It's an easy guess that they didn't like the subtle vignetting. I like the way you warmed things up - it makes the image 10x better. Even out the brightness and you'll have yourself a winner with this one!

The CV dictionary is the thingy that changes your keywords into IS keywords. One of it's strengths is its ability to "suggest" keywords that you wouldn't normally use or think of. This image would benefit greatly from such keywords as "Recreational Pursuit ", "After Work","Extreme Sports ", and "Weekend Warrior", and there are plenty more. I suggest you investigate the top selling climbing images to see what other keywords might help market this image to its full potential.

One more thing about "over filtering": be careful with sharpening. IS doesn't like much sharpening. Before shooting stock I sharpened every image I made - I now rarely, if ever, sharpen my images. This plays into that "giving the designer more leeway" approach I mentioned earlier.

is there somewhere that lists this dictionary contents? (I just sit and take guesses )

I have an image refused as not being stock and poor lighting (and nowadays I wouldn't have even tried submitting it) but macrostock sales have brought me in over $1000 for it in 12 months.  (most of my macro sales are 'not stock')

as to value in micros, I dont think I could put a figure for a few more years yet

to me it is not a bad line to take, obvisously not aimed at large corporate customers. plenty of people still out there who think google images is the answer to their problems.  hitting people who just rip images off because they think it will cost them a fortune isn't too bad a tactic (as part of a whole marketing campaign). not sure about your mama bit?

if it continues as is, I will earn about 50-60% of last months earnings and most of what I am getting is subs

I starting uploading about 2 weeks, and am now halfway. so now I decide it would be a good time to look around the site

beyond the fact I have had 3 x $5 sales, does this site seem weird to anyone else. seems to me like it was designed by a committee (in that it is trying to do everything, but really doesn't do anything well).  And some really odd stuff. 

pricing is set (in my case $5) but this is regardless of size, small = $5, large = $5.  I cant think of a reason why? why would you buy a small if it is the same price.  Why not be like FP and say fixed price = one size or cheaper for smaller.

maximum image size is 3000 x 2300 anything bigger than that is downsized.  So as soon as a designer needs a big image, they have to go to another site and there goes the customer.

an image that is smaller than 3000 x 2300. say 3000 x 2000  is downsized to 1600 x 1200 thats a huge difference. why on earth do they do this??

I upload from work, if I download more than 500mb in a day, the system sends me an email saying that someone may have my password / I've been naughty / I downloaded a lot etc etc.  No big deal because uploading doesn't count (and work doesn't care) but each day I upload to snap (I do 100 at a time) I get the email saying I downloaded 800mb etc from snap. seems weird.

it drops iptc on my graphics, photos are fine but rendered stuff isn't, I wonder if it is the size?

I know its still beta, but they dont have a forum, and this was 20 mins of looking....


Phil

Out of town wedding 1998 - 300 mile drive. Had all camera gear. Forgot all luggage. Clothes, toiletries, etc. Small town, but luckily it had one of the "mart" stores that was open so was able to get shampoo etc, and even a decent yet cheap dress and shoes for the festivities.

My packed clothing bag was smaller than some of the gear bags, and I just missed it on the way out.

Camera disasters? I've been very lucky. One strobe disaster on a shoot, but was not familiar with the new gear. So that's a mistake I promised myself not to let happen again.

lol!!!!

I couldn't say what my rejection rate is or how long it takes for review etc.  They are in my ftp queue, I hit submit and leave.  I dont look to see what they accept / reject etc.  They get opened up to check balance when I hit 'open all in tabs' I hit account, check and leave.  None of that is a negative, they take what they want and reject what they don't (like all sites) I don't do the adjust / resubmit thing.
Phil

I started with the big ones (I consider it the big seven with BigStock and 123rf) but then looked at the little ones and decided that customers aren't going to leave those sites to find my images, so I might as well get the money rather than someone else, and in that context I've very happily received payouts from fp / cre / can / lo / alb etc. 

Together those sites made me about $100 last month, $100 I am happy to have but is it worth the work? I keep thinking I should stop with those with less than 1% of sales but then crestock is 1% for jan / feb but .3% for march and albumo outsold them.  LO is .2% for jan / feb but 1% in march so if that continues I get monthly payouts. 

At present I am adding most / scan / snap / zymm and panther (although panther slow as it is click on each manually) and really really wondering which are worth the effort?  To me the real question is by the end of the year which of these sites are going to bigger and which are still going to be the same or smaller? will one of them go big and we talk big 7 / 8 and of course how much work am I willing to do for the money?

hi,

I had 23 downloads in march, easily my best month (earn't $6.6 in jan and $6 in feb) so I was pretty happy and was about to post asking if anyone else had the same when i saw this thread, hmm looks like I stole all the sales, sorry

Phil

hi,

I have everything at $5, changing from $2 three months ago and now seen three bme's. will probably put it to $10 soon. 

Sales for me this month are the same as crestock and canstock combined and within a $1 of LO who managed to more than triple their last months earnings. not at monthly payout yet, but it's coming

my thoughts on pricing... I cant find it now but they have a graph that shows pricing of sales.  most people search at $2, $5, $10, $20 etc if you price at say $6.50 people those who search at $5 don't see it and most people who do see your image are willing to pay $10+ so you are missing out on income. 

Phil

there is a hood available to go on the holder and still get the filters in place (but I haven't got one).

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Genuine-COKIN-P-Series-FILTER-HOLDER-HOOD-P255-CAP_W0QQitemZ150227090927QQihZ005QQcategoryZ30066QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122

(just the first one that come up searching cokin hood on ebay)

I read in one book how the author cut the extra holder parts off so that it only held one filter.

personally I have 2 x 2 stop nd grads that I use with either 1 or both at same time (cheap ones that are on the list to be replaced with a 2 stop and a 4 stop) and a blue nd grad that very rarely use.

Phil

Quote from: diego_cervo on March 25, 2008, 12:29

Sorry but I believe that the purpose of this forum is to share information among us and help each other   

Perhaps I was unclear in this. I just wanted to wait till they have a referral program in place. It's easy money and it benefits us all. I never join a new site any more without a referral code of some members here.

When I started uploading in the very beginning, there were glitches in the FTP (non UTF-8 in the filenames) and the IPTC import (they imported the wrong field as title) and we managed to iron them all out in the forum recently. I had to copypaste all the titles of the first 200 uploaded, and their programmer had to tweak my FTP file names manually.

Just wanted to avoid a lot of lost time for contributors here. All works fine now. It's nothing personal at all Diego, at the contrary. For more than a year, you are 1 of my fav photogs on DT ;-)

wow I just had a look diego's portfolio, for those who haven't it really is good

I just so love this image - http://dreamstime.com/healthcare-image4632793

Phil