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Messages - Shelma1
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1926
« on: February 19, 2015, 07:18 »
Yup, cut my sales practically in half. I think buyers saw the site was down and spent the rest of the day elsewhere.
1927
« on: February 18, 2015, 15:06 »
So now that the site's back up, I get to see that the outage cost me a big chunk of sales. Unfortunately, it happened during the sweet spot for me, when European and U.S. sales overlap. I'm about 30% behind where I should be by this time of day.
1928
« on: February 18, 2015, 12:38 »
I'm having stat update withdrawal symptoms. Boy, am I hooked!
1929
« on: February 18, 2015, 11:39 »
Both down here, though at least with Bigstock you get an error page.
"We are gearing up for some changes.
Please bear with us while we perform some updates and improvements to the site.
Bigstock will be available again shortly."
SS just goes nowhere.
1930
« on: February 18, 2015, 07:34 »
Yup, 100% of my recent batch of jpgs were rejected. One rejection was correct...it seems I had left the word "vector" in the title...but the rest were ridiculous rejections. And when all else fails, click "poor rasterization" as a rejection reason, which will be overturned 99.999% of the time as being a "mistake."
No doubt the vectors will be accepted as always, with the built-in option to buy the exact same jpg that was rejected. Because the jpg was fine, of course. Craziness.
1931
« on: February 17, 2015, 17:22 »
I spend lots of time in searching for niches. And I found them. At least for concept illustrations. SS for example: there are very few illustrations for "epilepsy", "mental health child", "pedagogy","early childhood education", "parental alienation", it goes on and on...
I want to confirm, I am only talking about illustrations, I have no ideas about photos! And I dont know the golden times in eighteen hundred....
And now you can sit back while all the forum lurkers copy your niches.
It wasn't 1800, it was only a very few months back for SS.
Still, so long as you're happy, why bother comng here?
Meh. There are niches and there are niches. Some niches are too niche to spend time on. Lazer, anyone?
1932
« on: February 17, 2015, 16:43 »
Going through all the messages I stronly feel that much time is wasted by complaints. What are the benefits of all these complaints? They waste our valuable time, energy, good ideas and so many other things. Why not stop them, they are absolutely worthless whatsoever! Or am I wrong?? Tell me!
I am an illustrator, I make a living on my creativity, its a day to day challenge. If I run out of ideas I am done. Finished. I dont have any energy left to complaints.... except this very minute and never again.
Lets talk about positive things only!!!!
P.S. An African proverb says: "Never hit a milking cow!" how wise!
So your very first post here is a complaint?
1933
« on: February 17, 2015, 05:21 »
Yes, still uploading issues there. I had trouble yesterday and a batch that was approved yesterday afternoon still hasn't shown up in my portfolio.
1934
« on: February 14, 2015, 06:14 »
I remember ads with fish jumping out of fishbowls from waaaaay before the days of iStock. "A fish out of water" is an old idiom. There's nothing new under the sun.
It would be great if you could dig up a specific example done in that style. Because I can picture it in my mind - I think I have seen it - but I cannot find an example. Which makes me wonder whether I am mis-remembering.
I wish I could too. The idea has been done to death. I remember an ad with the fish jumping towards something better...Perrier? Vodka? But every iteration of a fish in a fishbowl or jumping out of a fishbowl has been covered, with McDonalds recently doing a sandwich-shaped fishbowl for filet of fish and a glass cleaner ad with a fish wearing a helmet (glass so clean he keeps bumping against it).
1935
« on: February 14, 2015, 05:23 »
I remember ads with fish jumping out of fishbowls from waaaaay before the days of iStock. "A fish out of water" is an old idiom. There's nothing new under the sun.
1936
« on: February 12, 2015, 18:19 »
I've found Shutterstock to be pretty fair when it comes to promotions. Even when they offer discounts, we still get paid our usual amount (unlike with, say, iStock, where we share the pain). Free trial offers have been around forever. It lures people into buying things. It's a marketing tool to get people hooked and buying more images.
1937
« on: February 12, 2015, 17:48 »
They're obviously in the midst of rewriting all their emails and are having trouble with deployment. Having trouble with upload glitches too. Did they decide to outsource coding or something?
1938
« on: February 12, 2015, 17:46 »
I got the weird email too. It had a bunch of images that have been on the site for years or months ("What we'll sell") along with one image that's supposedly been "rejected" ("Where you can improve") because it's not EPS 8 or 10, though it was accepted over a year ago and it is indeed EPS 10. So I checked my portfolio and that image is gone.
Weird weird weird.
1939
« on: February 12, 2015, 16:01 »
Just adding to this black list...
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/video/free-trial
http://www.pond5.com/free
There's a big difference between just giving images away free, like some of these sites, and a limited free trial offer where you automatically opt in to a monthly subscription and have to give your credit card information (and I'm assuming the videographers get paid for each download), as with Bigstock.
1940
« on: February 11, 2015, 19:46 »
They're allowed to fly below 10,000 feet. If you're in a military flight path I doubt you're allowed to fly drones. We have a public use airport, MOA and Coast Guard station around here. So we get Coast Guard choppers, military fighter jets and general aviation aircraft. The military pilots have managed to cause a forest fire that burned down dozens of homes and strafed my niece and nephew's grammar school by mistake. And now we'll get drone testing too. Fun times.
1941
« on: February 11, 2015, 18:55 »
Are you within 5 miles of an airport or military airport? If so, flying drones there at any height is illegal, as far as I know. Unless they're testing them at the airport, like they will be at mine. Then it's just hunky dory to have them skimming your rooftop and treetops.
1942
« on: February 10, 2015, 16:00 »
No PP for me yet. My credit sales are poo poo, though.
1943
« on: February 10, 2015, 15:46 »
I've found a few niches. Sometimes it's because I read an article about the dearth of certain images in stock, or images that are unsuitable, or there's a topic that interests me and when I look it up I'm surprised to see how few images there are. But I find that those subjects are not super popular, though there is enough demand for me to sell a decent number of images sometimes. Sometimes it's a complete waste of time, though. One thing I avoid is drawing images the stock sites say they need...because thousands of others are reading that same blog post, and then that subject is flooded with images. I had a whole bunch of good-selling images on page 1 of a certain subject, and then SS noticed they didn't have a whole bunch of images in that subject matter and blogged about it, which led to a big influx of images, which pushed me off the first page. GRRRRRRRRR.  Kinda wanted to slap them for that.
1944
« on: February 08, 2015, 06:51 »
I've been in advertising for decades and I find this practice disgusting. Asking people to work for free on the off chance their images will be chosen is disgusting. If you need the subjects from two different images in one, buy them both and pay someone to do the retouching. Or get in touch with the photographer and offer to pay them to retouch. If you can't find what you need hire a photographer. When these people spend hours searching, they get paid for their time.
1945
« on: February 07, 2015, 17:51 »
Uh oh..now we all know who ouchie is.
1946
« on: February 06, 2015, 07:53 »
I was worried that Death to the Stock Photo was giving away our images for free, so I signed up. Each month I get an email with a packet of photostaken by the couple who run the businessthat are out of focus, grainy and have purple fringing. I get the impression that they were rejected by all the stock sites, which would explain the name of their enterprise.
1947
« on: February 05, 2015, 17:32 »
And they're still rejecting images with similar themes, though yesterday someone downloaded about 15 images in one of my series on SS. DT and iS like to shoot themselves in the foot for some reason.
1950
« on: February 04, 2015, 12:01 »
I usually get multiples.
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