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« on: December 31, 2011, 11:43 »
Only, I bet 50% of all micro shooters have probably watched this garbage and decided to become a pro photographer. Whats the bet? 
* me I just spent 5k $ to upgrade my camand 2 months working with my new gears, lighting and lens, making sure I learn and understand all my manual settings... Had I known with this video that I just needed to TURN THE DIAL... I would have started massively submitting stock photos! Hell now that I know this I'll print myself a P t-shirt... The world is mine!
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« on: December 25, 2011, 17:32 »
Santa brought me the new external HD I needed! 
Lucky you... You must have been a good girl this year to earn it!  Merry Christmas to you all!
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« on: December 25, 2011, 17:27 »
Very Nice! Congrats and Merry Christmas to you... Didn't know Santa was buying Microstock
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« on: December 23, 2011, 15:46 »
I would like to say that I've made contact with the owners of the first site and image is no longer there.
For other we site, have you tried to download your EPS? I cant test using my iPhone right now, but most "free" download sites are just a scam takes you to another site, then another and they ask you to register and pay x$ to be able to download the file, and even then I am not sure the file is even available. I'd suggest you test this, then of course make yourself heard to site owner and to Shutterstock. Sucks to have to do That anyhow... Good luck!
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« on: December 21, 2011, 11:16 »
Firefox 8.0, Chrome 16.0, IE7 - all display the image WITH watermark.
On 3 machines I have various versions of Firefox 8.0, 7.0 and 4.0. All show crappy pic + old watermark.
Quote from: grp_photo on December 19, 2011, 11:18 ...you are probably logged in with Firefox but not with IE. If you are logged in you can download the comp image w/o watermark I would guess.Log in to your account to have the no watermark and good res Comp image.
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« on: December 20, 2011, 11:27 »
.30 cents is low for vector, unless you selling at Shutterstock, then it's: - Pass Go for .30 cents.... 100 times a day  But I understand that for most site, when you sell Vector as a Subscription, you get screwed but... It's part of the business I guess 
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« on: December 20, 2011, 11:24 »
Yes for me it's good also, get a payout each month, about the same or a bit less than Fotolia for my part. Canstock is the best surprise for me this year getting twice as much as fotolia and DP.
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« on: December 19, 2011, 17:40 »
I like threads like this. They make me feel extra good about having pulled my portfolio and having nothing more to do with Fotolia.
Definitely understand your point of view... Having a few cents for an image is ok but... Having them ''free'' for a decent web size, not sure I like it, definitely start to feel uneasy towards that...
Did you report this to Fotolia?
Yes I did, waiting on their speedy answer
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« on: December 19, 2011, 16:59 »
I can say that's weird and probably will have refund... Unless he just has money to throw around and was clicking so fast on BUY IMAGE that the payment was processed 9 times (lol). I had my most ''weird'' buy this month, on an image (if you can call that an image) that I never thought would sell...: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=83826526 EL sale so he paid 100$ for this (got me 28$). It's alright, I'm happy about it but at that price I would have hired someone to draw it back for me unless he was in a REAL hurry to explain or to use a Parabola illustration.
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« on: December 19, 2011, 16:52 »
The security guy was asking for an ID? Now that's not tolerable. I ran into this when shooting downtown LA, a the security guy took the time come out of the building and walk thru the little park area to harass me. When I was told that part is private area, I moved about ten inches to the pavement, than he said there are laws to prevent people from taking photos of these tall builings since 911, and just stood around looking dumb so I would leave, of course I didn't, nice job at humiliating himself. The funny part is that a member of my family, lawyer, works in the building, that's why he dropped me ther so I could walk around LA photographing. When he came from work I told him the story and he said it's total b***crap, ther are no such laws, I can shoot just about anything in public places, and he suggested thet if get harassad again, I should just call a cop, thats it.
Call the cops on the security guys... lol. And shoot them while they talk to him. Now THAT's is humiliating
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« on: December 19, 2011, 16:50 »
I like threads like this. They make me feel extra good about having pulled my portfolio and having nothing more to do with Fotolia.
Definitely understand your point of view... Having a few cents for an image is ok but... Having them ''free'' for a decent web size, not sure I like it, definitely start to feel uneasy towards that...
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« on: December 19, 2011, 13:55 »
The policeman at 12 mins needs some props.
Nicely handled.
ETA: just finished watching actually all the police seem to have been much better trained than in previous videos.
Maybe all the embarrassing youtube videos have had an effect!
Yes I do agree that the Policeman actions in this video do seem reasonable, points out how badly learned the security guards are
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« on: December 19, 2011, 11:43 »
Morphart you are probably logged in with Firefox but not with IE. If you are logged in you can download the comp image w/o watermark I would guess.
Right answer! I updated Firefox and I still had the same issue. So... If you create an account on Fotolia, you can get good res, without a watermark Comp image. My new question would be, do Fotolia enforce some kind of check on the user who constantly download Comps image without buying the image...? Still find it a bizarre way of doing things. As a designer, a watermarked low-res image will do it to know if the image will fit or not in the design we plan. I just find it makes it too easy for web image buyers to simply run off with the image.
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« on: December 19, 2011, 11:32 »
Firefox 8.0, Chrome 16.0, IE7 - all display the image WITH watermark.
Lol... I recently update a bunch of add-ons and uninstall some stuff from firefox... Just check my Firefox version and it tells me version 3.6... I'll update back to 8, that might be the ''issue'' since new scripts definetly would not work on an old browser like this. Don't know how this happened, must have uninstalled the firefox updates. At least it's a good thing to know that we can't easily steal of the work on Fotolia. (On other website I didn't have any issues as I think the comp are created as a separate JPG instead of being generated ''on-the-fly'' as in Fotolia)
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« on: December 19, 2011, 10:46 »
I see comp images with the old Fotolia watermark displayed in a heavy compressed version with bad, bad artifacts.
The potential buyer might as well take a screenshot of the actual preview image to get a better comp.
I don't see a problem regarding the watermark...
I almost thought I was technically alienated by reading your remark but... after some checks: Use FIREFOX. Just left an email to fotolia about this. Check this out:  This is funny. They have script for it that DON'T work in all browsers... Eh. So in firefox then, it's a free steal (btw I just bought the image for 8 credits but...) just tested in Internet Explorer and yes the images is degraded very much and looks like craps. I just saw it does the same with direct link too: http://download.fotolia.com/Content/CompImage/FotoliaComp_35425834_vPlCMVnDIaF2EJtgrwlhbCwPwvhF5uOrSo on Firefox version, degradation is not so bad, and grandma or Mr. Blog don't see artifacts and heavy compression.
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« on: December 19, 2011, 10:04 »
Hi! While working today, I wanted to try out a composition image from Fotolia for one of my print design. Instead of doing a screen grab or right click, I used the <<Download a Comp image>> link. To my surprise, Fotolia gives you the image without any watermark, which for web use is as easy as giving the image for free. A 512 x 481 image, good for a hell of a lot of uses on the web, usually used smaller than that so the image gains quality... I don't know what you think, but to me at least they should make stealing the image a bit harder by keeping the watermark on like every other stock site?. Not sure that I like seeing a 500x400 image free to use out there (yes you can say that they did not buy it thus cannot use it since they don't have the license but... Prove it if you can't find any alteration on the image due to cloning out the watermark..!) Example: http://www.fotolia.com/Content/Comp/35425834Your thoughts?
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« on: December 19, 2011, 09:13 »
Ok so Shutterstock won't ''hit you on the fingers'' for submiitting the same EPS image as a JPG?
At first I thought uploading a Full size JPG with my EPS took care of both but... Wouldn't have both the EPS and the JPG screw up the search engine by showing duplicate for each of your work? I am a bit confused? If not then I'll definetly be sending all my JPG as standalone rasters too.
Actually this is Shutterstock's official method of handling vector and JPG versions. They don't allow the buyer to choose between a vector or JPG file to download from one page, and encourage vector artists to upload the corresponding JPG version as a separate file, getting it's own file number and page in the system.
In searches, buyers can filter out which type of file they're looking for, so I guess that's helpful. But I think it would be ideal to have both options in the same place, giving buyers the choice right there on the spot.
That and it would make for a much more accurate depiction of the true size of the SS collection. That 17 million image count is surely inflated due to JPG versions of the exact same vector images.
Yes you have some good points there. I find it weird that a top-of-the-line site like Shutterstock doesn't integrate the large JPG and Vector format on the same sell page. Unless they have some marketing expert-genius telling them not to do this, I am not sure I understand why they would do this. More process time for them... Thanks a lot for taking the time for explaining this to me... Will start uploading my JPG right away!
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« on: December 18, 2011, 17:29 »
I'm wondering... is it a good thing to send vector AND raster on Shutterstock of the same work'?
Yep. Vectors always sell better, but I'd say the raster versions of my vector work sell once for every 6 or 7 vector sales.
That's just based on comparison to my stats, so it's certainly not scientific. But I know other folks see fairly comparable raster images sales stats.
Ok so Shutterstock won't ''hit you on the fingers'' for submiitting the same EPS image as a JPG? At first I thought uploading a Full size JPG with my EPS took care of both but... Wouldn't have both the EPS and the JPG screw up the search engine by showing duplicate for each of your work? I am a bit confused? If not then I'll definetly be sending all my JPG as standalone rasters too. Thanks for the heads up on this, I appreciate!
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« on: December 18, 2011, 17:26 »
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« on: December 17, 2011, 11:59 »
Down.
500 internal service error.
* again.... Was submitting my images and: Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at submit.shutterstock.com Port 81First time was funny, second time in two days is getting sad. Main revenue comes from SS
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« on: December 16, 2011, 23:01 »
...#2 is 100% illustration...
That is epic. 67k vectors in 2.5 years. Unbelievable. Either the guy has figured out a way to crank out vectors at a ridiculous pace, or he's a team.
Either way, it's an impressive production.
Edited to add: In looking at his portfolio, he does also upload the raster version of each vector, so his true "portfolio" is more like half of what is reported. Still quite impressive, as it's rare to see a 100% vector portfolio with even 1,000 images. 33k is still incredible.
I agree, but to have that much, he definitely hires to create that many or is more than a work-alcoholic with a great imagination I'm wondering... is it a good thing to send vector AND raster on Shutterstock of the same work'?
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« on: December 16, 2011, 19:08 »
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« on: December 16, 2011, 16:44 »
Yuri has 534 x 100, which means under 53400 files
Takai has 672 x 100, which means under 67200 files
Holy $#?#$#@!! I knew they had a lot of images but... 53 and 67k images... Hell. They must have other photographers working for them full time. Corbis on Fotolia only links 27k image ;p http://www.fotolia.com/p/200993946I'm impressed by those numbers Theirs is not only quantity, but hell, great quality! KaChing $!
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« on: December 16, 2011, 16:38 »
Hey,
I know there are couple of super sellers on Shutterstock who sell hundreds of images per day, but what do you think (or maybe somebody has some inside information? ) how many % of all artists would sell about 100 images per day? There are over 300 000 photographers, and majority of them have small portfolios, so that number can't be very big, but how big?
What would be your estimated guess?
I sell 100 images a day (or 3 000 per months) on Shutterstock with a 3 000 files portfolio, but my portfolio is not necessarily a quality portfolio, it's a variety portfolio which some image has a very small niche. I have around 300 nice vectors and 3D, but for the most I have a WIDE range of subject and categories in a small niche of Vintage images, so for me I need a lot of images to make a good portfolio giving a decent income, but I am sure a good photographer or vector artist with half my potofolio size with quality content can get the same results.
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« on: December 16, 2011, 16:34 »
noooooooooooooo!! dont do this!! we need u
Let's share the Love!!!
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