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1826
« on: July 25, 2014, 23:16 »
well, i never expected much for summer months, assuming most everyone's on vacation ( EU, USA, Canada)... but Australia, Japan, if i am not mistaken is having a different season.
as a result, at month's end, last week of May, June, i got a big surprise and a single big payoff
transformed a slow month into a very impressive payout .
so, we still have 4 days left next week. anything could happen and miracles do come in threes, right???
1827
« on: July 25, 2014, 22:48 »
Mike , perharps u r right, "incompetence" a bit harsh, for lack of a better word  Jo Ann is right, a lot of hard work can go down the drain if one law suit comes along , when it looks like there is $$$$ to squeeze from CM, and the photographer. as an illustrator, perharps, u r not so affected. but still, if CM is so up to your approval, it would be to both their interest and yours, to let them know, the need to stay abreast with licencing. or else, your time to build a portfolio with CM could all be for naught, by one legal oversight. as they say, the law is ammoral and negligence is not an excuse.
1828
« on: July 25, 2014, 19:30 »
I'll just delete the ones that haven't sold. It won't make me a nickel more and it will take a lot of time, but hey, my stats will be purty.
it does not sound as far-fetched as it appears, really. i did just that a long time ago with my portfolio on one site, and i got, "wow, this much with only so little!". i am not sure if it boosted the saleability of your portfolio. it really depends if the site weighs port size vs income size. if so, it certainly would affect your search placement. i don't think SS and IS do that...maybe Dt, Ft,etc..
1829
« on: July 25, 2014, 19:14 »
"This gallery is empty". Doesn't look so good, IMO.
I would hope for photographs from a featured photographer - I guess the newbie Mr. Locke has to stop being so lazy and create something 
maybe there is something. Mr. Locke's microstock version of John and Yoko's Wedding Album blank side.
1830
« on: July 25, 2014, 19:09 »
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be concerned about the photos that show brand names and protected designs that can't be licensed commercially. They could offer an editorial license to make this work, but it seems the photo section has no one ensuring that the work is safe for a buyer to license....they just don't know enough about licensing photos.
wow, Embermike pro; Jo Ann against. so touching on the IP infringement, who gets sued if the clients published their contributors images with brand names,etc as a commercial? is there a waiver of responsibility by CM that it is the contributors who will face the charges??? we know about IP and MR, but many newbies are clueless to this. i know , because i met even many of these ppl on other social media who said, "why IPR, MR??? huh??" we can't blame them, as i am sure many of us in our initial days did the same thing. but the agency should know better, right? and as Jo Ann points out, it is a big flag of "incompetence"... esp if you are the one dealing with licenses. just wondering. otoh, as EMike says, it sounds good. but not if one day someone comes after you with a writ.
1831
« on: July 25, 2014, 18:48 »
as i mentioned in another thread, i have a handful and legful of images that earn 70% of my income. so really, it can be 20 images that get you a minimum of 100 bucks monthly, or it can be 1000 images , or even 10,000 images. it all depends.
a long time ago, i read in IStock, one of our regular commentors here (Paulie Walnuts) that he made more in IS with very little images in his initial portfolio. from there, i learnt that it has nothing to do with flooding the market or cannibalizing your portfolio .
1832
« on: July 25, 2014, 17:10 »
I don't think we need competition to Stocksy. What would that do - drive down prices?
What could be needed is a fair agency, with inspection standards, which would supply the image types/styles which Stocksy doesn't want.
First find your multi-millionaire with previous industry experience ...
1) isn't that what SS is doing? supply the image Stocksy doesn't want? 2) if i were your mutli-millionaire, why would i be foolish enough to start another agency?
1833
« on: July 25, 2014, 16:00 »
I profit on old images. Don't shoot often or spend as much now and only do if I think there's money in it. Less profitable to speculate anymore. Low commissions may have kill innovating
wow, u read my mind, so u get 1 heart...as i have been thinking this for months now. i look at my sales charts. it is good, been earning more than before. but i can count my regulars on both my hands and feet. it is like you say PB, sit on my skinny @r$e and just watch the $$$ roll in. now i can see why Yuri makes that much more with a lot more $$$$$$$$$ . it all started many years ago, and we gain that search position. and then you do nothing else. just like the other stock exchange,no??? i like to think the new works make as much, since i insist my new work surpasses that of my initial years. but the clients don't seem to care, or mind. and neither do i, so long as they keep downloading my regular sellers. repeat PB what u say.. i echo too.. Low commissions may have kill innovating
before this, if my new work sells on the first hour, i can safely say it will be my regular money earner. today, for months, new work see 2,5, 10 sales and they die off. so, why even bother?
back to paulie's question. i do zero costing or low expense images for microstock.
like i said, i make food, i shoot food, i eat food.
and if it makes $$$ , i buy more food.
only problem is my tummy gets bigger, and my wallet too. so why complain? LMAO
1834
« on: July 25, 2014, 15:50 »
I just saw that Sean is their "featured photographer" - with 0 files 
That is funny.
Mr. Locke, you now know you can retire from stock photography. just endorse a site. so much simpler, no?  sit and enjoy your ale, matey !!!
1835
« on: July 25, 2014, 15:48 »
If my father can take the time to speak to both employees and customers as well as run a complex global company with 10,000 employees and $3.1 billion in revenue.
What are you doing here? Playing at "the photographer"? It's better for you and for 10,000 employees that you stop playing with images and think about your real life...
I leave that up to my 5 older brothers, who are a chip off the block. My journey is elsewhere and while I respect my father and brothers, I march to another tune. The biz, is not what floats my boat.
Yes. What a rude comment. Nobodys business what you do with your life
+10 we are not here to character assassinate just because we are short of grey matter. if you don't like what gbalex say, say so, like we did, but there is no need to get personal. you can also just not come in, or ignore him or us.
just don't turn this into a mud-slinging match simply because you expect everyone here to tell you things you like to read.
you can start your own blog for that.p.s. sorry, no ignore button. i was going to use it
1836
« on: July 24, 2014, 15:16 »
I know I will get flak for this. It is a simple choice. My father runs a fortune 200 company.
It is a choice plane and simple.
DISAGREEyour father may run a Fortune 200 company , but this is just your father. Jon Oringer is not your fatherand it is NOT a choice PLAIN and simple
1837
« on: July 24, 2014, 14:58 »
Jon and the entire world have access to the shutterstock boards.
DISAGREE AGAINCEO don't have the time to come read the forum. at least the CEOs i worked for. they don't have the time to come even to sit with you in the canteen. if you want to talk to Oringer, then maybe go to his facebook, twitter, or wherever he has a site to talk directly. i don't know where, maybe someone who is good and locating him on the web might be able to find us Mr. Jon Oringer site and then go there and ask him . or even go to the board meeting and wait outside his office, whatever. but once again,
NEVER ASSUME.eg. lately i had written a top brass for something. for 3 months no answer, and i ASSUMEDshe didn't give a r@t$ ar$e about me. a few days ago, i got a reply , "sorry i was on vacation... but finally got caught up and read your letter".
1838
« on: July 24, 2014, 14:38 »
Exactly what gbalex said.
The answer to the OP's question is 'no' - they don't care. SS is now a publicly held corporation, meaning that their product is 'shareholder value'. There's no one at SS whose job description includes "care about contributors".
DISAGREE
1) we don't know for sure if Jon Oringer knows about what his lower management is doing. some time ago, i too was involved with a company that went from excellent caring for the employees to total don't give NFA to you . we all assume it was the change in management culture. until one day, i met the CEO and told him about it. the next week, it was Slaughterhouse week, and a lot of lower management got replaced. we cannot assume Mr. Oringer is fine with this. unless you asked him yourself.
1839
« on: July 24, 2014, 14:32 »
embermike, much appreciation for your rapid response. but isn't the bottom-line more important than the per-dl or rpi? eg. SS is like peanuts to many, but they get payout monthly. if envato pays out more monthly than the others, does it matter at all? what i am saying is , as i said for the dpc issue. it may not be a good idea to some of us, but if it is viable for you or me, why worry. as for the others pricing out envato. it is highly unlikely, because as far as per dl goes, SS is bottom of the list, and 90% of the sites to our right pays much much higher than SS. still, no one is toppling SS from #1 spot. not as long as i am visiting tyler's site to look. and as you say, envato is good...so maybe i start looking at them too it really does not mean they will be losing business, if they have other contributors who like their culture like you, it is unlikely pricing is going to make envato lose market. likewise for the quality of the portfolio. you will no doubt give envato the quality stuff simply because they make the sales for you. and one day, even i too will give my quality stuff to them ( as soon as i get time to life my face out of drinking my Guinness, lol) just my objective thought.
1840
« on: July 24, 2014, 13:00 »
The more I look at this the nastier it appears...
This describes microstock on the whole. Kind of like looking under a rock or a rotted log.
+100 or more like gosano (worms from a carcass, as the latinos say). still, knowing the calibre and history of you, Jo Ann... along with some sorely missed regularly like Lisafx, Paulie Walnut, christian,lagereek,etc.. i am even asking why you are not with Stocksy, Offset, or Symbiostock. or even starting your own coop , or "tribal stock" , as i call it. you all know microstock is rotten already, why sit and get beat up??? if you (lisa, paulie, christian, ...) start a war, "Tribal-stock", many will follow you... , i am sure ! even little salemanders can feed off a sewer and rotten wood (as in ft, 123,even SS soon as rinderart thread ask SS do you care? ) grow big together. better than sit and rot with wood and die under rock with other gusanos
1841
« on: July 24, 2014, 12:44 »
...should have been one digit more...
350K
i think that is what Yuri used to make in his early days. so maybe even this is understating his earnings today...
Add yet another zero and you're there. Or you would have been a year or two ago. No idea what he's earning these days. More or less.
lol, and remove a couple of zeros and you get me. back to topic, mike, but can you not remove your images from envato if u r not happy with the pricing there? secondly, are there really sales in those sites u mentioned as your opening post? if so, why is envato so vital to you? or is it that envato has a time to hold ransom your images like dt, is,etc.. 
1842
« on: July 24, 2014, 12:32 »
the light... follow the light, all your top sellers have appropriate light or " best of Show " lighting.
wa, so agree with you JR. top sellers all have the same lighting and the same colour scheme. and when i look at my own sales, they seem to blend with this lighting you mentioned, and colour scheme. i guess it has a lot to do with what prints best . as a printer , i notice also, certain colours do not always print well, no matter what paper , ink, printer,etc you apply. and considering that budget of clients , they do not always have the budget for print media, they will naturally look for images that has those lighting and colour that will look good even for a cheap paper, for example.
1843
« on: July 24, 2014, 12:06 »
from the little i read of Stocksy, i take it that it is a coop, like everyone says it is, that is different from the other new thingey... Symbiostock . but technically speaking, i do not see the difference much. it is both having a group of like-thinking people making their own exclusive or special interest site, linking to each other, or as JSLocke mentioned in one of his post re Stocksy, you have to have social-media because we push each other. i think that what he said. Symbiostock is the same, no? so, really, for today, the flavour of the month(s) is pointing to everyone reaching for straws in response to what our friend on SS (*his new thread ) is asking "are you driving us away?". we all no doubt will end up into little tribes, and either we co-exist (stocksy, symbiostock, creative-commons,) or we plunder each other while SS and the great emperor Getty sit there and still generate more income and more millions of new images from new contributors... and nary a blink ...
the new microstock, TRIBAL STOCK...
now, if only i can convince Yuri and Dolgachov to be my honourary contributors.i am sure of making the initial years a boon startup, without even taking in any more contributors um, Mr Dolgachov, sir !!! Mr. Arcurs, sir!!!.... (brown nosing here!!! LMAO)
1844
« on: July 24, 2014, 11:53 »
personally, i am not seeing the madness or the furor of the slaughterhouse from SS. then again, i can relate to your frustration, considering you have been with SS a lot more time than i have, and also, a lot more images in your portfolio.
i have been following the threads on SS, and i am wondering if it has anything to do with a certain reviewer in a certain region.
why i say so? because i keep also reading " no problem here, dude !... just uploading xxx and got xxx approved". etc. and the more blatant , "dude , if you submit excellent work, you get excellent results".
(cough cough, modest much???)
but definitely there is an issue and from the length of the thread, it appears that SS has become the new IS.
scary thought, really. but this is also the time to start looking elsewhere,
and be less dependant on sites that expect us to jump through hoops.
still, considering i am still making more money with SS then the rest, i am not going to be the first one
to wish for SS to follow IS ; at least, not before my independent stock site comes out.
geesh, i have work to do , haven't i? (hand me my axe, albert !!!.... have you seen the bridge???
has anyone seen the bridge??? )..
1845
« on: July 24, 2014, 11:46 »
i agree with Maximillian, it depends.
the geomap on SS at the beginning gave me the impression my regular sales come mainly from UK France Germany . but after 3 years, that no longer is the impression. africa and australia, and lately japan,
seem to pop up daily as well.
but if you ask someone else, they would i am sure say mostly USA or Canada.
it really depends on what you shoot.
1846
« on: July 24, 2014, 11:41 »
re: shelma ... try to figure out what sell and repeat
that too is a mystery, or else we would all be Yuri Arcurs, and he would not be so rich today,lol.
seriously, i think it does have a criterion ie. an image that stands out from the thousands or something
no one has. a niche .
also, for those who are booing "apple or vegetable or pizza,etc isolated", some of my own best sellers
are unfortunately to my disgust,lol... isolated boring food (yawn)...
but when i look at the money i've made from spending 2 bucks on that in my grocery, and ate it too after the shoot, i do not go booo booo over isolated apples anymore.
clients don't go oooh ahhhh over out of focus pop art mom and pop snapshot that looks like it was taken with a smartphone but really a top of the line camera with a lot of credit card maxouts.
they take that apple isolated because they need it. i hate the fact, but that's the reality.
re: chromaco ... getting your images found
yes, i used to wonder how certain of my images on SS keep popping up with google search, while others are not. not necessarily my top sellers, either.
but you are right, it is a myth. but also it depends on the ability to keyword well, to use the words clients use to google search for their needs.
finally, to steheap, congrats. everytime someone gets results independently, is something to shout about.
44 bucks is not earth shattering, but 11 bucks a piece shatters a lot of sub sales.
i am sure many of our peers do not even see 44 bucks in their cumulative history to date
with many of the sites to our right here on this page.
you have to be on the right track, since there is 44 bucks worth of evidence.
1847
« on: July 23, 2014, 21:08 »
I'm moving my comments on what I saw when I checked out Creative Market the other day (from the thread about Envato). I was looking at photos to try and see if it looked like a potentially interesting place to sell licenses:.....
From the photos perspective, the site looks like bad news to me.
JO ANN SNOVER, still the only or one of the few survivors here on MSQ whose opinion i have always taken seriously. Tyler, you should award Jo Ann the "Honourable MSG VIP".
1848
« on: July 23, 2014, 20:57 »
It depends on your own marketing your specific content etc. the possibilities are endless but just setting up a site will not be enough!
What does sell your colleague on Ebay? Prints?
my colleague sells ready for framing prints, like the ones you see in gallery or photo club. amazing what someone would pay for a 8 by 10 or 11 by 14. and it is not stock stuff. awhile back i also attended one of his photo clubs and exhibition, (more for the cheese and wine, lol)... but i was there for a day just to see who buys. i was surprise how many people actually came in to buy framed prints of (ahem) nothing really special.. not the Ansel Adams or even Robert Bateman type of prints, but just "oh, honey, this one will go well with our mantel-piece. yes, dear, and this one will be wonderful for the den,etc". i almost fainted when i saw them signed a cheque for quite a lot of money (hint, a lot more than what we get for an extended licence). unfortunately, i am not into that sort of framed print media. i like works of Adams or Karsh, or even at worst, David Hamilton smear of nose - oil over your lens pictures,lol... but not this framed print "perfect for the colour of our wall, dear " stuff. but yes, these guys make money, and they carry Hasselblads (film format) too... mostly pensioners. psst, and the noise you see there is horrendous. but buyers don't see the golf balls. we are in the wrong business, you think??? as many said to me when i mentioned i was in stock photography beside being an events photographer locally, "bfff, i would never go back into stock photography, ever !!!". (which i muttered under my breath, "you would not , i am sure, due to the golf ball sized noise")... but who am i to say , huh 
1849
« on: July 23, 2014, 11:22 »
"he said that's really not much money for 35K p.a. with that much cannibalism of their work worldwide."
I'm not sure what this sentence means, but I'm assuming you are suggesting top names in stock are earning 35k per year? I think you might find it's a lot more than that.
lol, someone actually reads my comments??? seriously, BoBo, yes, i thought about that too, after i logged off, but was too lazy to come back in to correct the typo. should have been one digit more... 350K i think that is what Yuri used to make in his early days. so maybe even this is understating his earnings today. but with Yuri, what's the difference... he is still making money anyway!!!
1850
« on: July 23, 2014, 11:18 »
i log in several times daily and has never once had a problem.
but i noticed you mentioned smart phones, so maybe that's why, as i am still and always using my old desktop
and firefox (not always the updated ones, as i am lazy at updates).
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