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« on: September 11, 2014, 07:01 »
im also a buyer and a lot of photos i buy i never use
As I wrote, these photos were already in use, often hundreds of places. Now google doesn't find them anywhere anymore, although they are still up on the places I already bookmarked, for example.
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« on: September 11, 2014, 04:18 »
It's not a one hell of an important issue, but kinda'o strange. From time to time I waste an hour or more checking out usage of my shots using google image search (to make this easy I use the plugin that creates a clickable camera icon on images). Whenever I have done this I got plenty of results even for average sellers, a ton for the best sellers. Nowadays, almost nothing. Even bestsellers that get 10+ downloads/day get almost no/no results outside of just the stock site itself. Anyone with similar experience?
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« on: September 11, 2014, 03:30 »
Hasn't Lytro been around for quite a while now, or is this a new version?
It's a new version, but it still has only 4MP
..and I would bet my granny that this 4MP is already a result of heavy interpolation.
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« on: September 11, 2014, 02:20 »
I think Apple should start designing jewelry. Just put your logo on a bracelet and Apple fans will claim it revolutionary. Apple should be fashion company.
It is a fashion company, has been for almost a decade. That's what we were talking about with buddies, that these iphones are basically jewellery substitutes for women.
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« on: September 10, 2014, 19:41 »
I find it redundant, since it only works with an iPhone. So now you need to carry/wear two devices? Meh.
Thats's what they call innovation in appleland 
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« on: September 01, 2014, 07:21 »
Can you show us an expample for sensitive use? Kind of a broad term, I would be interested in what it means in the real world, a real example of course.
I don't have one handy, but there are lots of theoretical examples: one example could be an image of a senior citizen used for a pharmaceutical ad about Alzheimer's medication.
A sensitive use might cause a reasonable person to believe that the subject of the image suffers from a physical or mental health condition; endorses, advocates, or believes in a particular product, service, cause or opinion; or is otherwise associated with an issue that some might consider controversial or unflattering.
So, for example, a major consumer retailer, pharma company or advertising agency that sometimes creates material related to prescription drugs, physical or mental ailments, etc., might want to have a set of licenses that allow them the flexibility to use images of people in a sensitive way - but not every use that they have would be a sensitive one (very few might fall under that category).
The important thing is that by being opted into sensitive use, you're opted into all enterprise licenses of the type that pay $75, $120 or more, even if very few would result in an actual sensitive use.
Best,
Scott
Thanks, I have a similar understanding of the term, but I would like to see one classified by the company as genuine sensistive, a real world example, just for the sake of it. Is it not possible to show one because of company policies, anonymity, etc?
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« on: August 31, 2014, 02:18 »
Hello,
These higher royalty sales are the result of enterprise agreements with large companies and advertising agencies. Typically, they work with Shutterstock through negotiated agreements, which can include things like the option for sensitive use (although very few uses would be a sensitive one), additional legal indemnification, extra workflow features, etc., to meet the exact needs of their business. As a result, they're paying higher fees and contributors receive higher royalties.
We have an increasing number of relationships that come to us through such custom agreements, which result in higher royalties paid out to contributors. Those customers are typically major publishing houses, major advertising agencies, and Fortune 500 companies around the world (among others).
Best,
Scott
VP of Content
Shutterstock
Can you show us an expample for sensitive use? Kind of a broad term, I would be interested in what it means in the real world, a real example of course.
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« on: August 09, 2014, 14:38 »
30% dl increase, 42% collection growth = 9% fewer sales per image, therefore you need to grow your portfolio 9% per quarter (about 40% per year) just to stand still, if my arithmetic is any good.
imho your arithmetic is meaningless, since about 70% of uploads is basically useless junk, that never gets any download. Also on the other and of the spectrum many shots that kinda "nailed it", often keep getting more and more downloads as time goes on.
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« on: August 09, 2014, 03:01 »
I haven't worked more the 4-5 hours this summer. I have a quite few series piled up, but I just can't get myself to do it. Two people wanted me to shoot their wedding but I just told them to effoff. Shooting weddings really is the pits of photography. I wandered around in nature (it's really world class beautiful here in my home town), rode my mountainbike in the mountains, been hanging out with one of my fav models in cafes, restaurants, travelling with my pals to even bigger mouintains in the alps, worked out so much that I'm actually gaining back my old shape when doing chinups was just basic... most have been rotting in some office most of that time, watching the sunshine peeking in thru blinders
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« on: August 01, 2014, 02:36 »
Image brief just licensed USD30,000 photo http://blog.imagebrief.com/. So it happened.
Interesting, that image is mediocre at best. The subject is spectacular tho, and most can't look beyond that for advanced, exotic concepts like "composition" I see taht all the time, some of my best sellers are my poorest shots. Just mind-numbingly boring shots selling dozen times daily.
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« on: July 30, 2014, 11:02 »
Since I removed my port from DPC, I get sginficantly more L-XL, etc downloads, and my income from fotolia has risen nicely.... so I don't really see what the_helll the pros could be.
the forum is set up to remove 'what_the_hell'? really? how childish can you get? grow up!
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« on: July 29, 2014, 04:18 »
I feel like walking walking on eggshells, I have to be extra careful not to offend some intellectually undernourished person simply by being logical.  ))
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« on: July 29, 2014, 04:08 »
I understand you Paulie ;-)
As I said in some other post, the stock business continues to be attractive at the begining ... when we aim to earn $100, then $500 ... or even $1000. After that, and at this time, most of us will face the true and learn that is very hard to make more money.
I think most of the contributors who have earn more (many more) than $1000 are facing a decline in earnings in the last years. And will be rare the new ones that will reach what we earn in the good old years of stock.
The stock photo business in microstock is not dead, but is not profit anymore.
this is very hard way to make a living? really? compared to what? I'd say 80% of this planet's working population would just facepalm if they heard this.
If you don't get it ... I was talking about "microstock profit"
It's good to be optimistic, but microstock photos are commodity products.
so is the average person looking for work. if you are not pretty much an expert at something, you are gonna be just part of the gray crowd that's getting flushed down the toilet by the unsustainable economy.
Do you know what is a commodity product? Google it ;-)
I do, what's your point?
Good ... then you agree.
about what?
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:57 »
I understand you Paulie ;-)
As I said in some other post, the stock business continues to be attractive at the begining ... when we aim to earn $100, then $500 ... or even $1000. After that, and at this time, most of us will face the true and learn that is very hard to make more money.
I think most of the contributors who have earn more (many more) than $1000 are facing a decline in earnings in the last years. And will be rare the new ones that will reach what we earn in the good old years of stock.
The stock photo business in microstock is not dead, but is not profit anymore.
this is very hard way to make a living? really? compared to what? I'd say 80% of this planet's working population would just facepalm if they heard this.
If you don't get it ... I was talking about "microstock profit"
It's good to be optimistic, but microstock photos are commodity products.
so is the average person looking for work. if you are not pretty much an expert at something, you are gonna be just part of the gray crowd that's getting flushed down the toilet by the unsustainable economy.
Do you know what is a commodity product? Google it ;-)
I do, what's your point?
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:36 »
So hilarious. Some newbie lecturing Pauly on how to go far in stock. This guy has been successful for years. He don't need your advice. You need his. If you ignore, well that's on you.
wow, he must be almost as great an expert and folk hero as rinder on the SS forums )
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:32 »
It's good to be optimistic, but microstock photos are commodity products.
so is the average person looking for work. if you are not pretty much an expert at something, you are gonna be just part of the gray crowd that's getting flushed down the toilet by the unsustainable economy.
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:23 »
I understand you Paulie ;-)
As I said in some other post, the stock business continues to be attractive at the begining ... when we aim to earn $100, then $500 ... or even $1000. After that, and at this time, most of us will face the true and learn that is very hard to make more money.
I think most of the contributors who have earn more (many more) than $1000 are facing a decline in earnings in the last years. And will be rare the new ones that will reach what we earn in the good old years of stock.
The stock photo business in microstock is not dead, but is not profit anymore.
this is very hard way to make a living? really? compared to what? I'd say 80% of this planet's working population would just facepalm if they heard this.
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« on: July 29, 2014, 03:14 »
It kinda gotten out of topic now. To sum up. My point is: This is passive income.that recurring cost is almost non existent It will be profitable no matter what. Unless what you shoot is really expensive to produce or your image is really amateurish.
The question should be when it will break even and turn profit. You need to do a break-even analysis. Basically time when (initial cost fixed cost variable cost) - all income = 0. Will It be in days?weeks? Months?
You wouldn't want to be dead before that! With this really simple method you will know where you need to keep the cost down.
Exactly, this is the emotional-dribble-free, logical answer. Passive income here means you can get your work related costs to almost 0. When people fail to understand how this leads to profit, it just means they got used to their poorly done stuff getting almost no sales, and they can't see tah it can workout an other way for someone more professional and efficient. The question after that is how hard you have to work to make a decent amount of money later.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 12:37 »
-do you even know what habeas corpus is?
Oh, my dear Topol, you really should have stopped while you were ahead!
So yes, actually, I do know what habeas corpus is. Not only from my long, long, looooong life as an American citizen, fully aware of my legal rights as spelled out in the US Constitution, but also from my not-quite-as-looooong-but-quite-lengthy-nevertheless tenure as a college professor of Romance languages from which I am now happily retired and which did involve, in the process of earning my Ph.D., considerable study of Latin.
So yes, actually, I do know what habeas corpus means, both in the civic sense and in the Latin sense.
Just a bit more proof of your tendency to bring foolish prejudices and cliched thinking to your style of argument.
Let's note how the ex-college professor couldn't answer anything, just went on ranting.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 08:54 »
Wasn't all the wars what bankrupt the old USSR?
I thought low oil price did it
It just collapsed by itself, and of course everyone took the credit for it, from the afgan mujahedin to USA thru western europe. At the endgame, their idiotic quota system had things happening like cargo travelling back and forth on railways for thousands and thousands of miles for no reason whatsoever. Their economy was made up of almost pure inefficiency. We here in the soviet satellite countries made endless jokes about this, like how their best lathe machine and it's award winning operator can create a couple of tootpicks from a whole timber in just 10 seconds.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 08:44 »
What difference does being elderly make here
Well, gee, I guess being a retired white American woman might have something to do with the fact that when I look at Barack Obama I don't see my "funky brotha' ".
Get it now?
And BTW, nobody who knows me in person would call me "elderly." I can tote 20 pounds of camera, 500 mm lens, and tripod for quite a useful distance. If you don't believe me, visit my website and see the wildlife images I make.
Another bad use of language and prejudice on your part, Topol (or whatever your name really is).
Let's just say that if G.W: Bush can have "swagger", Obama could be your "funky brotha", ok? but please... instead turning this into a physical-vanity rant, could you please tell me: -what was my prejudice? -what part of my post about Obama wasn't true? -how do you relate to Obama doing the things I mentioned? Are those things that you shrug off as insignificant? Or maybe it's all just 'bad use of language' somehow? -do you even know what habeas corpus is?
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« on: July 28, 2014, 07:59 »
and all you fools still think he is your 'funky brotha'. It's just painful to see.
I happen to be a 68-year-old white woman. I definitely do not see President Obama as my "funky brotha' ".
I'm also a lifelong moderate Republlcan, BTW, but I voted twice for Obama because, like so many other moderates, I was sick of the Bush-Cheney swagger-and-throw-your-weight-around-the-world attitude, the inattention that led to 9/11, the blatant lies ("Saddam's WMD", "mushroom cloud", "yellowcake from Africa", etc) that got us into Iraq, etc. I also care about other issues, such as conservation and environmental protection, human rights, equal opportunity, and other things that the GOP used to be good on but doesn't care about these days.
Maybe you should think harder before you judge others based on prejudices and cliches.
What difference does being elderly make here, besides that you really should know better with decades of life and voting behind you? Obama is bush without the 'swagger'. What was my prejudice or cliche? The NDAA, which makes it possible to just throw someone in a hole forever, hey who needs friggin' habeas corpus and all that enlightement krap? Driving bombs into villages because someone said there might be someone on the main square who might be connected to something that might happen? Really? What about ISIS btw. Does anyone seriously think they they are not backed/created by the western powers including USA? They almost make it obvious.
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« on: July 28, 2014, 03:59 »
Obama is a president, on which each american citizen can be proud of. That's my 2 cent from Germany.
+1
I am proud of him, roede-orm. Thank you.
Oabama sigend the NDAA into law, also he did it very sneakily in the middle of the christmas season when 'nobody is watching'. He personally conducts drone wars where he signs off on the execution of suspects. Contemplate this for a few secs to let it sink in: they execute 'suspects'. (I bet you just don't get what's so wrong with that) He didn't move a finger to punish or even to contain the wall street thievery. Instead ha made their main man, geithner, his reasury secretary... and all you fools still think he is your 'funky brotha'. It's just painful to see.
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« on: July 27, 2014, 03:43 »
Nikola Tesla told that first nuclear bomb used in war will be the end of all global wars in future...
So Hiroshima is behind us, so all big wars are ended!
Until Iran gets their nuke program warhead capable. And I strongly believe that they will use it. And what do you do to prevent development? Obama is too much of a * to tighten sanctions, so Iran will keep freely doing what we know they are doing.
Iran has no nuke program. The official report actually says that they couldn' find anything that even hints at Iran even trying to produce anything that could ever lead to a nuclear weapon... but even that's very-very suspicous because it's Iran! That's the satus quo. It' typical naive commie style propaganda for the dumbest of the dumb prols who never-ever read beyond headlines - belive my I know I grew up in an ex-commie country.
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« on: July 25, 2014, 02:44 »
Lauren are u speaking on behalf of your submissions or others? Is it your paintings getting rejections or your photos? Just curious because your photography is very high quality. If it's your photos why not submit a few to SS for re review and if they are reversed communicate directly with SS with some recommendations.
No, Not about me. just general consensus. sorry I brought it up. wonder why theres a huge thread here about SS reviewers beating folks up. and Im not talking about Newbies, But very seasoned shooters. Personally ...Never seen this much talk. If there non communication doesn't bother you guys, Then ....cool.
yeah, it's a general consensus..... of 4-5 people with subpar ports. Like that woman who was beside herself with fury because shutterstock wouldn't accept her 134th (literally) daylight shot of the white house. They were all different the real problem with ss actualy is: -they accept waaay too many junk if it's technically ok, ppl with gray and green faces, ridiculously inapt models bady lit, and even those holy grails of non-photographers: pigeons, ducks, 'my doggie in the backyard'. -low prices. They really should start raising prices gradually with so many customers addicted to the site.
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