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Messages - PeterChigmaroff
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« on: December 04, 2014, 17:43 »
A bit of fanefare a few months ago after the launch of an updated website but I don't see sales because of it. The unfortunate thing is my confidence in them has been lost becasue of the need to chase payment. I was hoping that most of that would've been settled and left behind by now, but no such luck. It's a basic premise of business to be paid.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 09:41 »
I make good sales on SS and like them a lot, but I tend to agree with the OP. My 6 month graph always looks similar with steady increases over a few weeks and then declines untill I have a really low week and back up again. The period of this is about 8 weeks, I've mentioned it before. Just becasue you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. 
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« on: November 17, 2014, 17:32 »
Doesn't Revostock do something like this by offering a higher percentage if the clip is exclusive to them. I guess if P5 was willing to go a higher percentage and your content is unique enough to warrant a price of $150 plus per clip, it might be worth it.
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« on: November 15, 2014, 12:42 »
Ya see, My only issue is For my work. If this takes off it not only de-values the contributers work But....It de-values mine as well. And as we know and has been Proven there are a Whole bunch of people that simply don't care. crowd sourcing at it's finest. But before I get nuts about this, I will wait for someone whos REALLY in charge to fill us in with the real details. Not he said,She said. To me personally...It's another nail in the coffin. I do hope there is nothing to this Now and going forward for If nothing else, The health of our work. Big stock was the first site I joined I think, I worked for and with them a long time. I really Hope theres nothing to this Because it will simply Make everyones work worthless.
We gotta stand up on this one guys But..Lets get the facts correct first.
I agree completely with your sentiments. Those who believe that this doesn't affect them are wrong. Those that think this actually helps them are really really wrong. Sometimes you just don't need to know every detail of a bad situation to know it's a bad situation. A spade is still a spade even if you can only see a small corner of it.
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« on: November 14, 2014, 22:30 »
None of Mine are there especially good sellers. I wrote them and asked directly whats up. If I get an answer I'll post it. I did write PM's to some of the biggest Video Players alerting them of this. We need more info from whos in charge about there Plans with our content going forward.
So is some of the regular SS videos being shuttled on to the BS site, with or without the contributors' knowledge?
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« on: November 14, 2014, 12:51 »
You bet I am an optimist! I set my own hours, See my family more, Shoot what I love, Earn money while I sleep, I am never bored, I love the challenge. In short I have the perfect job!
Been doing the same myself for 20 years now and know exactly what you mean. To me, what's happening, is just another move, a step, towards a direction that will make this perfect life of ours unsustainable.
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« on: November 14, 2014, 10:59 »
What do I get paid for my hard work is the first question. If I were non-exclusive I probably wouldn't be loading to iStock either! I find the iStock/Getty connection to be of more value to me in both money and time. Do I have a plan "B" yes! I have a plan "C" and "D" as well. Companies will always look out for their bottom line and I expect that. I don't take decisions personally as no one really cares about my work but me. These are all companies trying to make as much profit as possible and doing it on our backs. Make decisions that are best for you $$ wise and forget about saying company X is better then company Z. Focus on producing compelling content and rising above the storm. The better work you produce the more other doors will open for you!
The old glass half full optimist.
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« on: November 14, 2014, 10:34 »
Mind boggling that Shutterstock can be selling a high volume of footage clips for great prices one moment, and then introduce footage sales at world record low prices the next, in fact footage sales even cheaper than DFC giveaway photo prices. It's not April, so what's going on? Is there a collective wish at SS to wind down and bankrupt the company? Are they on drugs?
There is a collective wish at shutterstock to drive up stock prices... Annual revenue at shutterstock is 235.52Million.
To date the SSTK take for share sold for key inside investors is 351.5 Million excluding INSIGHT VENTURE PARTNERS V L P, SHUTTERSTOCK INVESTORS I LLC, as well as Institutional holdings via INSIGHT HOLDINGS GROUP, LLC.
Just think what their take must be when you add in their larger holdings.
Again these guys are in it for the short term and they do not give a rats @$$ what happens to the video market long term. By then they will be cashed out and will have moved on to the next vehicle/victim.
No matter how much you wind yourself up into a frenzy, no matter how many times you regurgitate and re-post the same half-arsed conspiracy theories ... the truth is that absolutely nothing has changed in the two years since the IPO. Other than SS becoming even more successful by following the same path as before that is.
So do you understand why they let BigStock go down a different path that looks more like the disastrous istock way of treating their contributors so badly they end up leaving? I can only hope that they treat BigStock as if it was an independent business, and they have nothing to do with the way the site is run, but it still reflects badly on SS because everyone knows they own it. Looking at the earnings poll and my earnings, BigStock has not done well since the SS takeover. I can see it falling back in to low earners and then there will be no reason to have a portfolio there. I think they should either close it and send all the customers to SS or go for the higher end of the market. Low commissions and low sales volume is a disaster for us all, as istock has proved in recent years.
Because is instills an idea into people's heads. Case in point this comment from above."I guess my point is that when Shutterstock is reducing the cost of videos by a factor of more than 525 iStock's reduction looks pretty small." This person sees the iStock reduction as just fine. Any future adjustment at SS would be viewed as not too bad when compared to others.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 19:29 »
Again these guys are in it for the short term and they do not give a rats @$$ what happens to the video market long term. By then they will be cashed out and will have moved on to the next vehicle/victim.
This sums it quite well. Since P5 got external funding I've been holding my breath expecting the standard, " in light of current financial.... and need to sustain growth... percentages will be reduced...."
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« on: November 13, 2014, 15:17 »
This is total crap and makes me glad I am exclusive today! I took a look at the videos and there is some high end content there.
At a place that reduced the pricing of video by a factor of 3?
Good point. Selling video at iStock for between $48 and $65 is about the same as selling video at Bigstock for between 60 cents and 15 cents a clip. Shutterstock is selling the same videos for $79 that they are now selling for 15 cents, can you tell us what factor that is reduced by?
I'm not sure what your point is. "Selling for" and "getting paid" are also factors. This deal with BS is just that, but true to form, all of a sudden, iStock isn't so bad anymore.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 15:10 »
I am exclusive and my $$ per sale has gone up not down!
Yes, but with the continuing pressure to reduce prices, as with this post, you are not immune. And should be well aware of how quickly things change.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 14:49 »
This is total crap and makes me glad I am exclusive today! I took a look at the videos and there is some high end content there.
At a place that reduced the pricing of video by a factor of 3?
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« on: November 13, 2014, 13:58 »
i would need to see proof of super high volume downloads, like hundreds a day or thousands a week. like on istock in 2004 with photos.
but I doubt the video market will ever have a size where 30 cent sub downloads will bring sensible returns.
It is too specialized, video has never been as big a hobby as photography.
The good salesperson from BS, is that a poetic coincidence by the way, will say that by stretching the market with "affordable" downloads, that such numbers would happen naturally. We'd all get rich. Math is so much fun when you keep it theortical.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 12:49 »
Our apologies for any confusion. As many of you know, Bigstock is oriented towards the consumer market and independent creatives and the needs of that audience are different than traditional stock footage customers (think of enthusiastic YouTube creators vs. professional video editors). Bigstock is developing a small collection of videos to test how first-time and casual footage customers respond to different entry-level products. The contributors who are participating have all opted-in and all of the content is being appropriately licensed with their consent. The collection will be limited and these early packages represent some initial efforts to test and generate interest in footage among non-traditional buyers. We will continue to work with participating contributors as we learn more about this new market.
Michal on behalf of Bigstock
This is just whooey. The same argument was given years ago about how micro was just for small users and RF was just for low budget mom and pop operations. You are creating a problem by setting ridiculously low prices that other buyers will want from other collections, all to no one's benefit.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 10:56 »
Another, there I was, I almost died, story. Photographers are famous for these. The thing is, how many actually die? Except the guy keeping food in his tent in bear country in Kamchatcka, I can't think of any.
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« on: November 13, 2014, 10:44 »
If my videos get pipelined over to Bigstock with those prices I will have no choice but to pull them from SS. That leaves only p5 who makes me any money, forcing me to reconsider video exclusivity with Istock.
In case SS is reading this, I agree wholeheartedly. I will only deal with agencies that have a future for their contributors.  If you're not already pulling out of BigStock, I'd jump to it.
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« on: November 12, 2014, 19:26 »
The really depressing thing is there will be more than enough inventory for them to sell.
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« on: November 12, 2014, 10:49 »
I can't see if you can back up RAW files with this, anyone know?
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
My question is, even if it was unlimited with every conceivable feature and lightning fast, why would you trust someone like that with your images?
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« on: November 11, 2014, 13:30 »
KB, Although I still think you're right about the number of video clips being uploaded. It will saturate, then it will re-saturate in 4k, and then in 8k, and then in 32k 3D...
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« on: November 09, 2014, 10:41 »
Is it too late here to say that I would just like to see a little less work. There is too much metadata of impossible things to worry about. Is it editorial, yes or no. If it has people and no model release, then it's editorial by default and we don't need to try and count the number of people in it. The 3 tier keywording system is enough to not bother with. It's just too arduous. Why would we want to spend our lives keywording an image 3 times? Ludicrous. If you want to see more uploads, then sit down and devise a system where the contributor makes the fewest clicks per upload. There is nothing finer than a thoughtful agency who considers the contributors' time. Thanks.
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« on: November 06, 2014, 18:03 »
It's a bit of side step here, but I find photojpeg for video a rather poor choice compared to what other codecs now exist. Which is another serious flaw with iStock, they tend not to keep up with the advances in technology as well as other sites.
I was told only last month by SS that they prefer ProRes or Photojpeg, so I can't imagine that Photojpeg is that poor a choice. ProRes may be better, but it also produces larger files, so I find Photojpeg to be a decent compromise.
This seems to be a topic in a few places right now. I've done a few tests, you can try yourself and see if this is so in your workflow, it's just I find P-jpeg to have lots of digital artifacts and banding compared to other codecs, even h. 264 is considerably better.
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« on: November 06, 2014, 14:24 »
I had my first video sale today. Only $9.78 on IS compared with $20 -$23 on SS. And I had to go through extra steps to trim the clips to 30s and recode them with PhotoJPG. Dissapointing!
It's a bit of side step here, but I find photojpeg for video a rather poor choice compared to what other codecs now exist. Which is another serious flaw with iStock, they tend not to keep up with the advances in technology as well as other sites.
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« on: October 20, 2014, 22:52 »
I'm not yet convinced that todays mirror less will do good captures of speed race boats coming around a corner at 120 mph. That was my last shoot. For still and slow movements it seems they can do well.
Have a look at the Nikon 1 V3
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« on: October 20, 2014, 15:55 »
I didn't even watch what he had to say because I've made a similar decision. I'll probably go the Panasonic/Olympus route with a couple of micro 4/3 cameras.
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« on: October 16, 2014, 13:08 »
Adobe made a failed attempt a few years back to get into the stock business. It didn't work for them. I assume now with the CC, they have a more captive audience, and could roll a few million (hey, how hard can that be; I can see the submitters line forming from where I sit) images into the mix for a few extra dollars a month. I surprised it took so long.
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