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« on: October 20, 2011, 09:45 »
Do you know of any process where I can automatically filter out photos with more than a certain resolution? I wouldn't like to go through 5000 photos. - Put them in one or a few folders. - Open the folder in the Windows explorer. - Right click on the file pane title and let it show "dimensions". - Click on "dimensions" so your files are ranked according to pixel dimensions from low to high (click again to sort from high to low). - Select (shift-click) the first N files that are => the requirements. - Copy those to a temp folder and upload the temp folder content.
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« on: October 20, 2011, 09:35 »
Canstock is and always has been one of the best programmed sites around, and often they were the first to implement a new feature. They even beat 123RF with their Model Releases module and I never - in more than 6 years there - encountered a glitch. Most of all, Duncan has always been a heck of a guy and very responsive to remarks. Although he has never been one of those slick slimy corporate i-Guys that scr*w you when you're not looking, he is a man out of one piece. I didn't upload there in more than half a year but I'll upload my 200 latest right away. As to Slovenian burgers, the first and definitely the last time I passed there in Cevapcici county they tasted like would-be western crap and I bet the poor dudes flipping it (they actually didn't flip but they charcoaled them on 1 side while the other side was still raw with pieces of ice in it) won't get 8 euro/hr, so thanks to Marshal Tito for the ignore button  (I still love Suljo!)
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« on: October 20, 2011, 09:14 »
It doesn't necessary require a single programmer's work, but a slow evolution in computer software. Software (in its current form and for the foreseeable future) doesn't evolve, but it is written. Life evolved from the primordial soup (amino acids) into the first self-replicating protocells in about 1 billion (800 million) years by a process of countless trials and errors. Not so with software as we know it. Human effort, time and creativity involved in coding/testing has a price, and if you pay for peanuts you'll get monkeys (unless you buy by subscription) 
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« on: October 20, 2011, 09:04 »
Am I asking too much? Yes.
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« on: October 20, 2011, 07:38 »
we must conquer Asia! But they are in Asia (Oz).
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« on: October 19, 2011, 00:28 »
And now i have a blank portfolio!!! You're still on their front page as featured photographer.  Maybe they should rebrand the site as Flying Dutchman (for the culturally differently-abled : an unmanned ship roaming the oceans).
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« on: October 18, 2011, 10:14 »
Or maybe he literally means that the film of the street was taken in his neighborhood? Who knows That doesn't look like Beverly Hills, more like East LA 
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« on: October 18, 2011, 10:00 »
I submit only to SS, iS, BigStock, Veer , DT and Stockfresh and am opted out of PP's where possible... i wonder... Here comes the Second Law of Thermodynamics, applied to Stock Photography: "Wherever you upload and whatever PP you opt out, your images will appear all on Pixmac eventually". 
lol, probably several times at once
Nah, that's why they installed a "cache" system By the way Zager, thanks for the heart. After a thorough shower and cleaning my cache, I feel much better.
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« on: October 18, 2011, 09:57 »
Wise words and the connection to microstock is all too obvious. Hmmm, do you mean people staying with sites that scr*w them all over because they need the peanuts?
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« on: October 18, 2011, 09:39 »
I hope this facility is included in the next version. Great stuff. The great stuff is always in their next version. That's how they keep selling next versions. For stock it's pretty useless since nothing beats a sharp photo, so as our Munich friend stated, don't throw your monopods away yet. For family snapshots, it must be great.
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« on: October 18, 2011, 05:47 »
If you look carefully at the shots, it's all about motion blur (camera shake) in one single dimension, not about 2-dimensional blur caused by lens blur. Of course, the first type can be mathematically solved since the translation path is determined. The second type can't be solved in principle, unless you integrate the info from many viewpoints (shots).
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« on: October 18, 2011, 01:18 »
Confucius say "what is point of posting cryptic message with zero content?" Sun-Tsu said: " all war is deception". Laurin posted his views years ago on another forum. "Small cellphone cams will reach the quality of DSLRs and everybody will become an editorial or news photo/videographer if he happens to be at the right place. Crowd-sourcing will get its true meaning then." (my wording). In fact he was right since during the most recent Arab spring events and also the London riots, video coverage with the most impact and relevance was done by anonymous people in the crowd with cellphones. Everybody has one so you are less likely to be targeted out while filming.
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« on: October 17, 2011, 21:01 »
I submit only to SS, iS, BigStock, Veer , DT and Stockfresh and am opted out of PP's where possible... i wonder... Here comes the Second Law of Thermodynamics, applied to Stock Photography: " Wherever you upload and whatever PP you opt out, your images will appear all on Pixmac eventually".
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« on: October 17, 2011, 10:03 »
Most of my sales I had with a D200. I still use it for events and weddings. How on earth you can have such noise and blurriness with a D200? Bad lens? ISO too high? Don't quit your day job for now and if you can take frank advice, stick to it.
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« on: October 17, 2011, 09:43 »
I'm all for a UK site but the last microstock priced one I tried was a waste of time. This one probably too. So what? Whining 5 years from now IS had - sadly enough - to lower commissions to 1 dollarcent to be "sustainable"? If there aren't any legal problems, I'm far more likely to upload my portfolio, so I hope iRockStock seek advice and make changes if they have to. Why would there be legal problems? Because iStock forgot to patent the shield as an administrator's icon on the forum?
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« on: October 16, 2011, 16:02 »
I really like the site and what you are doing (I am an illustrator myself) and I might even join the site, but at the moment I am very afraid that this 'opinion being formed in Calgary' will be detrimental to your success Calgary ows obedience to the British crown and rules some pinewoods around as serfs. Britannia, at the contrary, rules the waves. It's about time we Europeans beat some sense back into our rebellious colonies that seem to be ruled by gangs of greedy lawyers nowadays. The best thing that could happen to iRockStock is that the i-thing sued them, before a British and EU court of course. Everybody likes free publicity.
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« on: October 16, 2011, 04:59 »
My suggestion is put a Complain button on the posts and if someone is offended or has got their nose out of joint about something, a click notifies the moderator. That's already there: "report to moderator" text link at the right bottom of every post.
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« on: October 16, 2011, 04:53 »
I would like to say that I joined in June and already have 2 sales. Don't boast too much over sales. You might draw the attention of the Arcurs scouts, and before you know it another WMD (some DVD's with 50K top images) will be launched from Aarhus.  Im totally pro the Slocke strategy: nothing to see there, just move on.
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« on: October 16, 2011, 04:42 »
This camera would appeal to a wider range of shooters than the 5D series in my humble opinion. Sports shooters, concert/event shooters, wedding photographers, nature/wildlife photographers. Basically anyone that needs to capture moments that come and go in an instant. The 5D cameras produce unbelievably beautiful images in my opinion but they are slow and they are fragile when compared to the 1D series. +1 - the 5DII is a studio machine: I always use it on manual, with 1 focus point on the eyes, ISO100 and F11-16. Outdoors and for events, especially for focusing, it's rather mediocre.
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« on: October 16, 2011, 04:29 »
For example, if you have Sunnymars/pseudonymous/etc. on ignore, you would still have been subjected to the petulant rambling postings of Bettan until you realized it was the same person. Are you sure? I supported her on a few occasions (in private and on DT) and Bettan was quite aggressive. If it was Sunnymars, she would never had said that I was anonymous. Or maybe she is suffering from the dr.Jekyll - mr.Hide syndrome.
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« on: October 16, 2011, 04:11 »
Enough with the exclusive bashing already. For the record, I never bashed exclusives, at the contrary. We need to feel a lot of empathy for colleagues that are hardest hit by the policy changes, especially the inclusion (and best match boost) of many of the imported collections. It's easy (sortof) to leave iStock with under 1K images and just a few thousand sales. It's a catch22 to be there and no presence on other sites to make up. As to Thinkstock, for the exclusives goes the famous Latin saying: hodie " mihi, cras tibi" ( today happens to me what tomorrow will happen to you).
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« on: October 15, 2011, 01:41 »
Yeah, dude, what's with all of the identity changes? I passed by Thailand and had a sex change. They asked me if I wanted to change my mind but I said no thanks, I'm quite happy with the one I have now. [End of off-topic]
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« on: October 15, 2011, 01:26 »
I like iStockphoto. () I do not like subscription selling by anyone! I think it will destroy Microstock (as we know it now). Since when did Thinkstock (where all our images forcibly will be "mirrored") turn into an RM site?
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« on: October 14, 2011, 20:26 »
Yesterday I submitted some vectors to iRockStock and today I was accepted I bet this came as a total shock to you
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« on: October 14, 2011, 19:44 »
In the end, it was an epic fail, wasn't it, Bettan? You hoped to prove that anonymity was bad and all that happened was people took you with a pinch of salt. Nah I just ignored the fresh troll. I'm not that anonymous and Baldricks Trousers isn't, at least not to me. Maybe we became anonymous to avoid vindicative trolls. I also think people should be judged on their posts and on their track record. Anybody making bold statements an hour after signing up doesn't belong to that group.
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