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1476
« on: March 25, 2008, 18:20 »
hi, uploaded by ftp as I write this. uploaded yesterday without problems  Phil
1477
« on: March 25, 2008, 17:49 »
thanks, I saw other posts about long review times which doesn't worry me and I knew that they take a day or two to appear but it had gone longer and I was just concerned something had gone wrong or I was doing something wrong Phil
1478
« on: March 25, 2008, 08:00 »
hi,
uploaded about 150 images and they are in the queue all no problems, since then 1.5 - 2 weeks i've uploaded another 800 or so they still haven't appeared in the queue. Is this just me?
Phil
1479
« on: March 21, 2008, 07:28 »
well I started uploading. This rating thing is interesting luckily I haven't been hit with anyone giving me anything bad yet, and the ones I've given, well I was brought up with if you can say anything nice dont say anything at all so have been a little reserved as such.
but I notice what is being rated highly is more the artistic (maybe people are like me and less likely to say gee that's a stunning tomato on white background etc and open it and rate it) and so this is stuff that seems to be higher in search.
so for those who have sales, is your 'stockier' stuff that is selling or is it more artistic stuff?
1480
« on: March 21, 2008, 07:10 »
Not only that, the equipment costs are much higher over here. Just imagine, now it is for me totally worth to buy equipment in the US, pay the shipping costs, pay 19% tax on importing it to Europe (the tax goes on total of price of the equipment AND shipping), and than additional tax depending what equipment it is (Lens starting at 3% going up). I recently payed ~ 35% tax on an iPod which came from the US.
Because of the Dollar I am really glad Ft pays in Euro for me as well as for Panthermedia which goes well for me and pays in Euro as well.
However, I am not right now doing so much stock photography, but for us Europeans it means work harder and focus on quality which is by the way allways good
where do you buy your equipment? I'm thinking on upgrading but Ebay for a new camera feels a bit too risky.
you have to watch customs for where you are. I bought one off a guy in canada he had 50 listed but that was all he had. when I needed warranty he was nowhere to be found (emails bounced). However twice I have sent a lenses back to cameta camera and they were excellent about it both times and replaced them within a couple days of them receiving them. Prodigital2000? in canada have always been very good to deal with also. Phil
1481
« on: March 21, 2008, 07:03 »
1482
« on: March 20, 2008, 06:33 »
miz, how much really is original for anyone. talking to my landlord the other he pulls out some photo journals from the 30's and 40's. Plenty of the same poses, plenty of the same ideas... looking through old magazines, fashions have changed, products have changed, technology has changed but it is still ads showing latest technology like a tv often on a white background. I have a nice example of exploding piggy bank the photographer spent 3 days wiring the pieces into place to get the shot, but it still wasn't a new idea then. Phil
1483
« on: March 20, 2008, 02:25 »
It is a matter of the usual business 80/20 ratio, where 20% of a business's activity generates 80% of the income or profit.
It's the same in microstock - 20% of the agencies make 80% of the revenue (which is why most of the new agencies will fail because they are all chasing the 20% tail).
Most photographers make 80% of their income from 20% of their images. But it is almost impossible to tell in advance which images will 'set the world alight' so one has to submit 100 to 'find' the 20.
There ain't no easy route to riches for most people.
definetly, and unfortunately the 20% of images making the money at any site is often different at each site.
1484
« on: March 19, 2008, 21:56 »
they have been around 3% of my sales since mid last year, rising in proportion to my overall sales. Last month was slow but this month looks to be bme.
1485
« on: March 19, 2008, 21:44 »
I think of new ideas almost everyday, then my family come up with new ideas regularly. I have a notebookon my desk that all ideas get jotted into... One day I hope to actually look at it and shoot some of these ideas
1486
« on: March 19, 2008, 21:35 »
but then they have tightened up on similars. there was discussion about 2 years ago because someone uploaded 40-50 pics of a couple walking along a beach... no big deal except that it was taken at about 5fps! in about 8-10 secs of shooting there wasn't a great deal of difference between shots. I also once come across someone who was very very proud that over 90% of his shots are stock and accepted on alamy straight from the camera. at the time (18months-2yrs ago??) he was increasing 200-300 images a week part time. hitting 10000 images like this would be pretty easy as for micros. the number 1 selling image for istock for the last 3 months has probably made more in this time frame then I have with 2000+ images on a heap of sites... I could cut my portfolio in half and not really make a difference (yeah, I'm a slow learner ) Its always a quality vs quantity 300 great 'stocky' images will earn more than 3000 great 'not stock' images and more than 30000 poor images etc etc
1487
« on: March 18, 2008, 21:21 »
hi,
agree with pixart, its fun but how much value it is I really dont know.
My impressions were the same, not searchable, images are not nice when viewed large, path to buying but I see you have answered this. to me it should have some info with the image, name, contributor, price etc
I also found when you click to make them big and you get the bar of thumbnails on the bottom you then click on another thumbnail your image doesn't change (seems to be changing in the background) you have to zoom back out to make the image change to the one you selected.
Phil
1488
« on: March 18, 2008, 21:05 »
Personally if I have a subscription at shutterstock I doubt I would even look anywhere else, except maybe very very occasionally if I couldn't get that 'perfect' image?
1489
« on: March 18, 2008, 19:58 »
yawn... what a boring ad, cant say it would make me want to go look (I quite like iofotos dinosaur they could have at least made it bigger, could have made a decent ad with that image some 'snappy' text with a snappy dinosaur, * I could think of a couple dozen ideas with that image (a couple of them are even half decent Phil
1490
« on: March 18, 2008, 19:50 »
StockXpert also require mr for any person shot.
I saw a couple of years ago, where someone went and tried to claim and 50 pics of mouths, hands etc was theirs. they didn't have any luck though.
it comes down to if I say that is a photo of me on that roof, can you prove that it isn't?
1491
« on: March 12, 2008, 21:09 »
personally, there is a lot of luck involved (as well good quality / high demand etc) but I have never heard of 3 months (I also dont do vectors though). I have heard a number of times though that if it dont sell in the first month or two it is pretty much a dead image.
check your keywords, istock allows (and uses phrases) ie "easter eggs" is different from "easter" and "eggs" also have a look at which options are the default disambiguation for what you think would be common search. ie. clicking 'easter eggs' from the frontpage easter advert searches for easter AND eggs but it is using 'eggs' as "eggs human stage" from the disambiguation textboxes rather than "eggs basic food" so the search brings up 194 results rather than a few thousand. IMO this sort of thing is common especially when looking at three options for 'background' etc etc.
Phil
1492
« on: March 12, 2008, 18:37 »
I hightly doubt many use IS categories, or any of the other sites for that matter. EXCEPT Shutterstock, I bet a lot of subscribers go to People - Newest every morning.
aah I didn't think of it being used with newest.
1493
« on: March 12, 2008, 04:32 »
Sounds good to me! My fella is in the RAF and I'm just itching to get a chance to shoot all the military planes... I think I have a few Army training Gazelle heli's in my portfolio, but that's about it. Certain agencies rejected them because the paint scheme is apparently a trademark. No point in arguing that the navy blue is the "standard" colour and the yellow cap is to let people know they're not qualified!
I was in RAAF in the early 90's. First day on Base "you WILL NOT take photos of the planes, airfield etc etc" Of course everyone did
1494
« on: March 12, 2008, 04:30 »
last year I went through and made sure I had what I felt was the best category for the 300 odd images that I had on at the time (and up to 3 categories for when I get appropriate categories) If there was any effect on my sales I did not notice it. Personally I dont think I've heard of anyone using categories on any site (I'm sure now that I have said that a dozen people will come along and say they have ) and so always been very dubious as to there value. could you imagine browsing istock or shutterstock by category? hmmm... I need a background from shutterstock, browse 'backgrounds'??
1495
« on: March 11, 2008, 05:13 »
Hi,
thanks again for another tutorial.
My personal opinion.
Just like any book or list of technique's some of miz's tutorials are great, some are average. Like photos the ones that I think are great are probably different from other people.
Regardless they are quick (as opposed to 30 minute tutorials that explain how to use every single tool on the way over and over again or spend over 5 minutes discussing how much they like a certain lens or treat you like an idiot etc etc etc) and I learn something every single time. I may never use the entire technique but I gain knowledge of what can be done and where to start.
Noone makes you watch the tutorial, if you dont like them dont watch, just please dont screw it up for those of us who do get something out of it.
Phil
1496
« on: March 10, 2008, 19:05 »
I think you need ask the queen for a model release.
1497
« on: March 10, 2008, 19:04 »
I thought it bad enough when my kids (including your eight year old) picked the technical faults in photos on walls, magazines, newspapers etc etc (gee look at the ca in that!). then they progressed to artistic and composition faults, now when they are out they will stand tell and you how a photo hung on the wall could be fixed or improved. (hard reviewers on stock, try my family . Now its sad that when I go to my local shopping centre (in a small country town in australia) I recognise the photos on the centre's display boards and can name the photographer... Phil
1498
« on: March 09, 2008, 17:26 »
I have the same problem haven't been able to login for 3 days. I thought it was because I changed name last week. I am still waiting to hear back from them...
edit:managed to reset my password and get in
1499
« on: March 09, 2008, 07:57 »
No it deserves the Darwin Award. 
that site is hilarious!!!!
there goes 3 hours when I am supposed to keywording, oh well it was more enjoyable hmm, but so is taking photos, photoshop, doing the dishes... anyway it was good, gee there is some sad and not real bright people in the world (or was). Phil
1500
« on: March 09, 2008, 07:52 »
How do you tell when scout is the one to review your batch? I've heard a few people talk about that.
on the email they send that basically says that think your image sucks (sadly it isn't hard to find in my inbox) is "If you need more information please visit the pages (if any) listed next to the above issue(s). If you require further explanation regarding this rejection, please contact Scout via Support link: http://www.istockphoto.com/contact_ticket.php." you click on this, enter the image number and why you think it is wrongly reviewed (they ask you not to just put 'please review' or it's selling well elsewhere (which is what I usually put although sometimes I have pointed out that there is a shortage of this subject matter in istock's database (but that depends on the subject). unless they have reduced the number, you can send in 3 per month. also it can take anywhere from a week to 3 months! to be re-reviewed. Phil
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