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« on: May 05, 2013, 10:29 »
Something musta changed at FT. I earned more today (so far) there than I did at SS. 
And that's with an ODD at SS! Not a huge difference but I've not experienced that before.
(Keywording in English at FT UK)
EDIT: 'Course an hour after posting some luvverly person in France downloaded an ODD and the first line is no longer accurate!
477
« on: May 05, 2013, 10:24 »
Don't bother looking at "Most popular images This Week" page on SS as I don't think that it is updated with any regularity. Top of the week list still includes various Valentines Day themes! Also, top of the list is always a SS free photo/vector. Similarly at FT their best seller of the day/week etc is just rubbish. You can have a new photo which takes off there and sells 10 times in the first week but you'll probably not find it on the best seller list for the week. Instead you will find new files that sold one or twice and loads of other files that seem to come from FT selectors' favourite contributors.  I have an image on both FT and SS that has sold more than 300 times since October/November 2012 on SS and 84 times on FT. Never seen it on any best seller list but I suspect to get on that SS list you need to sell 50+/week (if that list is actually updated regularly).
478
« on: May 03, 2013, 11:48 »
Something musta changed at FT. I earned more today (so far) there than I did at SS. And that's with an ODD at SS! Not a huge difference but I've not experienced that before. (Keywording in English at FT UK)
479
« on: May 01, 2013, 05:40 »
@ Gillian... yeah, it's much more entertaining to watch your own world ticking over into a better place.
Well done to you too OM. Here's to more SODs though (for you and all).
Thanks and yeah megaSOD's to all.
480
« on: May 01, 2013, 05:10 »
Congrats Mactrunk. That's a great result for 300 images. Good luck Gillian. Today you'll get into the 33 cent club and it does make a difference compared to 25 cents (it is after all ~30%) and larger than any future increase.
Pretty good month for me and a BME in downloads (310 on an average of 160 images) but less $$$ than March which was boosted by a $50 SOD and an EL. I only started on SS in June last year and have no direct monthly comparisons to make.
The only other one I'm at is FT which has picked up pretty well in the last month (since I've been uploading more). Compared to SS it's still pretty slow but not as slow as a couple of months ago.
Fast reviews (2 days or less) and 100% acceptance of recent uploads.
481
« on: April 30, 2013, 06:29 »
OMG, but what if my friend in the UK shares one of my pics on her facebook or instagram page? Have they thought of that?
these domestic rules for the internet just can't work.
It won't stay that way for long. The silly con valley lobbyists just found the fast-track route via those wunderfool people that brought you the Magna Carta. Next, the world! "The UK govt passed the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which effectively makes so-called 'orphaned' content posted on social media sites public domain. Corporations now only need to have made a "diligent search" to find the owner of the content before use. From the article: 'The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organization - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes.'" http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/177203/uk-passes-instagram-act?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feedNo doubt the money-making schemes for the swept-up (free) images have been well thought out in advance of the legislation. Old Mafia saying, "Make a law, create a business." 
482
« on: April 30, 2013, 05:38 »
Thanks for that SLP. I can't find a way of starting a new topic here with a title that might get anyone's attention......something like "ALL YOUR PHOTO's IS NOW BELONG TO US". Anyway, basically that article reports that the law in UK on copyright of photo's available online has been changed dramatically; effectively passing into law what F***Book attempted to do a few months ago but met with such outcry that they seemingly abandoned it! These guys abandon nothing, they just get 'smarter/even more devious' and get the lobbyist cq 'law-making' process to do it for them. I'll assume that getting UK law changed by lobbyists is faster, easier and cheaper than going via the US Congress route and that's why it's being done first in the UK, thus creating precedent in the jurisdiction that brought everyone the Magna Carta.....so the rest of world is about to follow! Here's the Slashdot reference to that same The Register article you posted above: The UK govt passed the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which effectively makes so-called 'orphaned' content posted on social media sites public domain. Corporations now only need to have made a "diligent search" to find the owner of the content before use. From the article: 'The Act contains changes to UK copyright law which permit the commercial exploitation of images where information identifying the owner is missing, so-called "orphan works", by placing the work into what's known as "extended collective licensing" schemes. Since most digital images on the internet today are orphans - the metadata is missing or has been stripped by a large organization - millions of photographs and illustrations are swept into such schemes http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/29/177203/uk-passes-instagram-act?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAlso interesting to see that metadata stripping of iS images for Goog was not some accidental occurrence: it was being planned ahead of the legislation which they knew was about to be passed into law.
483
« on: April 29, 2013, 16:18 »
Decent increase in dl's in the last month but I have been regularly uploading. On FT UK site. Fast reviews (1-2 days) and very few rejects. I am encouraged to upload more!
484
« on: April 28, 2013, 09:35 »
Missed out on the SODs Bonanza  but review times seem to have normalised again for me at 6-7 days. 
485
« on: April 26, 2013, 06:18 »
Yay it wasn't just me! I thought I had got the email sent out for doing something wrong and couldn't spot the problem.
Me too! Phew, just a circular! I usually do my keywording in PS Elements6 and on arrival at FT keywords stay in the same order. Same files sent to SS and the keywords appear alphabetically. It seems there has always been debate about whether organising your top 6 keywords for FT makes any difference compared to entering them alphabetically. I suppose that I have generally added them as requested by FT and not alphabetically. Consequently, I have no idea about what is true. On a separate subject: Since recently I've been uploading actively ( a few every week) to FT and sales have increased from their previous doldrums level. So that seems to work.
486
« on: April 25, 2013, 17:52 »
Couple of SS subscribers now reporting really fast reviews (6 days).
487
« on: April 24, 2013, 18:35 »
Methinks as a buyer, I might be a tad teed off at having paid a few hundred bucks for an image I could have got on SS on a subscription.
488
« on: April 20, 2013, 11:55 »
Thanks for the feedback from US contributors. Clearly my impressions of US vs RoW on review times were erroneous. Noticed on SS forum that someone in Canada today also reported a 29-day wait.
Whatever it is, the playing field is no longer as level as it used to be.
489
« on: April 20, 2013, 09:55 »
Warren. Referring to your post about getting reviewed quickly, I see that you are in the US. I get the impression, and this is not based on anything other than reading other posts on the SS forum, that US contributors are not seeing the problems that I see coming from mostly European and Asian contributors. That is just my impression.
I suppose a contractor for reviews from non-US contributors could have suffered a 'disruptive event' and that the whole process is in flux but who knows? Maybe US contributors are also experiencing long delays but not mentioning it and you just got lucky.
490
« on: April 19, 2013, 08:36 »
+1 Mantis.
The largest problem I have with these excessive review times and the corresponding terrible placement in search (as the images get buried) is that it is apparently not a level playing field.
Some contributors are reporting reviews within a week whilst others report 30+ days.
If everyone had to wait 30 days the SS image number allocation on submission would not be a problem but it would seem that this may not be the case which makes it inherently unfair to the 30-day waiting contributor and giving an unfair advantage to those lucky enough to get the <7-day review.
491
« on: April 17, 2013, 08:55 »
So, there are others waiting longer than me. What are the factors determining the fast review vs the slow review? Is it geographical location (I'm in NL/Europe)? Have contributors been 'tiered' based on past review performance (those with, say >80% acceptance go to the head of the queue)? Or is it portfolio size? Or is it completely random? Any ideas cos it ain't FIFO?
492
« on: April 17, 2013, 04:44 »
If I read the mail correctly (don't do vectors myself) a vector can be priced at 4X your max. allowed credits price for an XS jpeg file. If you are emerald, can you price an XS jpeg at 3 credits and therefore 12 for a vector?
493
« on: April 17, 2013, 03:35 »
Here's my last image submission:
Uploaded - confirmation message says - April 7th 2:22PM, approved April 15th 7:32PM file number 134286410 8 days
How's that fit with your latest submits and review? This could be interesting. RF only, no Editorial no illustrations. Enter a submit date and time, review date and time and file number. We can see if the FIFO is real or hypothetical.
Anyone with an un-reviewed RF photo file with a LOWER file number?
A load unreviewed with #1333....... from the start of the month. RF only, no editorial, no vectors. Only a re-submission in the queue but that's from a few days ago. Time to drop them a mail, methinks. OTOH don't want to jinx anything. Had a BDE in dl's yesterday (27) which surprised me considering my port is 150.
494
« on: April 16, 2013, 03:44 »
Two weeks and counting for me with only commercial images. After a previous submission, I sent them an email after 3 weeks and they reviewed them the same day. Don't really like sending emails but after 2-3 weeks the waiting gets annoying.
495
« on: April 08, 2013, 05:05 »
Top right of contributor page shows number of files submitted and number of files accepted directly under that. If, however, you remove any files after acceptance for whatever reason, the number of 'accepted' will drop accordingly. It is in fact a measure of the number of active files on line at that moment.
496
« on: March 28, 2013, 19:46 »
D80>D90>D600 (3 months ago).
Still got all of them but the difference in shots coming from the D600 compared to the D90 is amazing especially at higher ISO's. I was going to go for the D800 but thought it a bit overkill. 24Mp is enough for me. What has been said about the D800 regarding the use of DX lenses applies to the D600 as well, although I haven't really tried it. You can also program old manual Nikkor lenses into the cam to get manual metering which is a great improvement on the D90. I do have some sensor crap on the D600 but as I never use f16 or f22, I don't really see it. Besides, I'll just take it into the Nikon service centre here and get it cleaned under guarantee.
Here in NL the D600 is 1,600 and the D800 is 2,300. Having said all that, I still like the output from the D80........maybe it's the CCD sensor. It's limited but still pretty good at ISO100 and almost all my best-selling stock was taken with the D80 (accepted by SS in the last 9 months).
If you stick with DX, seems like the new D7100 is the one to go for. Now I have to get a new computer for the D600 as Nikon NX2 doth turn exceeding slow on my single processor desktop!
497
« on: March 24, 2013, 09:19 »
Full time photographer but only around 15% income per year comes from stock. Could use more commissioned work as that's the fastest way to get income but acquiring new clients is a difficult business in this economy. For me, stock was only intended to supplement my meagre pension which I'm due to receive in a couple of years but with SS doing relatively well for me with a small port, I'm thinking of investing more energy into stock and less into trying to find new clients. Although, I'll still keep working until I drop!
498
« on: March 15, 2013, 19:06 »
I'm a newbie at SS (since June 2012) and I should really only count from August (first month with regular sales) but my average to date of sales from subs is 48%. So 52% comes from ODD's, SOD's and EL's. In November I was lucky to get 2 big SOD's for $50+ and that certainly boosted the average.
100% photo's, no vectors, no clips, no people. I think luck has had a lot to do with it!
499
« on: March 14, 2013, 19:12 »
Not only a waste of time but appealing to equipment snobs and subject to EXIF fraud...it' easy!
Find a file on-line taken with your desired (but unaffordable) camera, copy it into PS, duplicate it as layer, delete the pic info from that layer to get a transparent layer, delete original and save the transparent layer and paste your image taken with El-Cheapo cam onto it and the EXIF will show that it was made with eg D800 or whatever.
A colleague showed me how it was done after he sent a file purportedly coming from a Canon 5D MkII whilst it was in fact taken with a 40D.
Here's one taken with a D800 taken at 11.30pm on a January evening in NL! In reality a stitched pano with a D80 and 18-55mm kit lens.
Ah well, the EXIF data doesn't appear to be available so this is it from PSE Dutch Version.
500
« on: March 11, 2013, 18:58 »
Reviewing slowed considerably in the past fortnight for me but perhaps not for others.
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