Quote from: gostwyck on April 18, 2010, 17:06

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Quote from: Lcjtripod on April 18, 2010, 15:27

Before I retired 15 years ago I made 250,000.00 plus per year as a wedding photographer. I had 10 photographers working for me. So the money is there always has been and always will be.
But not selling RF images for .25 Cents each. Needless to say I do not need the money from RF sales.
-Larry

Microstock keeps wannabe photographers away from where the real money is - I see no problem with this 

Every microstocker I know (who are doing it for a living) shudders at the idea of doing weddings. That's what many of them used to do and they are so glad to give it up.

You can certainly make decent money doing weddings but that's because it's a horrible job, that mostly has to be done during anti-social hours, that any half-decent photographer would gladly do anything else instead if they could get the same money. Same with having commercial clients. Who needs all that hassle __ the ever-changing briefs, chasing the money, dealing with the unwashed masses of the public, etc, etc?

That is why I hired photographers to do the work. I ran the studio and collected the money. Lived well and spent my spare time in the woods shooting wildlife in Montana while my studio was in New York. Just because your in the business does not mean you personally have to do the dirty work.




Just having fun in Montana.

-Larry

Third BME for me, after Sept and October of 09.  

It was up 21% on February, and up 8% on March last year.  To be honest, I would have liked to see more than 8% growth in a year, since I have added 20% to my portfolio, but the loss of StockXpert does not appear to have been made up by the others, at least in my case.  

Compared to March last year, big winner for me seems to be Fotolia which is up 58%.  Shutterstock and DT both gained around 10% and IS stayed pretty much dead even, with a gain of less than 1%.

Of course they have to charge interest rates higher than the bank asks them, so they can cover their costs.

Hello everyone. I have grown increasingly frustrated with iStockPhoto and I am considering leaving them for someone else.

I have been with iStockPhoto.com for 5 years now and I have been a contributor for the past few years. Recently the interest in some of my stock illustrations has peeked and has me becoming more focused on my Stock "career". The frustration with iStock is that the very images that sell the best for me are the same ones they reject virtually every time. Once I receive the rejection notice, I then have to contest the rejection notice, which usually results in iStockPhoto deciding to accept the image. The problem with this process is that I can submit dozens of images per week, but only contest 3 per month.

Long story short, I am looking for feedback on other Stock sites who may be easier to deal with and still yield good sell-through.
Here is a link to my work: http://www.istockphoto.com/colecom

Thanks for your feedback!

Quote from: Albert Martin on March 11, 2010, 14:59

The more memory, the better in the future ;-)

Regarding BIG pictures, you'll need quite fast processing speed too.

Regarding graphic card:
No matter that you will have multiple cores, I advise that you take nVIDIA graphic card (quadro preferable).
It is just because it has CUDA and it can render extra for you ;-)

Cheers!

I'm so lost when it comes to video cards.  I have no idea if I should have a $100 or a $600 and what the difference would be.  There seems to be so many specs and opinions.