I use a tablet, (no toll taken). I found that I would spend more time  correcting the problems from shoot to shoot, trying to achieve a white background, than it would take to mask it off with the pen tool.

What kind of tablet ?

Thx

My income from FT are almost as on SS 

Same for me. i just receive 6 for an M 

Something fishy going on! since the crash on Thursday my port is like invisible to buyers. just a few subs and that is not normal

I have the same feelings 

Same for me. But in message they ask me to upload a model release for one glass of water ?!

Quote from: Snow on February 07, 2015, 13:47

One of the Best Ideas I've ever heard. probably THE best. My head almost exploded. I've always said that a 50/50 split is fair for every sale. One size Image. let the buyer downsize, No subs. $5.00 Per Image. if a company can't make it on 50%, they don't belong in Business especially when the product is free. Brilliant Idea Snow.BRILLIANT!!!!!!! Tyler....You listening? I can get you a lot of very good shooters. MicrostockgroupPhotos.com.

I own the domain name Bestofroyaltyfree.com had it for a long time. Tyler , If interested and you do this, It's yours.

And to me it seems a fair deal. The website must invest in promotions tools, programmers, designers, and so on, and we, the photographers, in gear, books and other stuff.

Quote from: Sebalos on February 06, 2015, 08:38

Quote from: mojaric on February 06, 2015, 07:33

Quote from: Sebalos on February 06, 2015, 03:07

I see that we are becoming more and more people that we complain about the current situation, regardless of the quality or size of our portfolio.
I do not know how this thinks can help us, may be just to see that we are quite many who suffer from the same problems. My guess is this cries will not help us, but even to become increasingly more upset and frustrated.
Why do not try to come up with solutions / ideas, regardless of their nature? I find that we will have much more to gain!

hi Sebalos...this is a good point, and sometime ago i've said the same

but in this forum complaining and pessimism is the only welcome thing...in addition one "self proclaimed top photographer" answered (to an intelligent post like your) that he was not going to share his super good revolutionary ideas with his competitors (aka us) 

so don't expect any good answer because the forum is just a whining wall....

Thanks mojaric!
Sad but I get the point ...

What to do?

So we all stop uploading pix, hire developers to make our new platform, all become shareholders. When website ready we withdraw from all other agencies and only upload to ours.
Who is in? 

I am ! 

Greetings to everyone!

I see that we are becoming more and more people that we complain about the current situation, regardless of the quality or size of our portfolio.
I do not know how this thinks can help us, may be just to see that we are quite many who suffer from the same problems. My guess is this cries will not help us, but even to become increasingly more upset and frustrated.
Why do not try to come up with solutions / ideas, regardless of their nature? I find that we will have much more to gain!
Let us not caring about SS, FT, DT, etc. � Let's do something concrete or at least to think of possibilities and alternatives. I find it more constructive.
It is clear that will not get far with this microstock agencies provided above. Unfortunately, as said most people from here, it's hard to keep up with hundreds of thousands of new images and photographers, regardless of the search algorithm, quality, etc.
My idea: let's think together  a system to begin to sell photos, regardless of photos nature. After that, let�s implement the system who we thought.
I know ... First temptation is to complain that it is impossible; it is difficult that we need a lot of money, and so on. However, there are the kinds of alternatives.
We can use some scripts that are not expensive at all, and then we can collaborate with freelancers to modify our script/web pages/sell system as we want.
There are google addwords, our web pages and many other promotional tools. If we make a big enough team, we can create something. And finally, let's dropped this mastodon that we are increasingly dissatisfied like SS, FT, IS... And ideas can continue...
I hope you will think at least to some new way to do this kind of job.

Have a wonderful day and the best possible light for your photos
 

I'm also from EU and I noticed a significant increase in sales for FT !

+53% !! This year i want to work more and hope I'll have a 150% increase !

 

Me too. I wish they would devote less time to making things look "pretty" and more time on the guts of the site. The FAQs haven't been updated since the start and there are so many pages of disparate info that could be consolidated. Bring in some keymasters to review and delete, they accept every word, and purge the forums of useless drivel. Better yet, spend the money they would save on the web designers for some more reviewers. Perhaps up the pay to attract better reviewers. When asked about dropping sales all they seem to do these days is promote social media as the answer to everything.

This is also my opinion. I think they must invest in marketing more than the design itself. They must bring more buyers.

They change it. But, now, I cannot see what was the last sale.