I have sent a question off to Dreamstime to find out the answer to this.

I think it has on several front.  My wife says my images have improve quite a bit from when I started Micro stock a while ago and I notice I am a lot more picky when selecting photos to upload from when I first started also.

It was an ok month for me, however this was the first time in 2 years that I did not sell a single image at 123RF which was not cool:  Full list of my stock sites are on my website below

I don't think you can get a RAW file as a sub sale, I have never seen that option anywaz.  As far as credits go, RAW file cost more then the highest Res image under JPG. 

Quote from: crazychristina on September 24, 2010, 00:08
To me it appears underexposed. I dragged it into PS and checked the histogram, and there are almost no values in the top quarter. Increasing contrast on the girl helps a bit too.

I agree, the girl does not seem to pop...has a grayish look.  Its a great concept image, I would also remove the bar in the background too

For IPTC I just enter the info in through Photoshop and as for uploading I use FileZilla (FTP) and create multiple tabs so it just keeps uploading while I do other things.  I used to use isynidca when I was in a hurry, but you still had to log into each site and process.

Quote from: snaprender on September 12, 2009, 18:02
I would have a heart attack and/or nervous breakdown if I ever saw one of those spiders alive and anywhere near me.

I have my own system for killing spiders (in the house) - as soon as I see one..... I let out a blood curdling scream and freeze until my boyfriend brings a shoe to kill it or my Italian Greyhound eats it.  If my boyfriend is not home and the spider is where my dog can't reach it... I let out a blood curdling scream freeze for a couple moments and then get my super super hold hairspray and nail it till it falls to the floor where I hit it with a shoe in a manic frenzy until it basically disintegrates.

I think if you taped that you would become a YouTube sensation

Quote from: lisafx on September 11, 2009, 22:01

Quote from: stockastic on September 11, 2009, 21:50
I don't want to sound paranoid but I'm seriously worried about what would happen if a site went out of business - as some of these surely will.   

When a business is going under, ethics are the first thing to go over the side.  There may not be anyone around to clean up the archives and delete all the images - so they end up orphaned on the servers of some be web host company, who has no responsibility for them.  Or maybe they go out the door on the hard drives of some used systems being unloaded for quick money.  Maybe a "partner" makes a nice cash offer for all those images, which the microstock owners can't refuse, especially if the "partner" promises - Scout's honor - not to sell them illegally, or to move them downstream to one of his "partners."  At least not until he's down the street and out of sight.

Would be interesting to hear from folks that were on Lucky Oliver and Albumo.  From what I understand LO closed shop in a pretty orderly and ethical way.  Everyone's images got deleted and everyone got paid.  Am I remembering that right? 

Albumo there are a lot of horror stories if you search the forums. 

Ultimately you have to decide are you doing business with ethical people or not.  Usually there are plenty of signs before the actual closure one way or the other.

LO - pull down all the images, but they only gave payouts if you hit the minimum.  A lot of people who where not close to that turn their earnings into credits and gave them to others.
Snapvillage - pulled all the images down and then sent everyone's payments that where due.
Albumo - has not stated their doors are closed, they just have gone stagment...meaning your images can still be sold and you not get any of your money.

Basically, you should be careful with start up companies as they might not make it.  I don't think it would be worth a company that closes its doors to mass sell the images sense that could lead to lawsuits on the owners personal assest.

That is one freaky spider...I don't think I would want to know what the holes are for either.  What ever, I think your spider is mutated.

Man, you guys are hiring out everything...hiring to write blog and edit your image.  Sounds like you don't want to do any of the fun stuff...hahahaha

Great article, I hope I am considered a Quality...although as time goes on some of my earlier work I would say might be Quantity work...hahahahaha

I have to be board at work to look, I don't really want to spend the time sifting through searches to see my name when I could be working on new images.  Typically how you do a search though is "Username or copyright name" | "stock company"  for example Moonb007 | Dreamstime - that is how I found some images before.  But like I said, its a lot of work, and the buyer does not always get credit to the photographer or site.

I have never used tinyeye before, looks cool

Like Steve, I am on all those sites.  It really depends on what you time is worth.  You may never get sales and so your images sit there.  I guess you can hope that maybe someday they will improve and you are already in the door, but it could go the other way and they could close shop.  To me it only hurts you depending on how much time you spend uploading.  When I consider a site dead, I just stop uploading and watch the site...its just as much effort pulling the images down if not more then uploading them.

You will start to see it increase, Oct is when I notice stronger sales.  I think people get in the spending mood because of Christmas

Quote from: RacePhoto on September 09, 2009, 07:33

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Dreamstime, but no matter how I create the page, they can't seem to find their logo and give me the stinkin $5 credit.  

Maybe when I'm at $45 I'll try again. It's a nice little treat if people can get it.

ps Someone who is going to upload and make thousands a year, please use my referral links, I need it to buy more camera equipment. (humor alert, begging for referrals is sad) 

I am the same way with them

Quote from: goldenangel on August 21, 2009, 22:04
Are you on modelmayhem.com? It's a great site for connecting models and photographers.

I was also going to recommend that site, its free for models.

Quote from: adijr on September 07, 2009, 03:14
bonjour new here and new to stock

Welcome, let us know if you have any questions or where you should start.

Quote from: disorderly on September 03, 2009, 04:28
Just to be explicit, the requirement is for images of 4-6 megaPIXELS.  That's independent of file size, which is measured in megaBYTES.  It's the nature of JPEG files that their size can vary quite a lot depending on contents, even though the pixel count doesn't.

Yea, I think a lot of people get that confused.  I never downsize my images unless you don't want people to get the high res. image for a subscription sale like was Rene is doing.  If you are shooting with a 15MP camera you should not have to upsize to Alamy

I don't make a living out of it, but its a great hobby.  It gives me an excuse to go out and shoot objects and make a little money from it.  I put almost all my cash to buy new toys for my camera.

Only blog if you enjoy to blog.  I am a blogger, but I don't do it to increase my exposer to my personal images.  The easy thing you can do to help get noticed, it just keep an eye on the forums at each site.  Typical each site has a photo request thread, sometime that is helpful...but that may only help with 5% at the most of your sales.  Buyers do a general search and will find your work and buy it if its good and fits their needs.  My personal blog is more dedicated to fellow stock photographers with stock site news, so I personally doubt I ever get sales that way...why would a contributor buy my images when they can take their own.

Here's the sales chart for August 2009.  To see the full list of websites I am on, visit my website or blog

I have some 200 something rejections.  Most of my images are textures and patterns, etc.  They accepted one and rejected every additional texture even know the image is 100% different.  Not sure what they are thinking really.

I have vista and it was full of bugs...I stuck with the 1.9

This is what I am looking like...after the last 20 I am 100% up.

Pending (20)
Approved (31)
Rejected (285)
Earned: $0.00

My views are increasing though.

I will hang on to them, wait and see what they do first.