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1776
« on: July 29, 2014, 15:19 »
cheers bunhill, i m with Flickr, so this is something to check in. really appreciate it when one of u do the footwork 4 me, as i m pretty much old-school and quite the dummy with low IQ for www. any help like this is super . this +1 for u here will make up for the -1 i gave u re Stocksy, 
1777
« on: July 29, 2014, 15:16 »
You guys made my day! Thanks to you I have the best week ever in micro stock.
I want to give everyone at P5 a hug!
While I think It's great that you have gotten all this money today - the fact is they screwed up, and in actuality have owed you this money for months (as per your other thread).
While the base rate (financial bank rate) is only ~1%. About 10$ missed? Sorry i am so bad in math 
No, It's 0.1% per year over here, so the loss is a whooping 25 cents!
@PhotoBomb : Please dont turn a good news into a bad one.
Pond5 is the fairest and nicest agency so far and they do great with videos, give them sometime with images, they have limited human resources and that's why they can still afford to pay us a fair %. They need our support more than any others current agencies, IMHO.
not with P5 yet. but i have to concur with Max. it is good news , let's celebrate it with PB. one being successful with P5 means other can too.
1778
« on: July 29, 2014, 14:54 »
You guys made my day! Thanks to you I have the best week ever in micro stock.
I want to give everyone at P5 a hug!
While I think It's great that you have gotten all this money today - the fact is they screwed up, and in actuality have owed you this money for months (as per your other thread).
While the base rate (financial bank rate) is only ~1%. About 10$ missed? Sorry i am so bad in math
+1 so long as there is admission they screwed up , it is better than silence like with some other site ( no name mentioned, u know which one). but the important thing is as max points out... in his one comment before this one, any one who is doing well as an alternative is always better for all of us.
1779
« on: July 29, 2014, 14:51 »
I like pond, hope its going better there some day. i have 0 image sales. only 2 agencys didnt sell for me. Makes me sad.  Good to hear someone made high income with them. Good luck to pond. We need some fair big players Nice too hear they are working at image sale. Never used pixmac, but maybe it will help pond.
+1
1780
« on: July 29, 2014, 14:50 »
Since this thread is a little old and some Pond5 has recently released some video promos that show an increased dedication to video licensing above all other content types, I think it may be worth repeating ere that something they can improve upon would be paying more attention to images.
Right now I'm not even sure why Pond5 even bothered bringing vectors into the mix. They hardly sell and from the looks of Pond5 promos they don't really have much interest in marketing them to their customers.
If selling non-video content is really something they want to do in any real way, they really need to improve upon how they present it, promote it, market it, and prioritize it.
+1
1781
« on: July 29, 2014, 13:37 »
You guys made my day! Thanks to you I have the best week ever in micro stock.
I want to give everyone at P5 a hug!
all i can say is, with all the gnashing of teeth we have been hearing lately here and in all the other forums, it is good to hear someone is making money. it sends positive energy to all of us, as we rise when u rise , and we sink when u sink !!! (Tagore..my universal teacher )
1782
« on: July 29, 2014, 13:33 »
They are done with me. Numbers stop going up.
greedy much??? still i am jealous much too  i have made 1.5K before (locally, as a photographer) but NEVER in one minute... not even as a stripper (at least not yet, as i have first to be a stripper)  consider urself the fastest earner on the planet today ... 1.5K in a minute
1783
« on: July 29, 2014, 13:13 »
ok, so where did u say the party is going 2 b 
1784
« on: July 29, 2014, 12:32 »
1785
« on: July 28, 2014, 18:08 »
It ain't over until the fat lady sings
I picked up a nice $17.50 SOD today.
nice one. 3 days left, and i see a big fat shadow coming on stage...
1786
« on: July 28, 2014, 18:04 »
1787
« on: July 28, 2014, 16:58 »
Don't change what I said.
LOL, when u examine the net too closely u miss the fish
1788
« on: July 28, 2014, 15:53 »
"Since many searches result in more returns than any customer has time to review, many customers have come to rely on the Most Popular search option. Their understanding has been that in a few pages they will see the images with a particular keyword that other customers have found most useful. That may no longer be true."
What "most downloaded" used to return was the images with a particular keyword sorted by downloads. That isn't the same as images that other customers have found useful for a particular keyword sorted by downloads from that keyword.
exactly. If I search for apple, I'll get the images that other people purchased when searching for apple. Even if said apple image only has 100 downloads and the next image has 1000 downloads. The second image could have gotten 950 downloads from a search term involving woman apple and only 50 downloads from just apple. While the first image could have all 100 downloads on the search term apple.
hmm, even i didn't know that, LOL. so really, i should be paying more attention to the keywords that are POPULAR since that is the most useful to clients. and then juxtapose with my earnings to see how i should re-keyword the non-sellers, or when i upload again the new images. ie. think like the buyer even especially when entering keywords. i suppose the POPULAR and DOWNLOAD for Shutterstock is similar, right? anyway JSL +1 Leaf +1 awarded by me
1789
« on: July 28, 2014, 15:06 »
I managed to answer one of my questions. A recent purchaser of a wide panorama of a landscape in Wales emailed me to ask where it was taken, as he now has a large 4ft wide print of it on his office wall. That allowed me to ask how he found it - he simply searched "english landscape hi res" in Google images and my photo is in position 3. From there, he went to the site and had no issues in buying and downloading the largest size image (under priced at $20, but what are you going to do!)
So there seems to be no link between the first purchase of this image and the second one - unless they both like large panoramic landscapes!
Steve
still, it is always good when u hear someone's own site is producing sales. u feel that the good energy as an impetus to making my own . congrats Steve
1790
« on: July 28, 2014, 15:00 »
Sorry folks but Shutterstock just exceeded expectations this month again!
considering , SS still produces enough sales for a low month... ie better than 2013, and 2013 better than 2012,etc.. for July. so like Teddy, it still flies, although i would have loved an 80 dollars surprise on the last day of the month. well, there's still three more days to that.
1791
« on: July 28, 2014, 14:40 »
still, we don't get 38 cents or 33 cts all the time. i still see a buck, 2 bucks, 28 bucks, 80 bucks, 105 bucks,... so it is not just 33 cents. u will see 33 cents for the marginal stuff or clones of clones by cousins and cousins' cousins 
I've never heard that only simple or common images get sold for subs. I thought it was just up to the buyer's needs for the image. I thought even the most special stuff could earn you 25c - 38c or woteva.
I was answering to your statement that SS pays insultingly low for rigidly inspected images to which i say from my own earnings i quoted as above that it is not true. repeat... i have earned daily one, two dollars, and also 28 dollars, 80 odd dollars, and lately 105 dollars per image download. so, in answer to your comment, NOT INSULTINGLY LOW subs prices. and i am sure many other SS-ers who have good portfolios, will tell you the insultingly low subs prices are not a regular anymore.
1792
« on: July 28, 2014, 12:48 »
Oh please fight on, ...
if politicians u support only fight the same way like u do here,
we will definitely not see a war, never mind WWIII
but someone in your country has a button he or she will push
and we will all go up in smoke together.
as Bruce said, "blind faith can get u killed".
so long as there is enough ppl with brains to question their politicians, we will all do fine.
it is the silent majority that will see the damnation of mankind.
much like in the other thread on Shuttestock. meglamaniac thrives on silence of the lambs.
1793
« on: July 28, 2014, 12:31 »
1) isn't that what SS is doing? supply the image Stocksy doesn't want?
The subs price level is insultingly low for rigidly inspected images; not in the same ball game.
2) if i were your mutli-millionaire, why would i be foolish enough to start another agency?
Quite.
partly true, it is at times a bit anal, and with Atilla 100% rejection for those who complained in the threads here and there, it is seemingly rigid. but i have seen some of the rejection complaints and they are not quite the stock photos u want in SS either. and yes, they do look out of focus, WB off, or even poor compositions. but i agree, if u want to be that rigid, then let's see more money. but we have over 20 sites that are less rigid and they don't sell at all. look at it, 0.4 - 6 % is not exactly encouraging, for me to spend time uploading to a site. that could well explain why Shutterstock is a bit rigid, and at time anal.
but not enough to justify Atilla and her motely breed of 100% rejectors.still, we don't get 38 cents or 33 cts all the time. i still see a buck, 2 bucks, 28 bucks, 80 bucks, 105 bucks,... so it is not just 33 cents. u will see 33 cents for the marginal stuff or clones of clones by cousins and cousins' cousins but i would not object to anyone asking for more money for all of us. and i am still waiting for a multi millionaire to come in , start a new site and say she/he cares for suppliers (hyperbole much???).but not holding my breath... as i have seen too many striped leopards
1794
« on: July 28, 2014, 11:27 »
At this point, many photographers looking to make a little money would not do this if they were well informed. Unforntunetly, it is like quick sand. You learn about stock and say , hey that's cool and you jump in and maybe buy your first serious DSLR. Then uh oh, they didn't accept it. Then the learning curve begins. The reading, the forums, the questions about sharpening, size and resolution, color, pushing shadows, file types and on and on. Now comes the purchasing, lighting, the right tripod, rats I need lenses, oh dern now i need software, dang, computer is not handling this well. Then you learn that all your purchases could have been a little smarter by not being so budget minded. And then the advanced stuff kicks in as you try to problem solve, blend mode and high pass sharpening, noise reduction using color channels, color management, monitor calibration etc etc. Then you look back at your self taught college level education and say hey, these folks are getting a lot for what I get in return.
But cudos to all of you here and everywhere that have done this. I look at your shots on the agencies and know that I am up against some d*mn fine competition.
wow, well said ! ... especially like your quicksand analogy i used to say when people ask me about microstock, i say, " the first puff of opium is always free". but i think i will use quicksand from now on, because u can go cold-turkey like john and yoko ,but with quicksand there is no escape.
1795
« on: July 28, 2014, 11:18 »
back here again, can't get enough of it. enjoy the comments.
personally, microstock is as passive income . it also has in many ways profited my local business in the sense that before microstock, i was not exposed to "analities" such as noise, fringe, etc.
and suddenly i see noise the size of golf balls, fringe the color of rainbows,etc.. on everybody gallery photos,LMAO
it has also made me a fast producer, as once you mastered and developed a workflow on your image-manipulation software (no name needed to mention), your prints seem to impress everyone who has not seen the work of a stock photographer .
so in a way, profitable? yes, in many ways than just money.
and i just bought a mirrorless which is an amazing camera for editorials. which has replaced my DSLRs
which i now only leave for studio work.
all this, using only earnings from micros. so really, is it profitable. it pays my internet, it pays my mob, it paid for my AlienBees, and 3 DSLRs and my new mirrorless.
so yes, it is profitable.
but i am not a full time microstocker. if so, i would be making more money flipping burgers (which i am not, lol but i do music, dance, comedy, art,etc..). i just do not spend production money with models, props, etc.. at least not for 38 cts .
as SJLocke pointed out in one of the thread a while back, you give to ,... the low cost stuff,
and you give to .... the high cost stuff.
i don't give the high cost stuff to anyone. i don't make high cost stuff, only when the local clients
are paying for the production , then i shoot the high cost stuff.
so, profitable? yes.
1796
« on: July 28, 2014, 11:07 »
THX wordplanet, i may have looked at zooms, instead of views on Alamy.
this far, it still appears to favor Alamy in terms of editorial works , doesn't it?
i do sell editorials with the other sites but i am looking for a site which tend to
draw the clients who look for editorials.
cascoly. thx 4 the clarification on Symbiostock. i will bookmark the old posting on Symbiostock from
Tyler's site so i can read up to learn more of what it is.
1797
« on: July 28, 2014, 10:54 »
wow, good 4 u Mike !
n this is because u went looking for infringements of your work. i wonder how many others r out there.
still, it may be telling us that instead of checking in every hour to see how much u r earning on your microstock sites, that perharps, u can earn more but googling to see who is using your stock images improperly.
tho i would think not all outcomes will be as rewarding as this one.
1798
« on: July 28, 2014, 10:00 »
Got to love how some innocent person wonders into the forums, asks a newbie question and gets hammered for it.
not goober, not everyone as u can see, most of us are giving OP our own insights to our own experience. so, the newbie is not getting hammered.in every forum there will always be someone who likes to hammer anything u say that is sour to their mouth. but one or handful of personal assassin(s) is not everyone
1799
« on: July 28, 2014, 09:56 »
like it or not, Russian or girls from what was the old Russia combined, still have the best looking girls. at least the ones who came to USA and Canada. waaaaaa, no wonder USA wanted all of us to think Russian girls were all fat and drank vodka. today, we have polish ponchee shops here with all those beautiful polish girls... and i shake my head and say, "geeesh, why didn't i move to Russia "
1800
« on: July 28, 2014, 09:42 »
It has become clear that Jon simply does not care about his contributors and I think it is well past time to address the issue.
yes, i am the one who gave you a +u know what? i was disagreeing with u because i wanted 2 c if Jon Oringer comes in here, since he has his own twitter or whatever, so he must have time to come on the web, if he caresgiven these times, along with the pages and pages of this issue on Oringer's own site forum, i too, am convinced by you today
Jon simply does not care about his contributorslike the dude from Istock, he makes his money , and soon, he will sell it, and we will all see another replay of IStock. and maybe another new flavour of the year. if not already since he has Offset. shame . but as Sting sings, "history teaches us nothing". the bottom line is still people are greedy, and when they start up, they will help u because they need u to make their site grow. but once they become a monopoly, they will throw u out like the baby and bath water. u convinced me after all these months, hanging to my belief in old-school
- when people are born, their nature is good.but the times of these ancient saying is outdated. maybe i am wrong to believe this and u r slowly convincing me that saying is no longer applicable. and meanwhile, multitude of blind drowning followers are still grabbing straws and picking off crumbs from their tables, thinking that perharps, tomorrow another new site will come and be the new messiah.
and then when u come in here telling us it is crap, we will give u another big slap in the face.
but at least, today, i award u a heart because u r not afraid to say ur piece.
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