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« on: December 02, 2020, 10:23 »
I imagine that people are discouraged. It is not worth much effort in the microstock to earn so little that it is not enough for much.
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« on: December 01, 2020, 15:18 »
This is the last straw for hungry and cheating shoppers. A "return" of an image 30 cents. Sure, they returned the image, I already believed those crap buyers. Look .
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« on: November 29, 2020, 18:56 »
Uncle Pete!! " They do pay us for OD, S&O and EL ".........these are extremely scarce! and 90% goes to Ukraine and Philippine contributors!
Every now and then statements like this pop up: microstock agencies are giving contributors from developing countries, or countries with lower cost of living a ranking boost.
Now, I might have missed it, but until now, I never seen anyone really proving this. Neither have I seen anyone giving a valid reason why agencies would do something like that.
They want to sell licenses, as much as possible, and the only way to optimize that is designing an algorithm that matches relevant content with keywords entered in the search engine.
Physical location of the contributor is completely irrelevant to that.
Maybe we are just seeing a lot more content from contributors from countries with a lower cost of living because ... well it is more profitable for them to engage in microstock?
A 35 dollar payout buys me a pizza in Iceland... or a loaded supermarket shopping cart in let's say Phillipines. (not sure that's completely true, but you get the point)
Interesting views and I learned something new today:
Cost of living in Ukraine
Single person estimated monthly costs: $820 (23,381₴)
Ukraine is the cheapest country in Eastern Europe (13 out of 13)
Ukraine is the 4th cheapest country in the World
Cost of living in Venezuela
Single person estimated monthly costs: $183 (49,656,775 Bs.S.)
(came with a warning that the numbers are estimated)
Cost of living in Iceland
Single person estimated monthly costs: $3,040 (404,164 kr)
(also estimated)
USA
Single person estimated monthly costs: $2,611
Cost of living in United States is more expensive than in 77% of countries in the World (18 out of 74)
No judgements, just some numbers. Well maybe one observation. Iceland isn't a cheap place to live! But I hear it's nice and beautiful as well. 
Cost of living in Venezuela Single person estimated monthly costs: $183 (49,656,775 Bs.S.) (came with a warning that the numbers are estimated) Could you show me where did you find that information? it is very few! Not rent cost included , no leisure, no medicines . Maybe that person only eat and live with his/her parents ! Look at this! https://inmueble.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV-569612537-alquiler-de-habitacion-en-el-paraiso-para-dama-_JM#position=11&type=item&tracking_id=b1d48ff2-ef93-409b-b85e-05b57f17a979 $ 80 room rent for a month, not an apartment. In my country Venezuela exist two kinds of dollars, the black market , https://twitter.com/DolarToday, and the official dollar, Banco Central de Venezuela http://www.bcv.org.ve/
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« on: November 29, 2020, 18:16 »
I've received all of my payouts without problems
Insteresting to know that, thanks!
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« on: November 29, 2020, 18:16 »
I've received all of my payouts without problems
Insteresting to know that, thanks!
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« on: November 29, 2020, 13:40 »
Someone else has news about this agency? it's still alive and paying?
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« on: November 29, 2020, 12:56 »
Uncle Pete!! " They do pay us for OD, S&O and EL ".........these are extremely scarce! and 90% goes to Ukraine and Philippine contributors!
Every now and then statements like this pop up: microstock agencies are giving contributors from developing countries, or countries with lower cost of living a ranking boost.
Now, I might have missed it, but until now, I never seen anyone really proving this. Neither have I seen anyone giving a valid reason why agencies would do something like that.
They want to sell licenses, as much as possible, and the only way to optimize that is designing an algorithm that matches relevant content with keywords entered in the search engine.
Physical location of the contributor is completely irrelevant to that.
Maybe we are just seeing a lot more content from contributors from countries with a lower cost of living because ... well it is more profitable for them to engage in microstock?
A 35 dollar payout buys me a pizza in Iceland... or a loaded supermarket shopping cart in let's say Phillipines. (not sure that's completely true, but you get the point)
I live in Venezuela a third world country and i swear you with $ 35 usd, you can't fill a shopping cart market with food and others essentials for home, maybe in another third world countries, but in Venezuela not! I think sometimes, it's more profitable begging money on the street than microstock incomes. In the past ( 3 years ago, 2017) with $ 100 you could make a lot in Venezuela, but now you can't. 
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« on: November 25, 2020, 10:12 »
All I see lately are suspicious low-priced personal usage licenses.
That will be the trend, thanks to the low prices of the microstock. I think so!
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« on: November 25, 2020, 10:06 »
Thanks for the link to the pin. However, the issue is ads, not pins.
And Shutterstock ads, to boot! Just one final FU from them to you. FYI, I think JoAnn Snover has mentioned the same problem. They closed her account, but they are all too happy to keep using images in their ads.
I have read that Shutterstock is used to selling the contents of the accounts that they close.
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« on: November 24, 2020, 16:31 »
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« on: November 23, 2020, 16:51 »
A review of the MINI 2 for photography.
RAW files, AEB, low light and HDR performance
https://youtu.be/g9tyqqYcuus
is it worth investing in a drone to sell photos and video on microstock?
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« on: November 16, 2020, 21:22 »
From a legal standpoint, there is nothing wrong with taking two public domain images, compositing them and selling the resulting image.
Whether a stock site will allow you to sell them is another matter. And whether those images you get from those sites are actually public domain, is another matter as well.
Like Adobe for example... Cathy's post above says they don't generally accept public domain content.
Thanks!
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« on: November 16, 2020, 21:00 »
Are you sure? But in microstock is not allowed. I don't know much about that. Well, many people has told that, for example composites.
A composite from two public domain images is very different from a composite made from two images that are not in the public domain. Same as Jingle Bells or Silent Night... you don't own the copyright to the music, but if you record your own rendition of the song, then you own the copyright to that track/recording. Which you can then sell. And just in case Lizard wants to chip in... yes, a website might not allow you to sell it, or they might want you to make it clear who the original authors were, or that you only own the copyright to the recording not the song... but that's a condition of the site in question, not of copyright law and the like.
I don't understand much about public domain images, but microstock sites allowed to sell composites made with images from unsplash, pexels and pixabay ? I am not very clear. Are they public domain images ? For that reason I ask so much, because I don't know. Sorry. https://unsplash.com/images/stock/public-domainhttps://pixabay.com/es/images/search/domain/https://www.pexels.com/public-domain-images/
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« on: November 16, 2020, 19:21 »
You must own the rights to any images you upload to stock and public domain you don't. Can we sell public domain images? Getty does.
If you modify it, like cleaning it up or tracing some thing or whatever, then you have the copyright to that new image.
Are you sure? But in microstock is not allowed. I don't know much about that. Well, many people has told that, for example composites.
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« on: November 15, 2020, 17:44 »
You also need to check the contributors terms for each agency you want to upload that image to. As has been mentioned, some do not allow the use of public domain photos, or even composites containing them.
Here is terminology from Adobe: Generally, we do not accept Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or public domain content that is uploaded to the Adobe Stock site. Modified NASA images may be an exception, however. We can accept content that incorporates NASA public domain imagery if the content does not depict any NASA trademark or likeness of an astronaut or other persons and has been used to create a recognizably new visual work. For example, in the image above, a NASA image (1) was modified to create a new image (2) that is distinctly different from the original.
And there is more here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/terminology-and-importance-of-copyright.html
You just have to check each agency.
Thanks! Is this the NASA public domain imagery? https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
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« on: November 15, 2020, 11:25 »
I have some sells there. Alamy pays better than microstock sites, but sales are few.I think it worths!
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« on: November 01, 2020, 17:44 »
I don't know Fine Arts America, but it sell for good price? Can i sell landscape photos i have in microstock there? People from Venezuela can sell there?
Thanks!
You can sell prints or print-on-demand items (tote bags, greetings cards, etc.) via Fine Art America and you get to set the markup. In other words, if their cost to print an item on canvas is $25, you get to set your markup (let's say $10) and the resulting price for the buyer is $35.
You can use microstock images - nothing is exclusive - but bear in mind what sells is something people want to look at (versus some of the useful shots that do well for stock agencies). I don't know of any reason they couldn't allow a contributor from Venezuela, but you have to be able to receive payments via PayPal.
https://fineartamerica.com/termsofuse.html?document=contributortermsofuse
If you start with a free account, you can only upload 25 items and see how things go. If you want to upload more, you need the premium account at $30 per year.
Thank you very much, Jo Ann Snover . I had my first sale on Fineartamerica.com look https://fineartamerica.com/saleannouncement.html?id=16dc7ae829efc087f63c929b58a7210b 
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« on: November 01, 2020, 17:22 »
No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26 Not for me.
With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace! 
Yeah, good points. Let me say, just to make things easy, I don't think any new company is worth the time or effort, until they have proven they are. I went through the early years of this and that agency, we're new, we promise you... and not one ever turned out anything close to the hype. Some people may have done better, but after being a member of at least 20 agencies, I decided to high point market and only work for the proven value places.
At this point, personally, even Bigstock, 123, Canstock, DP, DT and many more, just aren't worth the time. Maybe if I was high volume and cared about small places making a small return? Even worse choices that I belonged to and left, Panther, FOAP ,Mostphoto, Lucky Oliver, and some others that have come and gone? Total waste of time.
I don't want to be that hard on FeaturePics, there's someone who tries and is fair. Just not enough earnings to be interesting to continue.
Then after all that, there's a nice longer list of places that I said, I'll wait and see, and they turned out to be nothing but "just another cheap agency" Graphic Leftovers, Yay, 500px, crestock, anyone look at Mostphoto lately?
Short and simple, don't look for something new. Work on what's working now. The industry is contracting, not expanding. We'll see more and more of these startups, going under.
Thanks!
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« on: October 31, 2020, 17:28 »
No one in their right mind would use Russian agency for their portfolio.
Well Shutterstock is an American company and they are scam company!
If you don't believe me check this out! https://es.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com?languages=all
Except there's no reason to trust trustpilot who makes money from manipulating the reviews. But you want to join an agency that gives this result? "Sorry, we couldn't find "pressfoto"" LOL
Images by subscription from $0.26 and on-demand from $1.00 And as Jo Ann mentioned, thousands of FREE images on Freepik. You want to support someone that encourages free pictures and free downloads and hides what they will actually pay you, if you should sell something for 26 Not for me.
With Jo Ann warning to me, and i have some doubts about Pressphoto, for that reason i asked to someone here. I will not enroll in Pressfoto. I told to tpack that a company for being Russian it is not necessary a scam company. But Pressfoto looks like a scam company. Peace!
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« on: October 29, 2020, 13:11 »
I have used FTP software (Filezila) to upload image to 123rf, but they don't get the image, someone else happens this?
Yes, they have some FTP bug going on.. It was fixed yesterday but again happening.
Thanks!
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« on: October 28, 2020, 19:52 »
I have used FTP software (Filezila) to upload image to 123rf, but they don't get the image, someone else happens this?
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« on: October 28, 2020, 19:30 »
I can't help you with information about sales there - I'd never heard of them before your post.
I did go and look at the site though, and for me, the biggest no-go is that they don't read metadata from uploaded files - you have to provide it in a separate file or enter it on the site.
https://submit.pressfoto.com/documents.html?doc=meta
Another big missing piece is what they actually pay. Front page says "up to" 50% and the ranks page has a useless table with how much each rank is paid in USD (40 to 70) but without knowing prices, who knows what that means
https://submit.pressfoto.com/documents.html?doc=ranks
The contributor agreement says 50% of net revenue goes to the contributor for on demand sales (i.e. PressFoto deducts any currency or other fees first before doing the split) and for subscriptions, it's a share of the pool of revenue. Does not mention a minimum (unless that's what the ranks table is trying to say)
https://www.pressfoto.com/pricing
I'm guessing if they were selling well we'd have heard something here.
Monkey Business Images, Pressmaster, and Wavebreak Media (though Zoonar) are there, for what that's worth., but they seem to be everywhere
On an unrelated note, they have 22,000 free files on Freepik
https://www.freepik.com/pressfoto
I think the contributor has the choice about whether to offer free files (but I can't imagine why one site would help another site build traffic via freebies - how does that help PressFoto?)
Thank you very much, you are very kind!
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