For whatever reason when Lightroom last updated, it now drastically changes my Nikon raw files when they Import. I have never had this problem before. I would import my raw NEF file and the preview would look exactly like the view in my camera.  Now when I import the images are 2-3 stops too dark and I cannot figure out how to set lightroom to view the images as shot.  There has to be a way or LR becomes useless for time lapse.  I have 10,000 images from about 15 time lapses and use LRT time-lapse together with LR. LRT views the images properly.

Does anyone else have this issue and how can I get back the profile that fits my camera? Using Nikon D810 and D850's.  I check marked in preferences to use the profile based on my camera's serial number but that didn't do squat.

Right now LR is unusable. 

Appreciate any help you can provide.

This morning I love Shutterstock because I woke up to a $100 sale.  Friday I hated Shutterstock because I only made  $6.  Last month on the 15th I loved Shutterstock because I has a $125 day and a nice $67 royalty on a crummy image.  In July I hated Shutterstock because my month was only $400 and change, or half of what I usually make. But in July I also loved Shutterstock on the 27th because I got a $96 video sale.  Earlier in the year on March 16th, I really loved Shutterstock because I made $126 on one animated video, but the next day I hated them because I only made $12.

Love: 
Hate: 

It comes and goes in this business. 

Quote from: Brasilnut on September 27, 2019, 05:05

4K clips shouldn't cost buyers double that of HD....I would suggest only a 20% premium max.

You can set your 4k, HD, Web price to whatever you want.  It's up to you, not Pond5.  Just go to "Account" and "Preference" and set your percentage.

What he is saying is to have a price cap forced on us.  That kind of thinking is what destroys industries. I have 4k 5 second clips that sell for over $400. What nut is saying is to cap that at $95.  P5 should hire him.

Anyone else noticed a drying up of sales since P5's 20% commission grab? My SS sales are steady, P5 is struggling the past few months. Whatever they're doing with their extra commission, it doesn't seem to be increasing turnover.

Very much so.  Still getting 2-3 image sales a month but the videos have been cut by 2/3.  I would get 5-6 a month now at two if I'm lucky.  But stock in general has tanked this year.  August is the first month in years where I didn't make $2500 (I used to make mid $3k a month on MS). Had roughly $1700 in Aug.  Very, very much drying up sales in MS.

Quote from: pancaketom on September 20, 2019, 16:14

I guess money is what makes THEM happy.

I think that is unfair. They reported what caused the anomaly. Giving the benefit of the doubt that they are honest in their explanations, they seem reasonable.

There was a computer goof, both in currency (since 1AUD < 1USD) and in double-reporting. That has been corrected.  If I were driving the ship, I might have handled the communication differently, but the end result would have been the same.  Obviously, tell us first.  Then possibly roll back the excess payment over 3 months, or such that no contributor went below 50% of expected revenue in any given month, until it was recaptured.

The end result would have been the same regardless. You had a windfall in June due to software error. The error has been fixed, and the account normalized.

Not really any different than if your bank (Wells Fargo or whoever) accidentally put extra money into your account one month.  That money is not yours, and will be recaptured when recognized.  One couple discovered that just last month when they found an extra $100K in their account. They went out and spent it, and are now in court for grand theft as a result...

Not sure how long you have been around, but his comment about money making them happy comes from a time when Getty/Istock used a phrase to us contributors like money doesn't make you happy in the midst of commission cuts via a new screw the contributor pay system. I forget what they called it, but it is really the pot calling the kettle black. If They really didn't care about money why would they take ours due to the error? Well, money DOES mean something to them. Crooks.

They are a joke. I trialed them a few years ago. To date the only site I couldn't get a video sale. I'd say delete

Agree. I got maybe a sale every few months.  Then they had CSV issues, claimed it was me, and I just gave up. When I tried to delete my account I couldn't.  They have a policy that every video that sold is retained for three years. So I went in and manually deleted the video I can, then removed the keywords from those videos they were making me keep.  So account is finally dead.  Now that they have gone subscription, that tells me I made the right decision to delete my portfolio.

Quote from: fritz on August 21, 2019, 12:35

Explore over 300 million royalty-free images, stock footage clips, and music tracks...

Right

I still can't fathom why people don't understand the concept of more competition, and how that increase will always equal less sales.  More choices, better, newer images, less sales. Is there some kind of denial that ignores that we are producing a commodity which is provided in floods of millions, not like anything was ten years ago. But the question is "why have my sales dropped". 

Agencies keep selling more, we are selling less. What could it be?

Competition, sales dilution.

Depends on the situation.  For me I typically make $800 + each month.  All of a sudden I will make $250 this month. The is not the addition of a bazillion images.  It is something else. Probably summer slump together with search changes.  Either way I have about 5,000 assets and to see a drop like this is not related to the influx of images per se.

The swings are just huge. Last month (June) I made mid $900. July was mid $400, half.

Quote from: christiano on August 01, 2019, 07:35

After 2 years, with a port around 1800 pictures, I finally received my 100$... the day after the collection, I erased all my photos, one by one. Adios Dreamstime. I received a lot more money from my other 3 agencies ... I still have a balance of $ 1.05, I leave it to you Dreamstime, I think you need it more than me!

Your decision to leave Dreamstime was because it was not making as much money as the other sites you're with.

So you decided to punish them by removing your images? And in pursuit of punishing them, you punished yourself by spending days deleting 1800 images one by one. It's incredible how much time people have.

Technically, if he had a 6-month lag between uploads he could have just requested account deletion as opposed to manually doing a deletion of one-by-one.  But either way, I think his post is a good one for future contributors who are trying to convince themselves DT is worth spending the time working with.  They have been horrible for me. I used to make about $200 a month there with about 2800 images, now I make $15-$30  month with somewhat more images. They for sure are hurting and the revenue drop is an insight to their future. Either the revenue is there and my work is being drowned by the upload volume or its usefulness has been outlived.  DT is on par with 123. I really no longer make a monthly payout at either site.  My existing port on DP makes 2-3X those two sites.  11 years in this micro biz and I have seen really nothing but a race to the bottom except for a few video sites like SB who now we know the reason why.  I pulled my port from them after their last debacle. My 4-8 video sales a month there went to 1 per quarter.

So my point is that I am more interested in what contributors end up doing with an agency than how they do it.  My sales will eventually be meaningless at 123 and DT (and probably elsewhere) and I will have a decision to make (as will other contributors).  Do I keep my content there hoping someone will buy up DT or 123? If they are dying, I don't see it happening.  But, perhaps my port gets automatically pulled in somewhere more fruitful, like "www.makeamilliononnicrostock.com".

   

Opt out.

I opted out by closing my account there.

It's half the Adobestock video sales this month now.  1/3 the Pond5's video sales probably.  Since they started promoting their own contents under the Eighth Wonder name, our contents got pushed back on searches and sales started to fall drastically.  I have no hope on Shutterstock at this point to be honest.  Pond5 and Adobestock are our future.  Shutterstock's business model now is to create own contents by imitating top selling contents and keep 100% of sales to themselves.  This week's sale at Shutterstock is like 1/5 of last year's peak.  Horrible.

Maybe you are just shooting the same stuff.

Not worth the time. Why? No sales.