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« on: July 12, 2014, 08:19 »
Can anybody explain the appeal of an image like that?
I can explain that image. Its a contemporary and impressionistic take on the snapshot aesthetic. It looks like a casual misfire - which is to say that it looks typical.
It would not look out of place in fashion layout or on tumblr. And that fits with how she is dressed, the texting etc. It looks like she is hanging-out, nothing much to do.
(Or change the blue for red and youve got something which could almost be a still from Dont Look Now. And maybe it is a bit sinister too.)
I can explain anything, stealing food from little children, urinating in public, whatever you want, it doesn't mean for moment that it should be appreciated/accepted  ... and if a stock image needs 'explanation' it's already a failure anyway.
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« on: July 11, 2014, 02:47 »
it's pretty hard to get a rejection on shutter if you upload stockworthy stuff.
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« on: July 10, 2014, 02:11 »
Is stocksy a great agency? Take away the elitist element, is it making more for contributors than those agencies that the rest of the great unwashed contribute to? (no sarcasm here, genuine question)
I see no evidence that the OP is not concerned with a USP - quite reasonable that this might take a bit of thought but a different USP is not the same as no USP.
I think stocksy is loaded with enthusiastic talented amateurs who are still in a hooray mode and just flattered by someone actually paying for their shot.
All this doesn't apply to you if are magically exempt from their hipster curation, able to upload usual stock images that are proven to be of the selling type
Some how I don't consider folks like Sean an enthusiastic talented amateur but that's just me 
How did that even come up?
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« on: July 10, 2014, 02:09 »
No, stocksy is a very poor seller - and not just "personally for me". They posted numbers on site -of course labeling them great-and-whatever (kickass?)- trusting their audience not to bother or be able to do even a back-of-the-envelope calculation. I can and did. The numbers are poor, and of course confidential to stocksy members. I think stocksy is loaded with enthusiastic talented amateurs who are still in a hooray mode and just flattered by someone actually paying for their shot.
All this doesn't apply to you if are magically exempt from their hipster curation, able to upload usual stock images that are proven to be of the selling type
Must be doing OK for some people. It seems to be at the top of the unranked sites every month (up there with Clipartof and self-hosted). I know it is a smaller voting group, so there is some bias. Still, some people are getting sales and voting for it every month.
Anything in the world does OK from some, that's saying nothing. The poll is useless, anyone can click in anything.
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« on: July 09, 2014, 14:27 »
Is stocksy a great agency? Take away the elitist element, is it making more for contributors than those agencies that the rest of the great unwashed contribute to? (no sarcasm here, genuine question)
I see no evidence that the OP is not concerned with a USP - quite reasonable that this might take a bit of thought but a different USP is not the same as no USP.
No, stocksy is a very poor seller - and not just "personally for me". They posted numbers on site -of course labeling them great-and-whatever (kickass?)- trusting their audience not to bother or be able to do even a back-of-the-envelope calculation. I can and did. The numbers are poor, and of course confidential to stocksy members. I think stocksy is loaded with enthusiastic talented amateurs who are still in a hooray mode and just flattered by someone actually paying for their shot. All this doesn't apply to you if are magically exempt from their hipster curation, able to upload usual stock images that are proven to be of the selling type
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« on: July 09, 2014, 14:14 »
2. Many more good-quality, easy-to-use cameras in phones.
That's not supposed mean anything for you, unless it's just a hobby and you are uploading your snapshot-best-of...
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« on: July 09, 2014, 14:11 »
Sales are all time low now everywhere.
Nope. I'm f.e. heading for a BME. the low earner sites are selling more images these days than top agencies.
No the aren't, not even close. All wrong, so the rest is ignored.
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« on: July 04, 2014, 03:51 »
Like comment after Tudor, if you don't get it, then it's not a place for you.
Hipster curation. Problem is that hipster is just another word for bad taste. Looks more and more messy. That's what you get if people with no clue try to be 'very different', bit like that guy with piercing-holes in his faces who's pictures are going round the net. My few shots that do sell there are the most 'microstockeeey' ones, but they don't even accept that kind of stuff anymore - I know, I tried. The rest, about 99%, the ones they liked, just sit there. Also because of their peculiar selection, creating these series was incredibly time consuming, thus making stocksy the worst waste of my time ever in the field of stock. If you think istock is bad and a waste of your time and money, this is way worse if you pull your head out fo the hoo-ray bucket and look at the facts. So instead of 'my so cool buddy with a handlebar moustache, ther should get a commercial concept and art schooled ppl. Also things like writing to as 'we don't have a transcript, but we have a kickass summary...' Idiocracy popped into my head instantly. Plz don't talk my like that. Ever.
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« on: July 01, 2014, 05:10 »
Thanks for the help. One more thing I kinda vaguely remember reading somewhere is that you could creata a new pseudonym and disable that after making it the 'owner' of the image. Anyone know anything about this?
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« on: June 30, 2014, 09:48 »
Contact member services and ask. They are usually quick to respond. No way to do it yourself that I know of.
I did that, we ended up at the 180 day lock in, unless there is WWII or something.
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« on: June 30, 2014, 08:17 »
Hi all, I need to remove / disable or in any way make unavailable few of my images on alamy. Does anyone know a workaround on the 180 day lock-in for this?
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« on: May 30, 2014, 07:30 »
DT doesn't take 70% of the profits, not even of the sales. The 70% out of independents' sales must cover also the referrals, partners, human resources, technical resources, advertising, taxes and so on. And let's not forget that exclusives get 60% out of any sales. Even more, you can compare our subs with other agencies' subs and decide for yourself who pays more on a sub from the day one a contributor joins the agency.
You don't fund the beta test alone, Dreamstime pays for the people and technical resources required as well. And we're not getting the 70% either. While you don't have to do anything more than you already did (uploading the images), we have to pay more for the resources involved in the test.
Let's face it, the free images are good, but not good enough to impress a partner or a customer.
Since a plenty of successful businesses run on a lot lower percentage cut, your whine about expenses is instantly rejected. This has been cleared years ago with plenty of live running examples, again, and again, and again, and again.... why would anyone even bring up? It's an insult to everyone's intelligence. I personally don't EVER want to hear again how the majority of income coming from the thousands of my tediously prepared images is hard to get by on, after I trust them to your ppl without almost ever asking even a question about trustworthiness... untill now.
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« on: May 30, 2014, 03:33 »
The email we sent was created by our legal department and our partners'. It's still our email and I won't pass the guilt on someone else: I'm sorry if it doesn't provide the information you want. This is what we were allowed to share. We tried to say more, but this thread is the sad proof that things can't be kept confidential.
Is this deal good? Yes, if it works well, it will be very good. If it doesn't or it's unfair, then it will not be allowed to run any further. If it goes well, everyone gets paid. If it doesn't, then it means the potential was not there, end of story.
How long it will run? Probably a few weeks, maybe more, maybe less. How large it is and why we didn't support it ourselves? Look at the size of our database, envision a larger partnership. Try to put things into perspective.
As for Dreamstime and its royalties. We still award 60% royalties to our exclusives like in day one.
Again, nobody is forcing you to participate. Feel free to opt out if the deal is not for you. Be respectful and you will be respected.
Imagine going into a business conference or meeting of investors and their lawyers, offering all this vagueness... You would be out the door in under a minute: "Is this some childish joke?"
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« on: May 29, 2014, 02:18 »
I opted out, account still active... and yes this is a good example why I for example am anonymous, and not so that I can 'just criticize' people, as some trolls would like to assume.
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« on: May 28, 2014, 11:04 »
"2. This is NOT free."
you bet... it's not free for us, we have expenses producing these photos.
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« on: May 26, 2014, 02:52 »
He probably needs the boost. IS performance might not be what expected. He still needs income from other sites as well to make it worth him while. I still have a feeling we will get a news report someday that he went bankrupt.
I doubt that. The reason why many others have a bad time at IS might be because he is having a good one, because his operation is rather large 'entity'...... and it doesn't seem to be shrinking.
Its not a bug, it is a dirty way to boost Yuri's portfolio in the best match, his pictures are up in best match from a few days ago. A new way of insulting and harming the authentic Istock exclusive contributors
That's what I was saying. Yuri's stuff is big enough to shrink sales for others with his 'special placement'.
Thats what I was saying, but you doubt that was the case and now you do agree. Now I am confused
Sure, just try point out where does your post talk about others having less downloads from his stuff getting on front of theirs. That will help you get sorted out.
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« on: May 24, 2014, 08:55 »
He probably needs the boost. IS performance might not be what expected. He still needs income from other sites as well to make it worth him while. I still have a feeling we will get a news report someday that he went bankrupt.
I doubt that. The reason why many others have a bad time at IS might be because he is having a good one, because his operation is rather large 'entity'...... and it doesn't seem to be shrinking.
Its not a bug, it is a dirty way to boost Yuri's portfolio in the best match, his pictures are up in best match from a few days ago. A new way of insulting and harming the authentic Istock exclusive contributors
That's what I was saying. Yuri's stuff is big enough to shrink sales for others with his 'special placement'.
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« on: May 24, 2014, 08:23 »
He probably needs the boost. IS performance might not be what expected. He still needs income from other sites as well to make it worth him while. I still have a feeling we will get a news report someday that he went bankrupt.
I doubt that. The reason why many others have a bad time at IS might be because he is having a good one, because his operation is rather large 'entity'...... and it doesn't seem to be shrinking.
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« on: May 23, 2014, 02:25 »
That's no less than 2800 times his aggregate downloads. amazing perfomance.... very professional 
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« on: May 21, 2014, 12:07 »
Never mentioned lights. Very amateurish.
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« on: May 21, 2014, 12:05 »
ELs on fotolia are very-very rare. That's why they are ready to give you this 'tempting' offer They know you'll almost never get one.
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« on: May 21, 2014, 01:20 »
I had one sale on FAA in about a year. I pretend it doesn't exist - It's not hard.
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« on: May 21, 2014, 01:18 »
...and the video itself is a retar_ded-concept-coupled-with-really-bad-taste type useless junk. bad acting, bad props, just bad everything.
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« on: May 15, 2014, 18:44 »
If I understood their announcement correctly, there was an increase even for those who opted out of the dollar club. Is this correct?
Yes. But the increase is only for sales in their monthly subscription packages, not for regular subs. Until now there was no way to know where a subscription sale came from. Now, if a subs royalty is different then your usual one, you know it is via a monthly pack.
I guess that's because almost nobody buys monthly packages. So smooth & tactical
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« on: May 07, 2014, 00:52 »
I've had more serious trouble with my MACs than I ever had with PCs - in 2012 both my iMac and my Macbook crashed within 2 days of each other! My antivirus software finds the occasional virus and cleans it.
Yet, despite the higher cost and their track record, I wouldn't go back to a PC. I've used my husband's and friend's PCs from time to time over the past 6-7 years since I switched and find them far less user-friendly than MACs.
As a photographer, when I print the colors match, even from my uncalibrated laptop prints look much as they do on my screen. Personally, I find it worth the difference. And the convenience of the MAC stores and their online help beats any of the PC manufacturers I've dealt with (I had trouble with my Dell and HP PCs/laptops too - and getting help was always a trial).
Just one woman's opinion.
Once you get the hang of the MAC again, I think you'll be happy. Apple Care is a necessity. Good choice.
Same experience here. I worked with macs for years and years, they crash like any other computer, but when they do it's a lot more severe issue than with a PC. With a PC it was always just the application in use dying and doing it instantly, I could reload it in 2 secs. With macs, it was the wheel spinning for god knows how long, because you never knew if it was a crash or just the system getting clogged up. When it didn't come back after about 5-10 mins, it always needed cold reset and waiting for the whole system to reboot. You get very-very quickly disillusioned from the mac myth when you do some professional workload on them.
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