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« on: August 17, 2011, 17:45 »
Im a videographer and the subscription removal for HD videos is a welcome change - i think. I was earning a whopping 3.7 dollars for videos that took more than a week to create No, no!!! That's the opposite too!! Because actually you can uncheck " sell video in subscription" in your profile, i've done that some months ago and i've never sold a video by subscription!!  But now, they going to sell small size video for nothing, next time, they will probably erase the possibility of subscription choice etc. Each time contributors lose royalties and choice, and the trap is closing slowly until they have to sell photos, vectors and video for 10cents, maybe less in the future!
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« on: August 16, 2011, 17:40 »
And let me laugh about FT's idea, that lowered revenue/download would encourage me to help them getting no. 1 - good joke Ah ah ah, for sure!!! One another thing is sure: they are very respectful with us!!!
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« on: August 16, 2011, 13:01 »
I don't know what to do, if i stop fotolia, i'm losing almost 200$/month, that's huge amount for me. I can not stop until i've/we've found a solution to stop royalties decreasing in many microstock sites. It's a shame that international laws don't exist about a fixed minimum price.
We all know that the price can be 1$ by subscription download, even more! Actually photographer are feeding more and more stingy beasts who don't care about contributors and don't want anymore to share the cake.
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« on: August 12, 2011, 04:29 »
Totally agree with the last two posts !!!! One solution is government laws for all microstock sites with obligation to share 50% with the contributors, but i guess it's impossible in usa. The other solution is to create a real microstockers community, cancel all accounts in the stingy sites (istock, photodune etc.) and promote fair sites. But people are too selfish to manage such a fabulous change, because community spirit only works with people who rules the world, the others are simply lost, this forum is a community, but people are alone in reality  .
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« on: August 12, 2011, 04:10 »
I wouldn't upload HD to Fotolia... They sell 1080p HD for $4 through subscription. Other than that, it's a good list. You can opt out for video subscription sales in fotolia, i've done that some months ago and it's working! Look at the bottom of your profile page!
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« on: August 10, 2011, 17:30 »
I've stop last month uploading to bigstock, almost no sales, i have had a big surprise the same month: 2 EL of 29$ the same day!! That was my third EL in this site ...
I don't know why SS doesn't send automatically the pictures to bigstock.
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« on: August 10, 2011, 12:45 »
Low royalties for non exclusive and prices of extended licenses are simply a big joke!!
Yes, we can let the top contributors selling there, the site is going to lack of new pictures and diversity...too bad, but i will not feed this new stingy.
283
« on: July 23, 2011, 11:55 »
These words are not mine but from the UPP, be aware!!
But in some way, you can understand this:
for example, in some times, nobody gonna to pay a professional photographer to go taking pictures of specific rares animals for doing a reportage, the magazine prefer pay some cents to download again and again the same pictures of this animal. So the information quality and pictures rarities going to an average level, like wikipedia is an average encyclopedia.
Personally i think that it's only internet effect, who is a so new technology in the human history, and everything is going evolve further...I hope.
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« on: July 23, 2011, 06:55 »
Maybe i can explain the UPP request:
UPP, who is an association for professional Photographers in France, wants investigations on Fotolia because french government has given to Fotolia the "Hadopi" label. This label means that Fotolia is a fair photo agency, "Hadopi" is a french government stupid project against internet fraud.
Upp claiming that microstock agencies going to kill all professional photographers in the world, because they selling photos at very low cost and for unlimited use.
Actually, more and more photographers are dying because of the microstock competition, and because professional magazines are buying low cost and bad quality pictures instead of high quality and high price pictures. That's the request of UPP: kill the RF licence to avoid the death of the photographers and the declining quality of the photography. UPP claiming also that RF license isn't a fair license in France.
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« on: July 22, 2011, 12:43 »
The truth is very easy to catch:
Microstockers are people who work very hard to feed some gangsters who rule the liberal business and go to destroy all photography activities around the world in some years, just don't be blind please.
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« on: June 26, 2011, 07:19 »
I stopped this month to upload pictures there, i don't like their upload procedures and the stupid "need at least 7 words for description" and the sales are very very low for me on this site, never understand why...
287
« on: June 24, 2011, 05:40 »
But they keep categories... 
288
« on: June 23, 2011, 16:35 »
That's at last a good news from istock! 
289
« on: June 23, 2011, 05:52 »
Mmmmm, ok... I understand, you don't want to share many informations...
290
« on: June 22, 2011, 14:08 »
Ok, it's not istock, but they are a copy of istock in many ways.
cardmaverick , could you, please, give us some information about this company? Do you think it's worth the time to uploading some pictures there? I see you know the asian microstock market...
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« on: June 22, 2011, 12:49 »
Funny, i sent some files to photokore, they all get approved in 24 hours, after some days, they control the keywords and put the same under control vocabulary than Istock under brackets, here is an example:
Asia, Close-up, Buddhism, Low Angle View, Thai Culture, Art (Art And Craft), Color Image, Design (Ideas), Sculpture, Wat, Railing, Gate, Footpath, Temple (Place of Worship), Blue, White (Descriptive Color), Pattern, Spirituality (Concepts), Famous Place, Cloudscape (Cloud), Traditional Culture, Sky, Cloud (Sky), Landscape (Non-Urban Scene), Day, Architecture, Ornate, Nobody, Building Exterior, Decoration, Photography (Style), Thailand, Sunlight (Light Effect), Religion (Ideas), Style (Design), Horizontal, Outdoors
They also add new keywords: railways, landscape,day, etc.
In a word, they check all the keywords and adapt them to their site search vocabulary!!! Incredible, maybe the only site to do that!!
Here are my original keywords:
temple; thailand; white; buddhism; art; asia; architecture; religion; thai; building; asian; tradition; culture; travel; decoration; sculpture; style; design; wat; tourism; traditional; spiritual; ornate; chiang rai; exterior; famous; landmark; religious; siam; wat rong khun; sunny; modern; vacation; beautiful; fairy;
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« on: June 20, 2011, 12:34 »
20%, like istock, when the site was only stingy, before being unfair.
293
« on: June 20, 2011, 07:46 »
to delete..
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« on: June 20, 2011, 07:41 »
You can have a look at the forum, the site functions...for me there is absolutely no doubt at all, the "spirit" is exactly the same, it's not a coincidence.
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« on: June 20, 2011, 04:33 »
Me also, i'm interested for trying to sell in asian market. I found this site this morning: http://www.photokore.comIt seems launched by istock, same social address and the site look likes istock in many points. It's strange that istock attempt to launch a microstock website for asian, anybody knows the existence of this site?
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« on: June 15, 2011, 07:23 »
Yes, I wrote to istock because I've sold an extended video license for 8$ instead of 40 !!! Some other guys said the "agency" answer there's a glitch in the system. I think istock itself become a glitch these times.
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« on: June 10, 2011, 08:14 »
Biketourist, yes me too, i'm don't understand editorial shutterstock policies too!
As i can remember, every year there is some months where the files have mass rejection in shutterstock, it's not the first time, even at 5 millions pictures and 10 millions, so it's not a problem of over saturation...
A script? Why not? 123Rf have also some strange rejections these days...
Today it's istock: since 4 months they accept everything and today keywords and artifacts problems are back in mass!!! That's not a problem because new pictures don't sell at istock.
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« on: June 10, 2011, 05:55 »
heywoody, the proof is not a matter of new subjects or different: acceptance change with same subject from 0 to 100% in few hours!!
My last batch was with not well covered subject: transsexual singers on stage, with model release...
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« on: June 10, 2011, 04:48 »
Mmmm
The problem of mass rejection seems coming only from one or maybe some reviewers...It's a question of luck.
Yesterday 80% of batch rejected with pictures coming from stage dancing show, " poor lightings", and today other pictures of the same place with same lightings are all accepted. Some reviewers haven't any knowledge about art of lighting. There's sometimes also a problem with "out of focus" with perfectly focused pictures.
Last past 15 days the mass rejection stop for me, but since two three days, it's back again, maybe some reviewers have some vacancies, i don't know but it's not a professional way to operate...
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