My gosh, he's persistent, I'll give him that! Hope he doesn't turn into a stalker.

This seems to be wildly paranoid group!?  Every small factoid is blown into a conspiracy of global proportions.  Sales go up? Must be a conspiracy!  Sales go down?  Same analysis.

If YOU call someone once to get information, and they do not give it to you -- do you just give up and never call again?  If so, you never took Salesman 101 class, and will never succeed in any business requiring contact with customers.

Yeah, the guy called again.  He is not necessarily a stalker!!  You refused to answer, so what do you expect next?  He doesn't know you are standing by the phone and refusing to answer. For all he knows you are not home, or maybe not even in country (personally I travel out of the country 4 to 5 months per year).

If you want to "get rid of him" then ANSWER THE D*** PHONE and tell him directly that you are not comfortable with giving that information, and would prefer he not call again.

Until you say that directly, he has zero idea what you are thinking, and -- if he is a decent businessman -- will keep calling.  That does not make him a stalker. It makes him a business person who has a chance to actually succeed in the world.  (Apparently a trait not shared by the OP...)

That could be seriously creepy, but maybe he's genuinely shy and fancies you. Who knows which, though?

I think people are reading WAY TOO MUCH into this.

I expect he is a painter that wants to paint that scene.  He might prefer to do while at the site himself, in which case he wants to know where to go.  Or, he might just paint it from your photos, but wants to be able write a description stating where the image is from.

I see nothing creepy, or shy, and "fancies you" in a call like that.

Personally, it would probably depend on the day that he called me.  If I am in a generous mood, I would tell him, and likely follow on to an interest conversation of where we have both traveled. I would in turn ask him for some highly photogenic spots that he might know about, and that I could go to myself in the future.

If I were in a less generous mood, I would simply demure, and state that I do not feel comfortable sharing my "favorite photographic locations," knowing that would end the conversation, and that I would not get any reciprocal information either.

Excellent video... again!  I am guessing it may be your next video, but I would like to know HOW you ramp the ISO/Shutter/Aperture. I would love to discover there is some app in my iPhone, or other low cost -- and low extra equipment -- to accomplish this.  (FWIW, I am now shooting with a Sony A7R3)  We are heading to California Monday, where I will have lots of chances to do something like this, but ramping is still a mystery to me...

I think the best way to succeed in microstock is to keep production simple... if you are able to produce content on daily basis, at reasonable cost, even average sales can make nice profits. Timelapse is one of the most time consuming and gear demanding productions, so probably not the best way to achieve financial success in microstock. I produce timelapses, because I love doing it, but the income from them is not great... some stupidly simple shots from GoPro or drone make me better money and required much less time and effort. 

My thought is that, since time-lapse is more difficult and time consuming, it should not be suffering as much of an over-supply.  As with you, I am mostly looking at it because I enjoy the process.  I have dabbled in the past, and am thinking of doing it a bit more seriously -- again, mostly because I like the process and results, but hoping I can make a few bucks too.

Do you have a link to your "stupidly simple GoPro or drone" shots that make you more money?  I don't have (or really want) a GoPro, buy my drone to date have all been stills.  They sell reasonably well, but certainly not enough to pay for the drone... (not that I really expected them too -- again, largely for enjoyment, but it is a rush when I see them come up in my daily reports...  )

The scene decides whether it's a good candidate for time lapse or not. Not the ground. You will learn this.

And again, I assume you've never used a big telephoto lens? Film using 800 mm and then tell me what you think about shake in a windy situation.

You get the shot or you don't. I also travel the world, and have had shots I would have preferred being "a little more the left" but couldn't get it without efforts beyond what I was willing to put out.  One thing I have learned is that I have very little idea what will sell well and what won't.  My all-time best seller is a landscape that I liked, but didn't really expect to sell at all.  Others that I loved and thought would sell well have never sold a single download.

I learned that back in the 1980's when I produced a series of 54 full length (90 minute) instructional videos that we first sold ourselves, then later (and still to this day) through Amazon.  Some that I loved had terrible sales and never recouped their costs. Others that I thought were "meh..." turned into best sellers that made enough to turn the entire enterprise profitable.

Back to the photos and time lapses of today.  I shoot what I hope is a good image (have only done time-lapse as personal hobby until now), but have a limit of the effort and equipment risk I am willing to put forth.  Since I have no idea if any specific image (or time-lapse, moving forward) will be a major seller, I am not willing to go to extremes for most shots (well, my wife may disagree with that on a few occasions, but... )

And yes, I have used super-zooms and super-wides, and super-macros, and most everything in between.  I have learned the "Ansel Adams Zone System" until it was part of my bones back in the 70's, and spent hours (and days) in the darkroom perfecting a B&W print -- and later (though towards the end of my darkroom days) color prints.

From 1980, when we went bankrupt and lost everything, until 2005, when my wife bought me a Canon 5D and said "you need a hobby!" I didn't do much photography between 1980 and 2005 (other than the 54 commercial videos in 46 months referenced above).  Within 2 years of that 5D, I had taken over 2 bedrooms for studios, plus equipment coming out into the halls.  And that was just the start of it.  Had a crazy dozen years since then, with drones, and international travel, and cabinets filled with photog equipment.  And now... a pair of Sony A7R3's, Phantom P4P, a Ziiyun Crane just ordered for pickup next week.

Never ending quest for gadget freaks like me...

I understand that 4K is "not there yet" for many buyers, who want 1080 instead.  However, I still think 4K is "the future" and will eventually become as mainstream as 1080 is today (anyone here around long enough to remember when SD was the mainstream, and 1080 was "the future"?).

So, the question...  Can you upload two versions of the clip?  One in 4K and one in HD?

Or do the stock agencies automagically reduce the 4K for HD licensing already?  (video is still in my own "future," so I am still learning what will work and what won't)

Try photographing on a sandy beach and/or use a 400 mm lens and you might change your opinion on this.  Not to mention anything made of wood. You can bolt your camera down and still have movement.

Part of any professional photography -- long exposure, time-lapse, or pretty much any other, is to understand how to stabilize the camera.  And part of that is to choose where you plant your tripod...

you also have to worry about manual vs automatic settings because they may need to be changed during the video, and you are unable to do so.

First, I ALWAYS shoot full manual (white balance, shutter, aperture, focus) when doing time-lapse.

Second, that is not as much of an issue these days, with software like LRTimeLapse that will deflicker the video (flicker occurs from tiny variations in shutter speed and aperture when the blades close for the image), plus can even smooth out the issues of transitioning from day to night (or vice versa, but I am almost never up early enough to experience the night to day transition...!).

As others have said, Alamy is an "all or nothing" site.  I had one batch rejected early on, and discovered that.  I had included one "not my best" image in a set. That happened to be the one they checked, and it all went in the trash.

I removed that one from the set, and a couple others that I realized were in the same camp, then resubmitted. The batch was then approved (after I removed 3 or 4 out of the set of 100).

I now submit 50 to 100 at a time.  I have had 100% acceptance since that early batch, and now have close to 3000 images with them.

As always, what unnonimous is irrelevant.
Only the policies of whichever agency/ies you're submitting to is relevant for stock.

Yep. Can we block this fool?  He does nothing but muddy the water and confuse the newbies that come here for RELEVANT information.

Unnonimous info is fine if you are selling the images on your own. Through your wholly owned website, printing on a T-shirt. Whatever. 

His nonsense has absolutely ZERO relevance in the arena of selling to stock agencies though.  The agencies make their own rules. They cannot allow things that the law prohibits, but there is nothing stopping them from drawing the line closer than the law allows.

Hi,
I have done a video exactly on this topic.
I hope it can help
https://youtu.be/zez_91i4lTw

Actually, I have watched many of your tutorials in recent months, and saw that specific one a couple weeks ago (plus I subscribe to your channel).

However, my question here is about shooting video, including time-lapse videos.  This clip of yours is talking about still images.  A good video to be sure, but it didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know (I have done still image stock photog for a decade, on and off)

Thanks, I was hoping someone took the time to give them a try. I just stumbled upon them and wondered. Thanks for the information.

If you look at the "related articles" link at the bottom of this page, you will see discussion of SuperStock from 2007 through 2009, then a post about them going bankrupt and owing contributors a ton of money.  Then nothing until this thread, and one other that started a month later (in May 2018).

I don't know anything about them myself, but the history of discussion of them here tells me to steer clear...

Are you by any chance a first-year law student?  You seem to want to pontificate about laws that have ABSOLUTELY NO USE IN THE REAL WORLD.

If you were selling to the US government, you might have some basis for your argument. For the commercial world, you are nothing but a troll trying to confuse people who come here for information on how to approach agencies.'

Please go back to your law books, and quit trying to impress people (of which, by the way, you are totally failing...).