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1976
« on: July 23, 2012, 15:28 »
I've noticed the past week or so that a large number of my Fotolia sales are brand new files. There may have been a search change that highlights new files. If you haven't uploaded much the last month or so, maybe your sales would be affected?
Yeah, I've noticed a lot of new images selling as well. Nice to see them finally shift things around a little.
1977
« on: July 23, 2012, 13:16 »
Awesome, got both notifications, for the thread and the PM. Well done!
super.
1978
« on: July 23, 2012, 13:09 »
test test
1979
« on: July 23, 2012, 12:46 »
Ok, there was a number of fixes in the last 12 hours. Is the email thing fixed for you guys now?
1980
« on: July 23, 2012, 12:44 »
Hi All,
If the request came from Shutterstock internally, there are typically two possibilities. One is that it's a request for product or policy research, in which we're asking for your input on new initiatives, workflow prototypes, etc... The second possibility is that we're asking for you to participate in the marketing of your work (for example, we've got a "featured contributor" on the footage homepage and we feature contributors and collections on the blog and in newsletters).
As always, if you're confused about any communication, it's best to reach out directly to the sender (checking to make sure it came from Shutterstock) or direct your questions to Support at "submit (at) Shutterstock.com."
Best Regards,
Scott VP of Content Shutterstock
Thanks for clearing things up Scott
1981
« on: July 23, 2012, 11:20 »
I'd do a few searches ad picniche.com and see what turns up the best result. Do some searches and find something you are excited about drawing.
1982
« on: July 22, 2012, 12:37 »
Here a recent press release from Pond5. Looks like they've created a nice little application for Adobe 6 Pond5 and Adobe have teamed up to develop a one-of-a-kind plug-in that gives video editors seamless access to the largest collection of over 1,1 million royalty-free stock videos, including 330,000 royalty-free music tracks and sound effects, all exclusively within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.
Users no longer need to leave the application Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and to interrupt their workflow, all - creating new content using RF stock footage and RF audio - is now done easily within the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 application. The new plug-in requires Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (or later versions) and Mac OS 10.6.8 resp. Windows 7. It was developed by a Pond5 engineering team from Germany, Switzerland and the US.
David Hemly, Adobes Technical Sales Manager Pro Video/Audio Products Americas, has created an introduction on how to install and how to use the new plug-in, and demonstrates which new and great possibilities it offers (http://www.youtube.com/user/dhelmly?feature=mhee).
After testing it internally at Adobe for a couple of months, David says: "We are really excited with this plug-in. It is an amazingly simple way to work with stock footage. It's an excellent workflow and a great way to add clips to any project. For working with your clients in trying to put together your project, this is really fast."
More information:
http://www.pond5.com/adobe
1984
« on: July 20, 2012, 12:02 »
Very cool photos. You're a brave man to have all that gear hanging on a very thin kite line Although you're right that in a worst-case scenario the kite would act as a semi-parachute, but I'd I'd still anticipate a possible trip to the Canon repair center.
I've been very interested in watching filming with a remote controlled drone (quadcopter/etc), but the costs are fairly significant for a rig that can lift a pro body, and there is little margin for error. If you live somewhere with steady wind, this seems like a great compromise.
Anyone else have kite or drone AP/AV experience?
Nope, but it's seriously in the plans. .. it's coming to the top of the 'next investment' list.
1985
« on: July 20, 2012, 06:38 »
I was telling my wife about it that Leaf has the same camera and lens I have and he flies it up on a kite to take shots.... she said she would have to hurt me if I tried flying my gear like that...
just tell your wife that everyone on the forum is doing it so...
1986
« on: July 20, 2012, 03:35 »
I'd have to agree here. I see their point, wanting more specific keywords but like you say, no one is going to keyword specifically for Crestock. I have 5000+ images there and I make almost 2x more every month on Shuttersock than i have made in my lifetime on Crestock (6 years).
1987
« on: July 20, 2012, 01:14 »
If things go like they should there is very little chance of damaging the camera. When you're pulling in the kite this creates an extra drag on the line so it usually goes more up and thus safer. When there are problems with height or power of the wind this is also the solution, pulling in line. Also the kite acts a bit like a parachute so if the wind did die the camera wouldn't free fall, it would 'quickly float' down (at least with a kite like I have).
What has happened though is I tied two kites together to create more lift once and they got tangled and brought eachother down... it doesn't help that I was puling the kites behind a car because there was no wind and didn't see that it fell. A stupid idea on several levels. Anyhow the camera crashed on a gravel road and I pulled it several meters and it got dragged into the ditch etc. Everything survived remarkably well, even the rig and gear which are quite fragile. I did get a chip in the glass but I can't see it on the images, so all is well. I thought I put this in a thread earlier but I can't find it now...
Most people fly with much lighter cameras, which would make things easier.
1988
« on: July 19, 2012, 17:04 »
1989
« on: July 19, 2012, 17:01 »
Yeah, I got into this last summer and had quite a bit of fun. I put up the Canon 5D with a 16-35mm lens. I was using a flow form 15 and flow form 30 depending on the wind. For the trigger I'd just suggest an intervalometer. They can be had for cheap and don't require any signals or button pressing. If you have a big card you can take pictures for a long time as well. A 16gb card on the 5D Mark II taking RAW images will last about 30 minutes which is long enough to capture most locations. There is going to be things you will miss if you are only pressing the shutter button every now and then. If you have your camera set to take photos ever 2 or 3 seconds you'll capture stuff you also get stuff you diidn't know was in front of the lens and allow you to do more trial and error. There is also enough to think about trying to fly the kite and steer the camera that it's nice not to have to think about clicking the shutter as well.
I bought my stuff from brooxes http://www.brooxes.com/newsite/HOME.htmland was quite pleased. I don't think you can get the flow form kites anymore (the maker quit) but he has some replacements there it looks like. You can build your rig yourself but after buying the kit from brooxes I'm glad I didn't attempt it. It isn't so hard to do it all yourself, but finding and buying all those little bits and pieces would take ages and lots of trial and error to get working. It's better to just buy one from brooxes, which will still require lots of putting together but saves you the trouble of reinventing the wheel.... or find a prebuilt rig.
1990
« on: July 18, 2012, 15:44 »
Nov 2. 2007 Overall rank 81 7 days rank 509
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Time for an update again... holding steady which I guess is good. 18 July 2012 Absolute rank 100 Relative rank 136
1991
« on: July 18, 2012, 00:41 »
I want to make some photoshop tutorials for my youtube channel.Obviously i need some pictures to work with.Can i use pictures from microstock sites ?
Most likely you're ok. No different from showing a commercial with an image in it, really.
Agreed. I've used microstock images in Photoshop tutorials. You should also post a link to the image in the tutorial description as people often like to follow along with the same image. This can also be a good way to get the odd referral free. Not worth your time for making the tutorial but a nice little added bonus if you're going to add the link anyhow.
1993
« on: July 17, 2012, 12:25 »
hi guys,
Income way higher than $3 Million a year, 8 figures in sight
what does it actually mean? 1million is 1,000,000 so 8 figures in sight means 10,000,000? divide by 12, so it is 833,333 a month?
so the income is like 800k a month? correct?
yes.. probably somewhere between 5,000,000 and 8,500,000
1994
« on: July 16, 2012, 12:06 »
This just in on the DT forums -
We have updated the referral rewarding system and all the referral shares will be supported by the agency as of today, July 17th. The agency did cover most of the referral shares until now but shares for referred purchases for instance were split between the agency and the contributor. Not anymore, we're now covering for all. The new structure is already live so you may start noticing different royalties for some of your sales.
Your feedback is important to us. Following members' suggestions, we have taken two major decisions these last weeks, meant to improve user experience and increase earnings and number of downloads: cover all referral referral commissions and eliminate levels for subscription plans.
Please keep in mind that the Alliances program works on a different structure so sales and shares remain the same for these. Some of these partnerships will award the regular 25-60% royalties to the contributor from the agency's share, while other alliances will still award them based on the sale price.
Great news, thanks for the update. Kudos to Serban for making things right. Even if it should have been like that from the start, that doesn't mean it's easy to make the change afterwards, so well done Dreamstime. I'm happy to see you made a choice positive for the photographers on this one. And kudos to Lee for brining this to light and sticking his ground.
1995
« on: July 16, 2012, 12:00 »
She means he got three fan threads posted here today, with no effort of his own.
Nice picture in the private jet with the hot swimsuit model and the large camera, lol.
I'm pretty sure that's his Girlfriend / fiance Cecilie .. I guess that doesn't negate the fact about her being a swimsuit model. Anyhow, nice article thanks for the link anc. It's nice to see their didn't glorify microstock. I don't think there is much doubt that Yuri has created an impressive machine.
1996
« on: July 16, 2012, 07:03 »
No worries, Leaf.
Serban wrote in Lee's comments:
The referral fee calculated via net price for buyers is a standard approach to most if not all agencies.
Which agencies is he referring to? Alamy does it but they pay high commissions and are excused. Maybe 123rf does it but how can we tell? Since Serban has mentioned previously that DT is one of the the last agents to do it, I'd like him to list 'all' these agencies because I have a strong feeling he's telling tall tales again.
Yes, I'd be interested in hearing about all those other companies to take out commissions first then pay photographers. I know for a fact that all agencies don't do that though. YAYimages has a little graph of how their commissions are calculated. Nothing fancy, everyone gets the share they were promised http://yaymicro.com/view.action?page=affiliate_split_moneyI still think YAY is one of the most fair and open agencies... I just wish they had more sales.
1997
« on: July 15, 2012, 16:00 »
The search results say about 9 thousand exclusive of 75 thousand images, or 12% exclusive.
1998
« on: July 15, 2012, 13:44 »
^ Looks like it was around February this year.
In general I would say that microstock prices aren't going down. What is going down is artists commissions. The difference goes to the agency.
It is also a lot harder to tell what exactly we get and what the sale was for these days. For example we recently discovered that DT is taking a cut out of our take to pay referrals. We only found this out because it was in subs which we thought we knew the minimum price for. Does that happen with regular sales too? We have no real way of knowing, but probably. This could be another 20 or 30% out of our pocket from time to time.
It would be illuminating if all the sites posted the sale price and our take like they do at PD and Alamy.
Do the math for your monthly income at IS - and be horrified by how big their take is in comparison.
Despite all the lower royalties I have managed a number of BME's in the last 6 months, so despite that I am making the most I have (with the largest port I've ever had).
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/the-stock-market-hits-a-record-low-(pun-intended)/msg244332/#msg244332
EDIT:
Okay, I found it. It was November 2011 when they corrected the 'mistake'.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dt-subs-33c/msg236121/#msg236121
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_29407
Thanks for digging up the links
1999
« on: July 15, 2012, 13:43 »
And in that thread it said that a referral fee comes off the top whan a sale is from a referral but that referred contributors don't have a cut due to the % paid to the referrer. It would be hard in conscience to refer someone if that's changed now.
"Your earnings are not lower when you refer someone else. We still cover the earnings sent to the photographers you refer. If that is your point. Not covering them would mean that these photographers will always earn less. So this is not about referring other contributors.
It is about people referring buyers and getting a share for each of their purchases.
That share is subtracted from the price of whatever plan they choose: credits or subscriptions. Once that share is removed, the remaining is split between the contributor and agency as per our royalties graph.
Make sure you make the difference between the users you refer vs. the users referred by other persons. Once you refer a user you receive a share of his purchases or sales. Once a user that is referred by someone else will download from you, the share awarded to that someone else will be taken into account. "
Yeah, that's what Serban also said in Lee's post. It seems like that is how it was working but that wasn't clear at all on the commissions overview page. However ... even though it is better than it sounded at first, I'm still not a big fan of sharing the cost of referring a contributer to Dreamstime. I still feel it should be an advertising expensive covered by dreamstime. Not an expense shared with the photographer.
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