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« on: August 20, 2008, 11:30 »
I did some analysis using the "popular" search in Shutterstock and it looked to me, but I'm not 100% sure, that if a new image gets some downloads right after it's uploaded by the fact it sits in the newest images, it's more likely it stays up in the popular searches, thus becoming more popular and generating a positive feedback loop.
Given this like of reasoning, it doesnt look to me a bad idea to try to time the uploads in a period which is supposed to be a spike. How does it sound to you with more experiences?
It's one of the reasons I'm trying to gather stats (the other reason is that I'm a stats junkie).
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« on: August 20, 2008, 06:25 »
My advice...Try to work at it consistently, and set goals for getting a certain number of images online each week/month. Once you are sticking to your plan, try to add in sales goals. This will keep you focused on shooting successful concepts and forcing yourself to improve your efficiency. Yes, very good points. That's also my idea: setting achievable goals, and uploading a certain number a week in small batches every couple of days. I also like this idea of spending some time every evening to understand what separates me from the best images. I'm having a smaller pace cause of work, but now that Fable 2 is close to shipping, I'm again a free man and I can go out and shoot and learn. And then try something indoor when general winter comes... Any questions, ask any time. 
Don't try me. I'm learning, and I'm curious. You might regret it 
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« on: August 20, 2008, 05:09 »
When I started in microstock 14 months ago, I had never taken a serious picture before. I had no idea what noise was, what composition was... Obviously I had little to no idea what the market wanted. So the last year has been a trial by fire as I learned everything from how to operate a DSLR, to how to combine colors, to what does/doesn't sell. I am so thankful I didn't get discouraged, and stuck with it. Thanks, this post gives me lots of hope I'm in the same situation as you a year ago, picked up my first DSLR in february and started shooting and learning. I have an RPI of about 0.50 across all sites (better stats are at home), and even if it's very low I'm quite happy about it. It can only go up the more i learn!
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« on: August 20, 2008, 04:30 »
I think there may be a "slight" search advantage to exclusive images too. I remember Achilles confirmed a small advantage for exclusive images, which is fair in my opinion.
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« on: August 13, 2008, 18:14 »
I'm having a sweet 2.75$ RPD this month after the new earnings.
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« on: August 13, 2008, 06:47 »
I noticed that I get very few sales in the morning and early afternoon (looks like whole Europe is on vacations). It gets better later in the day.
Yes, Europe is on holidays. This week, for example, almost all industries close in Italy and they all go to the beach. 'They', cause I don't live in Italy anymore, I moved to sunny UK (ahahah sunny... global warming my a..).
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« on: August 12, 2008, 05:49 »
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« on: August 05, 2008, 14:21 »
I started with PSC too
http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/cyrilhou
They are very selective with their "news" images, and i am not sure you can reupload 
Funnily enough, i have higher acceptance rate on PSC than DT (67%) and ISP (a whooooping 54% I'm very proud of being a noob). I have about 75% on PSC. It must be said that I really send only the very few sharpest shots and very selected. I even got a EC I bragged about for about two weeks
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« on: August 04, 2008, 14:44 »
I use the A200 and LR to process ARW. I read that LR is pretty bad at high ISO with the A700, they all suggest to use IDC (Sony Software) in this scenario for better noise control. I could notice a marginal improvement updating from LR to LR2. Overall it does a decent job but you really want to have some camera profiles for the A100 or built your own using a color chart. I havent had any major technical problems with micro or macro sites passing IQ: all my failures are always cause I suck not the camera or the ARW converter
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« on: July 24, 2008, 03:58 »
No, we are all treated the same. It is easy to get 100% acceptance there. There will be new people uploading garbage as well as older contributors and this seems like a sensible way of punishing them.
Indeed. I'm very new, but once I got a grip with their QC, I had only one failing batch (my fault) in the last 20 or so submissions. If I can do it, it's not difficult at all to get high acceptance rate at Alamy and this new procedure sounds fair to me.
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« on: July 14, 2008, 08:53 »
A question for some "broadminded" readers:
If you one day turned on the TV, and while watching a nationally run commercial discovered one of your images in that commercial;
... My first reply to a Miz thread! I'm excited I would be happy, cause in general I don't mind (much) about money. If I did, I wouldnt have chosen to be a videogame programmer, since I can make so much more money by programming banking software, and I wouldn't have chosen photography as a hobby, cause it's more a money sink than anything for me. But it's lots of fun and I'd be extremely happy to see what I produce used, just like I'm very happy every time a game I worked on is released and I see hundreds of thousands people playing it. Fame fame fame for me...! (and if some money come from it, all the better)
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« on: July 14, 2008, 06:29 »
All back to normal here.
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« on: July 14, 2008, 05:24 »
It's up now... and it lost the last two days sales and submissions. Doh!
(Hope they have backups)
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« on: July 13, 2008, 04:47 »
A 3D image, rejected, reason... white balance incorrect...
Patrick H.
Please show me how you can do that, I'll try it in real-time and we'll both get incredibly rich selling photorealistic 3d engines for videogames
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« on: July 13, 2008, 03:29 »
Shutterstock is like sex - its great but the thrill can be short lived. You certainly wouldn't want to marry it.
Brilliant Is it possible they "tweak" the search engine to give a boost to new contributors?
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« on: June 28, 2008, 08:23 »
two things to remember:
1)they will block any link to stock photo sites of your portfolio
2) they use your photos without permission on their own sites
eg. did anyone see the weather sites? there's flickr photos
being used. i wonder if the photographers know that.
i was shocked to find that out. 
I tried and Dreamstime is blocked. It looks like Shutterstock and ISP are fine, but I'm not 100% sure. Alamy and Photoshelter definitely work. For me, being completely new, putting some of my images on Flickr is some form of pubblicity and I can take the risk of seen my (poor) images being stolen. I'm not that good to be worried about that now More seriously, do you need a Pro account to disable downloading?
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« on: June 21, 2008, 09:55 »
Congrats melastmohican. I've just been accepted too after three attempts with four images. I'm impressed, since I took a DSLR in my hands four months ago for the first time... Thanks Adeptris for your tips. Appreciated. I can't hide I'm extremely happy
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« on: June 21, 2008, 04:44 »
Brilliant. Thanks a lot.
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« on: June 21, 2008, 03:45 »
Dan, a newbie question from me: how do you check total downloads per single image. I can't seem to find it. Thanks.
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« on: June 20, 2008, 07:34 »
I'm new to MSG and I'm trying to contribute to the lightboxes. Thanks a lot for this chance and, especially, for the automated script. It works like a charm. Brilliant work.
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