Contrary to common belief, Singapore is actually very affordable. Average cost for a meal in a food court 2-3$, rental can be as low as 200-300$, of course you can also have a luxury apartment for 30 times of that price. Great public transport, no need for a car. Best healthcare in the world and very heavily subsidized even for foreigners. Great services. For photography: diverse ethnicity, short fly to anywhere in Asia. I lived there for 8 years and now kicking myself everyday for not staying there.

hahah what

just to rent one ROOM in singapore is between 700 and 1200 SGD. if you want a studio apartment, it's more like 2000 SGD. that's not luxury. and in europe for the same surface you pay around 400 euro. i mean, depending on the location, center of paris/london will be more expensive, but in singapore everything's expensive except i guess the far east/nortwest.

public transport is crap, especially if you have a transfer at jurong east

that food you mention for 2/3$ is crap.

Lol.

I've never pulled my portfolio from any agency, not from iStock with their shenanigans, not from FT or DP. I just stopped uploading. But now I'm at a point that I don't even care anymore and BS might be the first to lose my portfolio. Not a big blow to them (especially since I stopped uploading there a year ago), but I'll feel like I did something.

It was announced some time ago - http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_35047

thanks!

and bravo to DT

1)

"Amateur images do not sell well in today�s market. So you can expect a poor revenue per image per month of about 20 cents."

I'm an amateur, but I know for a fact that I earn more than some full-time photographers, and my RPI is couple of times larger than that value.

2)

I tried to use the algorithm for my previous year, putting in the numbers I had in July 2013 and the estimated RPI yadda yadda, and it doesn't really work well because images don't scale in a linear fashion, every image has a half-life, and it's not good at predicting even with a large sample size, at least for me. I'm not sure who can find this useful except a maths/statistics teacher in elementary school. I wouldn't base any decisions on this (and don't) and I think neither should you.

3)

As this is a product from the guys at StockPerformer, it'd be much more interesting to use the sales and trends data they have in order to construct a model which more closely resembles reality, maybe even a personalized model based on the sales history of the person registered at SP. Here, you get a free business idea, you're welcome.

Not much to explain here.

You can apply here: https://www.offset.com/contributor/apply/success

Quote from: spike on October 31, 2014, 18:05

Umm...

"CLUC" stole images from iStock exclusive contributor Mark Evans (mevans):
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/istock's-mevans-passed-in-the-night/

Oh.. that's a bummer. I didn't know about this. Dang. :/

Umm... you can actually buy a license on PSDgraphics for commercial use http://www.psdgraphics.com/commercial-use/
I'm not sure if that includes reselling (after slight edits).

Thanks for this info, Robert. I'm not sure if I'll continue uploading there. SS, iStock, FT and DT are around 90% of my monthly earnings anyway and I don't have to deal with this if I don't want to.

I'm also interested to know this.

Although I'm not sure I'd consider uploading even if the royalty really was increased to 44%.

Is last week pretty horrible to everyone or just me?

I mean, in the graph which shows overall earnings, there's a small drop, but in the "earnings from new content", it fell to like 20% of it's normal value.

I have no doubt that my money accounts are 100% safe! But what is happening with the data itself? It must be very precious! Having access to this data of so many contributors would give any contributor or stockcompany a huge advantage over the competition how this is handled? Is the data only available on my computer and as long I protect my computer nobody can see this data even the developing-/tech- team of Stockperformer? My technical background is poor I'm just trying to understand it I have no doubt that Stockperformer is a great program!

Exactly, very good question!

And what about people who used SP before, but don't use it anymore (and didn't change their passwords to microstock sites) - are their data still being collected?

Also, no need to go full-on Apple mode, there's 5k displays for the PC as well: check Dell's UltraSharp 27 Ultra HD 5K

I quite like photodune.

Easy to upload, and solid results.

Above canstock, deposit, bigstock and alamy for me. And dreamstime. I hate dreamstime.