Quote from: cdwheatley on April 15, 2009, 20:38

It seems fair for everyone,  You upload a picture of a pig, buyer searches keyword "pig" buys your image, you move up for keyword "pig"...simple. No magic  potion involved.

And no more penalizing non-exclusive images? I think not! Still some exclusive magic potion left, methinks. 

You might be right. Exclusives usually get a little extra push which is understandable, loyalty should be rewarded. They put so much time and effort into this best match, I'm just happy to finally see it get off the ground and tired of wondering what sales are going to be like. Maybe they will keep it this way and we will have a little stability. The huge swings have been known to promote cancer, shortness of breath and heart disease.  

Under the new best match, if files are properly keyworded and not selling there is only one thing to do: Produce better selling files. 

It seems fair for everyone,  You upload a picture of a pig, buyer searches keyword "pig" buys your image, you move up for keyword "pig"...simple. No magic  potion involved.

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The Shutterstock Forum would be a better place to start a thread "shameless self promotion" Serious.

Its hard to knock dreamstime as most would probably agree its one of the top 4 micros. I try to look 6 month hold kind of like the gun law in the USA, you can buy the gun but there is a waiting period to actually get your hands on it. Keeps people from doing drastic things on a whim they might regret later. besides, its actually more like 4.5 months because of the option to delete a certain percentage of your port at any time.

Quote from: RT on February 10, 2009, 18:18

Quote from: cdwheatley on February 05, 2009, 15:51

I shoot everything hand held, prefer to work that way. I might be a little pissed off when the next wave comes in and takes out my tripod, camera, and leaves me holding the remote.  I hear what your saying though. I do use a monopod on occasion.

It happens 

Could you please stop attaching images like this to your posts! 

ya cd, where do you get all these gorgeous women  

The one taking the brunt of the wave would be my wife (good sport..huh!! hehe!!) and others I have found shopping at your local Model Mayhem store  . There everywhere in Florida, just have to find the ones that are interested in being in front of the camera.

Why not give it shot? The potential at those price levels is much greater than in micro. Wouldn't it be nice to play on both sides of the fence? Hopefully you get a few sales at some point in the near future to cover any costs and then a few more to put a smile on your face. 

I put in an application a couple of weeks ago, waiting. Hopefully I get a chance to try this. Why not? worse case scenario I lose a few images and few dollars, I can live with that. If you don't try you will never know.

Hey cdwheatley,

Regarding Fotosearch sales - it can take some time for your new uploads to migrate to Fotosearch from CanStockPhoto. So while your photos may be approved on X date, they may not appear on Fotosearch for up to a few weeks.

Also, Fotosearch is still in the testing phase and is not showing CanStockPhoto images to all customers. So depending on what group you are randomly put into when you visit their site, you may or may not see any CanStockPhoto photos at all. I think that should explain the confusion on your follow-up visit.

Hope that helps. You have some great images, I'm sure they will do quite well. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them.

Cheers,

Duncan

Thanks for the vote of confidence 

I hope it works out well for everyone. I'll try to be patient.

uploaded around 577 files a month ago. 62 views and 2 sales for a grand total of 80 cents... got suckered in with the "fotosearch" hype. Shame on me   

feels like the photos.com deal without the sales.

You are right about the music business. The money is going out of selling recordings - they're becoming just promotion for live concerts.

thats a scary thought. I hope your wrong about that. We could possibly end up with a bunch of music produced on a laptop and midi controller.
The music that is coming out today maybe subpar to that of the past because of corporate control but as far as I know a good production still costs major money and involves a lot of people. Producers, engineers, Tracking studios, mixing studios, mastering studios...Can you imagine million dollar studios trying to survive on the local bands....everyone needs to get paid or we will have a serious drop in quality. Plus,  I would be concerned about bands not becoming popular without corporate backing. I mean how many bands have become huge hits without corporate marketting, by just self promotion on the internet? I have no idea but probably not to many. I could see the CD disappear but downloads will still be for sale. If the Big 4-5 disappear I think other corporations will just form to take there place. I just don't think pirate "free" is the way to go, It could kill the entertainment industry eventually. Maybe just a restructuring of the business model is in order.

Sales way down and mostly subs...Sad story. Almost 0 views on new uploads there lately.

whitechild and cdwheatley,

Thanks for your replies.  I was wondering if the camera sound would be good.  To minimize influence of the ambient sound, I recorded clips late in the night and with the windows and curtains closed, except for one of the sound files (our lovebirds singing).

Here is one that should be the "cleanest". 
http://us.share.geocities.com/adelaide.geo/alarme10sec.wav
I did some editing in fact, first to crop it from the original 1min recording, then using one or two filters in Wavosaur that apparently did very little to the file (given the histogram or whatever that thing is called).

Regards,
Adelaide

Yea...unfortunately the noise floor is to high. I was afraid the mic quality and built in amp might be an issue. There is also a dull ringing sound in the background.  You need to have a decent pre-amp to get the recording loud enough without creating too much noise in the background or record it in an isolation booth... haha...kind of like a lightbox for doing isolations with audio. Mic's will pick up everything and amplify it, computers fans, street noise, refrigerator, AC unit etc.. You can try to make a make shift isolation booth using some stuff lying around the house or dedicate a closet. There are also a bunch of portable little recorders on the market that do a pretty good job with sound quality, so I've heard. If I was in your situation I would try the closet thing and make sure there is plenty of stuff in there to deaden the sound, you don't want a reflective room. You can always add a little reverb/room in Software later. Hope that helps.

I remember on trip to Costa Rica I was warned by the locals of a 3 tiered pricing structure. You had the locals price, the spanish speaking tourists price, and then the "gringo" price.  Lucky for us the gringo price was still really cheap.