I'm in Central Canada.  I thought I would check in on MP again as many on this continent are now saying that the speed is wonderful.  Wow, I punched in mostphotos.com and it loaded within 13 seconds.  I'm very impressed.   I closed the window and started again.  Doesn't load for 75 seconds.  I close window and open and try to connect again.  Doesn't load for over 2 minutes.  That's it.  I give up for now.  Let me know when I can start uploading to these guys.

Keith, it would be interesting to hear your opinion on this. 

I can totally understand an agency's reasons for rejecting too many of the same, but designers value having at least 1 vertical and a horizontal option of each shot.  Especially for magazine layouts, photo editors very quickly fill their holes, and if the perfect vertical photo that they have found does not perfectly fit the horizontal hole in their layout, you have lost a sale.  It is also very hard for many to visualize a horizontal photo on a vertical magazine cover, or a tall product. 

I blogged about it here   One designer did reply:   (in part) I've seen so many gorgeous images on stock sites I just can't use, either because the shot axis is wrong or the cropping makes me insane.

And, I also encourage you to read this photo editor blog called "Fill In The Blank Stock".   (You must read this entry!)

Steve-Oh, okay - this isn't your department so you may not be able to answer these questions...

Actually, just yesterday I was looking for new music for slideshows and it was around $30 for the average body of work (about 4 minutes), so these prices seem very low.  And, btw, I did go to StockXpert trying to scrub around for a link and couldn't find one.  (I remembered you referring a site in an ages-old post).

5.2 You will not sell, assign, rent, lease, distribute, act as an intermediary or provider, or otherwise grant rights to third parties with regard to the Music Tracks.  but you are allowed to use it in presentations, powerpoints, etc.

Would I be "selling" this music if I put it on the background of a wedding or graduation slideshow? 

I need to buy music that I can use over and over again.  It looks like the license is only for 60 days?   The $30 songs I mentioned can be used over and over for an unlimited time.

I'm glad you have a unique point of view, and thank you for pointing us to the Martin Evening's book.  I have purchased PS books in the past and haven't really gotten much value out of them.  To be quite honest, if I were to put a $ value on the Miz's tutorials, compared to the last photoshop book (that I paid about $60 for), I would have a tab with the Miz running in the several hundred $ category.

I admire the Miz's conceptual art.  I REALLY admire it.   I noticed it years ago, before I was a member here.  I don't kid myself that I would ever get work in this style accepted anywhere.  But I have learned several practical things from him. 

Now, you have to admit, your posts sound pretty aggressive. 

The Miz is a cherished long time member of this group, and many of us have benefited from his experience.  I find it very upsetting when he is crucified for being helpful. 

Until the moderator of this forum privately requests that he stop posting his tutorials, PLEASE, TO ALL YOU PROS WITH MORE EXPERIENCE THAN I... don't attend class... or better yet, stir up a "try it this way" response.

PEACE to you.

When it comes to isolations... I seriously don't know why the agencies don't have an "isolated" category, and when a submission just happens to be a perfect isolation, the reviewers can add it to that category to.  Apart for the stray areas of non-white, a true isolation should be free of a shadow as well, even though I prefer to see a shadow myself.

Just Canadian I believe.  I read about a lawsuit recently.

I've actually tried to make an object coming through broken glass in the past and gave up... I could still use it  if you ever do a tutorial on this subject, please make sure you put a link to it! 

Just click through to her personal website.  OMG, if I could only have half that talent.  She has a nice collection of work, bookcovers, brochures etc., but only 31 on IS.  I wonder how many they have rejected that she only has 31? 

What is raster illustration? 

Thanks for reminding me, it worked now. I even tried to join the forum earlier so I could ask, but it didn't recognize me after I signed up.

Embarrasment??? Nope, good reason to celebrate.  Congrats!

There I go, not being succinct enough again... I was thinking the percentage of individual sales not $.  If you have 100 individual sales and 13 of them were subs, that would be 13%.

This will likely be a close estimate, since DT only shows the most recent sale of that photo, when it may have sold a few times by the end of the day. 

I set the poll so that you can edit your answers.

Also, I thought individual sales would be the best way to go because of the many factors:  different price levels, sizes etc. that are specific to each contributor, their popularity and their make of camera.

Last month I mentioned that I would run this poll, so, here it is, a little late... if you keep this kind of data, it would be interesting to see how our numbers average out.

If your numbers are much higher than 30%, please let us know.

My subs in Feb were down a little - 17.5% of individual image sales, in January they were about 21.5%.