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Messages - skyfish
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« on: February 12, 2017, 12:11 »
Received today. Late
You mean late today? as its actually three days early
I usually receive on 6-7. So for me 12 is late.
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« on: February 12, 2017, 11:46 »
Received today. Late
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« on: February 10, 2017, 04:59 »
This is an old one, but I am also interested in the answer.
For me, Creative Market works really well: https://creativemarket.com/PhotoMarket/collections/65237/Lightroom-Presets and I also tried selling on Etsy, but it was very slow. GraphicRiver could also be interesting. I sold Photoshop templates on this platform a couple of years ago.
-Jan.
Tried to see, but banner has no button close, and buttons on it bring to other places on the site. p.s. found - i have to refresh the page 3 times to see content of the link directly
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« on: February 02, 2017, 07:28 »
To really do it they have to start with editorials.
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« on: February 02, 2017, 06:19 »
Put testing on head of a client/contributor. Latest trend which does development cheaper.
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« on: February 01, 2017, 06:01 »
May be yes, may be not. Here is a thin border from which you start to invest in agency's business, having false impression of receiving income. Yes, everybody will decide for himself.
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« on: February 01, 2017, 05:00 »
When it does not bring more than your expenses to put photos with agencies, then it is better to keep them on your disk. Expenses include: your time for processing and uploading, usage of electricity, computer, costs of software, internet, sometimes transportation, administrative fees, accountant fees, tax on that "income" etc, others can add some more. In majority of cases only agencies will have a real income from your volunteering.
I suspect only your time is a factor the other things you have probably paid for already. But yes cost of your time is what you have to determine to see if its worth it for you.
Not only time. There are normatives, different for different countries, and even space in your appartment which you use for production, can be accepted as an expense, you pay a rent or tax for your apartment or house. The same with fractions of private and production use of any goods accepted for such calculations. Yes for something you paid in advance, but correct cost calculation is more complex, if you don't want overpay the tax.
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« on: February 01, 2017, 04:11 »
When it does not bring more than your expenses to put photos with agencies, then it is better to keep them on your disk. Expenses include: your time for processing and uploading, usage of electricity, computer, costs of software, internet, sometimes transportation, administrative fees, accountant fees, tax on that "income" etc, others can add some more. In majority of cases only agencies will have a real income from your volunteering.
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« on: January 31, 2017, 03:03 »
Tout est possible...
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« on: January 24, 2017, 04:05 »
Yes it is not a bug. It is a "business rule" applied. This allow to sell what they need at the moment. Veterans images are not in their favorite "goods" list, and the only reason is money.
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« on: January 23, 2017, 11:21 »
Hello all,
I just discovered that many many of my images in my portfolio are not displayed when i click on it on buyer SS site !
I understand why my sales have dropped ! 
I've written to SS to check what is happening. If only 1 on 5 images of my files are displayed when buyer click on it (I've got 2000 images), then I'll make 5x less income than usually
This is extremely worrying. Are you experiencing the same
Could you check if that 's happening with your port ?
Thx
Glad you mentioned this cause its the same here! I buy and contribute. The same eight or ten pictures are selling every day but when logging in as a buyer I can only see a small fraction of my pictures. Have also written to SS about a possible bug? they replied no bug and that everything was fine. its not. Whats going on?
I believe they now call this Alternative Facts, got to give it to Shutterstock they got into the new regime mode pretty quick.
I noticed this year before. Even i don't have a buyer account, my client several times pointed to this problem, when he was not able to find photos he needed in my portfolio.
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« on: January 21, 2017, 10:59 »
I have noticed something too - the policies of majority of agencies regarding contributors are "faire chier" them
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« on: January 17, 2017, 08:48 »
Better idea is to setup your free photography website here http://shutterforge.com/. It's already setup to sell your work.
Well that looks interesting, actually. Although they do no marketing of their own, have no keyword search, so no one is going to find you there except maybe by Google search. They do claim to be properly SEO optimized.
I sell prints on FAA and there are some things seriously wrong there. Shutterforge might be a nice addition.
Examples sites open not in all browsers. For example, in Opera it loads empty page. But main site ok.
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« on: January 17, 2017, 03:29 »
Is SS aware of this bug?
Volunteering for a company which has necessary budgets and specialists to keep all this stuff on a decent level? For me it is clear that nothing will be done till their profits are not affected. Before that they will close eyes for all types of internal games. Contributors provided testing, signaling of bugs in programming and in business for free and for years.
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« on: January 12, 2017, 03:16 »
thank you very much to all of you, your judgement was very helpful.
@franzi: patterndesign has a premium section as well, do you know whats all about. Patterndesign told me, that in this section they would sell their own patterns. Now I wonder, how this patterns looks like. Patterndesign does not want me to have a look at these pattern, which is kind of strange...
Any idea?
Another case when crowds were used then not needed
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« on: January 10, 2017, 05:27 »
I did this several times, but always with a notice, because for a buyer it is not visible on preview. Just to not do surprises for him.
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« on: January 02, 2017, 05:20 »
I still have my legacy Symbiostock site
Its up and functioning, havent paid much attention to it for quite sometime, and th results reflect that as well.
I would be interested in still having an independant site, but with everyones images being available from a centralized location - much like how most agencies work today.
Most contributers do not have an extensive enough collection that would garner the interest of buyers, and for buyers to skip from individual site to individual site would be a non starter if I were a buyer.
I would be willing to share proceeds of sales made for maintenance and advertising of this kind of site
That's what I want too but I think it would be better with just one site with one domain and dedicated hosting. It worked to a certain extent with the Warmpicture site that Dan Padavona set up a few years ago. I sold more there than with my symbiostock site. I think the problem was that it was too much work for one person and for it to succeed, a large group of us would have to employ a few people. I would be willing to invest in a co-op style site but there's never been any serious discussion about it and we really need an entrepreneur with the right business skills to see the opportunity. Until then, I'm happy with the sites that pay 50%.
There was an attempt last year and before. It cannot of course run totally free, because of hosting, development, business parts. These are full time jobs. BTW - manufacturer always wants to be closer to consumer. Intermediate businesses always want to separate them. The problem is the same in all industries, even in jobs market.
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« on: January 02, 2017, 03:56 »
Sales are frozen at 99,97$. Like always, just a coincidence
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« on: January 02, 2017, 03:54 »
Same here. Expected payout, but now it is postponed. Any case of error in contributor favour?
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« on: December 30, 2016, 04:37 »
BTW - Photodeck created functionality for easy extraction of image info in xml file, this allow quickly create websites for image search on another platform or participate in cooperation with other photographers. No hot-linking to your site, once downloaded watermarked thumbs of several sizes and image info. No additional costs for your cloud based host. Simple program will allow to prepare ready update packages for coop platforms. Yes, before it was complicated there, now - easy.
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« on: December 27, 2016, 06:02 »
Should exist all variants and possibiity to change at any time when owner of images thinks it is necessary. One site for all - ok, good, but after some time will start a usual life cycle of "agency" with all related problems, including search and exposure.
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« on: December 05, 2016, 03:44 »
In reality SS restricts majority of contributors to some type of content and type of post processing. Something different will not go through. But i know that many of us don't want to be specialized and sit in a niche defined by ss reviewers.
That's a new claim, isn't it? I've not noticed that which might mean my content and processing is limited or it might mean that the claim isn't right.
It is possible that you might be good at certain subjects and processing techniques and less good at those you are not so familiar with. Getting rejections based on quality could then lead you to the mistaken conclusion that you've been allocated a niche and aren't allowed out of it, so instead of developing your skill at new techniques you submit what you think they will accept and reinforce your belief they won't accept anything else.
I just offer that as an idea.
I would not follow this advise. In my current situation i do different images and heritage pression from years with ss only has a negative effect. I do the opposite - less saturation, more freedom in subjects, layouts and processing etc. Work with clients become more interesting exactly when i decided to not spend my time for micros. I studied a lot of new things and i saw happy eyes of clients. With ss i had several cases when restriction was obvious: several years they didn't accept any editorial from me, but i supplied to other places a lot. And suddenly after mentioning of this at ss forum, they started to accept editorials. Any "less nuclear" or "acid" colors were rejected as poor lightning(this started in 2012-2013). I was tired to do different post processing for the same images for different destinations and choosed my current environment. I am not often here now, just saw your citation by accident :-)
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« on: October 25, 2016, 02:06 »
Some names are damaging for business development. If googling for your name returns thousands of records related to other people with the same FN/LN combination, you will think that spending any money for advertisement will work in favour of other photographers and designers etc with the same name. Personally i had cases when HRs were not capable at all to distinguish between several people with the same names and some systems didn't allow to create account, because ID there was related to names.
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« on: October 19, 2016, 04:53 »
It was down, but now ok in Begium
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« on: October 18, 2016, 03:29 »
Hello Guys,
I contribute to the stock industry since 2005.
I have seen dozens and dozens of these posts always predicting the apocalypse on the stock industry.
[..insults removed..]
In 2005 you uploaded any (ANY!!) photo and it would sell because there wasn't competition.
Nowadays competition is fierce. You must have great and innovative content or else you'll die.
From 2010 until now I always had better years. This year is 10% better when compared to 2015.
In ideal case. In reality SS restricts majority of contributors to some type of content and type of post processing. Something different will not go through. But i know that many of us don't want to be specialized and sit in a niche defined by ss reviewers.
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