Quote from: Pilens on June 09, 2013, 03:10

Your last question first: just get the code line from FAA, install the Wordpress plugin "iframe", create a page "Prints" (or whatever), paste the code (and remodel it a bit according to iframe-plugin syntax), add that page to your main menu - done!

Thanks, I did that but it just wont work, its either placed at the bottom of the page below the blog menu widgets, or if I use a blank page, its not showing up at all. I think the Javascript code line is blocking the iframe code from being read properly as WP doesnt support direct JS.

Our print page is at http://www.picturemojo.co.nz/prints-from-fine-art-america/

The code for our page is:

<h1 style="text-align: center;">Prints from Fine Art America</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">You can order prints of a selection of our photos in various media from this page.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Please note that print orders placed here will be fulfilled by <a href="http://www.fineartamerica.com" target="_blank">Fine Art America</a>, and their shopping cart is separate from our cart for image licensing on the main site.</p>
<iframe style="display: inline-block; width: 100%; height: 820px; border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://fineartamerica.com/widgetshoppingcart/artwork.html?memberidtype=artistid&amp;memberid=******&amp;domainid=0&amp;showheader=0&amp;height=600" height="240" width="320"></iframe>

using the iframe plugin. Is that what you have?

Quote from: Reef on June 08, 2013, 20:39

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Quote from: Ron on June 07, 2013, 16:27

I dont know of a site that doesnt require a registration for a download. Its a once off, and then all they need to do is login when they come back. I think people expect to sign up these days. And its only a username and email, very quick. I do agree that emailing the password might be a it cumbersome, but if they want the image, they will register.

if the site uses paypal there's no need to register

clickbank just takes you to a payment screen, no need to register to download programs or images

for those who want it, it should be an option

Not a real solution, but is it possible to set up an anonymous guest account? Then set the username and password to default to "guest" and thus allow anyone to purchase from the site without having to register!

actually I've done that before for online games -- anyone can 'login' as a guest & play

not sure how it would work here -- perhaps someone can test it out?

One problem with that approach at present would be that every anonymous user's download links would pile up in one place. They would have to be restricted to email only.

Quote from: shudderstok on June 02, 2013, 20:46

well i guess we are a bit different, or maybe a lot different. firstly i don't classify my work as sh!t, I prefer to think of it as very high end work, you know, the type of work that enabled me to cash in huge on the first gold rush pre getty, during the getty reign, and unlike your assumption, during the second gold rush at the micros, only IS. so please, don't speculate about me, and also, i am not gnashing my teeth as i have made a very good living shooting stock - better than most i'd say, and still continue to do so. i am also not clear where you read that I had the inability to earn money from stock so that is throwing me off a bit, i am however very clear that the returns for individual photographers will slowly diminish over the next ten years, and i think it will start with the ones who proudly shoot what they deem to be "sh!t", they are a dime a dozen on the micros. it will take the quality shooters longer, but they too will slowly have their returns diminish over the next ten years.

To be honest I'm finding that the real goldmine nowadays is to shoot sh!t ... but obviously to shoot it well. You'd be amazed how many popular subjects (i.e what the buyers actually buy) are staggeringly under-represented. All the money nowadays is in Cornish f^*king pasties. Well ... maybe not all of it ...  but most of it anyway.

Thanks Gostwyck, I've been wondering what to shoot next I've done a Cornish pasty, but I haven't yet done fish fingers...coming soon!

I agree with a lot of what you say Gostwyck, but Shudderstock has good points too.

Producing a cornish pasty on white for the little guy and selling it in large numbers for a few dollars is fine, but the big buyers are buying that image on subs for even less.

You will no doubt say that many subs images are never used, and that may be true, but we could all have a much better living if we sold less images for just a bit more money.

Much as IS was doing, until they overdid the more money part.

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Quote from: falstafff on June 01, 2013, 02:14

Locke with DP??   I find that extremely hard to believe, surely not with their set base royalties? I thought he was dead against low-based royalty places as a code of honor.

I find the pricing and royalty level ok and on par with GL, for instance.  So, I'm OK with that.  No plans for "every" site.

Your images would probably average $1 per image/month at SS, possibly better given time to become established in the default sort order. In other words if you uploaded 10K images to SS then they should generate an income of $10K+ per month. Because of the high-volume it is also remarkably steady income too. If you can find a better return than that elsewhere, as an independent contributor, then I'd love to hear about it!

Maybe, but I'm in place right now where I don't need to support sub programs, and would rather not.

Quote from: Mantis on June 02, 2013, 06:32

Congrats, Sean. I took some time to view your latest work and what a WOW factor it continues to be. You are a very talented artist.

Thanks!  I'd rather be shooting then keywording 8 years of images....  I quite like the new garden center series - I'm going to do a BTS blog sometime this week.

But don't DP have subs? We put a few hundred on there, but got very few sales (although I'm sure that won't happen to you Sean) - almost all sales were 30 cent subs.

In fact when we asked them to remove our photos, they offered a higher level, but with so few POD sales, it would have made little difference.

Has something changed?

These results really surprise me.

1) We are seeing no growth at SS, in spite of continual uploading. SS is not dominant in our results, only one of several similar. They are not our top earner.

2) We are seeing month on month growth at Alamy, and are optimistic about this site.

3) We had a BME at DT, I know they are cyclical, but still, hope to see it continue. Wish they had something like a Level 5 only section, with no subs. A gap in the market, I think, but no one seems interested.

4) IS was up over April, nice to see.

You probably know my uploading philosophy, I have repeated it many times, so won't bore you by doing so again. Anyone who doesn't know and wants to, feel free to site mail.

After Leo Blanchette interview I made another post about Colin and Linda McKie (PictureMojo).
Thanks Colin and Linda for your time.  The post was published a little late due to my commitments but finally here it is

Thanks Alberto!

Mine are a random mix of what I have over there.

Same. I would say that everything sells at Alamy.

I don't think I've ever bought anything online without having created an account on the seller's website. It's simply the way things work.

Quote from: tab62 on May 29, 2013, 19:16

The voting is so close that this reminds me of the election between Al Gore and Georg Bush where the state of Florida demanded a recount which took months to decide.

Okay, I know it's totally OT, but I live in Florida, and I voted here in that election.  Since it was personal for me, let me clarify something for you.  THE RECOUNT DIDN'T HAPPEN.  It was blocked by the US Supreme Court.  So no, a recount didn't decide the election.  To this day nobody knows for sure what that recount would have shown because it wasn't allowed to be completed.

Another OT, but I think relevant to this discussion about trolls and general unpleasantness:-
I'd love to know why someone gave Lisa a -1 for this statement of fact.
Is the person brave enough to explain? Thanks!

I think what you are suggesting is too much of a reaction to cure the problem. I can think of only 3 forum members I'd like to never hear from again, two of them I think have been previously banned.

Wherever you go in life, there's always a small number of people spoiling things for everyone else.

It seems to me that all you need to do is re-ban people more quickly - as soon as you realise who it is, and that doesn't take long.

This was never a sales thread, it was merely to show a live site used by a Stocksy customer using the photo's in context.

Sadly I thought people here were curious, unfortunately MSG doesn't seem to be able to handle it, so there's no real point passing any more information on.

People are curious Matt, please keep posting about Stocksy. Just ignore the trolls!
Sadly even banning them doesn't work for long, they just can't help themselves and keep coming back under other names.

I see something strange when I do a search on my site, my images show up with the keyword I search by, and I get a banner on the bottom with Cathyslifestockphotos and 4 image numbers below the banner.  If I refresh the page, the 4 images show up one at a time, but they go immediately back to image numbers only.  If I goto Cathylifestockphotos and try the same search (chicken) I see here images with that keyword, and banners and pictures (mine included) for each artist she is networked with.  Any idea why her images don't show up on my site, only the image numbers?

I'm seeing that as well, some of Cathy's images have no thumbnails, but the main image pages are OK.