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And to make sure there is no misunderstanding - the "curators" of this magazine get no monetary reward. Yes we might get a view of two of our own articles (which are a small percentage of the total), but we actually find it a useful way to gather interesting articles that we might want to refer back to in the future. Flipboard themselves do stick some sponsored posts in there from time to time which is how they make their money.

Steve

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And, in some cases the link goes back to the original website. But this thread would go down the rabbit hole of whether these sites such as Flipboard, Pinterest are unethically using the work of others for profit. The business world seems to have decided that they are not.

Steve

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Shutterstock.com / Re: very slow april start...
« on: April 05, 2018, 09:54 »
Don't forget the 2nd April was a public holiday in many countries.

I'm not sure if this will make you feel better, but these past few days have been one of the best in terms of large sales for me. Just goes to show how variable this business can be.

Steve

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You might be interested in a Flipboard magazine that Alex and I curate about stock photography. We basically collect interesting articles that have a bearing on our business and make them available in the Flipboard magazine style. Just saying....

https://flipboard.com/@steveheap2015/making-money-from-stock-photography-lhjj87ouy

Steve

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I've just started blogging about stock video, so some of the answers you are looking for are covered (and more will be in my next post).

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2018/03/adventures-in-stock-video/

Steve

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Canva / Re: Canva and the model release
« on: April 03, 2018, 09:18 »
Interesting - thanks! I had forgotten that (if ever I had known it!). I use Stock Submitter and so it is possible it does send the model release to this folder behind the scenes. Would be nice if Lee could confirm this.

Steve

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Canva / Re: Canva and the model release
« on: April 02, 2018, 16:52 »
As Canva doesn't accept editorial shots, it is assumed that if you upload a picture with a person's face then you have a model release for that person. You don't need to send it in, but it is your risk if you don't have one.

Steve

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My thoughts on this. Most agencies accept either their own model release form, or the industry standard one that was produced by Getty. The majority don't allow modifications to that form or a form of the photographer's choosing. Hence creating a non-standard model release form will not be acceptable for a number of agencies. The industry standard one is on one page - hence some of the confusion.

Some agencies accept PDFs and JPEGs, others only accept JPEGS - hence that has become the normal model release form in applications that try to support multiple agencies.

Steve

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I've never tried Stock Performer, but I have really got attached to Microstockr over the past 12 months or so. I find it really helps to see what has sold and often seeing those little thumbnails of an image I took years ago triggers a new idea for a different edit or a different series of images.

I wish it did Canva, but other than that, it meets all my needs.

Steve

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Hi Paul

I had a go at documenting my approach to managing images and uploads. Hope this helps:

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/12/my-current-workflow/

Steve

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General - Top Sites / Re: Creating a sets and StockSubmitter
« on: February 19, 2018, 09:47 »
I don't know the answer about sets to be honest. But on submissions, I'm now a keen Stock Submitter user and I wrote about how it fits in with my workflow here:

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/12/my-current-workflow/

BUT - this is only of big benefit if you submit to lots of sites with a fair number of images I think. If you are uploading 20 a month to 5 agencies, then it doesn't take much work doing as you are, but for larger volumes to more agencies, automation definitely helps.

Steve

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Yaymicro / Re: Yay Images - how to see contributor account?
« on: February 18, 2018, 15:32 »
You are right - thanks for the reminder!

I did have a few sales in 2017 and had 59 euros in my account - I was able to request payout, so all I need to see now is the money!

Steve

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Yaymicro / Re: Yay Images - how to see contributor account?
« on: February 18, 2018, 15:10 »
I don't think so - I can search under my original user name and see the 5609 images that I had in the Yay Micro portfolio.

Steve

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Yaymicro / Yay Images - how to see contributor account?
« on: February 18, 2018, 12:26 »
I had a portfolio on Yay Micro when they closed and pretty much forgot about it. I see that Yay Images is still in business and my images are still for sale over there. When I try to log on, I get the message that YayMicro credentials are not accepted and you need to create a new account. Anyone done this and how do you get back to ownership of your own portfolio and see if there is anything owed for sales of those images?

Steve

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General Stock Discussion / Re: January Earnings
« on: February 18, 2018, 12:19 »
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Is that mostly due to your increasing video output or is that only more recently?

It would be good if I had made the effort to track video separately in my spreadsheets - but I didn't! However, I can analyse things at a higher level in Microstockr, and I can see that out of total earnings of $25550 as reported by that App (which isn't my total as it doesn't track everything) in 2017, videos were almost $1400.

2016, videos were $180, so that shows that I am pretty new at this.

In 2018, so far, the App is showing $2670 total and videos are $140. At a rough glance, the percentage seems to be around the same although the sample size in 2018 is not high.

Steve

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Download history of individual files?
« on: February 17, 2018, 18:19 »
I use Microstockr Pro - it picks up all the sales once they appear on the site and also match them against the same image on other agencies so you can track the performance of an image or a collection of similar images across all sites.

Steve

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General Stock Discussion / Re: January Earnings
« on: February 17, 2018, 15:54 »
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Are you going to put a lot more time into footage over photos?

Yes, although I do find it hard. I see images everywhere and so get a good feel for what buyers use our images for. I don't tend to look at videos much (I'm a reader not a watcher online) and so I don't have that gut understanding yet of what makes a good stock video. I need to scan the best sellers more I guess. The technical side is less of a bother now but getting my mind round the best way to find new topics and present them well is where I need to focus.

Steve

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Alamy.com / Re: Some questions regarding Alamy
« on: February 15, 2018, 18:52 »
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If you decide to only upload to Alamy, is it better as RM or as RF?

This question is one I have pondered. From a buyers point of view, I would have thought RF was a preferable option as it is simpler to understand and buy. Logically, it should be more expensive than RM, but traditionally it was the other way and now my experience is that on Alamy at least, they are pretty much the same. If that is the case, then you have two sorts of buyers - one that doesn't care if it is RM or RF and just wants the right image. The second is one that would prefer the flexibility of RF and so would prefer an RF license if they had a choice of two images that more or less met the requirement. In my mind, therefore, an RF license lets you serve both people, an RM license is potentially a bit more restrictive in who it appeals to.

Although this has been a no-no for some time, I know don't really understand why the same image couldn't be RF on one site and RM on another these days. I can understand how exclusive RM has value in terms of control of usage etc. but non-exclusive RM doesn't really help much unless you carefully track every site you have uploaded it to. Anyway, that is probably off the point!

Steve

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Alamy.com / Re: Some questions regarding Alamy
« on: February 14, 2018, 16:42 »
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I just wrote a series of articles that were published over the past few weeks specifically directed at people like you who are new to Alamy but who have been on the micros, and it includes examples of some of my moderate-sellers on there as well. You can find the articles here:

And thanks for the article links - I wasn't aware of Great Escape and will investigate further!

Thanks

steve

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Alamy.com / Re: Some questions regarding Alamy
« on: February 14, 2018, 16:38 »
I think I'm the one that reported that I couldn't find any evidence of an Alamy buyer searching elsewhere (which is not the same thing as proving it!). Here is my latest set of analysis on the topic:

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2018/01/selling-image-alamy-agencies/

Alex also did some analysis and had a discussion with Alamy's content manager here:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2018/02/06/do-alamy-buyers-search-elsewhere-answers-from-alamy/

The end result - I submit all my images to all sites now, but editorial and commercial and use RF on Alamy.

Steve

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Adobe Stock / Re: Indexing in Adobe Stock vs. Fotolia
« on: February 08, 2018, 09:31 »
I think it is best to fix them before you upload. I use Stock Submitter for that and I wrote a long (OK, very long) explanation of my workflow on my blog in case it helps:

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/12/my-current-workflow/

Steve

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123RF / Re: 123rf reducing commissions
« on: February 06, 2018, 12:14 »
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And I've put your blog post in a Flipboard magazine on Stock Photography that I'm curating

I was asked where this was: https://flipboard.com/@steveheap2015/getting-started-in-stock-photography-lhjj87ouy. I hope you can see it without having to sign in. I find Flipboard pretty useful to see what sort of images are being used to illustrate articles - it often gives me a bit of inspiration.

Steve

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123RF / Re: 123rf reducing commissions
« on: February 06, 2018, 11:35 »
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I've just blogged about this, the link is below. Let's spread the word!

And I've put your blog post in a Flipboard magazine on Stock Photography that I'm curating. Hopefully that will spread the word (and get more traffic to your site!)

Steve

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General Stock Discussion / January Earnings
« on: February 01, 2018, 09:34 »
I saw there was a Shutterstock thread, but that seems to be turning into a cap discussion again. Have you ever thought how complex the code would be to change the search order for every keyword for every contributor that had earned a bit more than normal in the previous day/week? And why?

But back to the subject. My January was pretty reasonable. January is always a low month for me, but I increased by 23% over January 2017 to end with $2727 for the month:


The individual sites were a mixed bag - the earnings from some of the sites with larger prices depend very much on just how many of those I get in the month. Statistically that goes up and down. Anyway, full details as usual on my blog:
https://www.backyardsilver.com/2018/02/earnings-stock-photography-january-2018/

Happy shooting in 2018!

Steve

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