Hi, I take this post to ask a question, apart from uplod pictures, should I be active on the site (like, follow peoples, etc.)?

thanks

it's why a never use model (especially not friends and family members...) lol.
If i use a model, the back facing the lens, we never see his face... my sales are 99% of landscapes / editorial. I try to avoid problems! I'm not a pro, only an amateur ...

I just sold my second video on Pond5, a Machu Picchu timelapse 4k for $128.60, me $64.30. (84$ CAD, i live in Canada)
My fisrt one just gave me 12.50$. Little port of 50 videos. 

I am with Pond5 since about May 2017.

they lost around 35 pics in my case, the pic have never reappeared. If I try to upload them again, SS tells me that my photos are in process ... This is already 2 days!

Quote from: Chicago913 on May 18, 2018, 17:47
I am closing down my Eyeem account because I feel it is to easy to steal images from their website, no watermarks on large previews and you can right click and download a 300 dpi 2x3inch image (why would anyone buy a license for web, etc. use when they can just steal it!)

I contacted them over a week ago to have my premium images removed and was told it would take a couple of days but they're still on the site. I have politely followed up to ask why they have not taken down my images a week later and they are not responding to my email.

What other recourse do I have to get them to remove my images? The only option on their website is to email their customer support.

I have a bin to delete my premium pic if i want. (right bottom of the page)

Quote from: HappyBunny on May 04, 2018, 17:41
I don't upload to Getty but I closed my Eyeem account when I realised that they are uploading to Alamy. I upload to Alamy directly. I didn't want Eyeem to sell my photos there and to get half of the amount of money I get when selling directly.

Alamy? I did not see that they have a partnership with Alamy ... I only receive emails from Eyeem regarding Getty only.

Quote from: Brasilnut on May 04, 2018, 14:29

Anyway, need to stop myself from checking so often.

me too! 

Quote from: HappyBunny on May 04, 2018, 15:22
Why not upload directly on Getty? Why go through a middle man and lose money?

The biggest disadvantage with Getty is that the contract is exclusive. That means anything you sell on Getty cannot be sold anywhere else. So all your eggs are in their basket with those images. If you pass by eyeem, you will get a cut of 50% for sure, but the exclusivity thing is not applicable... btw, i just do a test, i will see.

Quote from: pancaketom on April 26, 2018, 04:04
My Canva uploads from Feb seem to have disappeared into a black hole. Stuff from before and after have been reviewed and are in my port.

after my research, my batch of February seems to have disappeared in another dimension too ... I uploded the same batch and more at the beginning of the week, they are in my portfolio this morning ...

Quote from: cobalt on May 04, 2018, 11:37
The eyeem sales come from getty, so whatever you like on eyeem has no influence on sales.

On twenty it might increase visibility, especially if you win challenges etc....because the customers are on the plattform as well.

But I usually don´t click much, unless I really like it.

That's what I read on blogs too, with eyeem, you do not have to click or be followed or follow peoples, because your sales, if they're accepted by Getty, will come mainly from Getty. .

Twenty20, thanks for the info, I'll be a little more active on this site ;-)

And thank you for all the info you gave, it's really interesting ... $ 200 / month, it's really not bad!

Quote from: TommyBoy on May 02, 2018, 19:06
Been on both for about a year, EyeEm is much better as you have the chance of higher price sales.

This last month I made $96 on EyeEm (18 sales) and $16 on Twenty20.

Portfolio is around 400-500 images on both.

Did you sell only with getty? some with the market?

Quote from: angelawaye on May 02, 2018, 03:11
I've had 7 sales with Eyeem totaling $20.02 with 27 photos. I only gave my "lower" end images due to the watermark issue.

wow, this is not bad for a little port of 27!

Quote from: rushay on May 02, 2018, 08:43
I'm on both. Had a very good month with twenty20 had sales almost everyday and at times 6 per day. I've been with Eyeem since inception, you wait long for your images to go through to Getty where most of the sales comes from

what is your port number?

Quote from: lostintimeline on May 02, 2018, 00:15
twenty20 is a let down for me.i ve been with them    since 2014 but only managed to sell an illustration i did 8 times.that was something.they host different challenges for 20 to 40 bucks the big price lol but i feel that people vote for each other and so dont expect to win anytime soon.for 20 bucks i really dont care
eyyem is a very good alternative for me apart from some annoying rejections without any reason.the only downside is the no use of watermark in the pics.and there is always a chance your pics might get stolen.but i like that they are paying more than the 25 p you will get in ss .as for the premium.the pics that are selected for premioum that means that eyeem show  them   to getty and other sites like adobe but mostly getty and then they go for another review and so if getty accepts the image you get the congrats mail your pic is on getty .or if it gets rejected your pic stays in the market which you only get 2 dollars for each sale or 5 dollars i am not sure
also is the wait period. if your pic is selected for premioum you might wait for months till your pic reviewed by getty.i had a pic selected to getty for sale afer 1 year i posted to eyeem     

hey thanks for the info. So, if getty reject a picture, is this eyeem going to delete "selected for premium" and replace with "to the market"?

For those who are with these two agencies, have you had sales? If yes, how long are you with them?

I have also a question about eyeem, i have a port of 120 pics, all selected for the premium, if 120 photos are selected for the premium collection (getty), will they all be automatically accepted by Getty? Could getty decide to refuse some? I started recently and so far, I can see 25 of my pictures on the Getty website ...

thanks!

no sales since 4 days... it's unusual for me. 

My best month since my starting in may/june 2017 in term of volume and $ : IS, AS, SS.
I have 2 first GOOD sale with Alamy (started with Alamy in last december/january 2018)

-Very bad with DT and 123rf
-SS, too many 0,25 $ sale... (like 98%)

wemark youtube channel... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKIxNl0HhoTWshUnrBL70Og

just uploaded 300 pics... will see.

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Quote from: christiano on April 27, 2018, 17:39

Quote from: qunamax on April 27, 2018, 15:37

Quote from: christiano on April 26, 2018, 23:52
I tried to post my pics but that said my file is too large... i downsized it to 500 kb

Metadata :
f/18, iso 200, 45mm, 40 sec. long exposure with a tripod and remote for the click.
lens : olympus 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 ; panasonic g85

I just read that the sweet spot for this lens is f/8... i will try this next time!

I will test it with different aperture and put some weight on my tripod...

Thanks guys, i really appreciate your comments!

Something is very wrong with that image. At 100% it's smeared all over, like some extreme noise reduction leftover. Also I see a lot of posterization and pixelization in the sky and lots of artifacts all over.
I don't think the focus is a miss, it's just the general image quality is very poor, old mobile phone poor.
Please tell us if this was shot RAW or JPEG, what's done in post, how was it exported etc.

Also, that's 4/3 sensor you really don't need f18 to achieve deep DOF, f8 should be more than enough, you are just pushing long exposure heat noise for no reason, maybe that's what happened here, noise reduction working overtime to compensate for that.

Hey, thanks for your comment.

"At 100% it's smeared all over, like some extreme noise reduction leftover. Also I see a lot of posterization and pixelization in the sky and lots of artifacts all over." good conclusions! I need to learn a lot again...

What i did :
- shoot in RAW (LE noise reduction ON)
-Exported from Lightroom (100% high quality)
- Develop. in Lightroom
- some basic calibration, and did something with a noise reduction things (i'm at work, dont have lgroom in my face right now).
- Clarity : increased
-more vibrance and saturation a litlle bit...
Maybe the noise reduction thing didn't help?

Without seeing original RAW file my best guess is going to LE noise reduction in combination with 40s exposure, eating away all the details. Maybe even post noise reduction in LR, but I don't recognize it's abuse signature in this, this looks much more like usual small sensor in-camera noise reduction eating away all the details, LR noise reduction is pretty tame and has different resulting pattern .

Thanks for the information. Next time, il will try different settings...
But for sure, i will put my LENR at off, and take shot with aperture wild open, f/8, f/11... and i will compare my pic. For sure, to shoot with a bigger aperture = decrease the long exposure time...

thanks again for your comments, they are really helpful.

BTW, i just bought a pana g vario 45-150mm to replace my old olympus I used ...

Quote from: qunamax on April 27, 2018, 15:37

Quote from: christiano on April 26, 2018, 23:52
I tried to post my pics but that said my file is too large... i downsized it to 500 kb

Metadata :
f/18, iso 200, 45mm, 40 sec. long exposure with a tripod and remote for the click.
lens : olympus 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 ; panasonic g85

I just read that the sweet spot for this lens is f/8... i will try this next time!

I will test it with different aperture and put some weight on my tripod...

Thanks guys, i really appreciate your comments!

Something is very wrong with that image. At 100% it's smeared all over, like some extreme noise reduction leftover. Also I see a lot of posterization and pixelization in the sky and lots of artifacts all over.
I don't think the focus is a miss, it's just the general image quality is very poor, old mobile phone poor.
Please tell us if this was shot RAW or JPEG, what's done in post, how was it exported etc.

Also, that's 4/3 sensor you really don't need f18 to achieve deep DOF, f8 should be more than enough, you are just pushing long exposure heat noise for no reason, maybe that's what happened here, noise reduction working overtime to compensate for that.

Hey, thanks for your comment.

"At 100% it's smeared all over, like some extreme noise reduction leftover. Also I see a lot of posterization and pixelization in the sky and lots of artifacts all over." good conclusions! I need to learn a lot again...

What i did :
- shoot in RAW (LE noise reduction ON)
-Exported from Lightroom (100% high quality)
- Develop. in Lightroom
- some basic calibration, and did something with a noise reduction things (i'm at work, dont have lgroom in my face right now).
- Clarity : increased
-more vibrance and saturation a litlle bit...
Maybe the noise reduction thing didn't help?

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on April 27, 2018, 09:40
Also, one last thing I forgot to mention: atmospheric distortion/heat distortion!

You said you took the photo at 45 mm, which would be equivalent to 90 mm on a 35 mm.

That suggests you are quite far away from the skyline. Heat distortion, or atmospheric distortion, is yet another factor that can impact sharpness.

It would depend on the conditions on that particular day, but sometimes it will just be completely impossible to get a perfectly sharp image if you are too far away from your subject. The light gets distorted and it doesn't matter what equipment you have or how still your tripod stands.

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I shot a 600 mm time lapse from a 10 km distance the other day and it was completely ruined by heat distortion. On a day without temperature fluctuations between the water/ground and the air it would have worked, but now it looked like I put a turbulent displacement effect on it.   

Thanks a lot for the info, it will be very useful for me... 600mm time lapse 10km! man...
I will put all this into practice at my next outing

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on April 27, 2018, 12:47
Go to the admin page for your portfolio and see if it is there.

i do that everyday...

Quote from: pancaketom on April 26, 2018, 04:04
My Canva uploads from Feb seem to have disappeared into a black hole. Stuff from before and after have been reviewed and are in my port.

did they tell you? how did you know that your batch was gone? thanks

I tried to post my pics but that said my file is too large... i downsized it to 500 kb

Metadata :
f/18, iso 200, 45mm, 40 sec. long exposure with a tripod and remote for the click.
lens : olympus 40-150mm 4.0-5.6 ; panasonic g85

I just read that the sweet spot for this lens is f/8... i will try this next time!

I will test it with different aperture and put some weight on my tripod...

Thanks guys, i really appreciate your comments!

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on April 26, 2018, 16:15

Quote from: christiano on April 26, 2018, 16:11

Quote from: SuperPhoto on April 26, 2018, 04:21
mm, two things, without actually seeing the picture.

a) Maybe you really do have a good quality image, and the agency you submitted to rejected it. Don't take it personally, not everyone accepts everything. It doesn't necessary mean its a 'bad' image - just means they don't want it for their site.

b) if it is a large cityscape - I find focusing on a stronger lightsource tends to produce a better picture, because then the exposure/etc is set correctly for the surrounding elements. I'd also do a couple tests to see what produces the best results for you.

Hi to all, i have a lot to learn from you! here's one of the rejected picture downsized for web usage... i will read you all and come back

Please post the full resolution. With a big fat watermark if you wish. We can't pixel peep the focus without full resolution. 

It does look soft now, possibly a diffraction issue (aperture at a high f number). But it could be due to downsizing - impossible to tell without the original resolution. Also, if you post the metadata if would be really helpful - aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length and which lens you used.

Ok, i will do that, but i'm not home right now... i can confirm you that i took this pic with a small aperture, like f/22. i will come back with the full resolution pic later. thanks