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Messages - jacoblund
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« on: April 25, 2017, 14:06 »
Ever since I've signed up here and probably going forward over the next many years this topic has been an ongoing thing. People complaining about a lack of sales.
When in comes to stock photography or photography in general, or even life in general there's a pretty simple rule: Great work usually gives you great returns. It's really not that complicated.
yes, clever umbrella statement forgetting that the drop people see is sudden and that they did have a steady income, why is my work overnight not so great anymore?
It's a numbers game and it's controlled by supply and demand. And like any other business in this world you have to stay on top of the game to be relevant. Car companies can't just design a car, put it on the market, lean back and relax till the end of days. Do you think stock photographers can do that?
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« on: April 24, 2017, 15:49 »
Ever since I've signed up here and probably going forward over the next many years this topic has been an ongoing thing. People complaining about a lack of sales.
When in comes to stock photography or photography in general, or even life in general there's a pretty simple rule: Great work usually gives you great returns. It's really not that complicated.
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« on: April 24, 2017, 15:40 »
I haven't experienced a correlation between file resolution and sales. Have had very succesfull images shot on GoPro Hero 3.
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« on: April 15, 2017, 09:58 »
Photosis: Try selling sand in the Sahara dessert and you'll probably get same results.
Find out what customers need, or find out how you can offer something unique. Then you'll see sales coming your way.
Hey buddy 
Yo! 
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« on: April 13, 2017, 11:11 »
Photosis: Try selling sand in the Sahara dessert and you'll probably get same results.
Find out what customers need, or find out how you can offer something unique. Then you'll see sales coming your way.
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« on: February 02, 2016, 10:49 »
To answer the original question...
No, it can no longer be done.
Unless you have a time machine and can take your port from today and go back to upload it in 2005.
Look at the numbers today. SS increased its overall portfolio by more than 50% in the past year. And at this rate of growth, they might soon be doubling every year. Even Yuri and the like must be struggling to hold on to a fraction of what they once earned.
Someone starting today is a microscopic drop in an ocean that widens every day.
It can definitely be done. But there's no such thing as easy money. Nowhere. But if you are willing to work hard everything is possible. But hard work means really committing 100% of your life to making it happen. EDIT: And.. If you do it for the money I'll say that the chances of success are absolute minimal. You should do it for the love of photography or for the love of being creative.
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« on: September 30, 2015, 09:13 »
After reading more and more of this conspiracy theories I have to state my opinion:
I have worked in Law Enforcement for several years. One thing you learn with experience is when something "smells suspicious" and when it doesn't'. A good rule of thumb is to think like the person who you suspect. Think what would his motivation be of doing this "crime" and is there any motivation at all. In this case the suspect is Shutterstock. Does Shutterstock have anything to win on putting a daily cap on peoples earnings? If they had would the win be worth the time of making an advanced algorithm to put a daily cap on peoples earnings? In my opinion. No. No. And no! The aim of Shutterstock to make as much profit of their portfolio of images as possible. I believe the approach of Shutterstock is to let the search algorithm do the work based on customer behavior whereas Stocksy for example has a more curated approach. I'm pretty sure the Shutterstock search algorithm is prioritizing images based on popularity of images and that the search is differentiated based on location. And let's say that evil Shutterstock did but a cap on your earnings - there would be nothing you could do about it. My point is: Stop worrying about conspiracies. Shoot more pictures. 
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« on: July 24, 2015, 07:28 »
I have recently acquired a Contax T3 35mm film camera. That's an amazing point and shoot camera and I'm planning to use it both for private pictures but I'll probably also try shooting a bit for Stocksy on this one.
The biggest issue is that developing of film to a CD costs approx. 45 USD here in Copenhagen. That's crazy expensive. A guy from the camera store recommended me to buy a OpticFilm 8200i Ai. That's a dedicated negative scanner. Anyone who has any experiences with this machine?
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« on: March 20, 2015, 06:17 »
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« on: March 20, 2015, 05:46 »
I really appreciate your help - but this ExifTool software is not the most user friendly!  I think I'll try to find a software developer to help me out.. 
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« on: March 20, 2015, 05:00 »
imagesbykenny: Of course that makes sense - but it's not the solution for my workflow. The thing is that I'm outsourcing the keywording process. We have challenges with sending big amounts of data so I need to send low-res jpegs for the person keywording. These needs to be transferred to the high-res JPEG afterwards.
bunhill: Thanks. Filenames will be the same. Are you able to write scripts like this?
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« on: March 20, 2015, 04:02 »
Hi guys, Do any of you know if there is some software or easy way of transferring metadata from one batch of images to another? So let's say you have 50 different JPEG images with titles, description and keywords. You want to transfer this to a set of 50 TIFF images. Of course I know it's possible to easy sync or write metadata to a large batch - but the challenge here is that the metadata of every image is unique. I hope you understand my question! Kind regards, Jacob
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« on: May 01, 2014, 11:33 »
I see no reason to dislike Alamy. When we are discussing which agencies we like and which we dislike - it often comes down to the question whether the agency pays a fair royalty to the contributor.
I have had $ 455 USD sales on Alamy.com with a $ 227 USD royalty for me. That's for the same image Fotolia tries to sell on DPC for $ 1 USD with a royalty of 0.29 USD to me.
So I would have to make 782 DPC sales to match the royalty i received from 1 sale on Alamy.com.
THAT makes it worthwhile for me to be on Alamy.
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« on: April 29, 2014, 12:53 »
I just got blocked from DPC's Facebook page for helping out a customer with his problems.
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« on: April 29, 2014, 09:24 »
Good news: I just got a reply on the mail I sent to Pressmaster. It's answered by Pavel Orekhov from Pressmaster. He's writes that they are in on this and that they requested Fotolia to remove their 45.000 files from DPC.
It's great to see that we actually have the power to change things when we stand together. Thanks to our russian "colleagues" for making the initiative for this!
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« on: April 28, 2014, 08:35 »
Just got a message from Andresr. He's in!
From Boycotfotolia.org:
28-04-2014 17:13:50 Name: Andresr
Will remove 34000 out of 34000 works on the 1st May.
Comment: The dollar photoclub is the worst thing that has happened to us, its time all these taking advantage of photographers stops.
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« on: April 28, 2014, 06:06 »
We should do our best to get the big microstock contributors in on this! I have sent emails to some of the big ones today including Pressmaster, MonkeyBusiness and Andres Rodriguez. Together they have more than 100.000 images on Dollarphotoclub.
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« on: April 27, 2014, 16:40 »
In the meantime if you do not want your images sold through Dollar Photo Club send your request via a Fotolia customer support ticket and you will be manually removed.
I wrote fotolia support and was told that I would have to deactivate my images if I wanted them removed from Dollar Photo Club. Has that policy changed?
Yes.
At this point Matt's response is accurate. I just asked to be opted out and this is FT's response.
"Dollar Photo Club is an excellent way to drive traffic to your portfolio and increase sales. Sales on Dollar Photo Club result in an immediate subscription commission to your Fotolia account. That being said, we respect your decision to opt out at this time and your request in being processed.
Please allow up to 3 business days for your portfolio to be removed and be sure to let us know should you change your mind.
Kind regards,
Fotolia CS USA"
We'll see what happens, but this only happened because of the uproar, not because they were always crafting an opt out option. It is a small win for us artists at least.
I have received the same message from them this evening! Let's see if they are removing the images.
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« on: April 27, 2014, 04:26 »
Let's get heard! We should spread the message on social networks. I guess the chance of making an impact on the people of Fotolia is bigger by spreading the word on social networks. Retweet the newest tweet here: https://twitter.com/Ammentorp or make your own tweet or Facebook update!
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« on: April 26, 2014, 04:17 »
I'm willing to join in on this project!
But guys please get the site boycottfotolia.org translated into English if you want people to join in on this! I would share the site if it was in English!
UPDATE:
I just messaged Fotolia notifying them that I have stopped contributing images to their database until they give us an opportunity to opt out of the Dollarphotoclub partnership.
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« on: April 11, 2014, 03:44 »
I have a different opinion on this. Looking from the buyers perspective - the probably want the highest resolution they can get. So if they buy some images from KerinF and realize that all the images they get from him are too small - the might remember that and go for another contributor next time (if they have the choice). I think you should strive to make the image buyers happy.. A happy customer is likely to return!
A couple of months ago I sold 8 extended licenses from a specific shoot on one day. It was sold to a beauty magazine because they loved the series of images that much. I don't think that would have happened if all the files wasn't high res.
On the other hand - if a good image gets rejected due to focus issues then I think it's worth trying to downsize and reupload. But only on rejections!
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« on: March 28, 2014, 12:10 »
grsphoto I think it's a relevant question. I thought about trying that myself once. It could probably give a few extra downloads to some images. But the question is - is it worth the time?
I think you should see all the time you use as an investment. And I believe that investing time in shooting new images will pay of much better than "micro-managing" your stock portfolio.
i agree. i was thinking of images that i will never be able to reproduce....
I understand - but my point that it's still better to produce new images. Not trying to reproduce.
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« on: March 28, 2014, 10:05 »
grsphoto I think it's a relevant question. I thought about trying that myself once. It could probably give a few extra downloads to some images. But the question is - is it worth the time?
I think you should see all the time you use as an investment. And I believe that investing time in shooting new images will pay of much better than "micro-managing" your stock portfolio.
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« on: December 10, 2013, 03:45 »
Thanks for the kind words everyone. Still no word back yet, though... and it's officially been a month. Does anyone have some insight they'd be able to share?
Thanks in advance,
Paul "Pete" Tessier
tessierphotography.com
Hi Pete! First of all. Nice portfolio. I'm in the same position as you. I got accepted and was requested to send in full-res sample images. So I did in the beginning of October. After I while I got impatient and wrote the support and asked when I would get more information, and I got this answer: "Hi Jacob,
Thank you so much for your patience.
In all honesty, we've been overwhelmed with the interest from photographers to join our co-operative and are currently going through all of these applications. There's no particular reason for the delay on your submission other than the backlog we're currently facing. We're a small team with a very limited number of memberships available so we're trying to be as thorough as possible with each request.
We'll notify you as soon as we've had a chance to review your submission.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
Rob"So I guess - all we can do is wait!
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