Warning to all continentals: never try to wiggle yourselves to the front of a queue with a British person in it. You'll hurt yourself!  

1) My umbrella is much stronger.
2) In most un-british places in the world, the Britt will be alone standing in the queue wondering what all those uneducated savages are fighting for in front of him. 

On the subject (but not on-topic ), I am surprised by how many offers I get to shoot nude or glamour photographs.  I have ZERO interest in shooting that stuff, but people seem so shocked when I turn them down...

Ah, you too? I get turned off when I see nudity on a model site. The more nude a model wants to be, the more unable to act and look nextdoor. Glamor is fine in a TFP shoot, on condition I can do my shots first. It happens they run off after the glamor claiming they are "too tired" for the "boring" stuff.

For me Stockfresh approach makes sense, it is just a shame the queue order was not respected

Queues are too British! We continentals wiggle ourself in front using dirty tricks like claiming we are just going to ask a quick question ;-)

But once people discover this, the game is over.

Yuri is on Photaki with almost all of his port. So you can forget it. 

Monopods are great for sports if you have a heavy set-up that you want to swivel too and fro, they are not for model shoots. Perhaps Yuri just wants to hamper all his potential rivals by persuading them to fix a stick to the bottom of their cameras.

It's just a habit and with a fast Manfrotto and a very good ballhead, I find it easier than to shoot handheld, especially for the framing of the model's gestures and the exact position under the feet and above the head with full-bodies. You can easily follow swaying in the lateral field with a monopod, and with handheld, you can have cut-off feet or too much space on top. I like to have my full 21MP usable and not sell extra white space to the buyer.

The first lesson models get is not to sway back and forth, and that goes for handheld too. They can expand gestures sideways, but never movements of the eyes in the front to back plane.

It all boils down on how you direct your models, especially for dynamic shots and expressions. I found out-of-balance poses to be good sellers but you have to be very fast to catch them or the model gets easily tired after a few takes. This is an example of last weekend's shoot and it was right after the first take.

Is Feature Pics doing a re-audit of its files???
If so...that's real nice of them not to communicat it to everyone!!!   

Elena had a vacation till end September/begin October so perhaps the site ran on autopilot.
They announced long ago they would hunt for duplicates. Perhaps yours were dupes?
On a lighter note, the past month sales went up there after an appalling 2009.
Mostly 0.50$ subs.

Here's my referral link

Apart from spamming your referral link on a site that pops up a mega unclosable Online Gambling link, are you planning to entertain us about photography, or did you just dump your egg before disappearing in oblivion? Aaargh. Behead the spammers

Quote from: FD-regular on September 26, 2010, 20:59

I thought for a moment I was on the Dreamstime forum. 

yes it does eheh but actually these kind of milestones are important to keep the motivation UP

I'm more worried about my last 1000$. 

I thought for a moment I was on the Dreamstime forum. 

I agree with FD....those portraits are beautiful!!

I added her as fav on Dreamstime. Hopefully she will be back. Portraiture is still the max, imho. I started doing it when I was 14 and my mom was my main subject. I had a lot of encouragement from her when she slapped me in the face since I over-emphasized her eye-bags it seems. 
Since then I took the advice of a famous French portraiture painter: picture the women 20 kgs slimmer and 20 years younger and their jewelry 20x fatter. 

Take FD's advice, JP.

I sent him the real advice yesterday by a PM. I couldn't tell it in public since I got it from deep inside FT.   
Basically, the comment of Miklav was on-spot.

Do others have this problem and does anybody know of a cure for it?

Yap. I have that problem (all zeros) since May (or earlier) and they just don't address it. The only way to know what I sold is go to "downloads" but it doesn't display a sum. I stopped asking.

Thats good!  I like when an Agency just dont take any old thing as long as its technically sound. This way, it will stop irrelevant material clogging up files and in the long run it will benefit both buyers and contributors.

Would it be correct to assume that the "old irrelevant stuff" that "clogs" the searches are other people's photos, while yours are the relevant ones?