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1601
« on: January 28, 2014, 05:47 »
Yes! Some stupid rules prevent me getting Paypal or Skrill payments so you are paying me with cheques. I'd be delighted to add you to my Payoneer account.
1602
« on: January 28, 2014, 05:38 »
I've also had a big surge in DT sales but mostly subs. I wasn't very active there over the last year and had a major push to upload in the last six weeks of 2013, but even so it was only about 5% more files yet my dls are more than double January last year and my RPI is down by more than half, so I just might match last year's earnings but it's not certain yet.
1603
« on: January 28, 2014, 03:15 »
I can't help wondering if someone uploading 127 images at once is paying much attention to them. I know I spend an average 15 minutes per image in processing - even though the final result doesn't look much different from what I start with.
1605
« on: January 26, 2014, 11:59 »
Camera bodies change as sensors improve lately but that seems to have slowed down now. Maybe a camera body cycle will stretch out to something similar to film bodies now.
That's not going to happen, the manufacturers need everybody to rush out and buy a new model every three years. It's a fair bet that if we stop doing that their businesses will implode. I've got a lot of 50s, 60s and 70s glass and the good primes are still good primes. Some of them produce a distinctive look that you don't get with today's optics (yes, it's because of design limitations, but it still adds some character).
1606
« on: January 26, 2014, 10:47 »
I've still got the Velbon tripod I bought at university in about 1975 for my Pentacon Six. It's still perfectly usable. I keep it at my house in Greece so I don't have to lug a tripod to and fro. I'm also using the 17-40 f4 and the 70-200 f2.8 I got ten years ago, when I was just starting at stock. The 24-70 had a nasty accident, or I would still be using that, too.
1607
« on: January 26, 2014, 10:44 »
Me neither. But I respect them.
Yes, it's like being a professional and working with professionals, isn't it? 
1608
« on: January 26, 2014, 08:44 »
I don't think the SS flotation indicated anything negative about the market from the agency's point of view. There's no reason why they shouldn't keep building their market - the problem is purely for the suppliers. If there are four times as many of us next year and we are all making half as much as we did, then that would mean the agency had doubled its earnings.
Falling earnings for suppliers actually benefit the agencies, who hang on to money longer before having to pay out.
1609
« on: January 24, 2014, 13:40 »
I still get sales there - $100 nett so far this month from 4k images. That's still ahead of anything but the "top tier" in my stats. I'm probably doing better than some on Alamy because I shoot what I feel like without just sticking to traditional "microstock" stuff. Well, mostly I do stick to simple food stuff, but sometimes I don't.
Maybe I'm too lazy and rough round the edges to ever have had a hope of making a fortune at MS, but the reverse of the coin might be that I'm not so smooth and commercial that I wreck my chances at Alamy.
1610
« on: January 24, 2014, 13:29 »
It's the weirdest mess-up I've seen from them yet. The impala is also only visible at one size setting, try to zoom either way and it gets fruity.
1611
« on: January 23, 2014, 20:14 »
Don't know what's going on, my account balance goes up and then goes down. My two last download dissapear ! I didn't receive email refund. Scary !
There used to be an issue with two or three different servers being updated at different times, so one might know about a sale while another hadn't been notified, and suppliers got shifted betweent them while this was happening. So vanishing sales might not mean anything more than a slow server update.
1612
« on: January 22, 2014, 04:49 »
When you go faux-exclusive at iS and the SS share price rises.
When you work out that selling your mountain of gear and investing the money in a deposit account at 0.3% interest would be a good financial move.
1613
« on: January 22, 2014, 04:37 »
aren't we always complaining about prices being too low?
Isn't it the commissions that are too low? That's probably the main gripe among indes.
1614
« on: January 22, 2014, 03:58 »
That's interesting. EL volume must be subject related. I've only had two in the last 2500 to 3000 sales.
1615
« on: January 21, 2014, 16:33 »
Ah! So it's the old StockXpert accounts that are seeing the earnings. They usually pay those first, don't they, and then iS some time later?
1616
« on: January 21, 2014, 16:31 »
I hope you're right.
1617
« on: January 21, 2014, 15:51 »
I think I know what is happening. They seem to prioritising the search by matching the region the searcher is in to the region the supplier is from. As I upload from the Middle East I get Asian and European sales but I no longer seem to get them from the Americas (I'm not sure about Australia/New Zealand). In the last 24 hours I have had one customer from the Americas, who picked up four similar, very specialised files which might well have been on a search with all the results on a single page.
I hope this is just experimental as it is a heavy blow to me. As with all these swings and roundabouts changes there will be others doing very nicely, if they happen to be zoned in the main selling regions.
That is what they told me. That is a part of their algorithm.
If that's right, then I'm sooooo scrooowed.
1618
« on: January 21, 2014, 15:33 »
I think I know what is happening. They seem to prioritising the search by matching the region the searcher is in to the region the supplier is from. As I upload from the Middle East I get Asian and European sales but I no longer seem to get them from the Americas (I'm not sure about Australia/New Zealand). In the last 24 hours I have had one customer from the Americas, who picked up four similar, very specialised files which might well have been on a search with all the results on a single page.
I hope this is just experimental as it is a heavy blow to me. As with all these swings and roundabouts changes there will be others doing very nicely, if they happen to be zoned in the main selling regions.
1619
« on: January 21, 2014, 05:43 »
I believe that Kalium is the name for the 123rf collection on Agefotostock.
Veer seems more likely. It matches the sort of numbers I have on Veer, I've got an awful lot more files on 123.
1620
« on: January 21, 2014, 01:45 »
@gbalex...
so it appears SS is purposely exploiting content providers for their own gain.
just one more reason i'd never contribute to them.
That's definitely iStock out of the window for you, too  Actually, it's all of them. You need to find another job where the person handing you cash isn't exploiting you. Off hand, the first job that comes to mind is being a self-employed plumber. That way, you are the one doing the exploiting (at least, you are if you are in the UK). Or you could try being a lawyer or private practice doctor. Or even a shareholder in Shutterstock On topic, the agencies do know the value of an image: as long as we are willing to keep providing them in return for what they pay us in commissions, then they've got the value right. Ultimately, we are the ones who value our images, by determining what sort of remuneration we are willing to part with them for. We can, if we like, value them at $10,000 each - and then sit back to wait for a buyer who agrees with the valuation.
1621
« on: January 21, 2014, 01:37 »
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1622
« on: January 20, 2014, 08:45 »
FYI
The Nikon d 4
comes with 14 mpix.
They are 16.2
(but all perfect)
However many and however perfect, can they shoot stock-quality photos without any trouble at ISO 3200? The Canon 6D does.
Most of the tests that have seen about high ISO noise give Nikon winner over Canon.
Then in the real use I don't know.
http://www.dxomark.com/en/Cameras/Ratings/List-view
http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Ratings/List-view/Sports
Here the first Canon is in 8th position.
I must say, those results come as a real surprise to me. But then I've only got older Canon models to compare the 6D with (the 5D MkII being my previous camera). Maybe the Nikon guys really have been having a ball while we've Canonistas trailed along behind them.
1624
« on: January 20, 2014, 04:45 »
FYI
The Nikon d 4
comes with 14 mpix.
They are 16.2
(but all perfect)
However many and however perfect, can they shoot stock-quality photos without any trouble at ISO 3200? The Canon 6D does.
1625
« on: January 19, 2014, 14:38 »
Useful megapixels for most of us has plateaued. The race should now be sensor quality.....dynamic range....noise reduction.etc.
Someone talking some sense at last! Extended dynamic range is the advancement that will most likely get me spending my money to upgrade.
The 6D is quite phenomenal for its low-light performance.
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