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« on: November 20, 2014, 01:54 »
1000x thanks for that! I did notice the strange language, but was not sure it was "poor grammar" or "very official law talk". If English is not your mother language, it's difficult to see the difference!  Fortunately I did not open the attachment (though my fingers were itching to do so), and I have not replied, so I think I'm OK. Thanks again!
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« on: November 19, 2014, 17:10 »
I am from Belgium, so I only know the IRS from the tax forms for Shutterstock etc. I just got an e-mail going like this : Application for a not ordinary resident (non-resident) saver to receive interest without tax taken off or deducted.
ATTN ;
Our records indicate that you are a non-resident alien. As a result, you are exempted from United States of America Tax reporting and withholdings, on interest paid you on your account and other financial dealing to protect your exemption from tax on your account and other financial benefit in rectifying your exemption status.
Therefore, you are to authenticate the following by completing W-8BEN FORM, and return to us as soon as possible via fax number enclosed on W-8BEN FORM.
If you are a USA Citizen and resident, this W-8BEN FORM is not meant for you, please indicate USA Citizen/Resident on the form and return it to us. We shall then send you a form W9095.
When completing W-8BEN FORM, please follow the steps below
1. We need you to provide your permanent address if different from the current mailing address on your W-8BEN FORM , you must indicate if a non-USA resident, your country of origin to support your non-resident status (if your bank account or other financial dealing has a USA address for mailing purpose).
2. If any joint account holder are now USA residents or Citizen, or in any way subject to USA tax reporting laws, Please check the box in this section.
3. Please have all account holders sign and date the form separately and fax it to the above-mentioned number.
Please, complete W-8BEN FORM attached and return to us within 1 (one) week from the receipt of this letter by faxing it, to enable us update your records immediately if your account or any other financial benefits are not rectified in a timely manner, it will be subject to USA tax reporting and back up withholding (if back up withholding applies, we are required to withhold 30% of the interest paid to you).
What you need to do
Print out the attached notification and complete the attached W-8BEN FORM and Fax same along with a copy of your international passport to fax number on the form within 7 working days.
[/color] Is this real? First of all I would think they already have several W-8BEN forms of me, through Shutterstock and other agencies. Then why this e-mail ? Phishing? Any US citizens who can tell me if the IRS sends e-mails? I never get one from Belgian taxes 
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« on: November 16, 2014, 15:50 »
Some of the collapsible screens are translucent so they can be lit from behind. I hadn't thought of that, and it seems like it could be a big advantage in terms of space. If the strobe is in front, it has to be off to the side so as not to be in the frame. And the subject has to be a sufficient distance in front of the strobe, which means the backdrop has to be extremely large. But if I can put the strobe directly behind the screen, the subject can be up close to it in front and the screen can be small. That would be very helpful. I'm not sure, though, about getting a pure white background in this way. Is it as simple as it sounds?
Aim the strobe at a white wall, or a white umbrella, or white foam core, or a silver reflector screen, and bounce it back towards the translucent collapsible screen. This way it spreads equally and you'll have a pure white background (with the right camera settings). If you work this way, your subject can be a lot closer to the backdrop. I sometimes even put my subject against it. I use the Lastolite Megalite, which works the same way.
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« on: November 16, 2014, 02:10 »
I'm not really sure what everybody's problem is... taking pictures of things almost never is a legal problem. It's not illegal to take a photo of an iPhone or a McDonald's restaurant. It's the publication of images that is a problem. And that part is always the buyers' worry and not yours.
Don't you remember that Yuri got sued by a big eye glasses manufacturer for letting his models wear their glasses in (closeup) photos? It wasn't the buyers who bought his images that got sued ... Can't say how the story ended, as Yuri stopped talking about it after his first post.
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« on: November 07, 2014, 11:09 »
I have been using (from time to time) a table like that to find out how my old files are doing.
I open the Shutterstock report of a good selling day, and I count how many images were sold of 2006, 2007, 2008 ...
This way I found out that (on Shutterstock), only 15% of my sales is represented by the 3500 files I uploaded from 2006 till end 2010.
The following 3 years average around 15% each, and 2014 is good for 40%.
It's always a nice warm feeling to see one of those really old files being sold ;-)
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« on: November 03, 2014, 11:05 »
You're not alone Jo-Ann, 30% of my images uploaded in the first half of September have not been reviewed yet, or are in cut-out queue. Amongst them are my best-selling (on SS) christmas images.
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« on: October 27, 2014, 10:44 »
Well, I do not expect any payment : there was only 1 of my images in his port, an image of a frog. But as the main keyword "frog" was removed (why did he do that??), I'm sure it was never sold. If he did the same with the other images, his business will not have been very lucrative.
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« on: October 22, 2014, 06:43 »
I don't think Adobe has hit the wall (or ceiling) of potential subscribers to CC.
Right now, there are 2 groups who have not jumped into CC : the people who use CS5 or CS6 illegally, and the people who use the legal version but are happy with their CS5 or CS6 version and refuse to pay a monthly fee for something they already have.
But what will happen in 2 to 4 years? There will be a new version of Windows, and suddenly, CS5 and CS6 will not be compatible with the latest Windows anymore, and the "old" program on new computers will get buggy or not work at all. Then there will be no CS7, but only CC to go to.
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« on: October 10, 2014, 14:20 »
Just a curious question ...
Who came up with the idea of Canvas? I don't mean the name, but the idea itself to offer this new service, as it's something really new (as far as I know).
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« on: October 07, 2014, 16:07 »
I agree here too. Since the "unsubmittable-bug" was removed, I have 2000 files being processed (or rejected, or "to be cut out", or ...), but I have no idea how many are rejected, and which ones, as they are mixed up with 4000 accepted files ...
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« on: October 01, 2014, 02:16 »
I can't help wondering if Fotolia's beggar-my-neighbour industry-destroying strategy is working.
I thought so too, but in my stats, DST decline started in January 2014 or earlier (average -20% compared to 2013), but the latest trend is even -50% compared to 2013. Must say this is certainly NOT the general trend for stock photography, because almost every other site is status quo or going up (for me).
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« on: September 16, 2014, 14:36 »
Hi Anyka, as Jo Ann said (thanks Jo Ann!) we have a known bug where images fall out of the review queue and end up with status "Unsubmitted". We've patched the bug and tomorrow will return all the images that fell out into the review queue. Apologies for the confusion. It'll all be back to normal shortly. 
Hallelujah! (I was afraid I had to find out which files, and then resubmit them!)
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« on: September 16, 2014, 12:31 »
The ones marked Unsubmitted are really unsubmittable (which probably isn't a word), at least not by the contributor.
I had a few like that and even after some were manually fixed up, a few on the next batch ended up in that state too. I contacted support and Lee manually did whatever he had to do because there was still a bug causing this problem. As I understood it, there was nothing about the files themselves, but something about their upload process. It didn't mean they were rejected.
Thanks Jo Ann! That's bad news, because I've got a LOT of "unsubmittable" files. No idea how many : I have about 2000 files that are "to be cut out" OR "unsubmitted". But as there is no way (yet) to sort images, I am not going to count them manually ...
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« on: September 16, 2014, 00:53 »
I have another question about submitting images :
Right now, I have uploaded 80% of my portfolio (the rest is not good enough). Until a few days ago, I could see the number of approved images go up slowly every day. Now, there are 2000 images left, partly "to be cut out" and partly "unsubmitted", and the number of approved images is not growing anymore.
The "unsubmitted" ones have a button "submit". But if I click on it, nothing happens, the images remains "unsubmitted".
Is this a bug? Am I supposed to click on all "submit" buttons?? Or is "unsubmitted" a way of telling me they got rejected?
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« on: September 08, 2014, 01:12 »
Hi,
One thing that I find very annoying from a customer's point of view : if I type "newborn puppy" (or anything else with 2 words), then I get a mixture of puppies and ... everyting else newborn : kittens, babies, pigs ... Even worse, if I type "isolated puppy", I get EVERYTING ISOLATED, including puppies.
Am I doing something wrong? How can a customer avoid getting search results he/she does NOT want? Would save a LOT of scrolling ...
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« on: September 02, 2014, 01:00 »
I'll give you a Real World example of a real sensitive use. It was sold through another agency (not Shutterstock), and the customer asked permission before buying the image. It was an image of a Ghanese (African) woman crying, and the customer was designing a large poster to be used in an anti-rape campaign in South-Africa. I asked the model if it was OK for her to appear on a poster in which she would seem to be a rape victim, and she said yes, and she was glad she could do something to prevent rape in Africa.
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« on: August 28, 2014, 00:46 »
More MP, but on a LARGER SENSOR (which actually means I 'd love Canon to make medium format cameras, preferably at an affordable price).
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« on: August 24, 2014, 15:27 »
I was complaining too early : my images just showed up on my contributor page!
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« on: August 23, 2014, 15:22 »
Is the queue getting longer? I have been uploading almost 1000 new files, but on the Canva site I'm stuck at 1895 for more than a week now. As they disappear on the server, I suppose they arrived, at least I hope so.
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« on: August 20, 2014, 06:27 »
Rodeo paid regularly until half 2013. Then it stopped. When I asked for payment (without talking about legal action), I got paid partially in January 2014. Right now they owe about 17 months (600 euros). Clicking on "request payment" on my contributor page does not work. I'll be asking for payment again in September, because I know in Finland Summertime means everybody's on holidays.
I do have the impression that Juha has the intentions to pay all debts though, but I also think he's a real optimist thinking he can do all the work with 1 or 2 colleagues and a very limited number of images.
When did you sent him an e-mail? He usually does answer them ...
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« on: August 15, 2014, 06:44 »
This is certainly NOT just like Istock. With Istock, they only discover the problem after all contributors make a lot of forum-noise. 123rf sent me/us this e-mail BEFORE payment, so they found out about it themselves and are already working on correcting it.
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« on: August 13, 2014, 07:19 »
Tried to send files via FTP (EPS + PNG), but the uploaded files are just vanished from the server, nothing to show there or in my porto page, is this normal? Also what size do you require for the PNGs?
Yes Mumut, the vanishing files are normal. They are immediately transfered after uploading. My first 1000 files appeared after 3 days on my account page. My second big batch is now visible as "unsubmitted" (just the Canva file numbers, not the thumbnails). I'm now waiting for them to appear before uploading the next batch. Can't upload right now, because I forgot which was my last uploaded series, so as long as I can't actually SEE the files in my account, I'm stuck
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« on: July 28, 2014, 00:46 »
While I do consider Ukraine and Israel to be real wars, and a disaster for the people there, I must say I am more afraid of the Ebola virus than of WWIII ...
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« on: July 12, 2014, 00:41 »
A non-curated agency would not be able to claim they have quality images, unless the contributors would self-curate ... which would only be possible by enforcing limits (limited upload per week/month, or even limited number of images per contributor).
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« on: July 03, 2014, 00:44 »
I have used Irfanview for years and years now. I simple love the fact that you can read the Exif data with 1 keystroke (E) and IPTC too (I).
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