a bunch of presets entered for different focal length of different lens. No fuss, no muss. Takes seconds to do and is very accurate. 20 Minutes on one image would make me want to quite photography.
1437
« on: February 25, 2009, 23:07 »
I don't think its allowed on most sites, and I don't think that would be fair to the buyers.
Lizard, upsizing is as old as the hills. We don't have to do it so much anymore because of the cameras that are out, and in many cases are now downsizing. But the very sophisticated customer is totally used to upsizing. I think because it's impossible to use a set of accepted cameras in micro did the no upsizing rule become invented but I can't think of any other reason why. Upsize properly and everyone is happy. Hard to imagine but some people actually look at the image and the not the pixels.
1438
« on: February 25, 2009, 16:18 »
I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.
Yes, I think it is. The huge difference that I see is that I can use a corporate account and one shopping cart to make purchases seamlessly from the entire collection, micro and macro, with a single PO number, without the clunkiness of having to switch between two payment systems. I don't have to purchase a huge number of credits in advance a la istock corporate and subscriptions. I don't have to make client purchases out of my pocket and then later be reimbursed, a la everyone else.
Sorry to gush. 
Well it is big deal, although it can be argued for it's advantages and disadvantages.
1439
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:27 »
I could be wrong here but this looks like the first major agency that has decided to put its micro offerings on a tab right next to everything else. I'm not sure about Jupiter, I never followed them very closely.
1440
« on: February 24, 2009, 14:38 »
I think they will start pushing exclusivity. 
I can't see who will take it though. The offer would have to be * good.
1441
« on: February 24, 2009, 13:07 »
Will sales at Veer be posted on Snap Village?
1442
« on: February 24, 2009, 11:10 »
I know what you mean, they play back to back rounds of hey buddy, is that your quarter? and expect to solidarity. The funny thing is I'm sure they will get takers.
1443
« on: February 24, 2009, 10:26 »
I guess everyone who has recently signed on to iStock exclusivity is kicking themselves in the backside for missing the opportunity to sign on exclusive with Fotolia (Drip of sarcasm here). I just got my email from FT explaining all the wonderful benefits of Total Exclusivity (Another drip). This would not be unlike Schwartzy in Total Recall, "they stole my mind and now I want it back". You'd have to be in this situation to sign on, IMHO. You could hang around while they play spin-the-bottle with percentages and rankings. "gosh, that's too high, lets spin again, oh that's better, send out another notice. Time to reduce commissions again."
1444
« on: February 24, 2009, 00:23 »
Last time I was paid (about one month ago) everything went normal, no charges. I am only charged when I withdraw to my bank account.
Do you havethe regular MB account?
Regards,
Adelaide
Is there a difference? I suppose you want to get your money at some point.
1445
« on: February 23, 2009, 14:59 »
Aaron,
Looks good, however the image search seems to generate thumbnails very slowly.
1446
« on: February 21, 2009, 22:04 »
Although all my sales have been editorial, a friend recently sold a few commercial images (RF) and got more than the editorial prices. RF prices are higher in Alamy than L. Plus, Alamy has started a commercial collection, probably for the needs of the US market.
It is my impression that Alamy is expanding itself into the RF market, or at least it hopes.
Alamy has been in the RF market for a long time. About 5/8 of my sales there are RF. They do make some very good commercial sales ($10k+) but often of editorial slanted images. They do sell commercial images though often for editorial uses and prices. Average prices aren't high but of course appear astronomical compared to micro. With a US office and a start of commercial collection their market base may change.
1447
« on: February 18, 2009, 14:47 »
2.10 12 cents more
I actually checked the last 100 DLs at FT to see what the proportion of XS, S, M, L etc was. I was pleasantly surprised  for that sample. I had almost as many M as XS so calculating for a newbie I would have earnt more with the new price structure than the current. Obviously if you have a very high proportion of XS and S sales then your earnings will go down 
Just checked the next 100 and I would have earnt more with the new structure.
Hopefully in March I will see the same trend
The thing is you would have earned more under the old percentage structure and the new increase; as you would have earned more under the old ranking scheme. It's very easy for FT to later roll back the increase without changing the percentage rate.
1448
« on: February 18, 2009, 11:54 »
All those FREE images will ultimately be an unfair competition to all the images that are generating profil / sales.....
Would'nt be much more beneficial to the industry if the large agencies took a stand and denied to participate in this stupid thing called FREE IMAGES?
I for one, would prefer to DELETE all images that are unsaleable... Rather than giving them away to attract unnessesary attention from mine and your saleable images...
rgds
Flemming
Flemming, so true, so true. Images that don't sell are only marginally different from the ones that do. Peter
1449
« on: February 18, 2009, 11:23 »
Increasing prices then decreases percentages is another Fotolia kick in the ass. They are schmucks. I can find other words to describe this move but am not allowed to print them here. I guess there is no stop to this.
1450
« on: February 14, 2009, 18:46 »
Yes, even in this day and age, people actually have PO boxes as part of their mailing address.
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