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« on: March 26, 2015, 11:26 »
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« on: March 26, 2015, 08:28 »
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« on: March 25, 2015, 22:51 »
Is it just me?
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« on: March 24, 2015, 15:24 »
No actually pretty smart. See since this was our playground we respected the trains and knew what they could do and what the consequences were, we paid attention to everything on the tracks. Me and Jimmy used to play chicken with the trains by running in front of them and seeing who was going to jump out of the way first. Now the Federal Rail authority wants to figure out what they can do to keep people off the tracks? This is no different then any kid growing up in any large city in the US they play on the street with cars, buses and more, cross without using a crosswalk, walk on the wrong side of the road, run red lights, drive on the wrong side of the road etc. So has there been anyone paying attention to those people and the death stats for them? Doubt it. But it is no different than anyone on the tracks, just as dangerous if not more dangerous because there are way more streets,highways and interstates then there are tracks. Well we had a spot where we raced quite a few trains as we were growing up as teenagers down along the river.
There was a spot that crossed the road with no gate just the RR X's with lights and man did we raceem!
Of course this was in the day of the MUSCLE CARS, Big & small block powerhouses cranking out some serious horsepower and torque!
And of course before we drove we jumped onto the trains and rode on the side of the car or in an open car.
Yep and we all survived it and then some.
I just have to quote someone on this point...
"Stupid is a stupid does" 
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« on: March 23, 2015, 20:55 »
Well we had a spot where we raced quite a few trains as we were growing up as teenagers down along the river. There was a spot that crossed the road with no gate just the RR X's with lights and man did we raceem! Of course this was in the day of the MUSCLE CARS, Big & small block powerhouses cranking out some serious horsepower and torque! And of course before we drove we jumped onto the trains and rode on the side of the car or in an open car. Yep and we all survived it and then some. That one too, maybe it will wake up some people?
Seems there's a recent fad of taking photos on train tracks or near them. Yeah, I like trains, but I don't think that's why it's popular now. 
As for beating the train, that comes from the old movies, just like the modern chase scenes. Then people don't understand "it's a movie" if you do these things in a car, like the chases, you will crash in seconds. You can't go through a chain link gate and keep driving. You can't jump a hill and land, without breaking the suspension, in most cases, run into anything, like a curb and you have a flat.
Racing a train at a crossing is a losing game. Is saving two minutes worth dying for?
Sad:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/midnight-rider-director-train-accident-will-haunt-me-forever-20150321
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« on: March 20, 2015, 16:07 »
Stupid is as stupid does.
Man the tracks along the river were our playgrounds as kids and even when we were older in our teens and twenties!
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« on: March 20, 2015, 13:59 »
Very limited few SSer's are on Offset that is a whole nother ballgame and should have it's own area like everyone else does.
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« on: March 17, 2015, 12:20 »
Forget all about the rest and check out this one. http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/what-premier-select-means-for-shutterstock-contributorsLots of questions yet to be answered. March 16, 2015 Already having been rolled out and being tested by certain individuals? Anyone know the whos, whats, wheres, whens? Looks like an exclusive group so far, and after that they will choose who gets in? Where can we go look at this collection and the select few artists that have been chosen?
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« on: March 15, 2015, 17:17 »
Still is the same nothing changed except it doesn't say 25 a day. Other than a frigging tweet where has SS the company said anything about it? Not on the home page and not on the FB page or even the tiwtter page? Hmmm? Basic Pay As You Go Great prices on multi-image packs 2 Images $29 5 Images $49 25 Images $229 Images must be downloaded within one year of purchase Professional Subscribe and Save Try our most popular plan and get 750 images a month, every month 1 YearSAVE 20% $199/month 3 MonthsSAVE 8% $229/month 1 Month $249 Free Browse Account Search our collection of over 50 million images Create and share unlimited lightboxes All Images are Standard License. Need images for merchandise or print runs over 250,000? View Enhanced License Plans 25 a day for 30 days is 750.
And nowhere has SS said anything.
A client on Twitter mentioned he purchased a package and SS acknowledged it. Are you saying you missed that in your daily routine of reading the entire internet ?
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« on: March 15, 2015, 16:26 »
25 a day for 30 days is 750.
And nowhere has SS said anything.
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« on: March 12, 2015, 21:46 »
If there is a way to write a collective letter (email) to the Shutterstock management I am ready to sign it
(Is there a way to do that?)
Sure there is. You draft up a letter in word then sign at the bottom, it would need to be posted on a blog available for all to sign and then once completed then it could be sent to SS with all of the signatures.
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« on: March 12, 2015, 18:18 »
Yep everything 100% complete BS OOF my ass!
Sent SS a big letter and told them they may want to look at this thread and gave them the link to it.Also questioned us being used as guinea pigs for some software or hardware program they may be trying out and told them to trash it and then some.
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« on: March 11, 2015, 09:37 »
You just know she did this on purpose and that there will be a pending lawsuit blaming the RR company for some god almighty reason!
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« on: March 09, 2015, 22:49 »
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« on: March 08, 2015, 15:51 »
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« on: March 05, 2015, 17:35 »
good days, bad days
Sounds like a Led Zep song.
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« on: February 28, 2015, 22:23 »
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« on: February 25, 2015, 09:35 »
Do you mean?
What skill do you need to improve your workflow?
Or?
What skills do you have that improve your workflow?
The way you worded the question makes no sense?
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« on: February 24, 2015, 17:25 »
Tyler asked and said before to please post a link to threads you are discussing that there is a link to so here it is. http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145571&start=0Thing is this is all old news! SS moved into the ESB easily a year ago and everyone knew all about this and the pizza and game and massage rooms as well! Thing with all the microstock people that are the ones complining is they never worked a real job in their life! Some 90%-95% of the micro photogs work for themselves and never had a job where they were on a timeclock or piecerate or salaried! Google offers this and then some for their employees as do many companies in the real world anymore because they have found out that happy employees are more productive and better overall for the company! Once all of you micro photogs work as a blue collar worker as an employee for a company that doesn't offer these kind of benefits for 20 or so years and then you see these offers from companies you too would want to work for them. So stop your crying because someone has what you don't have and do something about it! All you full time self employed photogs set your own hours and do whatever you want when and how you want with no one to have to report to! SS offers this as a perk for employees who do their job they get paid to do and they have someone to report to unlike you all do! Being in the work force my entire life I would love to have had the chance to work for or with a company that treated their employees with a little respect and dignity and offered these type of company perks unlike many do. The only ones you have to blame for your expenses going up are yourselves. Micro cost should be dam near nothing for dam near any shoot you do.
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« on: February 23, 2015, 19:38 »
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« on: February 23, 2015, 12:00 »
And who is gonna regulate the Speeders that Honda is making?
Will it be DMV or the FAA?
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« on: February 23, 2015, 10:33 »
Yeah big difference between Drones which are primarily Military armed 1/2 scale unmanned aircraft compared to the general public's tiny little model aircraft! That's what I was trying to say before. Also I did write that the little ones will barely carry a GoPro or extra battery pack. The big expensive ones are a different problem.
Commercial use, units with heavy lifting or larger mass themselves, should be regulated. Hobby use, even one of us shooting with a sport camera, is just having some fun.
The commercial label just confuses things terribly.
Lets say "Professional Photography" and now I want people to explain who's a professional or not. Then go back to "Commercial" and tell me, someone making 28 cents is a professional doing commercial work?
Let me straighten out what I'm writing. The size of the craft and the weight, is more important than labeling someone who makes a photo for sale as commercial. That's not the same as a TV camera flying over some news scene. Defining the USE, doesn't change the person at the controls, or make them more responsible or less responsible.
Don't prejudge.
It seems to me that people using UAVs commercially (like myself) are more likely to be responsible and to have insurance than hobbyists. It feels like the FAA is focusing the regulation in the wrong direction.
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« on: February 21, 2015, 23:30 »
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There is an easy way to fix just the glass but since you all are a buncha SA's I am sure you can figure it out on your own.
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« on: February 21, 2015, 11:11 »
On a recent Shuttertalk live they said they have 200 reviewers. I used to think this was one of the Microstock Myths. "Avoid Weekend Reviews they are random and seem to be full of rogue reviewers"
Until I had two recent weekends where I uploaded on Friday and they got reviewed on Sunday and had the strange, alternating rejections. One would be "overused of sharpening" the next, "soft at full size", then back to the first, Etc.
These were all shot in the same sequence, same settings, same day, same camera, same editing process. And PS I almost never sharpen anything, except if it's some lettering or tiny part of a design that I want to bring up. Never a whole image!
So I'm a believer now and I won't every upload on Friday again. The images sit for two days and get rejected on Sunday. Weekdays the same type and images, pass 100% (except when I screw up and do send one that's bad. I accept those rejections as advise, and the photos hit the trash)
If there are really 1000 reviewers and probably a turnover. And they are required to work some weekends (as the job application says) What we appear to have is people who work more on weekends, and the regular reviewers might be staff in NY who work mostly weekdays.
It's too bad that there's no way for us to send a message to whoever monitors the reviewers, when these random rejections come though in a suspicious batch, or when the rogue reviewer is apparently just making some quick money blasting a batch.
These reviewers cause double the work for us and cost the company money as the same images must be sent through a second time, with editing or with a note from above.
I don't mind an honest rejection. Even when it's a close call or some nit picking. But I find it terrible that many of us are finding these batch rejections, with inconsistent reasons and sometimes apparently random technical issues.
Who reviews the reviewers?
From my point of view there are no better days.
But personally I avoid to upload Friday, Saturday and Sunday as weekend inspectors seem to prefer to drink beer and smoke weed with their friends than to do their job correctly (I mean that you have more chance to get an inconsistent rejection during the weekend than during the week)
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