the general answer is there's no problem throughout India. railroad stations are supposedly off limits, but otherwise it's simple.  - check any of my portfolios for examples of market shots, portraits, temples, etc.

  at any of the major tourist spots you'll have more trouble keeping the locals OUT of your images; and we would sometimes be asked to pose with other Indian tourists for their photos  [we even ended up talking to the provincial governor and appearing on local tv when we were watching a local festival]

the larger question is the ethical one.  i've shot images that show poor people, but i dont shoot slums, garbage or similar. i'm not a photojournalist, so i'm not making a documentary, and i dont shoot any picture that i'd be ashamed to show to the subject of that picture.  in general, whenever a shoot images where one person is the main focus, i try to at least establish eye contact and indicate i'd like to take their picture.  most people dont mind, and if someone says no, i immediately drop my camera.

definitely a conflict of interest - cant think of any other field that would get away with this - book reviewers, movie critics, etc are all screened for possible bias, PLUS the reviewers are known publicly, so their customers can determine whether there's bias or not. 

at the very least, reviewers should not be allowed to review work similar to what they shoot.  if the reviews are technically oriented, training, not experience is sufficient.  i'm surprised that these agencies give so much trust to reviewers to determine what will show up in their collections.

another factor is how reviewers are paid - any per image payment is going to encourage quick reaction reviews.  do every reviewer look at every image at 100%?  or do they get an idea of the image from an enlarged thumbnail?

another note - if they review an image, but find something missing [keywords, etc], it just stays in pending and you don't get any notification;  so you need tp look at the old pending images to check.  i had some in for weeks befoere i asked and was then told they were incomplete

i had a mass rejection for white balance off - resubmitted two weeks later with NO changes, and most were accepted - the others were rejected for LCV

yes they seem to have some reviewers who havent realized that real world lighting is  different from studio

even on tours there are opportunities

first, there's the free models of "tourists looking at Taj Mahal"

i usually trail the group, keeping an eye on the guide, but it lets me take more time finding the images i want.  evening sound & light shows are particularly useful this way -- you can usually wander the ruins with only a coupla other like minded photographers

another handy trick for any market is to walk behind the stalls, looking out over the sellers at the customers; often a good way to start conversations and end up with more candids of the vendors after you take the required "here i am holding my prize zucchini shot " of them

you can just ignore the ridiculous looking stuff and it will usually let you pass

Someone at Captcha relized they had a captched audience of testers - turns out that captcha is selling space to identify parts of scanned texts that don't make it thru standard optical scanners - smudged copies, older type faces, etc.  crowd sourcing the results,  they've been quite successful.  so they don't use those pieces as part of the check, since they don't know what they are either!  [written up in wired or NY times some months ago]

i've had the same problems - there was a place somewhere in the profile where you could turn off the automatic freeing of images, but  after doing that my older images continue to get listed as free 

i've written support several times to no effect - best response has been that i can disabkle them indivudually! [extra hassle you have to give a FREASON why you want to disable EACH image]

the modified form has a problem - the last question is required even if you answered the one before, so if youu have seen an increase, you're then forced to answer a question that syas yoiu havent seen an increase


also, the date isnt  clear  - is it mm/dd  or dd/mm??

When introducing a new system in beta status, these kind of bugs sometimes happen for non Fortune 500 companies. It is not very pleasant though, but we are working on delivering a good service.

the whole POINT of a beta test is that a small group of outsiders test the product BEFORE it's released on its regular audence. too many companies now think that by labeling something as beta they can get away with releasinbg untested programs on the public.


steve

in the same place you set the right click protection [security & priivacy], you can also set the largest image you'll allow to be downloaded -- i set all mine to medium.  this noly affects the 'share' images, but doesnt restrict what users can buy.

unfortunately, this has to be done for each gallery individually


steve

first step would be to review the numerous other ideas & discussions on this forum prioposing what you propose. then show us how your idea will be different.  a solid proposal which specifically addresses previous problems will still be met by slepticism, but you'll have a better chance

i've been a wsftp pro user for well over 10 years, but also use filezilla more & more -- oddly they each perform a bit differently - for images now i mostly use filezilla