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« on: February 07, 2014, 07:07 »
Thanks for all the useful information/replies, considering how poorly written and buggy even big name things like photoshop really are, this all looks great to me! Sounds like Leo ran into some ungrateful whiners, and that issue got inflated into a big talking point.
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« on: February 06, 2014, 15:02 »
So can someone sum up what is the problem with symbio currently? It looked a home run project.
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« on: February 05, 2014, 16:31 »
That is why i have trouble getting shoots with young kids. I tell the parents about the restricted use rights but mention that nobody can really control how they might be used.
Based on that they shouldn't put up photos of their kids anywhere at all. Not even an MR and/or TOS, even less controll.
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« on: February 01, 2014, 11:29 »
Yup, if you reach your payout amount Shutterstock pays you automatically. I don't recall ever getting an email about it, but I could be wrong.
If you go to your contributor page and click on "earnings" at the upper left, you can see payments, earnings summary, tax center, etc.
you are always supposed to get an email about your monthly payment getting calculated +some more emails about payment arriving coz they break it up into 999s.
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« on: January 27, 2014, 06:05 »
How current is your information on Paris?
today.
ETA:
Month 785 (1075$)
Agency fees not included
Thats the cheapest in the whole of Paris. You can eat sleep and relax on a couch.
but as you can from the furniture, that's for a family, mom dad and two children.
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« on: January 21, 2014, 08:12 »
Closing account.... it's time we showed our market muscles, because we actually do have those: there are plenty of other sites. Just like buyers, "vote with you feet", leave them.
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« on: January 18, 2014, 20:17 »
It's been a long time ago when I requested they close my account. I got what was owed to me at that time. I could no longer sign on either once I requested they close it. I had no question as to why I should be concerned.
Well about a year later I did a tineye search on one of my images and low and behold it was still on iStock along with all my images that were suppose to have been deleted and they were still all for sell. They changed my name from donding to dondingdelete and had continued to sell my photos. I had over $100.00 in my account. Once I knew the name on the new account I was able to sign on with my password. I did finally get them deleted....at least I think...haven't checked lately. That's been almost a year ago the second time around so a total of two years since the original request. I did manage to get my money.
Just a word of warning folks. If you ask your account to be deleted....tin eye some of those images to make sure they are no longer on there making them money. If I had never run that tineye search I would never have known they were still selling my photos without my permission and they owed me money.
That's fraud.
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« on: January 16, 2014, 16:04 »
... In short get the most processing power and RAM you can afford...
=PC 
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« on: January 15, 2014, 08:06 »
This isn't a bad idea at all. Coming from a graphic artist art director background, I know the hard working graphic ppl would love this. I always wondered why this has never been done.
I also always wondered why pics with a solid color background are called "isolated" on stock sites. Always wanted to just call them - the site and/or the technically undereducated photographers: "Let me tell you as a photoshop professional: No, it's not isolated. If I want to put it over something I have to do masking, becasue it's one with it's background. Got it? Thanks"
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« on: January 13, 2014, 21:30 »
There are many of us who don't want to build our own machines. We don't know or care what is inside. We want to buy a computer that works from the get-go, is fast, has an operating system that is easy to upgrade, has a display that works with our eyes and that can be color-tuned to they way we work, will not be obsolete in a year and seldom needs trouble-shooting. I work on a Windows machine at work, a Mac at home. I use the same programs and they work just as well on both. They are both speedy. The dif is that there is an IT staff at work that takes care of all the problems and upgrades. At home I don't have to know too much other than every Mac I have owned has been worry-free out of the box and lasts forever. Yes, I back-up - that is a given no matter your system. Yes, I add as much memory and storage as I can but that can be done before the machine arrives at my house. Do I pay more, probably but the convenience is worth it to me since I am not a computer tech and do not play one on tv. It all comes down to personal preference (duh) and any time this question is asked you will get the same answers. It's just like the question, "which is the best camera, blah, blah". It depends on what you want to shoot and how you work. As with cameras, I say give a few a try and see what feels right for you. Same with computers. Your mileage may vary.
There are many of us who just want to be lumberjacks, no need to concern ourselves with what/how computers are, and all that 21st century BS. Just need an axe and a comp that can log on to the lumberjack forums on weekends.
Why did you bother posting such an idiotic response? Oh, the answer lies in my sentence, sorry.
Well that's a tad embarrassing with such basic irony. What I meant is saying that you don't want to care how computers work, etc, is saying you don't want to live/be compatible with the 21st century. Glad I could help, always here for the simple folk.
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« on: January 13, 2014, 20:53 »
There are many of us who don't want to build our own machines. We don't know or care what is inside. We want to buy a computer that works from the get-go, is fast, has an operating system that is easy to upgrade, has a display that works with our eyes and that can be color-tuned to they way we work, will not be obsolete in a year and seldom needs trouble-shooting. I work on a Windows machine at work, a Mac at home. I use the same programs and they work just as well on both. They are both speedy. The dif is that there is an IT staff at work that takes care of all the problems and upgrades. At home I don't have to know too much other than every Mac I have owned has been worry-free out of the box and lasts forever. Yes, I back-up - that is a given no matter your system. Yes, I add as much memory and storage as I can but that can be done before the machine arrives at my house. Do I pay more, probably but the convenience is worth it to me since I am not a computer tech and do not play one on tv. It all comes down to personal preference (duh) and any time this question is asked you will get the same answers. It's just like the question, "which is the best camera, blah, blah". It depends on what you want to shoot and how you work. As with cameras, I say give a few a try and see what feels right for you. Same with computers. Your mileage may vary.
There are many of us who just want to be lumberjacks, no need to concern ourselves with what/how computers are, and all that 21st century BS. Just need an axe and a comp that can log on to the lumberjack forums on weekends.
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« on: January 13, 2014, 03:29 »
I had to add another vote to the PC/cost-effective camp. I agree that specs are MUCH more important than brand and if you're looking at specs only, PCs are so much less expensive than Macs. My build which cost ~$1,000USD is below:
AMD FX 8150 8-core processor @ 3.6GHz
Biostar TA970 motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 w/ 4GB DDR3
32GB RAM
2x OCZ 240GB SSD
2x 2TB 7200RPM HDD
850watt modular power supply
Generic case w/ 6 fans
Window 7
I built this system to be able to handle Canon HDSLR video editing and it's been superb. I tried to price out a Mac with similar specs and the price that I came up with was about $3000 with only 16GB of RAM.
That extra $2000 could buy a nice lens! The other benefit is that I can easily upgrade my system when I need to. The motherboard supports up to 64GB of RAM, so I plan to increase that in the near future.
A beast... and macfans still don't get why savvier folks just laugh at them. I'v recently got an i7 with 32 gigs of ram, have been running win7 for about 6 months almost non-stop, zero problems. One thing many neglect: I also bought a pro gaming mouse + appropriate high grade mousepad = retouching twice as fast, regardless of the computer. (I also hit people mid air with rockets 
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« on: January 13, 2014, 03:18 »
Feel free to stop uploading, if you think it's a problem.
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« on: January 08, 2014, 12:41 »
All you can do is wait until Getty buckles under their massive debt and they will be declared bankrupt. Once the cancer is removed from the patient, we will see a healthy growth in royalties again.
Wouldn't bet on it. They are likely to be acquired by a private equity firm. (private equity is just the new name for hostile leveraged buyout firms, worst of worst corporate raiders)
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« on: December 31, 2013, 11:11 »
Use grok. the power of sparse representation straight form the neocortex 
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« on: December 30, 2013, 04:38 »
I like what Stocksy is trying to sell, i will certainly apply as a contributor.
On the other side, it seems at the moment they're trying to sell as RF stuff that belongs to RM.
In plus, plenty of their images can be found for a pittance on micros.
The logo should be just "Stocksy", sorry but buyers dont give a sh-it if photographers make a living or if it's a coop or if it's ISO 9001 of if it's ethical and eco-friendly.
I can't imagine Stocksy making billions but certainly it can find its niche as "midstock".
I usually see you busting ppls' balls here for the fun of it, but now I'm sad to say I agree. There are a lot of images of the kind you can find on SS by the hundreds, so is it tightly curated or not? Also those kind of images get instant rejection if they come from other contributors, exactly for not being special enough - thats pretty nausiating. But anyway, those are overpriced. On the other hand there are also great images that make the pricing actually look cheap, those should be selling for thousands - especially many travel images that obviously come at great cost. 50 bucks might sound great to micro'ers but for someone more old school this would look like the dirt cheap sellout of the last high value category left. The ELs are nice, had a few close to each other so they made up for the lack of generic income, but I'm not foolish enough to beleive you can make a projection from that. That's like playing the lottery to pay your bills. Also, you might work for hours and hours, get into a lot of cost if you want something a bit special, and all that effort expands your port by handful of shots, becasue that's as good as it gets with tight curation. How long will it take to build a signfifcant port like this, probabaly two decades. How is that sustainable? More rewards / effort / sustainabilty comes from the micros ppl love to hate. We'll be radioactive mutants running around in undergroud tunnels from the fallout fo WWIII before this fruits. ehh.... I will submit like a couple more shoots and tell myself to halt and wait, or I might just have to face later that I got ripped of like a total tool tvshop style.
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« on: December 29, 2013, 09:34 »
... This whore needs to pay the rent and feed his family.
Do you seriously think that's an apt reply? I just supressed an answer to it, that includes male private parts and something babies do with their mom's tits... as a means of solving your problems after you categorized yourself.
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« on: December 29, 2013, 08:04 »
I sent this email to istock to ask for an explanation..
"Hello,
Please explain why october partner sales were decent and this months partner sales are abysmal.
this is going to be a court case if you don't provide a logical explanation.
Best Regards,
Cihan"
They do owe me an explanation.. I urge everyone to do the same.. Don't let them screw you like this.. We have the right to ask for transparency about why the sales were good last month, and suddenly awful this month.. Did they withdraw our files from those partner sites? Did customers stop using them?
They will just tell you that sales go this way and that way, the market&customers are thisandthat.. blablabla... juts like when borkers / bankers nod their shoulder ans say the market is unpredictable after making you loose 5 times the money you gave them.
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« on: December 25, 2013, 08:41 »
Who said it's fraud?
That's even worse.
Lobo is assuming they're refunds. In the past, they came out just before new GI payments went in, but it seems this is a backlog of several months, someone has now mentioned June.
"assuming"? So basically, they can just steal your money with whatever reason they care to come up with. If it's card fraud, you at least have a third / fourth party to confirm some 'justification' - that's what I ment by "that's even worse", maybe in a bit too compressed manner. I'm a bit saddened, because this shouldn't need further explanation, unless people wholeheartedly trust getty (or lobo) of course
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« on: December 25, 2013, 07:57 »
Who said it's fraud?
That's even worse.
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« on: December 25, 2013, 07:31 »
Refunds are refunds. Stuff happens. But to yank $ out of accounts without an accompanying explanation is inexcusable. The impersonal corporate approach raises its ugly head once again.
Yes, an the sky is the sky, the cheese is a cheese, etc. These frauds should ALWAYS be payed by the stock site and/or the payment service provider / bank + pay remedy for the copyright holders, whos' work they failed to protect.... or was it something wrong with the picture we uploaded that allowed a the fraud? Did we put a backdoor into the JPG with our photoshop settings or what? Can't secure your store properly? FU pay me. Can't properly secure your clients financial data? FU pay me. Can't operate your payment system properly? FU pay me. It's all your duty, not ours.
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« on: December 25, 2013, 07:01 »
Its another RECORD Month for Sales on Shutterstock!
I LOVE Shutterstock
Thank You
Merry Christmas to Everyone from your friend Mike Ledray
Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaa
HO HO HO
You got to a payout this time?
Merry Christmas!
If Only one day!
I still hope to reach that elusive $75.00 pay out level.
Perhaps then I can buy something special.
One day, One day
Lol
Merry Christmas
Ohh man, it's not worth the hustle. With your talents and features, you just need to grow a big beard and you can be a walmart santa anyday.
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« on: December 25, 2013, 06:42 »
First off with windows 7 or 8 there is no overkill with system the more the better! 32gb is fine heck I have 64 gb myself. The video card is where you will gain the biggest on your photo editing applications I prefer nvidia cards and don't like on board cards that come with the main boards.
yep, video cards nowadays 'outpower' CPUs by several magnitudes, so if the software can use it you will see great improvements. If you buy something like an nvidia titan/fermi, you basicaly have a smaller supercomputer inside your computer.
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« on: December 24, 2013, 15:29 »
..They clearly have specific types of images they are looking for...
that might be stock type of images? just guessing...
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« on: December 24, 2013, 13:06 »
Its another RECORD Month for Sales on Shutterstock!
I LOVE Shutterstock
Thank You
Merry Christmas to Everyone from your friend Mike Ledray
Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaa
HO HO HO
You got to a payout this time? Merry Christmas!
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