LOL, have to add another one:



Search Words:  Young Stylish Blond Woman
Photo Name:  Naughty Little Boy

Did you upload a copy of your id?  I think if you go to the uploads tab, there's a "click here" in the bottom of the grey box on the right hand side. 

Mine says "You have submitted your ID for payment verification.  To resumbit click here".

Yeah, it's strange they don't count.  I have one photo with 95 dls, and the EL would make it one closer to a flame!  Is it childish, I love flames so much?

Quote from: ldambies on February 04, 2008, 16:07

Thanks Lorraine for putting in place the pool. I suppose this is earnings combining everything (micro+mid+macro)
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It's not clear, but I'm taking it as all earnings from photographic agencies ... Micro, midi and macro.

Ah-ha, good question.... is that what we did in the previous months?  I think include everything. 

Nice to see earnings grow for most. 

Am I wrong, don't all the Nikon cameras already use Sony sensors?  I thought they told me that in the store when I was buying my D200.  Nikon hopefully has the options to this new baby locked up already.

I couldn't find the street price.  I'm wondering if I'd be able to afford a new car before one of these???

I hit the wrong vote.  I hit over 30 and it should be over 20.  Don't know how to fix that. 

26%.  Including a .21 sale - is that a sub?

I don't know why you'd post this before the end of the month though. Still 2 business days to go.  Subs are likely low on the first half of the month too - buyers wouldn't have renewed till back from the holidays..

Edited:  duh, I voted LESS than 30.  That was correct.

Have you tried www.adorama.com?  It's not a reference directly from me, but I always price check there, and I've heard a lot refer it.

28-55 would be better for portaits than 28-35.  If you get too close and too wide the features closest to the camera distort.  For example - the nose will be closer to your lens - and it will be unnaturally large.  You can step back with a longer lens and there is less of this dramatic distortion.  I use my 15-55, and try to keep it at the 55 end.   This season I'm busy taking hockey portraits and have to make sure their stick is close to their skate.  If it is between me and them it looks HUGE, and makes the photo awkward.

We have to give these guys a break sometimes.   StockXpert may have very good reason for refusing a bathing suit photo, erring on the side of caution, but I agree that yes, the same rules must apply to everyone and consistant reviewing is necessary.

I realize that I responded to another post a week or two ago with wrong information... I just went looking at the DT forum regarding this subject.. I said that it was a Moneybookers issue, but it was another service provider that DT uses who would not tolerate nudity.  This is part of a post from Achilles.

As promised here is an explanation of what happened. Authorize, our (now previous) payment gateway informed us that they don't allow sexually oriented content, not even behind a content filter. Not just nudes, but nothing that can be seen as sexually oriented. Your mileage may vary.

Considering how many complaints we had from photographers for filtering their submissions due to our severe rules, you will find this ironical. We hope that all photographers who saw us as being too severe from this perspective will now understand that it is serious issue. Not only from this perspective, sensitive issues are a fact of our modern society. It would be unethical to accept any kind of content just for the commercial sake.

One can argue that there are lots of examples where explicit stock imagery sells without a content filter. Or that our nudes are artistic. These are true, but not relevant in this case: we had to comply with their rules.

A professional stock agency cannot work without such content no matter what our personal beliefs may be and especially as this site is used by professionals.

You can find the entire thread here:  http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_9025

Its sad that istock only pay if you refer photo buyers. I realy like the referal program of shutterstock and fotolia, shutterstock also pays you if a user you refer, refer his own users...

That is what I understood from their website - but if you go to your public profile page, scroll down on the right and you can see your referred members.  My referral is a photographer (with an empty portfolio).  So, maybe it is a one-time referral bonus for a photographer and a percentage for buyer referrals?  Can anyone clarify?

In doing some image searches, I've found that in some cases my images were used from BS on the same publication as other images from IS and more expensive agencies.

   Couldnt' this mean simply that they were impossible to find on IS?  Do designers really have the time to search to page 128 for a perfect image?

In any event I've decided over the next few months to:
1. Concentrate on uploads to IS
2. Continue uploading to SS - but with reduced resolution
3. Stop uploading to the "cheaper" or low volume sites such as DT, FL and BS
4. Convert my $8 in earnings on CS to credits, download someone else's photos and close my account there. I'd rather another photographer get some revenue than the site.
5. Consider exclusivity at IS if sales there continue to rise.

One more thought - as a group, I think there is the power to influence sites. I did a rough calculation based on DT's data, the top 200 photographers make up over 500,000 of the photos online - the next 500,000 come from about 600 more photographers. DT claims to have around 28,000 photographers. What this says is that existing images, and new images come from a relatively small number of photographers. I suspect that a fair few of these top 1000 participate in this group.

1. Giving IS attention is very wise because they are an incredible earner.
2. I fully agreed to send smaller versions to SS unless they begin charging more for large images.
3. Why stop uploading to DT, FL, BS? 
- FT - maybe.  Many thrive there, my sales are very mediocre at FL.   I do not like their commission - way too low.
- BS - earnings aren't fabulous, but commissions are fair and it's nice to get a few extra payouts a year there.  One thing that happened last year is I questioned a sale for a book cover where I got $1.  I think on the other sites it would have at least been an EL.  It doesn't make sense to me that BS can ask for more to put it on a coffee mug than a book, but oh well.  Sales there seem to be in decline.
- DT - Some grumble about DT, but maybe that is because we expect so much from them.  They are extremely fair to contributors.  50%.  They advertise.  They have a solid, well planned structure and have not had the technical tragedies that we have all witnessed elsewhere.  They answer requests to support.  Sure, I don't make what I do on the big 2, but I am a real supporter of DT.

If we collectively don't support the smaller agencies like DT and StockXpert, that puts all the power in the hands of IS and SS.  I would love to see these two grow to the power that IS has.  They treat us way better, and we should stand by them.

Is it a Moneybookers problem?  I'm with PP so it didn't impact me other than some of my files disappearing in their content filter ("horny" animals LOL)... but, if I have the story straight, at DT Moneybookers suddenly refused to do business with them because they offer nudity on their website (NOT porn).  I thnk they worked it out recently though.

I see that IS is having Moneybookers delays now.  Don't know what their trouble is though - they say it's "technical".