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2001
« on: October 26, 2009, 02:02 »
Are other agencies accepting gettys release without the part of "New York, Alberta, England, Australia and new Zeland"?
If removing this part, will Istock accept this release?
Just use it as is.
Will that also work on other microstocks like SS, DT, etc.. ? A release for every shoot is no sweat, but two releases, one for iStock, and another for all the rest would be overkill.
2002
« on: October 26, 2009, 01:48 »
Only an MBA could come up with a hare brained scheme like that...and I heard that after the financial crisis MBA's are going for 10 cents on the dollar. Not if you buy the MBAs in a subscription package. Then they go as low as 0.099$ ( restrictions may apply). The newest trend is you can obtain an MBA for free, in the hope you would hire his cousin.  The model sounds crazier when you apply it to the housing market. A real estate agent gives you a fancy house for free to live in, in the hope you are so charmed with it that you'll later upgrade to a premium paying house. What if the free house suits your needs and you don't have money for a premium house anyways?
2003
« on: October 25, 2009, 00:06 »
I never fix rejects. Most of the time the reviewers are right.
2004
« on: October 23, 2009, 10:03 »
Overload. Luckily I have my Flashblock on. I hate to get dizzy. It also sucks bandwidth. But if they like to play, it's fine. When I have to scout images for buyers, I prefer the normal view, since the thumbs are larger and I can find the previous pages back. It's simply not usable in real life, but if they like it, who cares.
2005
« on: October 23, 2009, 08:06 »
I just clicked on one of your photo's and saw you have your EL price was set to $50. Assuming your photo is non-exclusive and seeing your rank is bronze your commission rate is 32% and so the payment should have been $16. I'm bronze for a long time, and I got 3 ELs this month, 6$ something each. That's 4 euro, hahaha. Do you really mean we have to beg FL to get the right commission, and it's not automatic, as it should be? Oh my! I don't email their support any more since I never got a reply on an urgent question 2 years go. I don't understand their complicated ranking and commission system but I know that the time spent uploading there I could better have flipped hamburgers. Update: correction, 2 ELs this month at 6.40$, and the month before 1 at 3.20$. I just discovered the forum at FT and it was all hailing about "BME" and "way to go". I won't reply since my contribution to that forum will be banned I guess. SS gives me 28$+ for an EL. Time to call it day at FT probably.
2006
« on: October 22, 2009, 23:45 »
@FD I have noticed that the new changes have been resulting in more sales even today so I am excited to see what starts to happen to conversions. Glad to hear that. Before, it was indeed a buyer's inferno, especially with the OR. Your bounce rate should go down too, by less disappointed prospective buyers. When I now look for "plane sunset", most matches are actually planes in a sunset, not planes AND sunset as before. Don't forget the other issues in the PM: those are buyer oriented improvements. There is still an issue with "asian cook", which returns oriental dishes mostly on the first page. That's unavoidable without disambiguation but adding "person" to the string works fine: "asian cook person" returns mostly oriental cooks (person). If everybody added "person" and/or "nobody" to the relevant shots, buyer's lifes would be easier.
2007
« on: October 22, 2009, 21:57 »
As I wrote already in private and in more detail, the multiple word search now seems AND (what a buyer would expect) and the substring match are gone, this is a huge improvement. There is still an issue with compound keywords where the individual terms in the compound seem to trigger a match.
2008
« on: October 22, 2009, 21:17 »
1. After I save my image, I enter it into my spreadsheet along with the keywords. That way I can copy/paste the keywords to the sites after uploading. This sounds like traveling from Paris to London by Vladivostok. Why don't you put your title, description and keywords in the IPTC? It's all imported then at the sites, you don't have to copypaste, and you don't need to maintain a spreadsheet. Irfanview (free, make sure you install the plugins too) is fine for that and it can treat images in batches too. Upload: FTP. Filezilla (free) allows to upload/queue to several sites at the same time if you use the Site Manager. iStock: Deepmeta.
2009
« on: October 22, 2009, 20:37 »
I upgraded to Win XP after my laptop (Vista preinstalled) went out of its warranty period. I didn't know my laptop could be that fast.
2010
« on: October 22, 2009, 02:26 »
 disambiguation required for overwhite: did you mean caucasian or isolation? cut out, isolated, overwhite, silo
2011
« on: October 22, 2009, 02:13 »
I guess Moldavian watches and banks are great.  What happened with his account at DT? It's disabled. Did DT find out he was behind a competing stock site?
2012
« on: October 22, 2009, 01:58 »
As many contributors testified in the past, free images don't benefit the contributor at all, although they might benefit the site as a whole. From time to time I'm part of the guild of free leechers and I don't even look who the contributor is, let alone look in his paying port. I guess most freebie-hunters are like that.
2013
« on: October 22, 2009, 01:42 »
Last 100: 28 subs, 3 EL. Much less subs than DT.
Almost no dl of my landscapes, but many overwhite models.
2014
« on: October 22, 2009, 01:31 »
First model: friend, mostly outdoors and non-isolated on non-cluttered nature or urban backgrounds.
Up till now: SB-800 ceiling-bounced in a small cubicle with reflecting material. For microstock, this is not viable in the end since the time you lose isolating the non-totally-white background and the shallow DOF (F5.6) which limits the poses and gestures.
2015
« on: October 22, 2009, 01:08 »
I'm impressed that you had a sale on Yay. I had 8 sales this year on YAY, and one on Veer. To be honest, after my initial approval of 10 on Veer, they rejected 40-60% (amongst them good sellers) in a very irrational way. Many were for keywords or "we don't need this". My conclusion was that in that case, I don't need them too and I asked to delete my port. The single sale came in the few days the approved images were online. Since a while, I use the hamburger criterion. If I earn less on a site than the hourly wage of flipping hamburgers (8 euro/h) by finishing the upload on site (disambiguiting, categorizing), I discard it. Veer is very slow to disambiguate since they rebuild the page every time a keyword is disambiguated or added. YAY is done is a breeze.
2016
« on: October 21, 2009, 13:23 »
I know about it as much as u do. If for the most of you so it is critical that the domain is registered in Moldova, then i really don't know what to think?! ) Dreamtime is Romanian and American company, so what? most of you working with this stock, so am i, and i don't care where is registered their domain name. You were faking all the time, mentioning Swiss reliable watches, naming your site " swisstock", but your group is Russian. It smells scam all over, since you didn't mention Moldavia, but Switzerland first. I found out about Moldavia, and your hidden info on whois. Dreamstime has always been honest and they are an American brand and they do have a US office. You didn't know your competitors like CutCaster at all. Have a nice day ;-)
2017
« on: October 21, 2009, 12:35 »
Sorting your results by age, it looks like more than half of his "imitators" uploaded their images before his. That's quite a trick! Yeah I didn't check age, stupid me. Right, I have a compass here. I still have to find a road that splits.
2018
« on: October 21, 2009, 11:30 »
That looks EXTREMELY interesting and reliable since Switzerland is associated with watches. Switch watches are produced in China, also the real ones. Ipods are produced in China too.
2019
« on: October 21, 2009, 09:52 »
To be honest, if you're in any way serious about trying to preserve your earnings or the longevity of your precious best-sellers, then it's probably best not to post handy links to them on public forums. I can almost hear the sound of compasses and walking boots being dusted off all over the world. He has many imitators, look here. But unlike Dreamstime with its new relevancy search (bypassing sales by default), iStock also takes sales into account. His nearest copy on the search page has only 9 downloads while Eppic on position #1 has over 500. One of my best selling concepts over sites that is easy to reshoot dropped off page #1 of Dreamstime since reshooters seem to use more "relevant" keywords, whatever sales. That's why my sales at DT are degrading and getting better at iStock, I guess. At least iStock doesn't favorite copycats.
2020
« on: October 21, 2009, 08:33 »
Probably it will be good enough, as Switzerland nevertheless is famous for the reliability of banks and watches ) and not only You are not Swiss. You said to be Russians, the site is hosted in Moldavia, and the contact details are hidden on whois. And by the way, I guess you mean sharing information and not shearing it. Although the latter may be closer to the truth. 
2021
« on: October 21, 2009, 08:09 »
Basically my blog is aimed more at travelers, people who are interested in photography or people who are bored at work and just want to look at pretty pictures You are downplaying your blog. The article about night photography was very instructive, synoptic and concise. I learned a lot by it. You even gave away the main "secret": night photography is best at dusk or twilight. How to handle sensor noise at long exposures was totally new to me. I'm sure it's all on the net, but it's great to find it in one place. For those interested: here.
2022
« on: October 21, 2009, 08:04 »
No, but it will bring in competition, as evidenced by your experience. The main reason for a photographer's blog is raking in referrals.
2023
« on: October 21, 2009, 07:17 »
do you know how he designed his website and was that the biggest startup cost? None, since he uses the blogger platform.
2024
« on: October 21, 2009, 06:15 »
Here's a quick one that illustrates how to use the pen tool to isolate in Photoshop.
http://www.all-things-photography.com/how-to-isolate-objects-in-photoshop.html Why he uses the pen tool, and then he converts the area to a selection, when he could use the selection tool immediately? A feather of 2px is much too soft and it wouldn't pass Istock. Currently I'm using 0.5px and I rarely get rejections for feathering any more. That used to be different when I used 1px. I also didn't like the replace color tool for the whitish areas since it's linear. Dodging 8% (non-linear) would be much better and save some parts of the ropes that got bleached out by the tool. Since the ropes against the blown out sky are full of fringe (like the chains on the OP's image), I would also totally desaturate the ropes. The OP should also do it with the chains.
2025
« on: October 20, 2009, 13:30 »
I have just visited the CutCuster.com - it SUX If you just visited the well-known CutCaster after reading this thread, I'm not too impressed with your market exploration before starting "Swis"stock. If as you "sheared" with us, you are a Russian group, why leech the Swiss quality reputation? Your site is hosted in Moldavia and your contact details are hidden on whois. Your "Swiss" umbrella is as genuine as the Vuiton handbags and the Rolex watches on the street markets of Bejing.
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