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Off Topic / Re: Trump in Putin's pocket
« on: July 18, 2018, 13:44 »
Low-down-crappy-fake politics on microstock forum? Why?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Video sale for $1.50?
« on: May 27, 2018, 03:47 »
If thats how they want to play it then best not to upload any video to them at all.

Predicting that in a couple of years footage will bring to contributor same about of money as photos for now.

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I am currently shooting with an APS-C camera. I am going to buy a new camera, full frame or medium format.

does anyone have any experience or knowledge as to whether medium format images earn more money on stock photo web sites as compared to APS-C or full frame?

keep in mind my best selling images right now are on a 1" sensor at 8mp, and I just started doing photography 1.5 years ago. does anyone have any longer term sales numbers to compare sensor sizes?

I have 645D. It is utterly impractical for microstock purposes.
Good modern APS will be sufficient. Their payments way too low to buy MF camera for content delivery.

I even push pictures from Nokia N808, but heavily processed of course.
And not ashamed of it, they totally deserve it.


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Cameras / Lenses / Re: Pentax 645z opinions?
« on: May 21, 2018, 05:55 »
Such equipment almost useless and hard to receive payback considering the royalties of microstock sites.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Revolucy
« on: April 24, 2018, 03:00 »
Over 3000 images and about half a year there.
0.25 earnings. 5$ in total.
Hope you get it?

156
General Stock Discussion / Re: Anyone working SuperStock?
« on: April 24, 2018, 02:57 »
I have there over 2000 pictures for about a year.
No reports from them.
No web interface contributor. Pathetic.

157
Off Topic / Re: Deleting Facebook
« on: April 23, 2018, 04:17 »
I am not using any social network for about 2 years. Waste of time and energy.
Showing your pseudo ego to fake friends? Nah, i'll better study something.

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For me stocks generate far more income than these print sites.

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Over 7000 pix. 2$ "earnings". Useless.

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Stopped uploading there one month ago, due to low kick.
But i specialize in imagery, not video.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime Files Lawsuit Against Google
« on: April 06, 2018, 04:55 »
Poor DT tries to earn money from big fat G.
World is very predictive.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy Record of contract changes...
« on: April 06, 2018, 04:53 »
No earner to me, so not interested regarding any news from Alamy.

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123RF / Re: 123rf reducing commissions
« on: April 06, 2018, 04:51 »
Forget about this crap, stopped uploading there 4 months ago.

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Forget about this crap, stopped uploading there 4 months ago.

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Pretty sure that about 60% images on the web are stolen.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: New SS interface
« on: April 04, 2018, 03:36 »
Redesigning won't help them from decline.
Greed will kill their project and then all industry itself.

Firstly, they must solve content spammers problem, because it looks like that 100 millions of images out of 195 millions are similars and pure garbage.
Rules must be strict - immediate ban, with only ONE warning.

As for the second, to simplify things they must write script, which will delete all images, that are not downloaded for say 2 years or so.
This is logical solution.

But my life experience shows, that main heads of the projects in 99% cases are pretty much dumb golden boys (or big papa's girls) and it is almost useless to wait for adequate solutions from such "personalities". 



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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Thinkstock Gone?
« on: April 04, 2018, 03:23 »
oh iam so excited! Next is SS with Bigstock...

R2D2, looks like that this statement is pretty close to reality.
Not so long ago i've seen some agencies, that are proud of 0.25$ royalties. And positioning such earnings as advancement.

Situation is demanding completely new marketplace that will over-top SS.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock - Where are we going?
« on: March 23, 2018, 09:00 »
All other phones including newest iPhones and googlophones are pure crap and could not be submitted.

Crap or not, but they are just as good (or bad) as 99% of the drones out there, from which footage and images get accepted and sold in great numbers everywhere.  :)

yeap, if newest smartphones don't have appropriate sensors (in terms of physical size), then drones don't have them definitely.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock - Where are we going?
« on: March 22, 2018, 10:26 »
When these things happenning I think that it is really the end

I never use my mobile phone to take pictures, but last week I have decided to make a little experiment.
So I took three picture with an old Moto G2 with a very bad 8 Mpixels camera, and after a little post production I have uploaded them on Shutterstock, just to see what will happen.

Well, all three have been accepted.
I am speechless!

I attach some crop @100% of the images.

Really, today they accept even this $hit (noise, artifact, blurred/out of focus, etc.)?

I submit  *heavy* processed images from Nokia PureView 808 shrinked to 3000 width.
Only daylight images with good illumination could reach acceptable quality.

I have hacked firmware which gives me not 38MP, but 41.5 output. 

The second phone that can provide similar quality is Panasonic CM-1.

All other phones including newest iPhones and googlophones are pure crap and could not be submitted.

And you know why they accept low-quality images, because of their greed. It is transparent.


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New Sites - General / Re: Mega Sales on 500px!!!!
« on: December 25, 2017, 08:23 »
Not expecting any good news from this site from here on out. They should change the name from 500px to 5px.
101% true. Original post looks like cheap ad of 5px site.

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My 5cents into conversation.
Compare with this: http://a4stockphotos.com/
Bestartstock is deadly alike a4stock!

I've earned 7$ via a4. Stunning!
I think that above mentioned stuff should explain to you everything.

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Nope!

Absolutely precise answer!
After 2 years of being there i've earned ~110$ [250$ in total but - 140$ for awesome subscription]. 
Almost 8000 images and ~2.5 million of views. Pretty useless in terms of money earning.

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General Stock Discussion / 0.13 sales on Dreamstime
« on: November 30, 2017, 07:01 »
Hooray! We've reached new low. That is definitely was my sacred dream!
Yeahhh! And it turned to reality! How about 0.0013 then?? Get psyched! Oh i am so psyched

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General Stock Discussion / Re: freepik: another low player?
« on: November 11, 2017, 05:32 »
Guys, thanks for your opinions!

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