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Phil, thanks for the feedback, if I may ask you - what did your "note" to scout say? I sent the image above to scout, but I wasn't sure what to say... or whether whatever reasonining and explanation you may have will matter for scout.
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pretty much.

Hi, can this be reviewed please as it is selling very well elsewhere.  But it is pretty hit and miss (just got 3 back from scout saying no the reviewer is correct, one of them sold 69 times in the last days at shutterstock, first time I've had anything sell anywhere near that much).

Phil

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Hi,

I had a number approved, then more and more rejected to the point that I have almost given up trying to get them through. I worked out that I uploaded 97 and got 15 of them on, 8 of which went through scout.  Unfortunately those they do accept sell well (not everyone has illustrator?).   My approval rating went from about 70% to 45% over a few months. So now I get 25 uploads a week, and I make sure no more than 5 or so are this type, and with luck 2 might on  (although I see I just got 4 out of 5 through this week, must be a nice reviewer).
(Funny I had this discussion the other day through sitemail. Other person was annoyed that their acceptance ratio is now down to 16% as this is there main stuff)


Phil

1503
Shutterstock.com / Re: Flashback of "no flowers"?
« on: March 06, 2008, 19:37 »
Just a little bit of curiosity. Couple of my flower shots somehow got in with original submission. 3-4 from the same set (and quality) were later rejected because of "we do not need this". But... First two continue to get couple downloads per day. Is this just a customer hunger for no/little new flower shots?
I see the same policy on several sites, does it mean that soon nobody will be able to get flower picture that is not couple years old?

I find them hit and miss for rejection.  a chyrsanthemum I took got the we dont need this, but sold same day on both canstock and BigStock.

I dont do a lot but find it helps if you can name the flower rather than just "flower"

Phil

1504
My port is certainly fitting your profile but the image quality request is forbidding: Images should be captured using professional level DSLRs of 12+ mega pixels or Pro Digital Backs
My D200 only shoots 10MP.

Corey, I have seen a number of your friendly and helpful posts so please dont take this the wrong way and it is not really directed at you, just a general comment :)

Always amazes libraries that specify which camera is acceptable.  You're not a good enough photographer and you're images aren't good enough if you dont use camera X.  Next year you wont be good enough unless it is 14/16/18... mp camera (hmm megapixels dont matter?) much like two libraries that decided 11mp will be their minimum the week sony released a 10mp dslr and photolibrary put theirs up 3? times before just specifying models.  Obviously not in gogo's case but libraries / people then wonder why microstock started and got so strong and has such high image quality...  :)

Phil 

I hope goes well for you, it always good see more diversity and people and companies that challenge the 'norm'

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I registered 2-3 days ago without a hitch.  It must just be you they dont like :):)

Phil

not sure on support time sorry.

1506
CanStockPhoto.com / Re: Big changes
« on: March 04, 2008, 19:54 »
about 50% rejected from last batch, mostly for keywords.  And of course like shutterstock they dont bother to tell you what keywords. Think I'll turn off their keyword suggester.

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Albumo.com / Re: Payment?
« on: March 04, 2008, 17:51 »
thats all you need to do (well thats I did :)

Phil

1508
Off Topic / how long online on this forum?
« on: March 04, 2008, 17:06 »
Having a play and I clicked profile, first time that I have since I registered :)

Anyway under stats is total time spent online - I am 2 days and 25 minutes ! (seems a lot to me :)

what are you on? :)

Phil


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sales seem to have been down. I have had less, but bigger images.  for the past week or so, my daily average is at about 65-70% of previous.  But I have been sitting around 390 in 7 day rank (the best it has ever been :) most of last month I was 450-550. So to my thinking either sales are down a bit for everyone.  Or the people at the top are 'hogging' all the sales :)  hopefully pick back up again soon :)

Personally dt & ss are making up for it, both are going great for the week or two.  But LO & CRE are each outselling StockXpert ? just the ebbs and flows :)

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Alamy.com / Re: Another best strategy thread...
« on: March 04, 2008, 04:25 »
10mp image at alamy = $330 I believe this to be a full extended licence (the biggest from any site, except for buyout) so the equivalent at istock is 100 credits or about $130 to buy the same thing.

still a fair bit of difference :)

I have over 1000 images taken with 6mp camera on alamy its been over 2 years since I had a rejection for quality.

Firstly, Alamy don't accept "10MP" images without up-sizing, secondly the price depends on what they're using it for.  They've had sales for thousands, they had sales for not much more than microstock.

sorry I meant, to buy an image at 10mp from either site (so from alamy it would be upsized then downsized) and with alamy it would be RF, non distributor sale, non novel use, non negotiated, just plain price :):)

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Best match woes...
« on: March 04, 2008, 04:20 »
very simple imo, ford are more likely to take legal action :)

1512
General Stock Discussion / Re: Books: Do you know these ones?
« on: March 04, 2008, 04:14 »
i looked at the first one at amazon.  72 pages bit thin?  I wonder how much benefit it would over spending a few hours on strobist?  But then again its not expensive.

re: lee frost book, he had large chunks of this book scattered around his website ephotozine.  Not sure if it is still there, but be worth looking to see, although I cant say I got much out of it.  I had a similar one trying to remember who by now :) he runs / ran a photo request service but I cant remember his name.  didn't get much out of it at the time, but it reinforced things that I saw again later his advice was

always people in the shot.
they are interacting with anything else in the shot
copy space
basic composition
watch backgrounds

Phil

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Alamy.com / Re: Another best strategy thread...
« on: March 04, 2008, 00:00 »
Yes, when the prices variation is in a few percentage bracket but here you speak about selling the same pictures 200$ on Alamy and 1 $ or less in microstock agencies.

Everybody here seems trying to get a better return for their pictures, if you sell the same thing at both markets you just muddle the water a bit more.

Is it so difficult to keep some really good photos for the better paying market and help them to make a difference ?

10mp image at alamy = $330 I believe this to be a full extended licence (the biggest from any site, except for buyout) so the equivalent at istock is 100 credits or about $130 to buy the same thing.

still a fair bit of difference :)

I have over 1000 images taken with 6mp camera on alamy its been over 2 years since I had a rejection for quality.


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General Stock Discussion / Re: Sharpening
« on: March 03, 2008, 17:15 »
IMO 50mm lenses are usually excellent value for money, that is not perfect but for the price a very good performer.   If you are talking a sigma / tamron 70-300 (which is another good value for money lens but usually not spectacular) you're 50mm should be significantly better.  I have some beautiful glass ie voigtlander 125 & 180's but I also have plenty of shots accepted from a 35-135mm zoom that cost $20 from the pawn shop :)

I have shots that are technically perfect, but boring get rejected while shots that I know are a bit noisy or not so perfect get accepted because they are 'good shots' (well I think they are :)

as for sharpening I leave lightroom on default sharpening,  I usually do a little hiroloam sharpen (between 8-15) and then if needed (often for my taste) I high pass sharpen anywhere between 0.5 and 1.2 depending on the image and subject, and I often use masks to just hit specific points.   So basically I do the first 2 stages.  Capture sharpen and then gentle creative sharp but leaving the final sharpening for the purchaser.  Doing it this way I never get oversharpened :)

Phil

1515
about to add panther and zymm and maybe zymm. Was thinking about most photos but only see people unhappy with them so I'll give scan a go :)

their photographers page says they are behind in reviewing (about to get worse :) but they are employing new reviewers so thats positive :)


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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Best match woes...
« on: March 03, 2008, 03:37 »
snip... I'm pretty convinced that there is a hidden rating given by the original inspector....


i think so too, there seems to be too much differences between new images. Something is at work right from the very start and this makes sense.

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I love the start :D
That's all you'll love  ;D
SS is a permanent one night stand.
DT is your wife.
CanStockPhoto is your ailing grandma.
IStk is your mother in law  :o

ROFLMAO!!!

Perhaps Crestock & FT are like kids.  Worthwhile but can be frustrating at times

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CanStockPhoto.com / Re: CanStockPhoto Alexa ratings
« on: March 03, 2008, 01:16 »
hi

still higher than snapvillage, albumo (link below has these 2 + featurepics + LO + canstock)

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/imagevortex.com

this is really cool, try some like scanstockphoto, zymmetrical

panther doesn't rate.

then I put the big ones in, try and pick the difference between shutterstock, dreamstime and fotolia.  (StockXpert sits a bit lower)

anyway thanks for this :)




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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Best match woes...
« on: March 02, 2008, 04:56 »
I actually had a look on istock forums today (its pretty rare that I do)

in the suggestion section someone made the suggestion that number of downloads be made not visible (except to the owner of the file) much like shutterstock etc. 

Their argument was it would stop so much copying of ideas etc which I think is correct

but personally I think it would spread sales around more.  Less people would just buy the image that 5000 other thought was good and actually look for what they like themselves. thoughts?

1520
Mostphotos.com / Re: MostPhotos playing with legal fire
« on: March 01, 2008, 21:12 »
hmmm, I was looking at new sites to upload to but between this and their ratings, I dont think they are going to be around long enough to be worth the effort??

1521
Off Topic / dont think I should be a food photographer
« on: March 01, 2008, 05:53 »
hmm, I dont think food photography is a good choice for me.  Realised tonight between my eating, and my giving to everyone else I have wiped out over half the easter eggs before I finished with the photos! LOL going to have to buy some more tommorrow, oops :)

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feb was $2 off bme for me and almost doubled dec and jan sales :)

subs sales was only 6% of income for jan and the same for feb despite higher overall sales


1523
Off Topic / Re: Play and feed a hungry person
« on: March 01, 2008, 04:40 »
thanks for this.  I played and donated a few hundred grains (and bookmarked on my toolbar so that I can each day).  But I showed my wife and kids.  She has passed it onto the teaching forums that she is on.  My kids are up to about 5000 grains of rice in the last hour or so.  we are getting a lot of what does ??? mean :)
I think half their school will be doing during the week too :)

Phil

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General - Top Sites / Re: February 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: March 01, 2008, 00:30 »
wow, nazdravie 67% to IS!!

overall bme with 5% increase from last month.

ss 23% (best month in 5 months and best day ever yesterday)
is 43% (down from last month but still good)

dt 12% BME
123rf 6% BME
StockXpert 5% ($2 from BME)
FT 4.6% BME

BigStock 3% down
CRE 1%
FP 1% BME (2nd BME in a row since putting price up to $5 another month and I'll try $10)

Less than 1 %
Albumo,
Canstock
LO
Gecko BME :) first sales

Macro was equivalent to 22% of micro income.
 


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I thought there were stock agencies with more than 11 million images.  How many does Getty and Corbis have?

I think the point is largest "on the web", others have huge number of prints / transparencies or even digital that available to be search from web site.  Some like jupiter has about 42000 brands each quite small (in comparison to large libraries).

Phil

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