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Messages - Sean Locke Photography
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« on: November 08, 2013, 18:24 »
Its getting really messy, but I wonder how IS convinces these big players to jump ship, when IS is making a mess of things. There must be something going on we dont know.
Surely the point is that they don't jump ship .... they stay aboard and get paid extra while still keeping most of their other income sources intact.
Exactly. Gets exclusive royalties on the images you want them, be non-exclusive on everything else. I mean, unless you're Yuri, then it's exclusive rates, lies to the buyers and distribution wherever you like.
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« on: November 08, 2013, 16:44 »
there is also a new entry ANDRESR on istock exclusives
exclusive http://www.istockphoto.com/andresrimaging
no exclusive http://www.istockphoto.com/andresr
Not surprised, good luck to Andres
Is that a real exclusive or the new kind of exclusive? If he got the new kind of deal he'd be silly to turn it down.
Man, I wish we had been able to be image exclusive when I was there.
2803
« on: November 08, 2013, 10:18 »
Australian folks are loaded, just wish they have never heard of SS 
Must be all those exports of koala fur jackets and platypus purses.
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« on: November 08, 2013, 06:24 »
We are having subscription plans / packages but we are making it a viable option only for L and XL images. And Standard Royalty Free Licenses only. The idea is to use these to encourage high volume transactions and to attract buyers with frequent large image requirements. Our subscription pricing is as follows:
30 images usable within 1 month for $597 ($19.90 per image)
185 images usable within 6 months for $3,197 (~$17.29 per image)
365 images usable within 12 months for $5,397 (~$14.79 per image)
We want these subscriptions / packages to be lucrative to contributing photographers too so we are fixing the amount that contributors get when a customer uses a subscription to download their image. This is fixed at $9.95 (which is pretty much your share of a large standard license outright sale) no matter which subscription / package is used to download your image. So this means for 1 month subscription / packages you are taking 50%, for 6 months 58% and for 12 months 67%.
Sounds good to me, although I doubt you'll get many takers at those prices. Sub buyers just don't seem to want to put out for reasonable costs.
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« on: November 07, 2013, 06:29 »
Thanks. I thought "download" meant like getting a .csv file or something.
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« on: November 07, 2013, 06:04 »
Is there a way on 123rf to see which images were downloaded? I can see I actually had sales from my EVO images, but I don't see how to find which images sold.
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« on: November 07, 2013, 05:16 »
I don't know if you actually own the images on Pinterest or not, but some of them are uploaded in very large resolutions with no watermarks, and since you've uploaded them instead of pinning them from their original source, there is no meta available.
Aside from that, sounds interesting. Will you want isolated images?
I will probably participate as long as there is no subscription plan.
2808
« on: November 05, 2013, 15:57 »
I was all jazzed to move this to garbage, but that comment requires it stays alive!
Mazel Tov!
2809
« on: November 05, 2013, 09:30 »
These are good news, and Alamy continues to be the ONLY agency that reverses decisions based on the photographers feelings expressed in this forum and through MS.
Although they tried to get away with it to see what would happen. Of course, nobody is going to want to pay fees.
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« on: November 02, 2013, 11:54 »
Hee hee.
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« on: November 01, 2013, 12:57 »
There are other options that he isn't exploring, but I will agree with you that this is probably the best argument for staying exclusive. However, it does throw the whole "bottom line is all I care about" argument out the window. It makes very little sense to upload in this manner if you are only concerned about how much money you are going to make.
I have a similar but slightly different uploading philosophy. I am in it for the long run and spend much more effort on a higher rpd and self hosted. My results have been constant BME's without supporting the sub sites for almost a year. In October my self hosted results were 95% of what I earned on SS and 3 times that of IS with a smaller port on SS and a comparable one on IS.
Oh, I forgot my self-hosted Photoshelter royalties. $100, up from $35 in September. At least it's paying for itself.
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« on: November 01, 2013, 11:00 »
Let's see... 123RF - no sales ever Pond 5 - Royalties up %400 due to a couple video sales, from $20 to $80 Deposit - Royalties up %50 from $100 to $150 GL - Royalties up from $16 to $20 Stocksy - Royalties up %200, DLs up 40% Getting better, I guess 
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« on: October 30, 2013, 10:36 »
I know. I didn't word that right. You're saying if they're increasing their percentage of the take, their profits should be going up. I'm saying their profits are going down, and as a reaction, they are trying to increase their percentage of the take.
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« on: October 30, 2013, 10:25 »
Down. Getty has succeeded in moving sales away from IS.
And in increasing its percentage of the take.
I thought Getty profits were going down? Maybe the site with increasing profits is the cause of declining sales elsewhere?
Increasing their percentage is not causing profits to go up. The first happens _because_ of the latter.
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« on: October 30, 2013, 06:56 »
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« on: October 29, 2013, 06:42 »
Hi,
I'm currently working as a freelance photographer doing mostly portrait/fashion and some corporate photography and now want to get more in to the microstock world. What are peoples experiences in selling fashion images and do you think it would be viable to focus only on this?
I consider myself a intermediate photographer and also live in a cheap country(Malaysia) so a profit of 800usd/month would be more then enough to make it doable for me. So do you think quitting freelancing and focusing on microstock is possible? I'd appreciate any input I can get!
Have a look on my portfolio www.emilginang.com,
Kind regards
Emil
Your images are nice, but the microstock market for people standing around against a dim background, looking at camera, doing nothing, is kind of small. You'd have better luck with the images in Portfolio 2.
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« on: October 28, 2013, 13:32 »
This is going to be unpopular but there are no new products, just variations on the same products. Stocksy et al are probably good marketing initiatives but, like apple vs pc, they are not offering anything inherently better, just that perception.
Also, don't just look at "the product", or the image. Also look at "the experience" - everything that makes up the buying process.
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« on: October 26, 2013, 09:23 »
BTW, is there an easy way to promote not-for-sale images, like my portfolio on Stocksy, yet?
http://ajotte.com/stock-plugin/
Oh, yeahhhh.
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« on: October 26, 2013, 09:23 »
BTW, is there an easy way to promote not-for-sale images, like my portfolio on Stocksy, yet?
if you mean to just link to images elsewhere without selling them direct on your symbiosite? it is possible out of the box without any plugins..
Ok, but I want an eeeeeasy way.
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« on: October 26, 2013, 08:58 »
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« on: October 26, 2013, 08:48 »
BTW, is there an easy way to promote not-for-sale images, like my portfolio on Stocksy, yet?
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« on: October 23, 2013, 05:16 »
2824
« on: October 22, 2013, 10:30 »
It kind of reads as Micro group stock 
It kinda does.
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« on: October 21, 2013, 13:56 »
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