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« on: April 19, 2014, 02:40 »
Has anyone had any editorial sales on thinkstock?
Most of my sales on ss are editorial so its odd to only get rf when thinkstock now have all my editorial shots.
Thanks for asking that! I had no idea that editorial images were now also available on Thinkstock. In my case it doesn't look like they have all been mirrored yet as my Thinkstock port is about 350 less in quantity than I have on Istock. For anyone else that didn't know about this, here's a thread about it on the Istock forum http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=359870&page=1Regards, David.
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« on: March 21, 2014, 08:46 »
For those of us who aren't registered and can't log in, what's the deal? Sean is involved or something?
That's Sean McDunn (FAA creator) not "our" Sean -just in case anyone gets confused  I'm with Ron, no idea if it will take off or not but I'll opt in and see if I get some sales. Regards, David. ETA Missed the Mc off his surname!
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« on: March 14, 2014, 16:13 »
Unfortunately I see little future for high street electrical/photographic stores. You can get all the advice you need from the internet and best price too. Maybe the odd niche store will survive.
In the UK were are heading for high streets full of charity shops, fast food joints, betting shops, nail bars and barbers!!!
You forgot the countless pawnbroking and "pay day loan" shops 
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« on: March 07, 2014, 16:39 »
My images have been getting reviewed in 24-48 hours, but I am submitting them in 350 image batches. So maybe the higher volume you put up, the quicker they get reviewed.
That could well be the case. I have one commercial image from January and four from February still waiting. I mainly do editorial images and they always get reviewed from 1-24 hours maximum. Regards, David.
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« on: February 27, 2014, 10:51 »
Thank you, David!
I have priced my images anywhere from 2Euro to 20Euro. The one that sold was 5Euro.
Below 10Euro, I don't think the price is a problem, but it seems that the site doesn't get too many visits yet (except some images that were featured somewhere else and linked back to Picfair).
Thanks Les. I guess we need a few more sales to see if price is a factor but I would agree that 10 euro (or ) shouldn't be too much to put off buyers (even with the Picfair fee added on top). Twitter seems to be a major source of a lot of the visits at the moment -not necessarily buyers of course. Good luck with your future sales! Regards, David.
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« on: February 27, 2014, 09:49 »
Sold my first image on PicFair.
Support Benji, send him some images.
Congatulations Les! Can I ask what sort of price point the one that sold was? I remember you said you were going to try out various prices to see how they went. I've been uploading for several months now -with everything at a flat 10 price. So far, just the one sale -in my first couple of weeks of uploading. I see that a lot of people are pricing their images really low making mine look "expensive"! There isn't a bulk price change facility yet, otherwise I might try a few experiments on pricing. Regards, David.
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« on: February 26, 2014, 04:03 »
Continuing the abandoned ship metaphor, are we thinking more the Marie Celeste or the Titanic? Both seem to be appropriate metaphors to me.
Perhaps the Costa Concordia, which the captain deliberately drove too close to the rocks in the mistaken assumption that he could get out of the situation he was getting everybody into. Then he tried to run away when the thing started sinking.
Speaking of which, it strikes me as odd that the mysterious Rebecca Rockafellar no longer seems to mention iStock in her job title. Everywhere I look she refers to herself as Getty Images' senior VP of e-commerce. It's as if iStock has ceased to exist as an independent entity .... is that something to do with "istock 'from Getty Images' "? Is it just one more GI collection, like Photographers' Choice?
Didn't someone discover that RR had been replaced, quite some time ago, by another woman, though it was never officially announced?
Ellen Desmarais: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/getty-images-names-ellen-desmarais-general-manager-of-istockphoto-215622531.htmlNot that we've heard anything from her either.....
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« on: February 13, 2014, 10:10 »
There's no connection to 123rf at all (that I can find). If you look at the contributor guidelines it's just a regular site (based in London) that contributors upload to once approved (you have to submit three sample images). The up side is that you can set your own rates and get 70% commission on sales. The down side (for some, including me) is that the small size images are available for free.
Contributors there presumably figure that enough buyers will trade up to the larger (paid) sizes to outweigh the free small ones. Much like donating images to the free sections of micro sites in the hope that buyers follow through to your paid portfolio. Regards, David.
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« on: February 03, 2014, 14:44 »
(Also, in editorial files, the upload date seems inevitably the same as the 'date taken', even when it definitely shouldn't be.) [/quote] Good spot! Turns out I have been uploading to Istock since 1976  ETA Apologies to Shadysue for * up your quote! ETA I said m-u-c-k-i-n-g up your quote!
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« on: January 31, 2014, 14:36 »
Anyone notice that intriguing line in the blurb about Yay Images "over one million celebrity images are coming in February"? What's that about?....
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« on: January 31, 2014, 12:08 »
No I didn't know! That was interesting if I care to upload something new, because I've been rotating things in and out, like some other people, by deleting and filling the holes.
In case anyone doesn't know - the free account limits you to 25 images for sale at any one time. There is no limit to the amount of images you can upload. I assume you can change which 25 are for sale when you like (I never actually found this out as I upgraded to a paid account when I hit 25 uploads). In other words, you do not need to delete anything if you want to put new images up for sale. Regards, David.
Like I said, it was an assumption you could do that which I never got to put to the test. There may be an easier way to switch images on the free account (which I don't see anymore) but just did some digging in the forums there and found a thread saying that if you hit edit on an image and make all your "mark up" boxes blank the image is removed from sale -thus presumably freeing up a slot for a new image. Reverse the process anytime if you want to. Regards, David.
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« on: January 31, 2014, 09:51 »
Yes they were sent on Amazon before I deleted them!
I have there free account from last month, just to see how is going there... So I delete photos to upload new because space is limited
In case anyone doesn't know - the free account limits you to 25 images for sale at any one time. There is no limit to the amount of images you can upload. I assume you can change which 25 are for sale when you like (I never actually found this out as I upgraded to a paid account when I hit 25 uploads). In other words, you do not need to delete anything if you want to put new images up for sale. Regards, David.
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« on: January 26, 2014, 07:23 »
It's a start up. They only take exclusive images/video. Base prices start at $150.00 (good luck with that one). Oh, they can charge you "storage fees" if you don't sell enough. Couldn't judge the images as none of my searches returned any results. I rather suspect nobody here is likely to be trying them  Regards, David.
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« on: January 11, 2014, 09:13 »
I don't know about the rest of the world but Brits tend to go down the pub every Friday lunchtime and the afternoon is usually spent giggling or dozing.
I'm obviously in the wrong job....
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« on: January 02, 2014, 13:48 »
Mine just reset within the last hour or so, so no worries. Regards, David.
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« on: December 24, 2013, 15:23 »
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all manage to take a little time off, relax, drink something warm, and have a super holiday. Thanks for being part of MicrostockGroup.. without you all this place would be a bit lonely
And the same to you Tyler (and everyone else here). And thanks for founding Microstockgroup...without YOU this place wouldn't exist Kind regards, David.
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« on: December 20, 2013, 15:25 »
All good with the revised guidelines themselves. Just a tad unfourtunate that I chose yesterday to publish a blog article on how to style editorial captions for the various sites. Just had to add an edit with the revised information Anyone wanting to read my out of date (in a day) post see here http://shootingstock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/creating-captions-for-editorial-images.htmlWill have to do an updated version soonest. Regards, David.
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« on: November 28, 2013, 15:32 »
Sigh......they rejected it again despite me following their example YET AGIAN
Llandudno Wales August 7, 2013: Vintage Holiday Coach
Seaside coach on the Great Orme road, Llandudno North Wales with driver giving a guided tour via a microphone to passengers on the coach who are looking out at the view out to sea.
Why not just do it in the proper format - as in the links I posted, instead of trying to do it your own way ?
And - I think you could probably write a better caption than that too. If you are going to bother. Aim for two sentences with no repetition.
If it's a "vintage" coach, why not use a second sentence to tell us something about it. What make is it? When was it built? Who operates the tours? How long have they been doing it? Usually a quick Google search will bring up whatever you need for the caption. Regards, David.
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« on: November 28, 2013, 15:06 »
^^^Looks like Spray and Pray took one as well. Just to confirm, if it helps at all, that I'm not experiencing any problems with the site as described. Using IE9 and my desktop computer. Regards, David.
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« on: November 21, 2013, 05:11 »
^^^^^Just to add - PhotoShot is a British based group that has been buying up a whole bunch of traditional style stock agencies for years now. Other collections in the group include Retna, The Travel Library, UPPA (Universal Pictorial Press), LFI (London Features International), Bruce Coleman collection etc - so if you ever worked with any of those your images will now be under the PhotoShot umbrella. Takes me back a few years seeing those names again Regards, David.
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« on: November 12, 2013, 15:59 »
I'm sure you need not worry about that because you did it for the best of reasons. That said, the better way is to upload new versions with a note to the reviewer -saying you will delete the previous uploads on approval of the new version. Regards, David.
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« on: November 06, 2013, 05:41 »
my only concern, which I have been discussing with Benji is regarding submitting RM content (from Alamy, not exclusive) at PicFair, need to understand if that is 100% safe or not
I wouldn't know the answer Luis as I'm not on Alamy myself (unless Yay have finally got around to shipping my images over under their year old partner deal -lol). I expect some of the Alamites here could help -or why not just email support at Alamy to be sure there are no issues? Kind regards, David.
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« on: November 06, 2013, 05:34 »
How do you delete individual images from yay images?
Go to My Account then Portfolio. Click on the image you want to delete and there will be Edit/Delete symbols on the bottom left. There will be a double check message asking if you are sure -then it's done. It can take some hours for it to actually be no longer visible in your port. Regards, David.
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« on: November 05, 2013, 08:51 »
had no idea about the commercial uses, can you tell us more?
just saw the comment on your blog!
Probaly "promotional uses" would have been a better choice of words e.g. you can use images in brochures for products and services and email marketing etc but not for external paid for advertising/packaging etc. Here's a link to their license page with fuller details: https://www.picfair.com/LicenseeAgreementKind regards, David.
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