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Messages - Shelma1
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« on: April 02, 2018, 06:33 »
I've noticed since the Google change in image search a lot more people are now going to the stock sites and stealing the images from there. I've seen a lot more watermarks floating around. I've had a few arguments with people on Facebook...all of whom seem to believe that leaving the watermark on means the image is ok to steal because it's "fair use" or as long as they give the photographer credit it's perfectly legal. The most recent was Ricky Gervais...he stole an image from Alamy. And certainly he can afford to pay to license something.
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« on: April 01, 2018, 15:48 »
SS and FT do the same thing to us. Just sayin'.
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« on: March 31, 2018, 10:14 »
And removing the "Nike" and leaving just the swoosh cost millions, so redo the math.
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« on: March 28, 2018, 08:00 »
I just read an article about how to download all my Facebook data, and I thought this was creepy, from Facebook:
"Facial Recognition Data A unique number based on a comparison of the photos you're tagged in. We use this data to help others tag you in photos."
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« on: March 27, 2018, 12:25 »
You guys should stop beating yourselves up about what you submitted. They put out a call for artists and got thousands of submissions and chose a couple of people who shoot on pink backgrounds and one guy who shoots dangerous fires. How could anyone have possibly known that's what they were looking for?
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« on: March 27, 2018, 09:58 »
I'm not sure deleting Facebook will change anything. Everything you do is tracked by marketers and has been for many decades, way before the internet. In the olden days every magazine or newspaper subscription you bought was entered into a database that was rented to zillions of marketers...that's why you got junk mail. Your credit card purchases are aggregated and sold. TV show ratings were calculated by Nielsen convincing some viewers to have a box installed on their TV that tracked all the shows they watched...starting in 1950. Every advertising brief includes demographic and psychographic audience information gathered from research companies.
Do you think you're not also tracked on Instagram, Twitter, Google, every page you visit? I won't have Alexa in my house because I'm sure someone's listening...that's my assumption after 3 decades in marketing. Of course, they can also listen/watch/track through your phone, tablet and computers (maybe even your microwave, lol). If you have a job in an office and work on a computer your company's IT department has installed software that tracks your every keystroke.
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« on: March 25, 2018, 18:15 »
Is Canva worth it? They keep inviting me to be a contributor and I can't figure out how they work. And they look very low on the earnings survey totem pole.
Edited to add: I read through some of the thread and it doesn't sound worth it. I knew there was a reason I didn't respond to their invites.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 13:34 »
I disagree. An art director might have a layout that works with a model's elbow in one place but not another. Or they might want a slight smile rather than a big smile. It's good to have a series of shots for them to choose from. If I paid for a model I'd want to get as many different shots as feasible for my money.
You'll see similar things with vectors. We'll reuse elements to form different compositions in a series. That's different than drawing one icon and just changing the background color 100 times.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 13:21 »
Probably because the big sites (SS and Adobe) punish contributors with excellent work who reach a high level of success by giving their work less exposure, and Stocksy rejects those same people. So folks who are very talented may feel they're not really welcome anywhere.
I feel I'm in this middle group with no place to go... I'm hoping there will be some hope in the future for us. SS is just going down the drain for me.
It's a shame you feel that way. Your work is beautiful.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 10:41 »
There's a big difference between amortizing your costs by getting 100 shots of one model in different poses and shooting one photo and cropping that one photo ever so slightly differently 100 or more times. The first is perfectly logical and the second is spamming. I think the port you posted looks pretty logical.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 10:33 »
"What I don't get is why everybody is so willing to be accepted by Stocksy..."
Most likely because Stocksy is the only agency that consistently announces their calls for artists here, leading to mass applications and then public complaints about their rejection of almost all of the very people they invite.
They dangle the carrot and snatch it away, publicly and repeatedly.
My complete sentence has a meaning. Just part of it doesn't, you shouldn't just quote part. Doesn't make sense what you answered, it wasn't what I asked.
I think I answered your question. Stocksy has set up a dangling carrot that they bring out on Microstock group every so often to tempt people. So people are drooling to get that carrot. They temporarily forget their concerns about series exclusivity for a chance to be one of the cool kids. It reminds me of fraternities and sororities in college. For what other college group would you endure physical punishment (hazing) in order to get in? None.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 10:19 »
"What I don't get is why everybody is so willing to be accepted by Stocksy..."
Most likely because Stocksy is the only agency that consistently announces their calls for artists here, leading to mass applications and then public complaints about their rejection of almost all of the very people they invite.
They dangle the carrot and snatch it away, publicly and repeatedly.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 08:51 »
Probably because the big sites (SS and Adobe) punish contributors with excellent work who reach a high level of success by giving their work less exposure, and Stocksy rejects those same people. So folks who are very talented may feel they're not really welcome anywhere.
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« on: March 22, 2018, 07:00 »
It's very strangely slow. Something seems to have happened Monday afternoon. It seems to be the new normal at SS.
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« on: March 21, 2018, 05:41 »
The guru and godfather of advertising Ian Ogilvy, owner of the giant AD_firm O&M once said, " if you got it, flaunt it!! great advice in my books!
just saying people.
You mean David Ogilvy?
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« on: March 20, 2018, 19:17 »
Ah, OK. Just a cr@ptastic day for me, then. 
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« on: March 20, 2018, 17:14 »
Does anyone have any SODs today?
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« on: March 20, 2018, 05:24 »
Why would you upload your vectors to a free site when you can make money from them? Just because they haven't sold yet doesn't mean they never will. Please don't encourage free sites.
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« on: March 18, 2018, 10:33 »
It depends what you mean by "hardworking" and "success." If you mean having a friend who'll approve your 100 identical photos or vectors in order to push everyone else off the "newest" page, or that you figured out ways to game the systemlike stuffing 30 identical keywords into the title and 50 into the keyword sections until the rest of us figure out what you're doing and complain for months before SS will take any action
and you're thrilled with the $5 per day you make until your port is closed or the rules are enforced
well, then,I guess that's your definition of "hardworking" and "successful."
I see a number of very talented photographers and illustrators from the above countries who do great work and follow the rules, and their success is well-earned. Keyword-stuffers, newest-flooders and others who make the search for quality images at Shutterstock a PITA...not so much.
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« on: March 13, 2018, 08:49 »
Today submissions are screwed up. Submitted images disappear, then reappear, then appear back with unsubmitted images. I expect this will crash later today.
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« on: March 11, 2018, 09:32 »
Sometimes sales are showing, but more sales are showing elsewhere, and then they disappear again. I should have known something was brewing, because Friday my images were bouncing all over the place when I checked sales and I couldn't keep track of what sold at all. So the system was on its way to crashing completely.
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« on: March 10, 2018, 10:24 »
No sales reported for me, either. However, I did recently get skunked for the first time in 10 years on SS....last month I think on a SAT. So it wouldn't surprise me if this is a trend and we are seeing the early stages of "normality".
I doubt it's a trend...sales are showing up on the map, but not on the earnings page.
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« on: March 10, 2018, 08:38 »
For those of you that are capped.....why does it matter? 
Because we make a living at this.
But apparently you already know what you will get at the end of the month?
What's your point? I'm asking if others have the same experience. It will be a relief if it's a temporary reporting glitch and not another search change. Take your snarkiness elsewhere.
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« on: March 10, 2018, 08:32 »
If they'd gone with your image they'd at least have been intelligent about it. Now they leave themselves open to ridicule about using a photo from Estonia, which just plays into the perception of DeVos being stupid and clueless.
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