He has been banned now so he will be neither deleting his account or responding to this thread.

What advantage does it have over a common FTP program.

New users to the forum have non-active links.  That's the way it is.

welcome here.

A good number of posts were removed from the thread - essentially criticizing the original poster for asking a question.

Take it easy guys!  The point of a forum is to learn and ask questions.  No question should be too elementary or basic.  If you don't like the question, move along to another thread.  We all have to start somewhere. 

Lots of food photography is done with a tilt shift lens so the focus plane can be kept very small but yet include a large percentage of the image or food item.

http://photographyconcentrate.com/tilt-shift-introduction/

it appears that buyers & sellers are being told 2 different things - sellers are told we can direct the search to our preferred site or agency, but buyers are told " Image buyers get the best image at the best price with access to all outlets from which the image can be licensed."

here are extracts from the PE website :

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picturengine to buyers:

Search, find and license images.  It�s that simple!  The world's stock photos consolidated into ONE search!  Some images are exclusive to a single stock photo agency, some are listed with multiple agencies and some are available directly from the photographer.  Image buyers get the best image at the best price with access to all outlets from which the image can be licensed.

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The option to choose not only which image to license, but also from whom to license it, assures images buyers the best image at the best price.  We include all representatives licensing a particular image and allow the image buyer to make an informed purchasing decision.

Once you find and image, we show you all available sources to license that image
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picturengine to photographers:

Does PicturEngine compare prices?

Last Updated: Aug 17, 2012 10:58AM CDT

 NO.  PicturEngine does NOT compare prices.
 
We know buyers demand good prices.  The only way to get the best price on ANY good or service, is to reduce the distance from the producer to the buyer.  We DO NOT compare prices, instead we send the buyer to the base agency (where the image was uploaded FIRST) or directly to the photographer (if they are on the PicturEngine platform).  Sending the buyer directly to the base agency or photographer, effectively removes unnecessary expenses added to the sale.  Our goal is to help both photographers and image buyers get the most out of each transaction.



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Am I competing with my agencies?

Last Updated: May 05, 2012 10:34PM CDT

 No.  If an image is listed with an agency, and the photographer lists the same image on the PicturEngine platform, buyers see only the image listed by the photographer on the PicturEngine platform.

If you're going to quote someone you need to link to the original source.  Where are you getting this from?

thanks.  I've updated the page.

fixed link..

Let us know how it goes

I've started a page of microstock acronyms

Anyone have anything to add?

You can also get to it by going up to Tools > Microstock Acronyms

Another problem with the current search is if a buyer searches for running, they won't get anything shorter, like words with just the keyword run.  Or if they search for cars, they won't get images with car.

I hired a custom coder to fix up the search on my site so it catches common word endings.  It still isn't perfect but a bit better.  The coder was also very surprised that the keywords tables wasn't indexed... perhaps there is a reason..

I will not buy any equipment for 2013! Now that is going to be a hard goal since I love to spend at the camera store...

You'll probably be a lot further ahead in the end if you invest in shoots instead of gear.

Buying the Pentax 645D!

Ohhh. I likes. I have dreamt of medium format a while too but never put it at the top of my investment priority list.