I have some regular sales with flood images (these images have private property in them that should be released), and Anzac Day images (I shot them generically so as to be global "remembrance/memorial day" type images. DT also pay a $5 bonus for "newsworthy" images, which may be the only money they make, but so far has helped contribute to my BME (got a few through that month).

I do see some sites allowing branded product as 'editorial' but i've had no success with that. Every site has a different rule as to what they determine to be "editorial"

I have got to pull my finger out and get my own site set up, these look great!

oh, you're right. except now they are reporting mine with 4 decimal places. I do hope I get all those half and quarter cents.

@ OP - To be frank, that sounds like a typical phishing email like all the others.

Phishing emails always:

* never address you by your name
* create a panic by saying something is wrong with your account
* set a deadline or something will happen
* ask you to click a link

To prevent becoming a victim:

* check the URL by hoovering over the link in the email. It will show the true URL
* never click a link in an email
* always login via your own trusted website
* delete the email (after forwarding it to the company - see below)

they also often contain hilarious spelling mistakes. like "hoovering", which is what my dogs do to food.   

Quote from: dbvirago on June 26, 2013, 08:25

From W3counter.com

 

I stand corrected. I'm amazed really. I thought the majority of people were still sitting at home on their 6 year old Dell PC running IE6 and not knowing any different.

I'm a mac user (iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBookPro, i'd buy an Apple car if they made one), but I dislike Safari. I use Chrome. (despite my dislike for Google, I just like to use stuff that works)

back OT, I have, for the first time, experienced what everyone has been whinging about. A hung upload process. ah well, what can we do? go and upload elsewhere I guess.

I love the idea that you can choose to make sister images (that are more step-sister-ish) exclusive, cos it's your sandbox

I just uploaded 10 pics just to test: all good.

but if that designer were to hire a photographer to get the shot(s) they need (if that's even possible) they'd pay a lot, lot more.

Quote from: dbvirago on June 02, 2013, 14:59

Being forced to watch a 15 minute video (following a 3 minute ad) to get the same info you could get in 30 seconds of reading text.

If a 15 minute video equates to 30 seconds of reading, the video editor didn't do their job! A properly produced and edited video should give you all of the facts much faster than the average person reads

but I don't want to be dumbed down to 'average'. The craft of an elegantly worded sentence is lost when we let video take over.

yeah, I uploaded 6 all with the same model release, and 4 got through and 2 didn't, due to "incomplete model release". how very odd.

I wonder how he got on?

ah ditto, have had MR rejections too, although oddly a few images got through and a few were flagged.

* missing postcode, seriously!
* and missing shootdate/description, which it was not. hmm, are they just getting a bit trigger happy?

I recently had a spanish publication reject my invoice cos i'd put their address down incorrectly (which I just cutnpasted from their email footer), even though I emailed the bloody thing! Pedantic people ruin the fun of business. They should go where they belong: to government employment. [/rant]