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« on: January 12, 2013, 17:58 »
Welcome back!
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« on: January 12, 2013, 09:28 »
Informing influential photo blogs is a good idea too - places like Photo District News etc. are always looking for ways to generate traffic.
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« on: January 12, 2013, 09:26 »
Changing user icons to a common protest version has worked in the past.
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« on: January 11, 2013, 13:01 »
I think that they will simply say that they negotiated a 'special' license with Google, acting as our agent/distributor. The low price of $60 per image was discounted due to the high volume of 6000 image licenses being bought. Total price was $360K with $60K being given to contributors and Getty pocketing the other $300K. I think it was that deliberate and nothing to do with 'promotion' of either Getty or the artists.
I think this is the truth of the situation that will be covered in corporate goo when it's served up.
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« on: January 10, 2013, 07:58 »
Recent acceptances presumably haven't chosen only 'city' and that hasn't been picked up on acceptance (where is Keywordzilla - one person has 20+ recent images of Singapore badly DAd so all of their images show up in a search for the MMA and for 'Central Scotland'; and older images have fallen foul of theKeywords team adding MMA long after the file was accepted just with 'Metropolitan'.
As someone who uploads pictures of Scotland and Singapore, I'm betting that's an incorrect disambiguation of Central or Central Business District or CBD - as the skyscraper downtown area in Singapore is called. Probably not deliberate keyword spamming, just a mistaken ticking. (It wasn't me by the way!)
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« on: January 09, 2013, 13:10 »
... am already accepted ( but with my portfolio locked) at the main alternative site.
So you've been able to upload your portfolio to SS, keyworded and ready to go without activating it, is that right? That's a huge time saver if that's possible for exclusive artists looking to jump from iStock if that's possible.
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« on: January 05, 2013, 06:58 »
I think it depends on the agency. iStock allows unreleased interiors of public places such as airports or churches providing they're not restricted by that location's photographic policy (like the Vatican).
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« on: January 05, 2013, 04:24 »
Of all the places I've been, Denmark is the place I'd choose to live and happily pay the taxes to make it like that.
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« on: December 20, 2012, 12:00 »
E+ for whatever reason, is being allowed to dominate the search results on the Getty site. That would be the reason you are doing well there. But believe me, this hardly goes unnoticed by regular Getty contributors who would like to know why this is being allowed. Getty has a lot hungry mouths to feed and most aren't passive bystanders.
Getty for whatever reason, is being allowed to dominate the search results on the iStock site. That would be the reason you are doing well there. But believe me, this hardly goes unnoticed by regular iStock contributors who would like to know why this is being allowed. iStock has a lot hungry mouths to feed and most aren't passive bystanders.
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« on: December 19, 2012, 03:10 »
Joe is right, it's all about the sensor size and pixel density nowadays. I prefer at least 1/250 at the longer end of my 24-70 with a D800 to ensure no visible camera shake. VR is a life saver at longer focal lengths. I too am amazed what a difference a tripod and mirror lock-up makes to the sharpness of a picture, even if it's not always practical.
I would say three times the focal length should be the new rule of thumb with high MP cameras.
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« on: December 18, 2012, 08:26 »
What is CNX?
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« on: December 14, 2012, 05:11 »
This blog examines the different way libraries accept, use and interpret keywords, it's a gold mine of information for those of us who are preparing to jump from the sinking iStock ship: http://blog.keywordsmart.com
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« on: December 13, 2012, 16:21 »
Yes, you can include it and it works fine, mostly, out of the box. You'll be limited a bit if you can't program a little and have lots of time to fiddle. Also the existing management options and controls can be confusing.
Everyone seems to like the 'zoom' which is in the regular code. It isn't great for bandwidth tho, because it sucks down a large file with every detail page load - I think the image on the page is just the larger image resized with CSS.
The day I have to worry about bandwidth because thousands of people are looking at and buying my images will be a day I don't have to worry about the extra charges!
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« on: December 13, 2012, 15:30 »
No business grows forever. Take Tesco for example. Until recently they were so successful that 1 in every 8 spent by UK consumers was spent with them. Where do they go from there? Can they get to 1 in every 1? Of course not. They've tried to expand into the US but had to retreat in embarassing defeat.
Just been to Shanghai and shot Chinese consumers pushing Tesco trolleys full to the brim out of Tesco's. There's no stopping them.
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« on: December 12, 2012, 07:15 »
The whole best match debacle is a red herring.
I've been saying this for ages, but it's a simple thing for people to understand and the company can make changes without actually having to pony up any cash so it's very attractive for both sides to focus on it. More buyers and better royalties are what's needed more than anything else. If artists lobbied harder for those things we might be able to make this business sustainable.
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« on: December 11, 2012, 14:12 »
Same here, fewer sales than before. best match is not the problem, advertising and marketing is.
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« on: December 11, 2012, 13:44 »
Good interview, thanks for posting. Interesting questions with honest, straightforward answers.
"We sell two images per second ... "
2.5 million per day according to my back of fag packet calculations.
a day has 3600 seconds (1 hour) x 24 x 2 = 172800
x 365 days = 63M
Doh!
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« on: December 11, 2012, 10:26 »
Good interview, thanks for posting. Interesting questions with honest, straightforward answers.
"We sell two images per second ... "
2.5 million per day according to my back of fag packet calculations.
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« on: December 11, 2012, 09:01 »
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« on: December 10, 2012, 16:22 »
"That said, the #1 priority for today, as it has been all weekend, is Best Match, which Mary and the engineers are looking at and working on as we speak. Please stay tuned."
What a farce.
An IT/ICT illiterate female announcing that another female (Mary) will take over the Best Match issue aided by their eunuch engineers.
I've seen first hand what kind of disasters females in management can do, you better leave the ship before it sinks like the Titanic.
And she must be really desperate to ask for help in the forum as it's backfiring big time.
What has this got to do with anything you nitwit. As a father of two daughters this kind of casual sexism really gets my goat.
472
« on: December 07, 2012, 16:13 »
You can't fault the inspections on iStock, no matter what else is wrong with the site.
I find rapid inspection a bit unnerving for some reason. It's like they're waiting to pounce!
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« on: December 07, 2012, 12:29 »
73 might be pushing it a bit, but I've just come back from climbing Tharpu Chuli in the Annapurnas and one expedition member was 69 - hard as nails!
He did have to get up for the toilet at night quite a lot though...
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« on: December 07, 2012, 01:52 »
Just a remark, is it worth to sell such specialized images in micros?
I'm not sure they're so specialised any more. I sell several a day usually, probably because buyers want pictures of pristine natural environments and snow capped mountains rather than the actual location I expect, but still, they do sell. Outdoor activity images also sell well.
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« on: December 06, 2012, 15:35 »
Amazingly (or horrifyingly, depending on your point of view) you could blog all the way up. There's phone reception pretty much all along the Khumbu nowadays and massive solar powered cell tower at Gorak Shep above base camp that nobody likes to talk about. Last time I was there, there were yaks sleeping under the solar panels...
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