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Messages - MarcvsTvllivs
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« on: January 20, 2015, 17:06 »
How about the "our contributor console doesn't strip out capital letters" project? How's that coming along?
You're the second person to mention that. Maybe I'm out of the loop. Could you elaborate on that for me? You can do that here if you like, or you can email me directly too: [email protected]
For as long as I can remember, all of our keywords have always been all lowercase. I'm not sure what impact the case of the letters could have on anything though...? If it's a big concern, I'll be happy to bring it up with the team, or at the least I could find out why we do it that way.
It's not about keywords. Pond5 converts the descriptions and titles to all lower case, which is a pain to fix.
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« on: January 20, 2015, 16:44 »
How about the "our contributor console doesn't strip out capital letters" project? How's that coming along?
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« on: January 18, 2015, 04:00 »
Goes to show how different our experiences are -- my sals at Shutterstock have been very strong, especially since fall and surprisingly all the way through the holidays and, so far, January.
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« on: January 17, 2015, 04:15 »
Kiez is a bot as are most recorded visitors. Since when can a visitor vie a full size image?
Exactly -- the preview image is certainly big enough to abuse, but it is not the full size image.
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« on: January 10, 2015, 05:30 »
No, DT creates the tiffs on their site. Here are the additional formats you can upload -
The additional format is a file that doubles the price of the maximum raster (JPG) file for that file. Photographers can upload RAW files in the following formats: arw, pmp, srf - Sony ; crw, cr2 - Canon; cmt - Chinon; dcr - Kodak; dng - Digital Negative Format; j6i - Ricoh; mos - Leaf Valeo; mrw - Minolta; nef - Nikon; orf - Olympus; pef - Pentax; raf - Fuji; x3f - Sigma; rw2 - Panasonic Lumix.
Illustrators can upload vectors as cdr- Corel Draw, ai - Adobe Illustrator, eps - Encapsulated Postscript, png - Portable Network Graphics.
Ah, sorry, my bad!
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« on: January 09, 2015, 13:06 »
It does indeed work the way you describe it (with the exception of Dreamstime, who do allow a TIFF upload as a secondary, "premium" format). Like you, I am bewildered as to what good the whole thing is supposed to be doing.
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« on: January 09, 2015, 08:57 »
Having worked closely with engineers on a major App-based project I can tell you: It is hard and expensive to develop for both iOS and Android in parallel, and it is often not worth going the Android route.
The reasons are manifold -- including that good Android engineers are much harder to come by. So I understand Alamy's decision to only float this test balloon on the iOS platform, especially with those usage numbers, which I think it is very transparent and generous of Alamy to share. I wish other agencies were more like Alamy, but meanwhile everybody here just keeps attacking them over something that seems like a reasonable, well-explained business decision.
So what youre implying is that they should be made first because its easier to put together an iOS app?
I think that for any app to be widespread it will have to be created for both platforms anyway, and it makes more business sense to develop an app which caters to over 80% of the phone market first, than one that barely covers 10%.
Except Alamy's numbers are 41% to 7%, reversed. I am not discounting Android, I am sure it's a major force in the phone market and here to stay, ever growing. What I am saying, and this comes from personal professional experience, is that iOS is a *way* cheaper way to reach people in practice. That may eventually change, but right now it is a reality.
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« on: January 09, 2015, 07:17 »
Having worked closely with engineers on a major App-based project I can tell you: It is hard and expensive to develop for both iOS and Android in parallel, and it is often not worth going the Android route.
The reasons are manifold -- including that good Android engineers are much harder to come by. So I understand Alamy's decision to only float this test balloon on the iOS platform, especially with those usage numbers, which I think it is very transparent and generous of Alamy to share. I wish other agencies were more like Alamy, but meanwhile everybody here just keeps attacking them over something that seems like a reasonable, well-explained business decision.
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« on: December 19, 2014, 05:16 »
Interesting they'd rather refund the sales than share the proceeds with the authors.
Not that I disagree with what's been said here about Flickr and Yahoo, but I think refunding the sales is a good gesture. Actually paying out to the authors is not as easy as you'd think -- Flickr has no reliable identity or payment data in most cases.
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« on: December 17, 2014, 12:05 »
As part of my multiple-tier backup strategy I use Arq for cloud backup. It's a nice piece of software (Mac only) and the developer seems very dedicated to improving it and providing support.
What it does is it creates backups on your choice of storage service: Amazon, Google, FTP -- it supports a number of destinations. My current backup strategy is hourly backups of my OSX user folder (most application data, downloads, desktop) to Amazon S3 and daily backups of my long-term storage (photos, videos, documents) to Amazon Glacier. I manually exclude data that doesn't need to be backed up or that already has a cloud mirror (Evernot, Dropbox).
A lifetime license of Arq cost me $60, my Amazon Web Services bill is less than $10 per month. Not much for peace of mind.
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« on: December 16, 2014, 04:02 »
Syria is on the OFAC list
That may make it impossible to contribute as a Syrian. It shouldn't make it impossible to contribute photos that were taken in Syria.
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« on: December 11, 2014, 17:33 »
Peter Lik likely bought it himself, to generate publicity and get the record.
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« on: December 01, 2014, 09:17 »
Just a little update: I now have about 50 images on Stockimo and made my first sale. Practically no payout limit, so I was paid $25 today (50% of $50 sale price). I like Stockimo.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 17:41 »
I am not saying CC is always the right thing (I almost never CC my images, I want money) nor that it is always used by the right people and for the right ends. I was just trying to tell you that it is not a scam. It's a legal tool to ensure that you can "give your work away" while making sure that you can limit what the recipients are allowed to do with it (if you want to) and that you are cited, which to its academic creators was the most important thing. I am not saying it's right for us.
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« on: November 21, 2014, 10:27 »
- The image creator is getting nothing
serves them right.
the freetards wouldn't believe the CC licence was a scam and now they'll learn a lesson or two.
I am sorry, but that's BS. CC is not a scam, it's been created by one of the most respected intellectual property experts of our time (Prof. Lawrence Lessig, currently of Harvard University). But you have to realize what it was created for: academia. What he mostly had in mind was a way for professors and other academics to freely share without publishing houses and the like inhibiting this flow of ideas. And yes, applying this to photos (taken by or for academics) makes sense, too. In academia, having your name credited -- getting cited -- really is worth money.
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« on: November 20, 2014, 16:36 »
Sadly, the opt-out for subscriptions just gives me a server error. So I guess I will have to pull my port and miss out on those $1.50 per annum. Also, how does anyone think their site is well-done? It is neither designed to be intuitive nor is it technically sound (quod erat demonstrandum).
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« on: November 20, 2014, 16:29 »
As a lawyer... you should do something about this, Alex. I can't help you but there are definitely people out there who would jump on the opportunity to send them a nice "Abmahnung" -- which they very much deserve.
As a microstock contributor... who knows what they would do to your account.
As for the "mistake" part: Corporate mistakes need to have consequences. Our personal ones do.
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« on: November 19, 2014, 18:55 »
Currently in the middle of my best ever run with SS. Mind you, I'm pretty low-volume... I'm talking about 10-12 sales per day as opposed to a more regular 1-4. I'm also 99% editorial so perhaps not a great gauge of how things are going generally.
Very similar situation to mine.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 12:15 »
Not a video contributor, but... I had stopped uploading to Bigstock after introduction of subs there a year ago. Now I think it is time to pull what's still there. It's not like I will particularly miss those two beers per year.
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« on: November 12, 2014, 16:05 »
I don't see an option for professional photographers on Amazon so I doubt they are deliberately limiting the usefulness of the cloud service. Maybe they just haven't put a lot of resources into it and if they get lots of people signing up for it they'll make changes like adding folders? Maybe some people with Amazon prime can try it out and let us know how functional it is. Can you bulk upload and download files easily for instance?
Amazon S3 (and Glacier) is the option for professionals -- including photographers.
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« on: November 10, 2014, 21:14 »
I had a smugmug site for several years, but it was just too expensive relative to the sales and exposure -- their seo never got my images noticed, whereas symbiostock's seo got immediate results and much higher alexa ratings.
otherwise all positives for smugmug and the support was friendly & fast.
Thanks for your reply cascoly! Sounds good... too bad their SEO isn't great, but my site isn't supposed to be for sales primarily -- I might make a separate Symbiostock site for that eventually. Hi There,
I am using Squarespace, so far only part of images added for sale, but got one sale during a month 
http://www.kalevitamm.com
Very nice! Beautiful photos and a great website to showcase them.
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« on: November 09, 2014, 14:04 »
I am also about to finally make a "real" website and am torn between Photoshelter and Smugmug. Can someone comment on which site they prefer? Am I under the right impression that Smugmug is a bit of a "friendlier" company? After all the evil that is happening in stock I'd hate to sign up with one more group of less-than-wholesome people...
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« on: November 09, 2014, 11:37 »
I think it is interesting to share what sells on Alamy these days... my bestsellers are very travel/editorial, with a couple of images of a famous university campus in the lead. That is in terms of sales -- in terms of revenue, random stock photos are the best, as they are RF and still net a lot per sale on Alamy.
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« on: November 08, 2014, 16:03 »
My sales were pretty decent last month but terrible for a while before that. It will come back, don't worry.
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« on: November 03, 2014, 22:27 »
One thing that I would like to see is for the fields in bulk edits to be pre-filled. Just take the contents from the first image and put a checkbox next to the field to activate or deactivate it for editing.
It is really annoying right now that I have to select a single image, get the keywords from that and then paste them into a separately opened bulk edit field...
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