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« on: February 20, 2009, 04:57 »
Yes Fotolia had an amazing growth rate and this month for the first time there is a race between iStockphoto and Fotolia for the 1st place. If they continue to grow at that speed and put the extra money into marketing I am ok with that.
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« on: February 18, 2009, 11:30 »
3% does not sound much, but consider that 3% down from 33% commission is actually 10% less money, that means you monthly payout will be 10% lower.
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« on: February 18, 2009, 11:02 »
Yes Lisa, thats what I meant and how I understood the e-mail.
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« on: February 18, 2009, 10:17 »
Wow I did not noticed that with the EL. I will opted out my images from the Extended License if that really is the case.
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« on: February 18, 2009, 09:30 »
Just got an e-mail from Fotolia Germany. They announced some changes:
One was I believed mentioned here before. The option to give your images away for free which have not sold int 24 month
Others are:
- Medium size price will go up to 4 credits
- our commission goes down by 3%
- new exclusivity model (photographers exclusivity like istock)
- commission from exclusive images will in future be the same as nonexclusive images, if the whole portfolio is not exclusive.
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« on: February 14, 2009, 03:47 »
Thank you, it looks already better than rapidshare, I think I will try it out.
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« on: February 13, 2009, 11:58 »
I am looking for a credible, not to expensive file sharing service where I can upload up to several hundred MB files. What do you use, what can you recommend? Currently I use Rapidshare, its fine, but I would rather have something like a real account. Like with smugmug, where I can sent customers links to whole galleries. The problem with smugmug is its file limits and they just make JPG files available for downloads. Is there a good alternative to Rapidshare?
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« on: February 06, 2009, 07:34 »
My sales are lately also quite dissappointing at StockXpert...
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« on: February 03, 2009, 05:29 »
I mostly have my camera settings on my 30D on 1/3 overexposure, so what he wrote makes sense to me..
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« on: January 31, 2009, 07:33 »
Hmm, I actually thought Lexar and Sandisk cards come from the same factory. Thats what a dealer told me here in Germany. He said that they are the same under a different name..
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« on: January 28, 2009, 18:12 »
Congrats Steve! All the best for your family! 
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« on: January 27, 2009, 04:33 »
Yes very interesting post Lee. The interesting thing is, that the person who might be most negatively affected, James West with Alamy, is amongst the one who is the most open to that option to sell images at different price points. While I naturally see the problem if someone buys an image for $300+ and then sees it for $3 at microstock, I am still undecided but tend to have the opinion it is ok to sell images at hugely different price points. As Yuri pointed out, also the service can be vastly different. The Rf license at Alamy is e.g. also not similar to the Rf license on the micros. I think it is the buyers duty to research what he gets for what price.
I remember reading about one guy who made $800 or something, because he provided a public domain photo to a company or a person who needed exactly that image. In this case however he was not selling that image, but it was kind of a payment for finding that image. That might be a little bit streched, but might this not be applied in the case of Alamy. They have the biggest online library as far as I know. While maybe you cannot find the best images there, you probably certainly have the most variety on Alamy. If you search something, you are most likely to find it there. This I think is definitely something which might be worth a higher price, maybe not 1000%, but as said, the buyer should do his research. I am sure some of the buyers know about micros, why do they still choose images from Alamy?
Another thing, on Getty, Alamy and Corbis are heaps of images which are by far not as good as those on the micros. Take business images for example. It seems for me it can be argued similarly that it is unethical to provide a inferior product at such a high price point if you can get a similar product of higher quality so much cheaper on istock. Would it be so bad if a buyer can also find the higher quality image on Macrostock, even if it is sold at Microstock as well? (Apart from that it can be found cheaper elsewhere the image might be more valueable for the buyer for his project, than the lower quality image which is exclusive). Some customers obviously prefer to know that the image can only be found exclusively on Macrostock and is not sold on microstock. But then again in the end it is the buyers responsibility to research the options he has. I do not think that sellers who sell images at micro and Alamy deliberately want to cheat buyers with a higher price, they just use all options they have.
Just some random thoughts to this.
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« on: January 26, 2009, 07:10 »
Good choice congrats to Kngkyle :-)
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« on: January 25, 2009, 11:38 »
Snapvillage and 123 Rf as well I wish more agencies would offer that. I would love to have an automated process where they send you every week a paymwnt, if you reached the limit.
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« on: January 22, 2009, 07:02 »
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« on: January 21, 2009, 06:49 »
Feel free to use mine..
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« on: January 20, 2009, 17:49 »
I would say SS for landscape and animals, IS is also pretty good but only for animals.
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« on: January 19, 2009, 10:13 »
Well, click on my portfolio- link below of any of the other agencies, I do not really have a link for my portfolio at PM. At least I cannot find an option where you can show your portfolio on panthermedia.
It is mostly the same, what sells good at the micros sells good at PM.
I have about:
80 sales of nature images: penguins mostly, polar bears, icebergs
(also the biggest section of my portfolio)
I have very few images with people (under 10 I think) and one of them sold 3 times (woman with laptop)
less than 5 images of helicopters 3-4 sales
Maybe 20 food and drink images, got 6 sales in this area.
Total portfolio size:
260 images
6000 views in the stock agency
106 sales
For me the average sales price was once between 15-20 Euro as far as I remember, but lately that has gone down to I guess ~10 Euro or lower.
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« on: January 19, 2009, 09:50 »
Oh and btw, if your images are not "editors select" or "recommended" by the editors, I think they will have a hard time showing up in the search results...
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« on: January 19, 2009, 09:48 »
Panthermedia is not doing as well for me as about one year ago, but they are still much better than 123rf and bigstockphoto. Sales are not very regular for me, but I know that some contributors make quite good earnings from them.
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« on: January 15, 2009, 07:03 »
I never used studio strobes, but I know that you are not limited with camera flashes to the ceiling to get the soft light effect. You can use a softbox or an umbrella with normal camera flashes. But you are right you do not have the same power -> less depth of field options at low iso. I have not got a canon, but a sigma EF-500 DG Super. Its powerful and cheap, but also cheaply built. For off camera flash I got an old Nikon SB 24. With a cable its probably one of the cheapest off-camera flash options for canon
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« on: January 14, 2009, 04:05 »
Leaf if you say artists set their worth at 5 years income, I would make a really bad deal if I sell my portfolio for 1 X- 1,5 X a years income. So maybe a deal like this where both parties are happy does not really work.
For my own work I would consider 4 - 5 times a years income fair. Thats probably what its worth. But actually I probably would not do it even for this amount.
Mantonino, $1- $3 dollar for every image one has is honestly a bad price, and I would not expect to get much more than snapshots for this price. The price should be according to the quality of the protfolio. We have people here who exceed $3 per image per month easily.
But what should be taken into account is the reuploading of the portfolio to the websites. It takes a lot of time away and some images might get rejected. So a deal where both parties are happy maybe does not work.
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« on: January 13, 2009, 10:02 »
I am also curious about your portfolio and what you expect to get for it.Currently I have not the finances to buy a collection but I was always interested in something like this.
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« on: January 09, 2009, 03:33 »
I have different workflows with Lightroom, depending for what I shoot. But for every workflow I start with importing the photos to the library by date.
For small events (non-microstock I simply flag the images I like and make small changes at them at the same time in the development mode.) Then I export them, mostly directly on smugmug, thats also the way I share the photos, if it is not necessary to give them to someone on DVD or CD.
For weddings I flag the images which I instantly like and stand out and rate the images between 3 and 5 stars which I might take. 3 stars have mostly a small technical flaw, 4 stars are ok images and 5 stars good images which I strongly consider to include for the client. Normaly the client never sees 3 star images. After making changes to the images I finally choose (flagging also some of the 3,4,5 star images), I upload the flagged images to smugmug and export them to my wedding folder on my harddisc. From there I burn a dvd and sent the images to the client.
For microstock I export them to a folder by date (E.g. this months folder is January. From there I open them in Photoshop (also possible from Lightroom). Almost every image for microstock is extensively photoshopped. So I do my work and then save them again in the date folder. Import them to lightroom, do the keywording,description and then I export them to the date folder, to smugmug and to a subject folder. From the date folder the image goes to the agencies.
I hope that was not too confusing. I do not do high volume microstock so that workflow works for me.
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