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« on: July 18, 2018, 12:17 »
I like to be open to new ideas but this is just a monopod resting on a belt, using a trendy "-fy" name. I can make my own with the monopod I already have and a belt I already have in a few seconds.
Furthermore, it's a snapshot stabilizer. For real professional wildlife photography, more often than not, you want to be close to the ground.
And for video, since it doesn't remove the up and down movements caused by our feet (it's more likely to make them worse), it's nothing more than a monopod here either.
The advantage of using a standard monopod as a walking stick would probably outweigh having a shorter one hanging from your hip.
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« on: July 16, 2018, 12:27 »
Is there anyone who took pictures of New York?
Yes, it's the most photographed city in the world. Do some research on the millions of images that are already for sale and aim to do better, or find unique locations/angles... If possible. 
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« on: July 09, 2018, 06:29 »
I am trying to figure out the cost of transfer and tax in the US.
Of each thousand dollars e.g. you see in your 'total earnings of a month', what could you get after the transfer and does any tax deduction made by Shutterstock.
Transfer cost, if international: around 2.5% to PayPal, in the form of a bad exchange rate. Taxes: depends on what country you are from, and what tax treaty you have with the US. It could be 0%, it could be 30%.
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« on: July 04, 2018, 08:11 »
Clearly the algorithm writers at DT are very superstitious as they don't allow anyone to have 13 sales in a month.
Absolutely. At 0%, 13 is without question not possible to get.
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« on: July 04, 2018, 07:58 »
Again, you should really take a statistics course, or at least use common sense. This is ridiculous.
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« on: July 04, 2018, 07:52 »
Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead SALE dead dead dead Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead sales Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead SALE Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead
I hear you bro 
Monthly sales at DT for the last year, see the pattern?
17 17 15 20 21 10 28 11 17 12 11 14
Nope.
Really ?
Low sales out of 2200 images and repetitive quanties (17's 11's )
A sample size of 12. 11 occurs 2 times. You should really take a course in statistics.
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« on: July 02, 2018, 13:33 »
While I competely get WHY someone with a public portfolio seems more trustworthy, it's just utterly ridiculous to value someone's posts and opinions based on what they choose to share. It's incredibly easy for ANYONE to pretend to be pretty much any microstock contributor with links and all. It proves absolutely nothing. A reasonable individual values posts and opinions based on what and how the person writes. That's simply all we have to go on here. That cannot easily, if at all, be faked. It's also very easy to identify forum posters with different names on different forums based on the way they write, and see what they're all about. That is all. 
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« on: June 28, 2018, 01:09 »
Rent helicopter Rent professional camera + gimbal system (RED Epic or similar) Fly around NYC for an hour around sunset/sunrise Become millionaire. It's pretty simple really.
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« on: June 22, 2018, 09:46 »
Maybe I'm old but what kind of idiot gives any credence to these Facebook "influencers"?
Pretty much every company in the world does. Instagram is a massive advertising platform. If you have a popular Instagram account where you post images of fashion/clothes, you can get 4-5 figures for a sponsored post. If you have an account with superb images, the camera companies will contact you and pay you to show that you use their products.
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« on: June 22, 2018, 09:18 »
Another FPOS.
 First person on scene? You mean 'first person to be caught, and there will almost certainly be more'?
More like "f****** piece of ****. There are at least 100,000 accounts that do nothing but post pictures from other people, and some that have millions of followers. They don't specifically say that they took the images, however, but they don't go out of their way to say they DIDN'T take them either. 
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« on: June 16, 2018, 02:54 »
Like I said in the other thread, use 50p pretty much only when you want slow motion. Your quality will be half of 25p with your camera.
Mostly live coverage of sports would use 50p/60p real-time for more of a "real life" feel. If it's a sports commercial, they would use 24p.
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« on: June 16, 2018, 02:50 »
How useful is the 50p setting in AVCHD? it might end up giving some more frames and better smoothness to the video at the loss of more time in post processing
How useful? It's as useful as any slow motion setting. If you want slow motion, you use it. Or if you film something really fast, like sports, you might want to use it for real-time smoothness. Don't use it if you just want "extra frames" as your shutter speed will be off for a regular real-time clip.
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« on: June 16, 2018, 02:47 »
Very nice work!
Did you drive around on your own or did you get help from local guides?
In Iceland (and the other Nordic countries) you can never trust the weather, but I think that these rugged landscapes can look really nice even in so called "bad" photography weather.
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« on: June 16, 2018, 02:41 »
Frankly I have myself considered that rather then having a spread of images all over the place and considering the way SS and Adobe are acting etc to delete all ports ( not the RM ports) and throw it all into IS.
Yebbut you've been swithering for a couple of years at least, so you're clearly not fully convinced.
Well Im convinced as far as earnings, yes! but its also lots of hassle like 6 months wait, deleting all files at all other agencies. Not something done in 5 minutes.
Yes, you are absolutely required to sit quiet on a chair and wait out those 6 months before you can do anything else.
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« on: June 16, 2018, 02:36 »
Where I live, the entire population does not stop working and just stare at the wall until it's time for the next game. Summer in general may have an effect on sales, although June/July have been quite good for me lately, but the World Cup? That's using your imagination a bit too much I think. If you have football/soccer related assets, you might just see an increase in sales. I just sold a clip like that yesterday (I only have one).
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« on: June 11, 2018, 11:13 »
174 views and one response. No, I do not upload audio there as the top track only has 29 sales after quite a few years. The 16th most popular track has only 4 sales... So, it's most likely a giant waste of time.
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« on: June 06, 2018, 15:18 »
I could have uploaded 400 clips of random stuff walking around all day, but most of them would never ever sell, so it would be a giant waste of upload time.
Don't worry. You'll be a commodity soon like the rest of us and it will all be a waste of time. Hooray!
Sure, if better people (of which there are many around the world) upload enough clips in my area, my clips will stop selling. Absolutely. What I can do is to continue to improve and learn new things and improve my post processing. Then, and only then, will I stand a fighting chance. If I sit back and relax, or just continue on like before thinking I know it all (which is what some stubborn people here seem to be doing), sales will surely go down. There will always be someone else more hungry, and there are lots of talented people around the world willing to put in the work. I can tell you that the stuff I filmed the first 6 months never sold much, and will never sell much, apart from a few lucky shots, because I didn't know what, when, how, and where to shoot. And the equipment was new so it was fun to just point the camera at anything. 5 clips I make today sell more than 200 I made when I first started. Don't worry. You'll be a commodity soon like the rest of us and it will all be a waste of time. Hooray!
By the way, how can it be a waste of time if enough sales to pay for travel, time, and more have already come in? That's the very definition of "not a waste of time", even if they are all deleted tomorrow.
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« on: June 06, 2018, 13:52 »
so either you do it full time, and you add 5000 footage every year
If you create and upload 5,000 clips in one year, as one person, I can almost guarantee that your sales will be bad. Why? Because your quality will be crap. Even 1,000 quality clips in one year is a lot! Just buying a camera and walking out the front door and later spraypainting the agencies with snapshots isn't going to get you very far... You might get the odd sale out of 100 clips but it will be a massive waste of time. Time spent educating yourself, learning exactly what to film, when and where to do it, and how to make it perfect in post will get you much further. Go to a location where you can film something that's in high demand, wait for the perfect time (that will only be once or twice in one day), and plan ahead exactly where to stand and create one really good clip. The sky didn't deliver? Then you do a sky replacement with some amazing clouds you shot at another time and location. That is how a perfect clip and a bestseller is created. I have gone on 4-day trips where I only ended up with 7-10 clips to sell. And they have paid for the trip and much more. I could have uploaded 400 clips of random stuff walking around all day, but most of them would never ever sell, so it would be a giant waste of upload time.
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« on: June 05, 2018, 10:28 »
Well, I can't give you the exact lowest/cheapest possible configuration which is what I guess you're looking for, because it's more about how slow/fast it will work, rather than if it will work. It will work fine on most computers from 2011-2012 or so I believe, but it might be on the slow side. Maybe unbearable.
I can tell you that the slowest computer I have used for 4k is a 2013 MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM, 2.3 GHz i7) and it has worked really well. But it can always go faster. With After Effects, the CPU and RAM is what you should be concerned about, not so much the GPU.
MacBooks and MacBook Airs (even brand new ones) will be considerably slower than old MacBook Pros.
Furthermore, Final Cut Pro X is MANY TIMES faster than Premiere and After Effects, but of course a bit limited in what you can do.
For serious single clip editing, After Effects is, in my opinion, the way to go.
On the 2013 MacBook Pro, editing several 4k clips into a film with basic color correction in FCP X works in real time, while a 10-second export in After Effects of a single clip with color correction, grading, and denoising may take 30 minutes to export.
It all depends on what you need to do to the clips.
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« on: June 05, 2018, 09:58 »
what version of mackbook is enough to work with 4k movies? I'm talking about old models
That depends largely on what codec you are working with. If you work with ProRes for example, it's much easier for the computer to handle than h264. And by "work with 4k movies", do you mean just single clips? Or editing together multiple clips into a movie? For a single clip, older computers can do the job, even though it might be slow. For complicated timelines, that same slow computer might be next to impossible to work with.
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« on: June 04, 2018, 10:52 »
I can sometimes make $800-$1000 a (week)day with 10,000+ clips, but $200-$400 per day is more likely for me.
February, 2018 was my BME, averaging $5,000 per week during that month.
So, it can be achievable with hard work.
I would take anonymous posters with seven post history comments with a grain of salt.
eta: eight posts
Why? I would think it's more likely that a non-anonymous poster would feel the need to improve their sales numbers in a forum post. There are two reasons an anonymous poster would post about sales on a forum: Ego boost (myself included). To troll. But posting about good sales would be a very counterproductive way of trolling, so you'd have to be, shall we say, not so smart. It's much more valuable to troll about bad sales, which I think some people might actually be doing (which really is a good thing for all of us). The first reason is more likely, and there would be no ego boost with made up numbers. The ego boost only comes from posting actual numbers.
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« on: May 31, 2018, 08:10 »
Speaking of which - can someone please explain to me the advantage of a 'higher' bit rate?
I have a large monitor (25") as well as large TV (60") - and if I view HD/4K video on them at say 20MPS as opposed to 150MPS - they look pretty much identical to me.
So I don't get/see the advantage of a higher bit rate.
I own two drones: A Phantom 4 and a Phantom 4 Pro.
The p4 compress to 50MPS.
The P4 Pro compress to 100MPS and to be honest also has a big sensor.
Yes, big difference between the two, but worth mentioning is that the 100 mbit/sec is for 4k. That would be like HD compression at 25 mbit/sec. Maximum HD bitrate on the P4P is 60 mbit/sec (for standard framerates). That being said, GH4 4k compression is also 100 mbit/sec, and it can look absolutely fantastic.
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« on: May 31, 2018, 06:59 »
Well, as usual it comes down to each specific clip and situation, what is in the clip, how much movement there is, and how heavy your changes are.
Also, with more experience, you will start to notice more and more things that are unwanted. "For the most part" identical might not cut it in a high-end project. Just like when making music, where it can take years for your ears to develop enough to hear what's good and bad, it takes a long time for your eyes to recognize certain things when it comes to grading. That is why grading is a job in itself, and a beginner will almost always produce quite bad results.
There are also different kinds of compression - inter-frame and intra-frame for example. The most effective compression algorithms and codecs, like h264, use inter-frame encoding - which means it calculates only the changes between a set number of frames.
A common algorithm can look like this: 1 keyframe (completely new frame) and 7 frames following that with only the changes updated. If there is a lot of motion, you will see ugly blocking.
An intra-frame codec, like ProRes, encodes a completely new image on each frame. This will increase the bitrate, but is much better and easier to handle when editing. And all the information is there for each frame, should you need to cut three frames of a clip, or something like that.
Just raise the shadows on a RAW file to the max, and do the same with a JPG version of that image at level 5 quality, and you will see a big difference.
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« on: May 31, 2018, 06:26 »
Higher bitrate means less compression.
The goal of compression is to minimize file size while keeping an acceptable level of image quality. What is acceptable will differ from application to application, and from person to person. An untrained eye will not notice heavy compression, while a professional editor can spot it right away.
Modern compression algorithms are really good, and for simply VIEWING a video, you can get away with quite heavy compression.
But when you're selling stock footage, you're not selling it to be viewed directly. You're selling it to be EDITED, or at least to have the option to be graded and changed.
Heavy compression removes the ability to grade and change colors, as what you see is the only information still present. In an uncompressed file, there is A LOT of information that you simply don't see, but that is necessary when you want to change something.
Compare a RAW file to a JPG. They can look identical if you have JPG compression set at 100%, but as soon as you want to make changes, like raise shadows or change the colors, you will quickly notice that the RAW file has A TON more information and the JPG will quickly fall apart and look terrible.
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« on: May 31, 2018, 03:19 »
Very good points though like I already mentioned, I generally shoot my time lapse sequences in Raw anyway. Ive heard a lot of good things about Da Vinci Resolve but haven't tried it as yet.
Yes, of course you should always shoot in RAW. My point was that when you export JPGs from Lightroom you throw away a ton of information - you make it 8-bit. If you use something like After Effects you can create a higher quality 10-bit time lapse with more room for post processing. You never actually have to export any image sequences of any kind. The only one you need is the original RAW sequence.
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