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3626
« on: November 11, 2019, 08:33 »
There is a 200 letter limit, but this is the new SS Title criteria, which is resulting in rejections. I took pictures of ducks and birds in Juanita Bay Park in Kirkland Washington. When asked what the problem is with the title, I was told that Juanita is a
Foreign word.
So are pictures rejected from Rome, Paris and Berlin because they are foreign words. How about Los Angeles and San Francisco. These are foreign words too.
Simply ridiculous.
Believe me, you have my sympathy, I'm not going to defend inconsistent reviews or Martha's kinder version of idiots or stupid, GRP = "Goofy Reviewer Problem.  First off William, it's DESCRIPTION not title. Title on SS is the name/title we give an image when uploading the image? Yes, the foreign word thing is GRP. So are bulk rejections for the same reason, when the issue is often only one of the images. So if the new similar policy that so strict that two images of the same subject, from different angles, might get a rejection. The list is longer. I got this one for yesterday's upload. "Title: Title must be descriptive of the subject matter and must be in English. Titles cannot contain special characters, spelling/grammar errors, or repeat words/phrases in excess." and why does SS call it title? Anyone tell me why the rejection says Title?  Had it been the actual title: Autumn cornfield background from above, which SS doesn't use or read, that wouldn't be any of the above that I can see? And if it's the Description, which is part of the upload: Field of corn from a high angle, above, overhead, wide, background pattern, Autumn panorama background no one I suppose it could have been rejected for grammar, because that isn't a proper sentence? No problem, uploaded last night, woke up and it's accepted. You must not have seen my question? What do you mean by this? Problem with sentences, isnt the period . a grammatical symbol and thus forbidden by SS title criteria
Can you explain why a . is forbidden?
3627
« on: November 10, 2019, 21:29 »
Problem with sentences, isnt the period . a grammatical symbol and thus forbidden by SS title criteria
Can you re-phrase that so that it makes sense? Or so I can understand what you are trying to write? Periods are forbidden? I think you said, we can't use a period in a description? There is no title on SS? 200 character limit, this one of mine is 199 and not perfect grammar, I left out the word "are" after many. Accepted. Grafton, Wisconsin USA - March 28, 2019: Shopko stores closing all locations in an attempt to re-organize. Many shutting down ahead of scheduled dates, others held open longer. Illustrative Editorialnew bogus reject today -- "Incorrect Illustration Designation" on 5 images when I never submit illustrations
Crazy. I'll guess they are heavily edited photos or what was it? Wrong button or 
3628
« on: November 09, 2019, 12:08 »
first sales was $0.35 cents 
Is that considered good or bad these days ?
Depends, do you live in New York City or rural Jakarta? "they are now owned by Getty."
You already know everything you need to know.
Yes which means my earnings from 500px are zero because the number of images they have is also zero.
3629
« on: November 09, 2019, 11:53 »
My October Earnings Report  In truth I stopped watching, I look, I collect, I move on. I used to have spread sheets, I started with by image, uploaded, a column for each agency, earnings totals and I found that, different agencies attract different buyers. So say a best seller at SS wouldn't be a best seller at FT. And after all these years, the best selling for mine on AS are not best selling anywhere else. SS won't even take them. IS will, but they don't sell the same images, and IS won't take what sells best for me on SS and Alamy. I thought that knowing the best images, would help me know what to make more of and what to upload all over. It just told me, what was best at each agency. Which is good to know, but once that's over, no reason to keep complex data, I have my answers.
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« on: November 09, 2019, 11:47 »
got hit w the 'title' bug -- a dozen images in a row (all different), rejected for bad title! seems like reviewer was just too lazy to vary their random rejects (all titles were correct, but they did use words of 2 or more syllables)
resub & all approved
Some reviewers expect an English sentence, not just words strung together. (as SS has clearly stated in the guidelines) I suspect some reviews don't know much about an English sentence composition, so they pass more. So we're back to luck of the draw whether we get a worthless waste of time rejection or easy pass. I think we have been given the job of training the AI and have not got the hang of it yet.
 That's why my last Editorial batch took five days? The AI was on lunch break or a week of vacation? Back to the same as many have pointed out, AI would be more consistent, and humans aren't. Case closed. But I know that won't stop people from claiming they know it must be AI it's so obvious, and so many people can see it, and believe it's AI. Kinda like Santa Claus?
3631
« on: November 06, 2019, 08:27 »
Still missing the possibility to search in the own portfolio on AS.
https://stock.adobe.com/search/images?creator_id=You can search your own with a little effort. You need to add your ID number and then bookmark. That's my bookmark, minus my ID number. I don't know if there's anywhere on the contributor panels, I just use that one, that I created myself. I'd do that for anyone who's not anonymous, otherwise no way to help past that link. If you click that link above, you will need to add =######### for example = plus your ID number, or it won't work. If you copy and paste the link, the = stays, just add your ID number
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« on: November 05, 2019, 10:47 »
Hello, just a small update for the interested and curious.
Finally made the leap about a year ago and dropped DT exclusivity. Just about time in retrospect since sales continue to drop and drop fast over at DT.
Started uploading to SS, AS, IS, P5 and 123RF, about 150 new uploads a month, and counting.
1) Quite rapidly ran into the IS corporate culture which I can only describe as nitpicky, rude, uncivilized and highly unprofessional - to boldy go where unprofessionality has never gone before as a matter of fact. Not to mention the tedious upload process. After having received another disgraceful mail from their end, I terminated my account within the blink of an eye.
2) SS: lots and steady stream of downloads, but royalties per image somewhat low. Steady and decent earner nonetheless. Fair reviews.
3) AS: top seller. Steady income and downloads, fair prices. Fair reviews, though illustrations tend to get far easier approved than pictures. The recent change allowing uploads of editorial images is also great.
4) 123RF: well, kind of steady sales, but nothing much when compared to SS and AS. Reviews: to submit is to be accepted. The only thing they refuse seem to be pictures of European castles ;-)
5) Pond5: accept about everything, only pictures with dollar bills they do not want ;-) But the site doesn't work for me at all. Virtually no sales.
So after 1 year of uploading - with all the new excitement of starting all over again - I have ports of about 1600-1800 images at those new sites.
Downloads: SS: 1933 - AS: 1243 - 123RF: 223 - P5: just 3
All in all it feels like I have made the right decision when looking at the AS and SS sales.
Happy camper.
You should try Alamy they produce reasoanble sales and often for higher values. Just avoid distributor sales.
They also have an archive submission route if you have old photos you can scan and they are often very popular
Good point and I'd add, stop wasting your time on P5 for images, they are a video agency. With 5 times more downloads and I'll guess even more than that in money, I don't know why anyone bothers with 123RF anymore? You must have some good works desdemona to get that many downloads, that fast. Nice going.
3636
« on: November 03, 2019, 06:50 »
most of andorra are russian...
yeas miha most are from russian...good trial from new york city..but is legal to shoot those? i know you can0't fly your drone in new york city...flyijng lawless makes trouble soon for less...
Yes, I know all that.
What I didn't know is that most of that beautiful Andorra is Russian. 
Just so you feel better, it's not. jonbull makes up his facts and hasn't produced any evidence except, "well don't have data but is pretty easy to see the influence of russia ukraine and serbia in the database.. zillions of file...just search any lifestyle idea you will see the predominance of house of production born in eastern europe", it's easy to see? Just like, there's something going on with sales because the agency controls them, it's a game, it's rigged, the search favors everyone else. (except everyone here of course?)  Because everyone can see it, or it's easy to see, that's obvious. Sorry that's not proof or evidence. People make up factoids to bolster their beliefs. Problem is, others believe them, without asking for any evidence or proof. I'll repeat this so it's not lost in the paragraph. "To date, there are 516 Russians in Andorra." and Andorra has population of approximately 77,281 What struck me was 168 SS artists registered their location as Andorra. I don't really believe that's accurate, I don't know, I have no way of checking. I think it's just something that's unreliable and not checked by SS during registration. Add that many contributors have no location listed. If I open an account, I might use Tierra del Fuego next time. That sounds exotic, even if it's windy with a cool moderate climate? I have cousins in Argentina.
3637
« on: November 03, 2019, 06:31 »
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Real science sets out to prove a theory and if the evidence shows the opposite, that's actually a good thing, because it proved the opposite. The goal of true science isn't to stick with an imperfect theory or hypothesis, but to benefit from the study, research and evidence to better understand what was being studied. What I mean is, proving a theory is wrong, is not a failure, if there's a valid scientific study behind the results. ...
agree totally w your list of quackery to which i'd add homeopathy, neuropaths, acupuncture, chiropractic and other medical shams
a quibble, but an important one -- in science you don't seek to prove your theory - you test the null-hypothesis -- ie, if your theory is A, then you experiment to show whether not-A is likely. (a recent Sci-Am had an excellent article on this use of statistics)
The misstated part is my fault trying to write. But you do need a hypothesis to test and find the results, one way or another. Not to prove a preconceived conclusion. Pseudo-science and bad science go hand in hand. They work the same way, ignore the facts and only use what supports your theory or agenda. Santa should be in jail for labour issues.
yes many of us have seen Santa. But. Have you seen any elves taking vacations or bonus?   XD
You see elves, maybe Leprechauns too, or the Indian Makiaweesug, and other little people who live in the forest? I mean, of course we don't see them. Well except Gnomes which are all over, pretending to be statues on peoples lawns. My theory is the Elves work for the world, because they like making gifts for people, and room and board... Once again, maybe they dress as Gnomes when on vacation, seems like they are all over travel sites? I have a flock of Packer-Mingos, they seem to live under the long needle evergreens on the front lawn. Honest, these are real, they come to feed here every Fall and stay until January.  Photographic proof.
3638
« on: November 02, 2019, 10:16 »
the list is pretty old, in 2 years everything has changed...actually since 2017 ss open the gate an flooding of images has began...f
https://www.fotolia.com/p/206713618
this is house poe production born after 2017, in less than 2 years and a bunch of months they added half million images, there are much more from serbia and russia....the scheme is simple ,saturated all market, take idea and copycat them using many photographer paid penny,m and good model paid 10 dollar hours maximum. light field has a fully functional studio with lot of room, you can rent for 10 dollar hour if you go kiev to produce.
i have seen many house of production lately are copycatting especially the style and idea of jacob lund.
Show me your data collection for 2019? You know, locations, number of artists, image totals for top 20 maybe? Thanks for the filler on Andorra I never would have known. Here's some things I found which I'd say I still don't know much about Andorra. Andorra, according to the World Bank, is among top 15 countries with the highest GDP per capita. ... According to International living index, Andorra is a 12-th position in the world in terms of level and quality of life. Andorra is often considered as one of the safest countries in the world, and Andorra La Vella one of the safest European cities. The most used language is English, 38.8% of the Andorran population speak Catalan. To date, there are 516 Russians in Andorra. The immigration policy of the Principality is under control, and the number of immigrants is strictly quoted according to demands of the economy. The link for "house poe production born after 2017" whatever that means, doesn't show anything. Got a link that works? Reminder, true the location could be a lie and many accounts list no location. We don't know. This is simple the best information to indicate who has the largest accounts and where they are from. I don't know if SS actually checks the listed location. What I mean is, this is the best data available, if someone has better, please show us. The data used for artists location was the 18,000 accounts that had over 1,000 images on SS at the time. Of course that could have changed, but the selection was designed to represent active contributors, not 300,000 accounts registered. (as an example, the number is now over 500,000) But the question remains, show me your data, numbers and proof?
3639
« on: November 02, 2019, 09:50 »
Hi all,
I'm in microstock from about three years. I do it just for fun and give me some side earnings. I upload only images from my travels.
At the moment I uploading to the 4 main agencies (Shutterstock, Adobe, Istock, Alamy) plus Eyeem. I'm considering to add another agency from the "low earners". I follow every month the very useful reports of Brasilnut and Steheap (congratulation for the work and insights to both of them!) and seems that Depositphots deliver some earning compared to other "low earners". Also, the minimum payout is $ 50, so maybe I can reach it in 1 year (I have ready to upload about 2.500 travel images already keyworded). I have considerd also 123RF and Dreamstime: 123RF has a super slow review process and from the reports seem to sell less than Deposit; Dreamstime seems similar to Deposit, but it has minimum payout of $ 100. So the choice could be between Deposit and Dreamstime: what do you think?
Thank you!
DT
3640
« on: November 01, 2019, 09:59 »
Just for the fact bin since there's a bunch of "I remember" and made up disinformation going around. Country Search 2017 Thailand 2567 Russian Federation 2122 Ukraine 1857 United States 818 Italy 367 Belarus 346 United Kingdom 344 Spain 301 (note: some people do not have a country listed so exact numbers were never possible.) And from the same people who actually studied and documented their numbers, not made up to support creative hypothetical conclusions.  Today 100 of authors reached 100,000 images in their's portfolios. They has 20,604,400 images in sum. It's a 15% of all Shutterstock's library. April 29, 2017 # Author Type Portfolio Added per week Country Member since 1 Africa Studio Photographer 1067700 4700 2007 2 Rawpixel.com Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 859700 14400 2014 3 Aha-Soft Illustrator / Vector Artist 689600 300 Russian Federation 2010 4 Toluk 564100 17000 2011 5 lineartestpilot Illustrator / Vector Artist 505900 0 United Kingdom 2009 6 wavebreakmedia Photographer / Videographer 473400 0 Ireland 2006 7 Ionut Catalin Parvu Illustrator / Vector Artist 431900 0 Romania 2016 8 ImageCatalog 401900 1100 2016 9 Sergey Nivens Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 338900 1000 Australia 2009 10 Kathy Hutchins Photographer 326200 1200 United States 2010 11 iDesign Illustrator / Vector Artist 308800 0 2011 12 Anton_Ivanov Photographer 297500 0 Ukraine 2012 13 s_bukley 291700 0 2011 14 Elesey Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 290700 2000 2013 15 Elnur 284300 1400 2006 16 Serg-DAV 279400 1600 2014 17 alexwhite Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 271800 700 Poland 2009 18 Blan-k Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 267300 1100 Latvia 2012 19 gst Illustrator / Vector Artist 266100 3000 Colombia 2011 20 antishock Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 265900 1600 Andorra 2008 21 Stockforliving Photographer 252700 1200 2012 22 kzww Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 240200 1700 Kazakhstan 2008 23 Featureflash Photo Agency Photographer 230700 0 United States 2011 24 Syda Productions Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 223500 700 Estonia 2006 25 Flat Design Illustrator / Vector Artist 221300 0 2012 26 ValentinT Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 218800 600 Romania 2013 27 SIM VA Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 216900 2000 Georgia 2014 28 smartdesign91 Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 213800 1800 2015 29 popular.vector Illustrator / Vector Artist 213200 600 Ukraine 2015 30 VectorA 208100 1200 2015 31 Billion Photos Photographer 203100 0 Russian Federation 2013 32 Studio_G 202400 3300 2009 33 Jacek Dudzinski Photographer 201100 0 Poland 2013 34 eatcute 201000 0 2014 35 Ganibal Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 199200 1000 2015 36 vectorbest 194400 1100 Ukraine 2014 37 Rvector Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 194200 2000 Russian Federation 2012 38 fractal-an 191100 1600 2014 39 s_maria Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 184800 1400 Russian Federation 2015 40 FashionStock.com Photographer / Videographer 183700 300 United States 2005 41 AF studio Illustrator / Vector Artist 175100 1000 Ukraine 2014 42 MonsterGraphics 173900 0 2013 43 Iulian Dragomir 172500 800 2015 44 bicicletta Illustrator / Vector Artist 169600 0 Ukraine 2012 45 TonsOfBackgrounds 169500 8300 2016 46 Illustration Projects Illustrator / Vector Artist 167600 4100 Sweden 2016 47 xtock Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 163200 300 2013 48 WEB-DESIGN Illustrator / Vector Artist 161600 200 2014 49 garagestock Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 160700 0 Turkey 2015 50 3vectorbest 159800 900 2015 51 Andrey Starostin Photographer 158500 800 Russian Federation 2005 52 PictureStudio Illustrator / Vector Artist 158100 0 2013 53 hchjjl Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 157800 300 2011 54 LovArt Illustrator / Vector Artist 157700 300 Ukraine 2012 55 Only background Photographer / Videographer 157200 300 United States 2014 56 StudioIcon Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 156400 0 2014 57 Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH Photographer 155800 1300 Germany 2012 58 okart 154200 800 Andorra 2015 59 Nata-Lia Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 148900 200 2009 60 All-about-Flowers Illustrator / Vector Artist 146900 1400 2013 61 Iakov Filimonov Photographer / Videographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 139000 1500 Spain 2007 62 grmarc 138500 1900 Andorra 2011 63 notkoo Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 138100 0 2010 64 Alexander Rakov Illustrator / Vector Artist 137600 300 Russian Federation 2016 65 Gregory Gerber Photographer / Videographer 136600 0 2007 66 Paul Stringer Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 136600 1000 United Kingdom 2009 67 Jemastock Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 135900 5000 2015 68 Mademoiselle de Erotic Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 132400 1100 Swaziland 2016 69 PPVector Illustrator / Vector Artist 131800 200 Ukraine 2015 70 Mr.Creative Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 128900 0 2015 71 design36 Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 127800 400 2008 72 Shebeko Photographer 126700 300 Belarus 2007 73 Luis Molinero Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 125100 400 Spain 2012 74 designtools 124200 100 2016 75 Oleg1969 Photographer 122500 900 Ukraine 2010 76 schankz Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 121300 900 Kazakhstan 2010 77 Julien Tromeur Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 121200 300 France 2006 78 Aquir Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 120400 100 2009 79 Tinseltown Photographer / Videographer 118500 600 United States 2015 80 Artstyle Studio Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 118200 700 Canada 2016 81 MAHATHIR MOHD YASIN Photographer 115700 100 Malaysia 2011 82 atibody photo Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 115200 2700 2011 83 YanaDesign Illustrator / Vector Artist 114100 7500 Ukraine 2016 84 ilolab Photographer 111500 500 2006 85 GN ILLUSTRATOR Illustrator / Vector Artist 108900 800 Ukraine 2015 86 Pooh photo Photographer 108400 500 2015 87 VectorDesigner Illustrator / Vector Artist 107400 100 Ukraine 2008 88 Rashad Ashurov Illustrator / Vector Artist 107000 900 Azerbaijan 2012 89 iulias Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 106500 100 2012 90 Khakimullin Aleksandr Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 104700 2700 2011 91 Visual Generation Illustrator / Vector Artist 104400 1000 Canada 2009 92 Panda Vector Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 104300 2700 Ukraine 2014 93 Kues Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 103400 500 Spain 2012 94 Oana_Unciuleanu Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 102400 100 Romania 2014 95 FabrikaSimf Photographer 101900 1863 Russian Federation 2014 96 RedlineVector Illustrator / Vector Artist 101600 500 2015 97 successo images Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 101500 400 2012 98 nikitabuida Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist / Videographer 100900 0 Russian Federation 2006 99 Maksim Kabakou Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 100900 1056 Belarus 2011 100 Netfalls Remy Musser Photographer / Illustrator / Vector Artist 100400 367 Greece 2005 I'd guess this has some effect on new and old sales for everyone, if these 15% actually have good work. Anyone can go look if they want to draw their own conclusions. Andorra? Andorra 168 Artists, what's with that?
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« on: November 01, 2019, 09:40 »
It seems that Grossinger has reached the $500 mark on SS. It took over 7000 photos and some videos to get there. Not an outstanding ratio between upload numbers and sales but it goes to show that he has persistance.
Seems to be he set out to prove one thing and his results show the opposite.
Reminds me of the entertaining Netflix flat earth documentary where they set out with some fairly advanced experiments to prove the earth was flat.
When every single experiment instead started showing the exact opposite, they kept their original hypothesis and started questioning the measurements and instruments used to obtain them instead...
Thats by no means uncommon even in quite respected scientific circles. Scientists are human too and become psychologically attached to their theories just like anyone else.
Mostly wrong people and pseudo-science types, psychics, communication with the dead, ghost hunters, Bermuda Triangle, Aliens visit in UFOs, crop circles are secret messages, animal mutation, Gods from outer space and aliens built the pyramids Etc. I wonder if they sit home laughing at all the people who think the shows and books are actually serious and not just a way to make money from mythology.
Real science sets out to prove a theory and if the evidence shows the opposite, that's actually a good thing, because it proved the opposite. The goal of true science isn't to stick with an imperfect theory or hypothesis, but to benefit from the study, research and evidence to better understand what was being studied. What I mean is, proving a theory is wrong, is not a failure, if there's a valid scientific study behind the results.
Flat Earthers are already disillusion, small wonder they can't accept the facts of their own tests.
Santa Claus is real, I've seen him...
Yes of course but real science is practicsed by humans so is not infallible. It is also funded by humans which can also affect its "purity"...it usually gets there in the end though.
Oh of course also true. Peer review is supposed to be cross checking, and published papers are supposed to be reviewed. Yet pseudo-science just publishes and the general public buys it without blind studies, or repeating. Take the anti-vaccination crowd.  And you are also correct that some funding, is designed to support studies that will support their agenda. If you are contrary, you won't get funded = no study, silenced. There's much more politics involved than "true" science and pecking order, and back stabbing. If I make a discovery, lets say historic archaeology, Native American. There's no way anyone will read anything or even make a note of what I found. But if I give the data to Dr. Someone, and he reviews it, puts his name on it, then it's news. Like the location of a lost site, with maps, evidence and overlays... fortunately it does get out in a small way, but you'll never see my name on anything, anywhere. No credentials = no credibility. 1. Ask a Question 2. Do Background Research 3. Construct a Hypothesis 4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment 5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion 6. Communicate Your Results Unlike social pseudo-science which is 1. Draw a conclusion 2. Ask questions that lead to manipulated conclusions 3. Test by only using tests that support your conclusion 5. Only use the data that supports your pre-existing conclusions 6. Call it science
3642
« on: October 31, 2019, 10:21 »
It seems that Grossinger has reached the $500 mark on SS. It took over 7000 photos and some videos to get there. Not an outstanding ratio between upload numbers and sales but it goes to show that he has persistance.
Seems to be he set out to prove one thing and his results show the opposite.
Reminds me of the entertaining Netflix flat earth documentary where they set out with some fairly advanced experiments to prove the earth was flat.
When every single experiment instead started showing the exact opposite, they kept their original hypothesis and started questioning the measurements and instruments used to obtain them instead...
Thats by no means uncommon even in quite respected scientific circles. Scientists are human too and become psychologically attached to their theories just like anyone else.
Mostly wrong people and pseudo-science types, psychics, communication with the dead, ghost hunters, Bermuda Triangle, Aliens visit in UFOs, crop circles are secret messages, animal mutation, Gods from outer space and aliens built the pyramids Etc. I wonder if they sit home laughing at all the people who think the shows and books are actually serious and not just a way to make money from mythology. Real science sets out to prove a theory and if the evidence shows the opposite, that's actually a good thing, because it proved the opposite. The goal of true science isn't to stick with an imperfect theory or hypothesis, but to benefit from the study, research and evidence to better understand what was being studied. What I mean is, proving a theory is wrong, is not a failure, if there's a valid scientific study behind the results. Flat Earthers are already disillusion, small wonder they can't accept the facts of their own tests. Santa Claus is real, I've seen him...
3643
« on: October 31, 2019, 10:02 »
Hello, I received an email from Istock today saying that I will have my contract broken due to copyright.
I work with image manipulation and pay for third party photos, manipulate and treat to transform it into another image and concept, no problem, for example:
I have some financial difficulties and I am using image bank earnings to help pay some bills. How could I reverse this?
Most of my images are 100% my photos, I will lose everything, I can not sell them anymore?
Sorry my english, I live in Brazil.
Aside from all the other good advice from others, you may try to write to them, apologize for making the mistake and point out that only a few images used others work as part of yours. Only if that's actually true of course. And ask if you could be re-instated. Above all, be honest, admit you made a mistake and hope they accept that. If you lie and they see one part of your apology is not genuine, you might as well, not even try writing. I also think the idea of starting another account under an assumed ID like your wife, is a bad move and when discovered, you'll be closed down again. Be Honest, appeal to them, hope for the best. Otherwise, go to some other agencies and good luck.
3644
« on: October 28, 2019, 16:56 »
but the classic worst recently was a guy with a GoPro, driving down the street in Saigon or someplace similar, shooting time lapse through the windscreen, and uploading each as an individual image. They are fuzzy and terrible, but also hundreds if not thousands of images. I doubt that he will get more sales than if he had taken 2 good shots and uploaded them.
do you have a link to that portfolio?
It's been linked many times under spamfolio and on SS too. I'm not sure if it's OK to post the link here, but it's not anyone on the forums.
Some people call out spam for multiple images, similar images, but for example, here's what I'm calling as spam, not just picking on people for their personal choices and how many of something they upload. Yes I like singles and a few of any setup, while others do well uploading dozens of well thought out variations. The later is not spam... this is!
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/fiqahanugerah?page=2§ion=1&sort=newest&search_source=base_gallery&language=en
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/CharoensilpPhotoData?page=10§ion=1&sort=popular&search_source=base_gallery&language=en
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/fernandocomet?page=1§ion=1&searchterm=chinese%20dragon&measurement=px&sort=newest&safe=true&search_source=base_gallery&language=en&saveFiltersLink=true
for example.
A whole long thread for Spamfolios. https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/94721-spamfolio%E2%80%A6-post-here-the-link-of-spammy-portfolios-you-find-on-shutterstock/?tab=comments#comment-1690960
Clearly Mr Fuzzy continues unperturbed by the similars policy.....P1 of recently uploaded:
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/CharoensilpPhotoData?search_source=base_gallery&language=en&page=1&sort=newest&measurement=px&safe=true
Don't really understand how they get unsharp pics of bird behind glass door approved either (bottom P1).
That's terrible and was and still is? The bird? ID 1,404,274,253, while my latest is 1,541,339,921 but May was 1,395,085,925 - July 1,433,084,726 so the birds were accepted between May and July 2nd. Blurred lights, which at least four are the identical shot, cropped - 1,475,614,787 before September I believe. When was the new policy announced? August. So he slipped some past.
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« on: October 28, 2019, 16:28 »
If you use any of these services you might want to change your passwords as it appears some of it has been exposed.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/10/25/2153237/nearly-75-million-adobe-creative-cloud-users-exposed-to-hackers
Probably as good a time as any to go through all your passwords and security settings and make sure they are as high as possible and not re-used across various sites and apps.
"The Elasticsearch database could be tapped without a password or any other authentication; offering an attacker access to email addresses, account information and which Adobe products that users purchased. The data did not include payment information or passwords."
Odd enough, I just uninstalled Adobe CC this morning because it was trying to update and failed, time after time. I left it run for 12 hours, overnight, still stuck at 36% complete.
Bye Bye
When and if it does finally update and jam your computer while doing so, then you get the pleasure of waiting for the faulty program to "respond". Adobe please get your act together.
I'm not the only one? I figured it was my really terrible "high speed" internet. We're rural, copper wire, miles from the source, which is also rural and being fed from some distance. The last repair guy, a human not support or chat, told me, that the amplifiers were going bad and only way he could get one to replace the one for our area, was find a working unit, somewhere else in the line. They don't make them anymore.
3646
« on: October 27, 2019, 11:32 »
If you use any of these services you might want to change your passwords as it appears some of it has been exposed.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/10/25/2153237/nearly-75-million-adobe-creative-cloud-users-exposed-to-hackers
Probably as good a time as any to go through all your passwords and security settings and make sure they are as high as possible and not re-used across various sites and apps.
"The Elasticsearch database could be tapped without a password or any other authentication; offering an attacker access to email addresses, account information and which Adobe products that users purchased. The data did not include payment information or passwords." Odd enough, I just uninstalled Adobe CC this morning because it was trying to update and failed, time after time. I left it run for 12 hours, overnight, still stuck at 36% complete. Bye Bye
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« on: October 25, 2019, 12:30 »
once they are out in the wild who would know who owns the copyright.
Ignorance of ownership is no excuse. And, in any case, if you don't help yourself to stuff you don't own you are not going to end up on the wrong side of a claim.
You're not wrong, but there is a big difference in theory and practice. In microstock terms, with RF licenses and the meager sums they earn not making it worthwhile getting copyright registrations for each image, it would be practically impossible to sue anyone.
Unless that person was a famous star and you took the photo, then it might be worthwhile to copyright the image and sue them? Minor detail, you have 90 days to copyright an image after the use. That might even be, discovery of the illegal use. But any way you want to slice it, 90 days. I wonder how much these two cases will settle for? Asking for $150,000 doesn't mean they will get that. And the lawyers will take a nice chunk of whatever is won, if anything.
This is a lesson and I'm sure celebs will learn they can't just steal the images, even if it's their own image. 
They don't learn very fast as similar cases have been going on for a while now, but those photos are not microstock or RF and their agencies are willing to get involved, would ours? no.
Valid point, but if we can go to court or before some commission, on our own, without expensive lawyers, maybe there's a little hope?
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« on: October 25, 2019, 12:23 »
I'm glad to hear that, Alexander.
And yes, George is right. Your situation is sad.
Unfortunately, lots of things are sad in this world today. I'm 73 years old (for context born in the USA the year after WWII ended), and for many reasons I consider this the most depressing time period I've lived through.
I'm especially sorry that problems you did nothing to cause and can do nothing to fix have hit you so directly. You have my sincerest sympathy.
Mostly I'd agree, but we can remember, hiding in the cellar or some school tunnel, in fear of someone dropping a Nuke on us. Called an Atom Bomb back then. We also played in open fields, didn't worry about predators, mass shootings (but there actually were some) , Aids, killer drugs and massive addiction to prescription drugs. Oh yeah we have natural foods now, free range, vegetarian, vegan, or organic, and people still die about the same as we used to. It's an atom bomb, duck and cover. Anytime, any day... https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=50s+drop+and+cover&view=detail&mid=18CCD9E839265D72F5E218CCD9E839265D72F5E2&FORM=VIREBy the way, if the nightly news isn't enough, times have changed, we might not have been The Cleavers or Ozzie and Harriet, but wow NOW? Maybe it's the news? Nope, if it bleeds it leads came in with TV. And in 50 years, people who are in their 20s now, will be saying, "yeah it sure was good when I was younger." Of course they won't have Social Security anymore? The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.― Socrates I'm happy to have grown up in the simple innocent times of the 50s (dial phones and B&W TV, that's simple?) and partied with the love children of the 60s, Army in the 70s when we weren't actually at war, but I sure love cell phones, computers and the digital cameras. I guess along with the gains there's always some loss as well.
Yes, i have a backup.
See, a little good news in all this doom and gloom?
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« on: October 25, 2019, 12:05 »
When you open any image its on the right side, the cost is 55 usd.
Not for me: Hmm. Were having trouble finding that site. If you are going to market your site, you should have a good link? http://stock.greatvectors.com/ nope, dead end $55! Holy cow.
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« on: October 25, 2019, 12:03 »
Here is the problem about winning judgements. You really may win nothing. You can win a judgement in court, BUT getting the folks to pay you is another story. These copyright infringements are not criminal judgements they are just a letter from the judge that states someone owes you something. If they don't want to pay you and most likely they don't, you will never see a penny. Best lawsuits are with corporate 18 wheelers that have big pockets , not copyright infringements.
That was exactly my experience with small claims court. It was a waste of time and money. The judgment means nothing and the court doesnt help you collect the money. You are on your own. At least thats how it used to work.
True, but at least a judgement is better than no recourse? Some may pay to get it off their record, not all are going to be irresponsible people. Did it pass? I have a judgement against a racing association. Had to wait until the principle was in this state, even though I did the work in FL and they are from a different state. The guy who heads the group is a lawyer. His attitude is, "good luck collecting". It's civil not criminal, there we are. But some people will pay and the threat might stop others. There is some good news in that.
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