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« on: March 05, 2011, 17:24 »
The sites all have different standards. IS is very picky about technical quality (artifacts)y; DT is very picky about similars, SS is very picky about depth of focus, Mostphotos will accept anything including the kitchen sink, FT seems to run hot and cold with no consistency, BigStock has been accepting most stuff lately, etc.
If it was denied by IS for artifacts and accepted by all others; most likely there were a few artifacts. IS is very picky about artifacts.
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« on: March 05, 2011, 02:31 »
Thanks, now I understand why I cannot delete them, but how do I remove my login and password from these channels then? I just want to exclude the standard Bigstock channel from my personal channels list - to avoid that I click both (by accident) when I assign a batch.
At the top right, choose "Channels" A pop-up with the channels will come up. Highlight the channel you wish to disable. Under the box that says FTP Password are two boxes, labeled "deactivate" and "save" hit deactivate it will no longer come up on your selections when you are sending out your images Best of luck.
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« on: March 04, 2011, 18:03 »
Hi, has any one ever tried deleting a channel?
I tried deleting Bigstock, because I have two channels for this site, and I get a pop-up refusal telling me "that I'm not the owner of this channel".
If I'm not the owner of my own channels, who is ?
And if I cannot delete my channels, why is there a "delete" button?
You are only allowed to delete the channels you create; not the ones that were coded by management. Hope they change this; I had to insert new channels for BigStock, Cutcaster and Panther.
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« on: March 04, 2011, 06:38 »
Anyone having any action at isignstock. Submitted 410 images, no review, unable to submit more as will not accept incoming FTP from lightburner.
I submitted a thousand pictures two weeks ago which are all still in the pending queue, not a good sign.
FTP from lightburner worked for me at the time (I didn't retry recently). Have you set the upload folder?
yes, it was working during the promotion period but quit allowing uploads once the promotion ended. No worries, since the review is so slow I will put my efforts in other areas.
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« on: March 04, 2011, 01:02 »
So, how many different ways are there to pose this concept (scale in other hand and eating an apple with the other hand)?
three? five?
You're joking, right. I can think of 10 or more just off the top of my head. I can even think of inverse ideas that match this concept. What about a big girl or guy in a tight exercise suit with scale and snickers bar? maybe that would be a good avenue for a microstocker: do Yuri parody shots; be the Weird Al Yankovick of Microstock
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« on: March 03, 2011, 20:31 »
Thanks for the heads-up, did not know about this policy.
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« on: March 03, 2011, 20:26 »
I agree that keywords and titles are not copyrighted but they can be use to show intent and previous knowledge of the image. Where we disagree is: Clearly, this image is a copy as evidence by the concept, and copy of keywords and titles.
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« on: March 03, 2011, 19:24 »
Anyone having any action at isignstock. Submitted 410 images, no review, unable to submit more as will not accept incoming FTP from lightburner.
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« on: March 03, 2011, 19:22 »
Just got a notice of my first sale on a port. of approx. 250 images, another 500+ pending review.
Enough to get a Big Mac ($3.50) or the same as 14 images sold on Shutterstock at $0.25 each.
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« on: March 03, 2011, 19:13 »
Veer has excellent corporate backing and the makings of a quality agency; i do not like their review times but I believe they will become a good seller, maybe not top two but certainly top 6
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« on: March 03, 2011, 19:10 »
Well, these are pretty valid points and like I said I am not an attorney. Just my interpretation of the PACA copyright Commandments. Thanks for your point of view.
Sure no problem, one thing to remember when quoting the PACA commandments is that those commandments are...well they are not commandments they are the PACA interpretation. There is no international copyright commandments, we have the Berne convention which is a type of international recognition of common copyright law although even within itself it states the copyright law of the country in which the copyright is held will apply i.e. PACA can write whatever they like but it's pretty much irrelevant to anyone outside of the US.
Personally I think it comes down to a matter of opinion whether this person has a) copied, b) been inspired by the concept, c) created a derivative work or d) just had the same idea for a photo.
Some of your arguments might be on point but you have ignored the bigger picture, the whole picture. he not only copies the concept, the idea, the pose but also THE KEYWORDS AND TITLE. No court in any land would ignore this fact; he saw the image, he copied the image, he copied the keywords and he copied the title.
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« on: March 02, 2011, 23:32 »
there are so many ways this basic concept could have been copied and still be a bit original; this is just plain wrong.
A pretty young blond with apple and scale can be posed in many different ways; this wasn't; this was a copy, plain and simple.
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« on: March 02, 2011, 00:53 »
I got in last month, took about 2.5 weeks
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« on: March 01, 2011, 23:08 »
It takes very long for pictures to be distributed lately.
I'm still waiting for distribution of pictures uploaded on March, 27th - I hope images are distributed before being deleted after 3 days!
Lightburner has great features and potential, but these delays are making it difficult to track submissions.
Support seems to have dried up, also. when it first started, they were online nearly every day with updates and answers, now-not so much
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« on: March 01, 2011, 03:57 »
You don't need expensive equipment, just knowledge. Go to your local hardware store, buy six or seven clamp lights (like used in the shop), buy a set of bulbs (all exactly same type). Get some sticks (1x2 or 2x4); put them in buckets or gallon cans with dirt or concrete. Clamp lights to the sticks. Use four lights to light the background-make the light even; meter it so it is at about f11 or a bit higher. Use couple lights to light the subject; meter it to be about f8. Don't put the subject to close to the background or you will get spill light hitting the back of the subject making it hot. You can use a white bedsheet pulled tight for a white background. Get a translucent shower curtain to use as a diffuser.
Take your time with the setup and you will save time with post processing. Set your white bal. according to the lamps you are using.
All this equipment can be purchased new for $100.
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« on: March 01, 2011, 03:38 »
Not a bad month for us. (2nd BME)
Down ~3% since last month
796$ in income as IS exclusives.
I wish more people would share REAL NUMBERS instead of very pretty charts and tables which don't really say much.
i somewhat agree. My numbers are so bad it will make anyone look better compared to mine. I just left DT exclusive at mid-month. DT at about $70, down from $125 (1000 images online) the rest based on 15 days of being active (ranging from 19 images to 700 images online) SS at about $33 Veer at 3.50 Fotolia at 2.00 DP at 0.60 all others (14 of them including IS) at a big whopping zero
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« on: February 28, 2011, 22:09 »
Florida was my home before coming to Russia; it will be my home when i return in july. Count me as one that will be going to all the farms and taking pictures of fields, cows, chickens, pigs, goats, et al. If they pass this bill, they can get the cuffs ready; I am willing to be the first arrested; I agree with Lisa, this is UDDEELY ASSININE
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« on: February 28, 2011, 05:00 »
I have a fair share of potential customers contact me for images; usually looking for donations or a hand-out but most might be purchasers if they knew they could get the images for $20 or less per image. Most small customers are under the impress that images are RM and cost hundreds.
It would be nice to have a website to direct them to that was trustworthy and gave a fair commission. I would love to have my own site (a selling site, not just website-have that); but so much to do now that I can not handle it at this time. I am impressed with the terms of The3DStudio, up to 70% return without any of the hassles of running my own site; a family operation that I doubt will extort it's artists.
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« on: February 26, 2011, 22:11 »
I would like to see them unify the uploading process to only one agency; but keep the two agencies separate. It is really no problem to upload to both as I use lightburner and it is automated but the submission process at BigStock is a bit more arduous than SS. It would be nice to save that little bit of extra effort.
My sales are at zero at BigStock but only there for three weeks with a bit more than 500 images online. At SS, about 650 images with over 100 sales in two weeks. My pockets are bulging with all those quarters from SS.
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« on: February 25, 2011, 21:49 »
visceralimages: Here is what Matt says about FTP:
We do not allow FTP into our data center due to the security risks that come with that protocol. Our multi-file uploader will let you upload hundreds to thousands of files at a time and works very much like FTP.
If you have a lot of files (usually 5000 or more but we can work with less) you can mail us a DVD of your files if you prefer. We'll then batch upload the files directly into your account which will save you the step of uploading. From there you would just "Create Products" as usual. If this is an option you would like to use please contact [email protected] for details.
[email protected]
no worries lisa, will get them there in the next week or so via internet
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« on: February 24, 2011, 20:58 »
Hi visceralimage,
Yes, leave them as jpg unless you are talking about vector images.
[email protected]
Thanks Lisa, I tried one yesterday, site seems easy enough but need to wait till I finish loading lightburner for my other sites. If you have ftp option, that would certainly speed things along. I am located in Far East Russia and my upload speeds are less than 3 g, many times less than 10 kb/s (pretty slow).
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« on: February 24, 2011, 20:48 »
I'm interested; are there any other ways to make a stock website other than KTools, KTools seems to be a bit of trouble, judging by threads on this forum. I have a regular website but it does not offer direct purchase of various images
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« on: February 24, 2011, 07:39 »
Thanks Lisa
I did register the other day but have not uploaded anything yet. Do we need to convert ("create products") all images or do we just leave them as regular jpg.
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« on: February 24, 2011, 07:20 »
Well, what ever they did it is not helping me; just joined the mess we call IS and not action. Some views but no action. Granted, it has only been 10 days but I was expecting IS to do something like SS; guess if IS would allow us to upload more than a couple images a week, we might get a few sales-or maybe, if they would review the images in queue we might get a few sales
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« on: February 23, 2011, 22:59 »
And your name is oxymoronic right?
Ummm.... My name is Elena Elisseeva. I am one of the best-selling microstock photographers in the world. Who exactly are you and why are you calling me stupid?
Did you hide all your personal info so you can anonymously call people names?
I love the explosiveness of beautiful Russian women; always sweet, tender and loving but don't push them or insult them.
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