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What lens would you recomend for an all around lens? The one that mainly is all attached to that camera for all those on the spot candid shots.

I love my Tamron 28-75 f/2.8

Much cheaper than the Nikon version and produces very nice results.

I also think that you'll get used to seeing f-stop and shutter speed on the rear LCD very quickly if you go with the D5000.

Tamron makes some decent lens don't they? I've never tryed them

This is a question worth posing to get clarifications, at least to the bigger sites.  Maybe I'll shoot off a question to the admins at SS, IS, DT and FT to ask them that if a contributor dies, can the spouse log in and update payment information into his/her name and update the social security number and other pertinent info.  It would really bother me to think they might prevent this.  I have come to see my microstock revenue as a sort of secondary life insurance that would provide a nice dividend for my family at least for a little while after my death.

Good suggestion...let us know what you find out. hopefully it will be what we'd like to hear.

Quote from: donding on January 10, 2010, 17:27

What lens would you recomend for an all around lens? The one that mainly is all attached to that camera for all those on the spot candid shots.

Depends a lot on your budget.  My favorite's the Nikon 24-70mm F/2.8 for anything involving people.  If I'm shooting landscapes, it's the 17-55mm F/2.8.  Neither one is exactly inexpensive, but the quality's worth it.  A little too much chromatic aberration on the 17-55 on a sunlit day, but that's easy to fix in Adobe Camera Raw.  You do shoot raw, don't you?

Of course Raw....thats the only way

That is really something to consider. I have thought about it every once in awhile and realize those images will sit on those sites forever unless the site goes out of business and if they continue to sell that income will just pile up forever and ever. And sites like Shutterstock will send you a 1099 at the end of the year to you after you're dead. I don't think the IRS would be understanding on this matter. You would have to go through a probate process to get the income put into your name and would have to show you inherited the copyright. More than likely I would assume the sites would remove your images. Depending on the country and the agency they more than likely wouldn't coraparate and if there was any large sums of money you'd proubably have to end up taking them to court and that would cost a fortune.....so the stock company would again hold on to the money so they can cushion their coffers.

I was just checking out EBAY and there are quite a few D5000's on there but not many D90's. That is proubably because photographer's perfer the D90 so there isn't as many floating around out there.

PERSEUS
What stock site are you on that pays out at $25.00? All the ones I'm on payout at $50.00 or $100.00, no less. Unless one of my non performer's do.
Ass to the point of paying out per month, look at it this way, if you had 10 bucks sitting in 10 different accounts waiting for the 50 dollar mark...that adds up to 100 bucks. Then the risk of these companies going under with your 10 bucks that they won't pay back because of their agreement adds up. Many of the unknown stock sites do this.

edit: sorry that ass word was suppose to be As.

I haven't checked recently but last time I did I think my total earning with them was $8.00 +. I really don't mess with them anymore because they are a waste of my time.

Quote from: donding on January 09, 2010, 17:36

How are your sales with that many uploads?

I looked at your portfolio and noticed the five dollar bill. I'm surprised they let you put that on there. I had a problem with some of the stock sites (can't remember if they were one of them) saying they couldn't put a full image of currency on the web because of counterfiting. You can put a partial image just not a full one.

donding

My sales have been steadily increasing with my having had multiple BMEs at SS in the last six month. My December was $2.00 short of topping my November BME so I am very happy there.

Regarding the U.S. Five Dollar Bill and other currency, I had a couple of flat money images that were approved prior to their changes to their upload policies for these kinds of images. So I guess for now the images out there will continue to earn until they make a policy of removing images of this type that were previously accepted as SS.

Back on topic. What kind of upload pace do you maintain per week to maintain your sales own volume at SS ?

-Mark
http://markwpayne.wordpress.com
 

To be honest with you I don't know for sure how many images I have on there. I upload in fairly large batchs. I haven't uploaded for awhile now because of other things going on in my life and then yesterday my camera decided to crap out, so I got all kinds of time on my hands. That's why I've been on here so much lately. I gotta compare camera now. You got any recomendations? I got a D200 right now.

They've being around quite a bit as a 3D site, but have gotten into stock photos since August of last year (I think), they're fairly new to the market but I have really high hopes in this one, I'm uploading there every chance I get (480+ so far w/edit: 7 sales), easy to upload to, very helpful and friendly administration and you collect your commissions at the end of every month (60%), sales are not abundant yet, but they do sell...personally I'm very happy with 3Dstudio, Matt and his crew.

http://www.the3dstudio.com/?id_affiliate=474737

Here's my referal link in case you want to join in.  

I'll have to try it...I like the idea about getting paid for your sales at the end of every month so I wouldn't be stuck on a site with a little earnings waiting for payout.  I wish they would all start doing that.

Maybe I'll start to learn since I have all kinds of time now that I found out today my camera crapped out!!

this may be a stupid question, but is this a stock site or just 3d or both??? I got stock but no 3d

Are they worth uploading to and is it hard to become an approved contributor?  And from reading the posts it sounds like you're getting paid per upload if I read that wrong, forgive.  I looked over there and didn't see any info on it.  I'm looking to expand my reach.  I'm down to 5 stock sites and this one sounds interesting.

Thanks,

Anita

I would suggest you go to their website and do a search for your type of images before you even consider it. Most of the photos I saw in general had no or very little downloads on them. I had never heard of them untill this post.