Funny this. It is dead easy finding out who is hiding behind a pseudo. There is even a so called unauthorized " service" that provides that. Finding out for yourself is almost just as easy, as long as you know how.
I mean if its possible to hack your way into the Pentagon, finding out a pseudo is like a walk in the park.

If an agency really wants to find out who is behind a certain pseudo. They can.

I thought this was common knowledge by now.

I think anonymity is the weapon of choice for anyone who is willing to be aggressive, and even abusive with forum posts. I think Tyler made a perfectly reasonable compromise; that those wishing to remain anonymous can do so, but should have to pay a nominal fee. simply as a small administrative hurdle to reduce multiple accounts and abusive posters. it would make this forum more informative in my opinion. otherwise, the information is often buried in the bickering and escalation. there is a lot of great stuff here, but it's also a circus

Oh Stacey!  you have changed since joining Stocksy. You have becoame too clean.

Somebody I knew in London went bankrupt, massive studio debts this and that. Bailiffs came. He had nothing to declare, no income, nothing.
What he had was an extensive portfolio in a well known stock-agency, at least earning him enough to tick over, wife and a kid.

The IRS investigating ofcourse finally found him and his portfolio through the Internet. Several net friends in forums had started to call him by his name, so the pseudo did not help.

Just sharing. It might mean nothing though. Although if they can find, so can the Tax man.

Very basic editing in PS. If this is serious I would go for one of the more expensive Pro-applications. In the long run it pays off and sometimes very handsomely.
On a commercial shoot, pop promo or whatever, you find they use these.

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the policy on gritty realism.

Policy of gritty realism ?

From the Bruce Livingstone interview: " Bruce Livingstone has set out to produce a collection of �authentic� stock images unlike anything customers will be able to find anywhere else. When he uses the work authentic he means a photograph that doesn�t look staged, pretend, forced or unrealistic."

really!  well he better go for editorial work then. dirty workers with filthy hands and real female models with pot bellies and double chins.

Notice they never say real, just 'authentic' stock : ) It's tired old phoneyness. A real shot of shoppers on a street would be: dirty sidewalk with overspilling trashcans, all kinds of cars everywhere, and tired looking people in mismatching clothes holding on to wrinkled, disgusting ugly plastic bags. NOBODY wants that... and if it isn't that, it is a shined up stock shot. If you choose to process it with some film emulation filter, etc, it will be so new and so different to handful an virtual infants, but to an adult who has seen things it's just another, even older and more worn cliche than the micro-style. There's nothing wrong with selling stuff like that and they can even be really nice photos, just don't try pretend it's new and real and revolutionary... pls... it's just sooo exhausting... it's the home shopping network style.

Well each to themselves, live and let live and all that. The other hypo Offset dont promise to be much more does it? as I said in another thread. This is wonderful advertising, a bit of limelight here and there, showing people you are still around.
Now is it going to sell or not? thats another story. Somehow I dont think they are too worried about that as long as people are reminded they are there, still around.
I dont think he meant new as in new material. He probably meant something a little bit differant. better or worse.

People are afraid of exclusivity, the very word send shivers down many spines. people have been burnt, badly.

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the policy on gritty realism.

Policy of gritty realism ?

From the Bruce Livingstone interview: " Bruce Livingstone has set out to produce a collection of �authentic� stock images unlike anything customers will be able to find anywhere else. When he uses the work authentic he means a photograph that doesn�t look staged, pretend, forced or unrealistic."

really!  well he better go for editorial work then. dirty workers with filthy hands and real female models with pot bellies and double chins.

over 20+ yrs I've owned a lot of Nikons, Canons, Mamiyas and Hassleblads ... mostly pro and pro-sumer level nikons and canons. However, I have had a few consumer level SLRs as well (mostly for handing off to family members at birthdays and crap like that). Nikon has always been my first pick for 35mm or digital .. for different reasons over the years varied from model to model, new technology, etc. .. but if I had to sum my preference up in one area it would have to do with the internal functions of the metering systems and white balance. Nikons are more stable in this area. You can get equal results when comparing a low-end Nikon system to a high-end Canon system. However, you rarely can get equal results comparing a low-end Canon system to a high-end or low-end Nikon system.

If I was to show up at a shoot where gear was provided for me and it was pro canons and nikons .. I could just grab one at random and not have any concerns with completing the job. Put me in the same situation with consumer level nikons and canons and there's no way I'm going to pick up the canon. I will go for the cheap Nikon and still be confident in giving the client professional results while maintaining a fast efficient workflow .... this is also assuming that I would not be doing everything manually and being forced to rely on the cameras various presets .. white balance being one of the most problematic areas with a consumer level canon.

People who love spot metering will also tend to lean towards Nikons because they offer more precise control regardless of how much you are spending. Even a cheap consumer level Nikon will give you a 2.5% spot where an equally priced Canon is only going to give you a whimpy 9%. To get a Canon that can offer that level of precision means you are going to have to spend a lot more money.

So in a nutshell, if you're using pro-level bodies and know what you're doing brand honestly doesn't matter that much but if you're an amateur/semi-pro you're going to see more advantages with a Nikon in your workflow process ... better results with less time invested in the assignment.

WB was something I worried about in the film days. I remember with horror all these kodak wratten filters, color meters and so on. Sticking all these plasticky CC  filters on Hasselblad optics made you want to cry.

Today however there is really no need for worries. You have Raw converters and PS,  programs that within seconds convert colors and WB to whatever suits you.

I use both Canon and Nikon systems extensivly. To me its all the same. However if the OP were to ask me for the perfect just shooting stock camera for micro. Then I would go for Canons MII and MIII.

Getty/IS.......... is rowing in all the people that matters. Special deals ( think Yuri is the only one)?? far from it. They have the power to clinch just about anybody and they have been doing just that since 1997.

No algorithm forces people to buy images people dont want

Ofcourse it forces people into buying! very few have probably got the time to flick through tons of pages until they finally arrive at what they really wanted. Thats the art of it.

I worked like a maniac for almost an year to create 300 good images. Around 200 were accepted by SS. After a lot of stress, uploading, rejections, failures, I started at last to have 100 downloads a month.  I finally felt motivated to upload more. I had around 10 pictures on the first popular pages which brought constant income.

Then SS did whatever they did with the search and only 1 of those 10 pictures is still on the first page ( but almost at the bottom ). My downloads dropped and I'll probably have only 40 downloads this month ( from 100 ), and that's only because the first half of the month was still on the old algorithm.

What can you do in this situation? When an entire year of hard work just goes to hell one night?

Yes they certainly know how to re-pay honest and hard work dont they? the wonderful thing about a search is that the actual sort can be skewed so that it only benefits the agency, any agency but not the contributor.  The powers of the Internet.

I am curious - since Yuri's port is not available on SS anymore, did anyone who works in the same style see any increase in sales? Or the effect is negligible? My search for "business people" there turned up 900,356 results... hmm I guess I have my answer then:)

Must be around 200 members there working in almost exactly the same style. They cant all be up? Thank God!  I am not into lifestyles.

Looks like a sister company to Stocksy or Offset. Might be the same dizzy CEOs?