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« on: August 07, 2017, 12:37 »
Don't you still have the issue of getting a wide audience to see the product? That is what I was trying to do with my San Francisco print and so would a direct sale on Facebook be any easier?
Steve
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« on: July 18, 2017, 17:24 »
There are some ads on the detail pages - small ones from Google I think. It looks more like something you would have seen 10 years ago by someone who thought they could make money on this sort of thing. Doubt if it earns very much these days.
Steve
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« on: July 17, 2017, 15:35 »
And it sounds as though they put them up in good faith and did not intend to use them invalidly. They took them down as soon as you reported it.
Steve
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« on: July 14, 2017, 09:15 »
On the contributor side of the site, the keyword order is maintained. I hadn't looked at the buyers side, but I guess they are showing those in alphabetic to avoid providing information to other contributors on what the original submitter thought was important. I believe it does make a difference on Adobe/Fotolia and I wrote about my investigations a while back on my blog: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/11/adobe-stock-keyword-order/Steve
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« on: July 14, 2017, 09:11 »
Yes, you are misunderstanding something here. A photo gets restricted to "editorial use only" if it contains items for which you have no permission from the "owner" to include it in the image. Such as the face of a person without a model release, or a statue without some release from the artist. That photo cannot be used to promote a product or an opinion without those permissions and so the agencies restrict its use with an "editorial" marking.
A commercial image either has no protected items in it, or has written permissions (as in model and property releases) for commercial advertizing and similar uses.
A commercial photo can be used for editorial work, but not vice versa.
Steve
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« on: July 12, 2017, 08:12 »
I only use it for photos and now videos and have had no issues with missing files. I submit to 16 agencies and sometimes 120 or so images at a time - all smooth so far. As I said, I've never checked for acceptances as I only really watch SS and Adobe in terms of what they reject and sometimes resubmit those. I've done that via StockSubmitter as well as you can reset an image to be resubmitted to the selected agencies.
Steve
PS - glad you found the Improve Photography podcast interesting. He was a good interviewer - had done his research about me in advance and was very easy to talk to.
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« on: July 10, 2017, 07:21 »
For me (and I'm no great video expert!), the street scene suffers from poor lighting - the bright building in the background attracts the attention and all the people are in shadow. I think it suffers a bit because of that. In the Piazza, the people in the background are interesting, but the ones that pass close to the camera are quite distracting. Not sure how you would have stopped that (except by being further away), but I think it detracts from the usefulness of the scene.
Steve
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« on: July 07, 2017, 09:41 »
Brasilnut - for me you are a part of the problem I'm afraid. Brutally honest or not, getting yet more people to play is not helpful to us already in the game. What is the point of this forum if it is not to help each other? The only other reason would be to provide a place where we could moan and bitch (and there is quite a lot of that sometimes), but mainly this forum is about sharing information about the agencies and answering questions from each other. Steve
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« on: July 07, 2017, 07:27 »
I'm thinking of trying drone video and photography and add to my portfolio. As I read the US regulations, it sounds as though you need a Remote Pilot Certificate (for $150) to avoid fines from the FAA. Do the stock agencies such as SS, Adobe, Pond5 require proof of that, or is the risk more with the FAA?
Finally, I'm sure I need to then look at the registration requirements in each country I take the drone to - I doubt if my US Remote Pilot Certificate works like a drivers license!
Steve
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« on: July 05, 2017, 17:05 »
I may be wrong, but I thought Adobe now automatically set the highest price? But going back to your question, if you select a file and click on Other parameters and then Pricing configuration, there is a setting there for Fotolia and you can set the extended price and also click Remember to make this the default. Is that what you were seeking?
Steve
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« on: July 03, 2017, 15:16 »
My position is RF for images you could have taken everywhere (focused, close-in) and RM for the others. Yes, but why? The more I think about it, the more I think you would earn more having all pictures on all sites as RF. I had three more Alamy/Getty sales for more than $150 and they were all RF. The same images also sell on Shutterstock and other sites and earn their money there as well. Although I'm not saying those images were great (although there was a very nice Washington DC cherry blossom shot), but if I had made them RM, I would have missed all the sales on the micro sites. Steve
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« on: July 03, 2017, 09:17 »
Thanks Sean - I see it now on Adobe with my contributor account number.
Steve
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« on: July 03, 2017, 08:13 »
I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, but I can't see it! Is there a way to search for certain images (by keyword) within my portfolio on either Adobe or Fotolia?
Steve
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« on: June 28, 2017, 09:59 »
This discussion made me realize that I didn't really have that good a view of which of my own images have sold on Fine Art America. I decided (while listening to a long conference call in my "day" business) to go through all my sales and post the image and profit it made. This is now on my blog: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/06/sells-fine-art-america/What really surprised me was the prominence of Washington DC images in my sales. Makes me realize I need to go through my library and maybe make some more artistic versions of other shots - digital painting or black and white perhaps. Steve
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« on: June 27, 2017, 16:44 »
Thanks! I have 622 images and get one sale every couple of months it seems. I must look for some more "arty" shots in my portfolio!
Steve
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« on: June 27, 2017, 15:08 »
I've been on FAA for about 5 years. I sell a couple of sizeable prints every month, sometimes more. How many images do you have on there, if you don't mind me asking? Is there any pattern to the ones that sell - specific locations, or types of image. I've often looked at their page of recent sales but it is hard to draw any conclusions from that. I did use it once to check if my pricing was out of line with the ones that sold and I came up with my current pricing strategy as a result of that analysis: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/12/fine-art-america-trying-new-pricing/Steve
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« on: June 27, 2017, 07:58 »
Where does it say exclusive? It says editorial.
470
« on: June 27, 2017, 07:54 »
A unique photo is the extreme but If I had a set of something hard to replicate I would put it on RM This statement made me think more about this - I think RM makes sense (on Alamy at any rate) if the image is going to be in demand for multiple uses by the same buyer. So if a newspaper was likely to use the same image on four or five different occasions as the news developed, then they would have to relicense it multiple times (or pay more for that sort of mulitple use license). It is harder to think of a similar use-case for non-news uses, which is why I came to the conclusion that pretty much any image should be RF and on all agencies. I can't really see the reason we would submit now as RM even for a "great" shot. Steve
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« on: June 26, 2017, 16:37 »
You mention leaving money on the table with an RF choice. I think the case I am trying to make with my own results is that on Alamy and Getty (non-exclusive) there does not seem to be a significant extra revenue from choosing RM these days. In fact, my numbers show that RF earns more on these sites than RM (at least for me).
Steve
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« on: June 26, 2017, 13:21 »
The perennial question for contributors is whether to submit a "great" image to the midstock agencies (such as Alamy) and make it RM rather than submitting to all agencies (which makes it RF almost by definition) and losing the chance of those high priced RM sales. I decided I really need to analyse that question as best I could with my own sales to see if I could come up with an answer (that works for my sort of portfolio). The logic and my conclusion is on my blog: http://www.backyardsilver.com/2017/06/decide-whether-submit-macro-sites/I may, of course, be very wrong, but would welcome counter arguments. Steve
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« on: June 26, 2017, 11:41 »
A feature that might be worth considering (or perhaps I have missed a setting!)
I was uploading 60 images to 15 images and the power to the house failed. When I restarted everything, Stock Submitter did not know which images had already been uploaded as I think this is saved to the files once the upload is completed and I am asked whether I should save the changes to the metadata. It would be good if the system automatically saved the upload status of each file once the upload to that agency is complete so that if the power fails in the future it won't try to re-upload images that already on the agency.
Steve
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« on: June 25, 2017, 19:20 »
Ahh - I can't answer that. I only have a PC
Steve
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