Inspectors and admins get (unfairly, imo) special privileges in the queue.  Even, amazingly, same day Vetta acceptance.  We've complained, to no avail.

Then, it's good to know not all inspectors take advantage of such privileges...   There are still fair people in the world 

Sometimes, when looking at the latest uploads at IS, I find images which have been uploaded the same day.  Though I wonder why it happens, it doesn't annoy me at all.  I've always thought it must be just another glitch in the program which makes some uploads get first in the queue...  But what I do find very annoying is that many times these images happen to be from inspectors, who curiously are always the same ones... 

Maybe it's been just a coincidence...  After all, I don't know the rules for inspectors.

As I said, I am just thinking aloud. 

 

Perfect looking people are not real?   

Shhhhhh... The more time he spends writing blogs, the less time he will have to make images.

Question for Lagereek, why are you referring to RF and micro as mutually exclusive? I'm trying to understand your post.

I have the same question.

Hi All

So I am another budding photographer..  I recently bought my first dSLR and identified micro as a great way to learn how to shoot lots of different things and earn a bit of extra cash for some more equipment and maybe some lessons.

Another budding photographer?  I don't mean to offend you but, having a DSLR doesn't make you a photographer.

Don't expect to generate $100 a month by just pressing a button.   It's not just about quantity, it's also about quality, originality and knowledge.

Are you sure you wouldn't like to buy a hammer on the road to being a cabinetmaker?

 

i hate staring at the same number all day, every day.

Hope we have a good Monday.  Otherwise, it will be better to cover the number with a piece of adhesive tape.

+1 

I couldn't help my self taking a look at this 

Isn't it amazing how nosy we are?

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Quote from: louoates on July 01, 2010, 09:38

Hmmm. 20% of one million sounds an awful lot like a profit of $200,000.

Which can be looked at two ways ... I made $200,000 over the course of an entire year .. or .. Hmmm I just lost $800,000 

$1,000,000 gross - $800,000 costs = $200,000 profit ........ where exactly have you lost any money?

ok I'm going to invest into expenses in order to run a business .. smart idea moving on .. So I'm working with $800,000 capital .. now I'm going to invest it all on expenses .. year is over and now how much do I have in my pocket? $200,000 ... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you are losing money and need to take a serious look at your business model. Would have been better off not working at all and hanging on to the capital and maybe using it to pay for some business classes.

Randy,

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. If I invest 800k every year and clear $1M every year, I'm happy. There are many businesses that do much worse than 20% net margin. Even google and microsoft run at ~40%. This would mean they take $600k and produce $1M in revenue therefore $400k in profit. Are you saying that no business that has less than 50% net margin is a crappy business?

What am I missing?

Rahul

I'm not talking about a website or any other market. I'm talking about photography. You are going to take $800K out of pocket .. and wait a year so you can make a $200K profit and be happy As a photographer that's just insane !!!

What are you saying?  Come on!

There would be absolutely NO LOST at all!   Would you be sad with the $200.000 profit ?  

 

Take a board game and some beers with you because it seems your shooting session will be very boring and frustrating.  

Don't send me bad vibes please!   Remember the Karma 

Quote from: Digital66 on June 25, 2010, 00:24

Only unsolicited e-mails are spam.  Contributors could choose to be in such mailing list or not.

Additional ways to keep contributors informed could reduce the amount of complaints and endless panic threads in the forum.

Well, if people are going to the forum to panic and complain then maybe they should read some of it first. People are going to complain and panic either way and mass-emailing tens of thousands of contributors a few times a week is probably not time- or cost effective, especially since it's well-known that iStock posts their announcements in their forums.

Maybe it's not so well-known that iStock posts their announcements in their forums.  Just as an example, this is how this thread started.
 
I own an online company (not related to photography) and when there is an important announcement to make, we just send a quick message to all the users who are in our mailing list.  Writing the message only takes a minute and sending is free.