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« on: March 14, 2022, 12:56 »
Date approved: 03/12/2022
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Pete, thanks for pointing that out. But 7 days is clearly more than 3 days according to my calculation.
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« on: March 14, 2022, 03:35 »
I have the same problems, a large part of the approved images has disappeared. I will then contact the support.
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« on: March 11, 2022, 07:47 »
How low IQ a man get get...
hmm ... you probably confuse your own IQ with your blood pressure ... just a thought 
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« on: March 04, 2022, 07:04 »
When I read something like this, it really makes me sick.
There are no arguments for war. Period. No discussion. 
Not that I agree with Putin, on the contrary, but if you mean what you say, then you certainly must agree that sending military weapons by the EU countries and the US into Ukraine will not solve this issue but make it only worse. And I assume that you also condemn the Ukranian government for waging war against ethnic russians in the eastern part of the country for the last 8 years and also not respecting the Minsk agreements. Right?
Interesting what you interpret into one sentence. I only said that there are no arguments for a war (any war) - or more precisely, for a barbaric war of aggression. There ends my tolerance and also my need for discussion.
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« on: March 04, 2022, 05:59 »
Dear Russian friends, I know there is a significant stock photographers community, so I have an appeal to you.
Please do not believe in your Russian media propaganda saying that terrible war is some kind of "special action". It is regular war against Ukrainian civils. Putin is cannon firing kindergartens, hospitals and civilian areas. Your Russian dictator is not better that Hitler or Kim Jong-un. He started the worst kind of war in the middle of Europe so no one can feel safe now.
I am asking you to inform and spread the true information wherever you can in your country. Putin already cut you off from most foreign media, so all ways to reach you are good.
Thanks!
BTW, I am not Ukrainian, but I have so much sympathy to their people that I had to post it, hope it won't be removed. If is reaches even one unaware Russian, my message makes sense. The only way to bring peace back to Europe is to make Russian aware and ready to avert from their ruler.
Dear users, do not believe this person and the lies he is spreading on this forum. He makes no sense, he has no proof, he is biased. The West is spreading lies, the same lies when they showing us pictures of dead bodies when coronavirus strike. Nobody is innocent in war. It's always two sides. But in this case, we can all see that West has gone too far.
When I read something like this, it really makes me sick. There are no arguments for war. Period. No discussion.
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« on: March 03, 2022, 15:02 »
SS is falling and will fall everyday more. More and more people are not even uploading nothing to this suckers, which is good news because clients are migrating to Adobe. Bye bye SS You deserve it . Yur fall is accelerating faster than expected. Oringer is selling his shares on a daily basis y you follow the stock market and pages like stockwits. A stampede before the building crumbles.....
Their annula report tells a different story. The only thing that is falling is contributors' revenue per image. SS is doing just peachy.
Firn, like you, I'm not a Shutterstock hater.
But I also see a certain trend reversal here. My focus is on current editorial topics. If my image fits and arrives, I then had mass sales on the topic with Shutterstock and never with Adobe or other agencies. That has changed this year.
See, but that's your personal experience. My Shutterstock sale have been absolute crap for the past 3 months, it's not even worth mentioning.
Yet, I don't go around shouting that Shutterstock is going down the drain, when I can see very clearly from their official report that they are thriefing. It's just the contributor's income that keeps getting lower, but the numbers are there, clear as day: Reducing contributor's revenue was a great bussiness step for SS and the people who are porclaiming that this was the end of SS are just doing so, because they want it to be true, not because it is. They hate what SS has done to their earnings and hope that it will backfire on SS. But karma is just wishful thinking and not everyone gets what they deserve. SS is, from am bussiness perspective doing good. Doesn't mean contributors are as well.
Beleive me, I am not rooting for SS. If SS had indeed lost all its customers to Adobe, I would be really happy about that! But I am not just making things up to fit my point of view like everest. I see their report, I see they make great profit, I see they are doing well.
I have had no noticable raise in income on Adobe for well over 1,5 years. It's falling or stagnating and always performing far worse than SS. January and February for example have been especially bad on SS (worst earnings in 1,5 years) and yet Adobe was still doing even worse for me.
As for iStock, that has basically been proclaimed as dead by everest, - it has been my best earner for months, performing really well. Adobe is not even earning me a fraction of that.
I submit the same content with the same keywords to all these agencies.
Firn, we don't disagree at all. Of course, this is my very personal experience over a very short period of time from which you can not draw general conclusions. Possibly, these are also just the usual fluctuations. Also, I can't imagine any reason why customers should flee from Shutterstock to Adobe en masse. Perhaps it is simply because Adobe is attracting more and different customers due to the growing editorial share - completely independent of Shutterstock. I dont know.
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« on: March 02, 2022, 15:50 »
SS is falling and will fall everyday more. More and more people are not even uploading nothing to this suckers, which is good news because clients are migrating to Adobe. Bye bye SS You deserve it . Yur fall is accelerating faster than expected. Oringer is selling his shares on a daily basis y you follow the stock market and pages like stockwits. A stampede before the building crumbles.....
Their annula report tells a different story. The only thing that is falling is contributors' revenue per image. SS is doing just peachy.
Firn, like you, I'm not a Shutterstock hater. But I also see a certain trend reversal here. My focus is on current editorial topics. If my image fits and arrives, I then had mass sales on the topic with Shutterstock and never with Adobe or other agencies. That has changed this year.
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« on: March 02, 2022, 15:31 »
I found that person much more annoying than Zero.
Thijs, although there are really more important issues. If I may remind you, you were annoyed with Zero. I wanted to jump to your side and was also annoyed. Debbie was annoyed, Martha too.
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« on: March 02, 2022, 14:00 »
A locked thread (see that icon) full of childish spamming replies rightfully belongs there too.
Don't start that again, Zero.
Because if you go back to belittling and mocking me as you have over the last week, I will hit you back just as mean and nasty.
And I don't think our friends here want any more of that.
Martha, I understand you and was affected myself. You don't have to be constantly belittled as an adult, educated person. This is a very bad, disrespectful, impolite and not goal-directed discussion style, which is why I got out of it. So if this flares up again, I would suggest a separate thread "Martha vs. Zerotalent".  Whoever feels like venting, join in then. 
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« on: February 28, 2022, 10:24 »
You cannot compare now to 80 years ago. that is simply bonkers, in fact that is what Putin is doing now and he is as mad as a box of frogs.
Lets just put this in perspective, times change and the world and societies were very different 80+ years ago, you miss all the nuance, pressures and the pragmatic decisions that were made for reasons at the time.
Thank you, that's what I thought the whole time during the little history lesson here. It makes little sense to dig up the sins of individual countries from the past and then draw conclusions about the present. We don't burn witches in Europe anymore - and that for good reason
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« on: February 25, 2022, 09:51 »
Sue, I am not a fan of long texts and I must have misunderstood.
As far as I know, Alamy is the only agency where you can see for which search terms images are seen. Thats the only reason, I mentioned Alamy. I find the function very instructive, because you can see how the buyers tick in the search. The choice of search terms by buyers does not always correspond to my logic as a contributor.
Back to the two words in one keyword question. As an example, if I list "Las Vegas" as a double word only in the keywords, my image will not show up when someone searches for "Vegas" only. With this knowledge it makes sense to list the terms individually in the keywords. Or do I have a knot in my head somewhere?
I had to write a long post to give examples to show that your sweeping generalisation isn't accurate re Alamy.
I don't know why you think it wouldn't show up*.
I occasionally have searches for Margaret or William (etc) (yes I know, weird search unless they were writing a book about famous Margarets) where I do not have Margaret or William as single keywords, only as Margaret Surname or William Surname.
Of course it may be, as in the examples I have given, that Alamy's search picked up Margaret or William from the caption. Because as I showed in my example of Will Young, the search can be based totally on the caption, not from keywords at all.
In these cases, you'd presumably normally have Las Vegas in the caption, so your file would still be found on a search. Because in the case that Las Vegas and hotel weren't sufficiently significant in the file for you to write in the caption, it's not likely that it would be what a buyer was looking for on a search for "Vegas Hotel"
*if the search was working as they claim it works, your file keyworded "Las Vegas" and "hotel" would still show up under those returned for "Vegas Hotel", even if Las Vegas and hotel weren't in the caption.
But as I said, with a belt and braces approach, you could correctly tag "Las Vegas", "Hotel" and "Vegas Hotel".
Sue, the long text was not related to your post, but to my own laziness in writing I also thought I had contributed something intelligent to the topic. I have now tested the whole thing with a few of my pictures in your sense and you're right - it does not matter. Thank you, I have learned something again.
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« on: February 25, 2022, 07:36 »
Sue, I am not a fan of long texts and I must have misunderstood. As far as I know, Alamy is the only agency where you can see for which search terms images are seen. Thats the only reason, I mentioned Alamy. I find the function very instructive, because you can see how the buyers tick in the search. The choice of search terms by buyers does not always correspond to my logic as a contributor. Back to the two words in one keyword question. As an example, if I list "Las Vegas" as a double word only in the keywords, my image will not show up when someone searches for "Vegas" only. With this knowledge it makes sense to list the terms individually in the keywords. Or do I have a knot in my head somewhere?
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« on: February 24, 2022, 13:57 »
There is no single correct answer to your question.
As already mentioned as an example, it certainly makes sense to take "red lake" together.
But if we take Las Vegas, for example, the terms should be separated.
From my Alamy statistics, for example, I know that many buyers search only for "Vegas Strip" or "Vegas Hotel". If then took "Las Vegas" together, you're out of the search.
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« on: February 18, 2022, 08:08 »
Meanwhile, having risked my camera in stormy conditions, I sold a Live News photo and netted 68c.
I suspect that I can now also take nice storm pictures at the beach (a few kilometers away). But I'll stay home anyway.
In England it is now code red. In two hours it will really start storming here (also code red).
All the best for the storm Thijs.
We are in a code red area near the south coast.
At it's peak now, hopefully..
I won't be leaving the house to take photos.
Too dangerous.
Not as bad as 1987's Great Storm (so far)
🤞
Good to hear that it's not that bad Debbie. 
We are somewhat used to the coast. But this is going to be one of the heavier storms. And that in the winter. More like a spring or autumn storm.
I think I spoke too soon. We live in a 1930's house with the original roof. Some of the huge tile thingies (not sure what they are called) that hold the roof tiles in place have blown off and smashed through our neighbour's car.
Bit concerned now about the security of the roof, especially as we have very tall old chimneys.
Peaking at gusts of 122 miles an hour here.
Then I keep my fingers crossed, Debbie that nothing more happens. My girlfriend has from the storm before yesterday 2 thick trees lying across the garden and a destroyed garden shed. We are very tense, what happens today. For the cleanup tomorrow I have first organized a chainsaw.
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« on: February 17, 2022, 16:27 »
Hmmm, I only have a small portfolio there - as with all other agencies. Less than 1500 files.
But that I sometimes have to wait over 4 months until the images go through the review, there is only at 123rf. And this only happens there when I write to the contributor support. With all other agencies, the review process is just as fast as it is with all contributors, even if I upload very rarely and very little.
And - without wanting to seem arrogant - my income with 123rf, although it is much less than before, is still several times higher than $10 a month.
So I can't understand this policy of 123rf. Mass alone cannot be the criterion for the speed of the review.
I guess you vectors are more complex or more stock-friendly.
Reviewers pick larger batches from the queue, because they want to make more money, if they are paid by number of reviewed images.
No, most of my vectors are extremely simple.
The thesis that the review is paid by quantity of accepted images is interesting. I don't know if this is true, but it is at least conceivable.
Wilm ,but somehow this theory makes sense. I assume that the reviewers work from home. Then it makes sense from the point of view of the agencies not to pay a fixed salary, but per review as an incentive. Of course, I don't know if larger batches will bring more money per time.
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« on: February 17, 2022, 11:13 »
This is not my experience with 123RF. They are very professional. They review times are more than acceptable (sometimes quicker than SS). Their support is great.
It can take months to accept images only if you don't submit often or if you submit just few images.
Taking months to accept images is hardly what I would call "professional" or an "acceptable" review time. 
How many or often you submit images shouldn't play a role.
I created an account with them about a year ago, submitted some images, half a year later they were still not reviewed, so I deleted the site from my bookmarks and wrote that chapter off. That's anything but professional and not an agency I want to work with.
When I opened my account there 4 years ago, I had the same problems at first. Hundreds of pictures were not reviewed for 2 months. After contacting the support, all images were waved through overnight immediatly. Since then, my experience has been the same as smcbuki.
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« on: February 17, 2022, 09:45 »
Regardless of the fact that my download volumes have decreased significantly, I have just now a small "anniversary" to celebrate.
Thus, shutterstock accounts for 45% of my total downloads.
Congratulations Wilm.  I think the others would also be very grateful if you would remove the dirt in front of the dollar sign.
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« on: February 10, 2022, 10:40 »
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« on: February 10, 2022, 08:15 »
I use a Canon EOS 6 D with 7 different lenses, all of which I also use depending on the situation. Of course, I then always have the wrong lens with me . For me, the lenses play the biggest role, which camera is attached to it, I almost do not care. I sold my Canon compact camera and invested the money in a better iphone for spontaneous photos. With all the discussion about expensive high-end equipment, I always wonder how photographers could produce high-quality photos 20-30 years ago - it was possible without today's high-tech equipment. For me, expensive cameras are like red wine: above a certain price, I can no longer taste better quality. But sommeliers may see it differently.
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« on: February 09, 2022, 16:37 »
So I don't like these cent sales either (actually i hate them ), but this year I've already had (plus other nice sales in two digit range) a $200 and a $118 sale come in gross that makes some other small agencies look pretty bad. I would therefore never shut down a portfolio, but just let it run, you never know. But everyone must know that for themselves.
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« on: February 09, 2022, 15:49 »
As a beginner, it is certainly understandable to look at the keywords of others or to use keyword tools. I have done the same. In the long run, however, this is not a good strategy. Especially with banal motifs, everyone ends up using the same keywords. Many of my bestsellers are hackneyed motifs that sell exclusively on the basis of keyword combinations, mostly of a symbolic nature. Of course, I won't reveal which ones they are But to stay with the above example, tomatoes are symbolic for example of (spiritual) fertility, I would try that. And with orange peel you can also think of cellulite But I'm probably the only one here who enjoys keywording.
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« on: February 08, 2022, 11:35 »
Michael, these amounts are credit packs or on-demand purchases, of which you get 33% regardless of level.
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« on: February 07, 2022, 08:33 »
I agree with Firn and Wilm there, you should exercise some caution and know what you are doing. There are a few faux pas lurking here and you cant rely on the agencies.
I myself had once made pictures in an archaeological park of Roman ruins in Germany.
Actually, I assumed that you can at least use the pictures editorially and all pictures were accepted.
But I was a bit puzzled by the fact that the agencies had not yet received a single picture from this park.
After a search it came out that the operators claim the photo rights completely for themselves and prohibit even the editorial use. At least one photographer has already been warned by a lawyer.
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