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1501
« on: February 17, 2010, 03:10 »
FD-amateur, I'd like to know too! Google is yer friend. ( thanks Keith/Zymm for the research) The points have been made. They do have deep pockets since they took the submitter market by shock, awe, and $$$. They have a marvelous collection by now, posing a real threat to thinkstock and perhaps shutterstock. The bad English issues have been solved. The reviewers know their job since it's the first site I know of that rejects for bad isolations or isolations on other backgrounds than black and white. It remains to be seen how they will take the buyers market. But having deep pockets, they can outsource the marketing to a US company very well. Comparing with under-capitalized ventures like FP, LO, CC, they have a leading edge. If they fail, it won't be because of money and that was my point. Since for now, they just have a virtual address in a Florida mailbox-suite, there is still the risk they will fall back in the Albumo scenario after 6 months. The longer they exist, the more big names that join them, the more trust they will generate.
1502
« on: February 17, 2010, 02:41 »
Uploads via Istock get the metadat to stick and go where it should, which I could never achieve through direct uploads, so that alone is worth the cost of my subscription for me. But you still have to do the disambiguation on site, and attach/upload model releases I guess? The onsite disambiguation is much slower than the one in DeepMeta. DeepMeta also attaches releases. DeepMeta is free.
1503
« on: February 17, 2010, 02:37 »
If you keyword all your images in Lightroom or similar before uploading to iSyndica then they appear just fine in all the sites you distribute to when you come to submit the images. That's not an issue because it's equally true for Filezilla. What the poster meant is that Isyndica only does the upload (like Filezilla), but even when you have all the metadata in the IPTC, you still will have to submit on every site to categorize, attach releases, and click all the proper boxes.
1504
« on: February 17, 2010, 02:32 »
iSyndica do many less important things but don't do (maybe can not do) the most timetaking thing: keywording. without submission prosess, iSyndica means nothing. multiple uploading can be done with fxp methods with much more cheaper. "analysis your earning" is just a "financial masturbation". +1 I never understood why people would pay for Isyndica. The only thing it saves is bandwidth. If you have enough of that, Filezilla does the same, and free. There is this hoax going around that Filezilla only can upload to one site at a time. It's not true. You can queue your images to all sites you want and then let it go. You can also send different file versions to different sites, like 5MP to SS and 12MP to DT,BigStock, etc... something that Isyndica doesn't do.
1505
« on: February 16, 2010, 15:00 »
is that stating the obvious? I meant SOME sort of guideline would help, which an earlier "kind soul" advised earlier What I mean is that most advise you'll read on blogs and stuff are just common sense things. The vast majority of blogs about microstock is for trapping you unknowingly into their referrals. Those who can't shoot, blog. They won't tell you the real things. The best tactic to find out what sells best is go to the sites and check the best selling photos.
1506
« on: February 16, 2010, 14:29 »
FD ... about the Dell; is the lack of reliability or the lack of service that turned you off? No I just found that post. It's not mine. I had a Dell laptop, their best then, from work 10 years ago. It never worked properly after 2 months: processor overheating, bad ventilation.
1507
« on: February 16, 2010, 14:02 »
If they said they wanted red spingleplonks, you'd get hundreds of them within a fortnight, so how would you be better off? You need to have the first spingleplonk then. You know what sells like crazy? Hands with 6 fingers!   Nobody with a clear mind is going to tell his potential competitors what will sell best.
1508
« on: February 16, 2010, 10:00 »
well, I looked around and there were those types of subjects in the lightboxes, which I thought I could slip into. In the 10 I submitted they weren't all exactly like the above, I did put in a cross mixture - but I think as most replies have stated they are saturated with this type of subject matter. Well actually landscapes, sunsets and architecture do sell, if the are either (a) landmarks/icons/famous or (b) exceptional. Food shots offer and endless variety of composition, diversity and colors. Landmarks are limited in the world.
1509
« on: February 16, 2010, 09:45 »
Ok, so Im the guy to take the heat ... the upload tool, already tested by many photographers, has been reschedulded to a later date. Ah, good to know. I wanted to register and upload, but I'll wait then.
1510
« on: February 16, 2010, 03:53 »
It was $75 offered for 6 teenager models shooting setup. No way somewhere on stock finding similar image to requested. After our critics request has changed but also not many of us (photogs) submitted our photos because even that was misery payment! Still, besides that there was submissions seeker didn't selected any of images uploaded! Thanks for the read and the site. The asker was a bit funny. He actually wanted to see what concepts photographers came up with, then let those copy by his local photographer. He wanted to pimp his site too. Some people have guts, and I hate those referral and web traffic hunters in disguise. That site is great to have an idea what real life buyers are looking for, and it might help to find selling concepts. If it happens you have the requested shot in your port (or on your disk, not processed yet), it's easy money. I just bookmarked the site.
1511
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:55 »
1512
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:42 »
Is that your tutorial site, Leaf? yeah
Great! What screen capture program you used?
1513
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:19 »
You'll get "second opinion" :-) And he got some hidden referral links fed through his throat without any substantial advice. Yack.  To the OP: don't upload at first to the 'easy' sites, you won't learn anything. First apply to iStock since they have the best and most helpful reviewers with the most detailed rejection reasons. That's why I'm on iStock at the moment. I don't sell much since I'm buried deep in the best match as non-exclusive Cinderella but I use them as my personal QC. What can I learn from 100% acceptance at SS? The second remark is that passing the QC (reviewers) at any site isn't the real issue. Reviewers don't buy. Your ultimate goal must be to produce salable images. The buyer is your real challenge. You won't make it with nice landscapes and meadows full of flowers. What product or service could be endorsed with it?
1514
« on: February 16, 2010, 01:04 »
It came true... just too bad that it's my competition using them!) That would be a great marketing thing! We are so good that even our competitors use our work! 
1515
« on: February 16, 2010, 00:58 »
thanks, that finally worked... but there's no info there. I got email saying my stuff was being moved to ThinkStock... but it's still not there. That is why I didn't cashout. Now... well... i'm waiting on a reply from support.. we'll see.  =tom
According the info I read at several places, you should only see your balance there, and your sales reports. Nothing more. They will keep StockXpert alive for contributors only to report sales on TS. I never read that ex-SX contributors could log in directly to TS to look at their earnings. That's why the password thing probably is a glitch.
1516
« on: February 16, 2010, 00:48 »
It's meant to be a server synch problem that is being put right. They say they havent lost any sales records, that it is just a delay in updating the stats but I wonder about that. The problem started on thursday or friday and when my sales finally appeared a few hours ago they were worse than normal.
+1, but it's just a feeling. My numbers are too low on DT. Lisa could tell.
1517
« on: February 15, 2010, 14:40 »
Wow that's sad...do they know what caused it?
One of the conductors blew the red lights.
What is "blew the red lights" mean?
Ignored. The idiot thing is they had a similar accident 10 years ago, and they promised to install automatic brakes when a driver/conductor passes red lights. But as the railways are still state-owned/controlled, it probably got lost in a swamp of red tape. There is no excuse since that line has several tracks as the fast train Eurostar to London and Thalys to Paris passes there too. It's all state of the art electric lines. By coincidence, I shot one of the trains last year in the station:  
1518
« on: February 15, 2010, 14:12 »
I remember a big discussion in BigStock (or maybe here about BigStock) because they had a partner whose resale price was much higher than BigStock's and, if I remember it right, we would receive the same as if the image was sold in BigStock (but I may be mistaken). The name was CrystalGraphics and you were very pissed off by it. "BigStock gets 25% of the $69 then we give you 44% of that which is 11% of the $69." I had many tens of sales from that site but never more than 1 or 2$ on BigStock. They must have made a small fortune by it. I had to let it go since I received ominous signs from high places. 
1519
« on: February 15, 2010, 13:59 »
Wow that's sad...do they know what caused it? One of the conductors blew the red lights.
1520
« on: February 15, 2010, 12:49 »
Doesn't work for me:(...
Don't use the saved password in Firefox. Clean the masked password in the box and paste it freshly in. Try several times. Do F5 (refresh) some times. Mine went through after some trials but I did all kinds of weird things I forgot. Try another browser, delete cookies. Try again... Once you get in, save the page offline as proof. I also saved the pages offline with all my earning since last payout.
1521
« on: February 15, 2010, 11:23 »
Happened a few hours ago near Brussels. Death toll 12-25 (unknown yet) since they just started extracting corpses. It happened close as I'm still in Brussels for a week, but since I don't keep a car any more in Europe, I couldn't reach the spot. I would have had problems anyways with my short 24-75 lens for some good editorial. slideshow 
1522
« on: February 15, 2010, 11:01 »
I can't login anymore and I wanted to request my final payment. I wonder if my money will be transfered over to my IS account? No. You can login if you try several times here: http://www.stockxpert.com/balance, not on the main page.
1524
« on: February 15, 2010, 10:33 »
Pimping alert. Update: I downloaded the app, and although I have the MS framework and my Vista is up to date, the loading (after agreeing the terms - in French) just didn't start. I had to cancel the install after 15 mins since nothing happened. Compared to DeepMeta that uses the same framework, this app seems not so well programmed.
1525
« on: February 15, 2010, 09:10 »
Fotomind is very easy! They also accept everything....but you never sell photos They made me 84$ since end 2007 but I didn't upload to them since then. Payout limit is 100$. It's interesting they mention the country of the buyer next to the sale. About 1/4 is from Russia... 
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