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« on: January 30, 2018, 15:01 »
Interesting idea, Jim, but two thoughts from me.
Have you any evidence that the majority of people (or just many of the people) who find an image online would pay for a license if they knew how to find the owner of the image?
Then, I wondered why someone would use your database rather than use Google search. If I take any of my images that have sold a few times and put them into Google Image search, there are results from (presumably) licensed uses on various websites but also the same image appears multiple times on the various stock agencies that have that image. Hence someone would always know where to go for a license.
Even if this didn't work, isn't the problem with a small scale approach not one of persuading contributors to upload to it, but how to publicize the database so that everyone who finds an image online that they wish to license would immediately know that ICL is the place to go to find that ownership?
Steve
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« on: January 27, 2018, 08:49 »
I sometimes get them, although more recently I have just clicked "submit" or Login on the pop up window and it has logged in automatically. Previously it had pushed me through the captcha questions. Perhaps their site has now remembered my PC? I did notice that a number of banking sites with more advanced security had been saying that they no longer recognized my device so perhaps a Windows update had changed some of the things they look for in recognizing a device?
Anyway, I think the pop up is to finish the submission process rather than upload, but I'm not 100% sure
Steve
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« on: January 25, 2018, 16:57 »
I had no luck at all. I also tried LinkedIn with no success. If you find the secret of selling prints on FAA, please let me know - it has been a very "dry" period for me over there.
Steve
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« on: January 24, 2018, 13:56 »
If it is a park or garden, you can sometimes email the organization running it and ask them
Steve
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« on: January 23, 2018, 11:32 »
An unmistakable 3 second clip of Trump involved in some kind of extremely dodgy activity. They are everywhere - no scarcity value there!
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« on: January 23, 2018, 09:53 »
Do you mean Stock Submitter?
If so, the answer is yes - it does submit images and video to Deposit Photos (and re-encodes to PhotoJpeg if needed). I don't actually use it for DP (I don't submit video there), but I just checked in the setup for the agency in the program.
Steve
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« on: January 23, 2018, 09:22 »
I know I'm old fashioned, but I'm most of the way through a really detailed book about advanced compositing in Photoshop that I bought from Amazon: http://amzn.to/2F59uTyIt is pretty advanced (you need to know a reasonable amount of Photoshop already), but it is great at explaining how to take your underlying shots, how to blend them naturally and how to create a believable image. Steve
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« on: January 18, 2018, 19:59 »
Quote from: steheap on January 13, 2018, 11:54
I guess you could estimate it reasonably well if you looked at the earnings of images first uploaded in 2012, say, and tracked them year by year. Of course, that assumes that the agencies don't downgrade the portfolio of someone that stops uploading.
Steve
You could if you think the last 5 years reflects what will happen in the next 5....I doubt it myself. Any forecast based on past data only really works in a stable or predictable environment. This comment got me thinking about my own images and whether I could track their performance once I stopped uploading that particular subject or theme. I did find a subject (cats) that I stopped uploading in 2012 - even last year, they are still giving a pretty good performance - it is falling off, but still worthwhile. Now that isn't the same as stopping uploading altogether, but it does show that our images do have a pretty good shelf life. This graph shows the top level picture, and the full analysis is here: https://www.backyardsilver.com/2018/01/can-make-just-travel-stock-photos/ Steve
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« on: January 15, 2018, 16:36 »
I am confused here. I have read your posts on various boards where you have communicated many times that you think microstock is not a profitable business for 99.7 percent of submitters and that MS is a business model doomed to failure.
Why would you want to add more microstock photographers into an already completive mix and thereby make it decidedly more difficult for those already struggling in the market place.
And why would you sell workshops and books that teach new photographers to compete in a market you have stated many times you do not believe in?
I think this is an honest question. I thought this was quite funny for a comment in 2008! Here we are 10 years later either saying the same thing (or saying that it isn't that bad, really) Steve
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« on: January 13, 2018, 11:54 »
I guess you could estimate it reasonably well if you looked at the earnings of images first uploaded in 2012, say, and tracked them year by year. Of course, that assumes that the agencies don't downgrade the portfolio of someone that stops uploading.
Steve
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« on: January 13, 2018, 10:48 »
Duplicate. Sorry
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« on: January 13, 2018, 10:46 »
Interesting discussion and I certainly agree with the last comment from Niktol: That's quite ambitious I must say, at least in photography. Of course you do video which is not something I really know about. One thing in this discussion about earnings that hasn't been mentioned - photo and video licensing is very different to other sorts of "work for hire" in that the earnings are not directly related to the work that you are doing in a particular year. So you can stop working on stock photos for 12 months and do something else, and, to a large degree, the income from your photos will continue to arrive. I've not seen any really substantive work on how long that will continue and at what rate it will fall off, but you are certainly looking at several years of similar if falling income after you stop submitting. I guess a real economics expert could amortize that income back to what you are earning now to give you a better picture of your prospects! Steve
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« on: January 13, 2018, 10:26 »
Same here. Have had 5 in Jan too and it's only the 13th. Their pattern of sales is like this though. I now expect a slow down for three months, then another spike. Perhaps they have a cap on contributor earnings so when you sell a few, you are downgraded in the search for a period. I'm sure I've read that somewhere.... (-:
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« on: January 12, 2018, 20:36 »
You might look at some of the blogs out there that explain exactly what you are looking for?
Steve
PS - I mean my own...
394
« on: January 11, 2018, 17:52 »
5 photo sales in December for me
Steve
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« on: January 11, 2018, 17:50 »
Well, I'm one of the regular users, but I still submit via the Fotolia site so I'm not impacted. I did understand from the developer that he was looking into the Adobe upload and submission process.
Steve
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« on: January 05, 2018, 21:02 »
There was an issue yesterday - all my videos were rejected with a processing error, but they told me they fixed the problem last night. That could have been your problem as well.
Steve
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« on: January 05, 2018, 09:40 »
I use Stock Submitter for video (as well as my stills) - easy as pie. As far as the more general point of the pain of tagging - I'm actually glad that many stock contributors find this hard and boring. That makes the earnings for those people willing to put the time and effort into it so much sweeter! https://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/06/use-stock-submitter-video/Steve
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« on: January 03, 2018, 09:25 »
I've finally finished writing my review of 2017 from the point of view of a "generalist" contributor. Things were not too bad (dare I say pretty good??) for me in 2017:  These are my total earnings year by year since I started in 2008. 2017 showed a nice bump over the past two years, mainly thanks to Adobe Stock. The full analysis is here: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2018/01/review-2017-earnings-stock-photography/Steve
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« on: January 01, 2018, 09:35 »
If you click on the month to get the day by day earnings for December, it shows daily totals plus a total for the month. So all is not lost!
Steve
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« on: December 30, 2017, 16:38 »
The OP may, of course, be blameless, but just think about this from the scammer's point of view. First, the scam must have included getting away with a significant portion of the download earnings - use a stolen card to buy a lot of stuff and get away with the payments before the credit card is refused. So either they are in league with the contributor or they have access to his Paypal account. Is there another way to make money on this scam?
Then this scammer must be pretty new at the game because they didn't seem to know that SS waits a month before paying out and most credit card fraud is detected in days, or hours, so the chance of a payout before the payments are questioned is very small. Seems a pretty poorly organized scammer if that was the plan. Then, no-one thought about SS having fraud controls of their own - like a massive run of EDs on an account that has been a very low earner.
Sounds like whoever was doing this scam hadn't actually done it before! A naive beginner?
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