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Messages - mino216
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« on: April 30, 2020, 03:09 »
I have submitted more than 130 files to BB. Used to have almost one sale a month, but with such a small portfolio, it is more about luck. It is beneficial for European customers to get videos to P5 without dealing with VAT (P5 pays from Ireland, BB payment are not). Nevertheless, complete lack of control is convincing me to stop submitting there. So, no videos at P5 for me anymore as I really want to know where are my files, why they have been rejected...
There is one more very interesting thing. Basically all my files (95%?) were accepted through BB to P5 but almost none (5%?) were accepted at SS, the last one maybe... a year ago. When I am submitting videos to SS using my personal account, my acceptace ratio is much much much much bigger. How it can be possible with similar quality of videos? So, for me, it is question of having videos at P5 and nothing at SS with 15% cut or at SS (but not on P5) without a cut but not on both platforms.
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« on: April 12, 2020, 11:17 »
Not sure I understand what you are trying to say?..I reached Emerald about six month's before the Adobe takeover and was earning very well indeed. Adobe came along and after two month my income was down by 50% and I wasn't alone I spoke to at least a dozen members in my position and it was all the same down by 50% the sales started to go to lower members with a lower royalty percentage....Adobe treats Fotolia as a side-kick thats all.
Once again. Because YOU are getting less money on Adobe does not mean that EVERYBODY does and that the agency was ruined and it is a side-kick (it has been integrated to Photoshop and other Creative Cloud apps,...). It is true that for some people, the direction of Adobe Stock is not great, but for many people it is opposite. The polls here are also showing the fact that Shutterstock which was way higher than Fotolia, is nowadays comparable. So, it does not seem that you are true. If Adobe is failing than all others are failing much faster. For example, for me, Adobe Stock extremely improved in recent times and is far better than SS. But I am not saying that Adobe is better than SS only because it is true in MY case.
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« on: April 09, 2020, 16:25 »
I do not experience rejections is such an amount. In fact, it seems that they are less strict than they used to be few weeks ago. Nevertheless, there are still very strange rejections sometimes (the sharpest images from batch are rejected as not in focus).
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« on: April 08, 2020, 12:03 »
In a sense Adobe is worse then SS. Fotolia was great for me then came Adobe and wrecked a good agency. I had reached Emerald at Fotolia but that meant nothing when Adobe took over.
No, they have not wrecked it. It is just not better for you but that does not mean that it is worse for everybody. Many other contributors are happy with the performance of Adobe Stock (including me).
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« on: March 11, 2020, 09:59 »
The flu has been around for thousands of years and has spread to every corner of the world... this strain of Coronavirus hasn't. Yet. It's estimate that 700m to 1.4bn people got infected with swine flu in 2009. If the same amount of people get infected with Covid-19, and the mortality rate is 3.4%, then that means 24m to 48m are going to die before this is over... and it's still in the millions if it is 1%. Although panic isn't the best approach, I think it's a good idea to be concerned.
We have done a small research with my students and created a chart in Excel comparing infections, deaths and mortality rate of bird flu, MERS, SARS, COVID-19 and swine flu. COVID-19 is (so far) absolutely nothing special and nicely fits to mathematical and statistical properties of these diseases. Higher the mortality rate, smaller the number of infections and total deaths. But the number of deaths is increasing with the decreasing the mortality rate (the number of infections is rising faster than the mortality is decreasing - if the mortality is 1000x smaller, the number of infections can be for example 100000x higher totally causing more deaths - swine flu was a very mild one which killed hundreds of thousands people whereas bird flu was almost sentence of death but it has totally killed less than 500 people). COVID-19 is one of the less severe diseases. In the terms of revenue at microstock, I can see mild drop at AS, brutal at 123RF. Otherwise, it is pretty stable.
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« on: March 09, 2020, 05:42 »
Sorry if this was discussed before, I have this note on my dashboard to redeem my creative cloud code.
Is this for last year and automated for everyone? I haven't asked for it, so I don't know how it works?
It is the last year code, at least in my case. When I tried to use it, it has alerted me that it was already activated in the past.
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« on: February 20, 2020, 01:36 »
I was increasing the size of my portfolio in recent months significantly and SS is just at the same level for the whole year. On the other hand, all other agencies were rising up thanks to the increased size of my portfolio... so, there is something wrong with SS in my case as well. But it is a long term problem, it is just stagnating. Nothing weird has happened in few last days.
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« on: January 24, 2020, 17:18 »
I have these strange "refunds" as well. Not very pleasant surprise.
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« on: January 10, 2020, 17:12 »
Footage rejections at Shutterstock are totally random, at least it seems it is like that. I have some iPhone footage accepted (even if it is not totally noiseless) and lot of videos from great full frame camera rejected for noise (and there is really no noise). Basically, I would recommend to shoot at 4K with iPhone and submit that as Full HD.
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« on: January 09, 2020, 11:34 »
The problem with ridiculous rejection here as well. I used to have almost 100% acceptance rate at Shutterstock, now it is slightly lower at cca 80-85%. But I really do not get some of the rejections. Images with motion blur are almost impossible to get accepted. It is not in focus. How should it be when the purpose of the image is to be blurred? Images in hyperfocal distance, everything sharp from the closest pixel to the farthest one. Again, main object not in focus. What? How come? So I decrease resolution approx. by 25%, sharpen it and try again.
Nevertheless, it is not extremely common. But videos, that is completely different story. From 85 % I am at maybe... 10%? And the rejection reasons are just totally ridiculous. The images are getting accepted but videos from the same spot are not from totally unrelated reasons. I am really expecting that the next reason for rejection of the video will be something like "there is motion in your video". It would really not surprise me.
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« on: December 28, 2019, 03:12 »
I have 0.24 sales in my case. Unpleasant surprise.
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« on: December 20, 2019, 06:09 »
BigStockPhoto. One has to choose each photo separately (if not using FTP) and it changes the language of the site every single time. Grrrrh. If I set English, I want English an English only and not to be reset to different (my native) language each time. The most annoying part is that I have to set English several times when it finally decides to switch to English which was requested long time ago. And when I upload again, English is gone again. At least the sales are not so bad.
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« on: December 04, 2019, 10:41 »
Stop throwing misleads. It looks miserable. It's just overpriced phone with lots of uneeded tech for true photographer.
I even bet that iphone11 can't beat Nokia 808 from 2012 in terms of provided resolution. It is not a surprise, because of pathetic 1/2.55" sized sensor.
ps. Huawei Mate 30 Pro and Xiaomi Mi Note 10 are more intersting stuff though.
I have made a short test ( https://www.zonerama.com/Mino21/Album/5836185?secret=56b6b14e395b4164afffce0a131843c01hl8RXfvi7). I have Nokia 808 and iPhone SE which has even smaller 1/3" sensor. There are images in native resolution, then all images converted to 12 MPx and all images converted to 38 MPx. As you can see, Nokia has better resolution which is not surprising, but I would not say that it is extreme difference (especially with the set of images with shops in archs). If you shoot RAW with iPhone, you can get quite nice images, especially if you are careful with exposure (Lightroom has underexposed the images) because iPhone has sharper lens than Nokia. If I should choose which smartphone to use for microstock, I would take iPhone instead of Nokia 808. Even though Nokia has slightly better resolution and ND filter, iPhone has much better DR and colors.
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« on: December 02, 2019, 09:30 »
It's all about AI...i don't think any human being can be so inconsistent and stupid on curation...
I don't believe AI can be inconsistent. It is not one reviewer. Seems to me the quality control on reviewers is broken. If reviewers receive next to no training or supervision and are required to review at a ridiculous pace I wouldn't be surprised if some go bat dropping crazy.
Because you do not know how AI works. AI should be consistent in a real world but especially when it is still learning, it is not. If you have trained it on million images, it is still posiible that even one additional image incorporated to the learning can break what was already working (change the decision for images which have been on the borderline and they do not even have to have anything in common with the new one because of all the dependencies - one changed weight in the system will influence other...).
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« on: November 23, 2019, 01:49 »
It will extend it (move the billing date one year further). Mat has already answered it several times. So, I have my Photoshop for free until September 2021  It does not work that way if you have codes for different plans. In such a case, they run in parallel
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« on: November 17, 2019, 01:57 »
There is also a possibility that default app takes multiple exposures behind the curtain and combining them for optimal results.
Yes, that is exactly what it does.
Very interesting, would be fun to try myself. The resulting 8-bit image could indeed retain more usable information than the RAW file, but what would be REALLY cool is if the phone could output a 16-bit TIFF from the multiple exposures! Can it do that?
Anyway, for still subjects this could work great, but as always, for fast moving subjects you would run into trouble. Try doing "computational photography" of a bird flying across the frame...
Adobe Lightroom does exactly that, 16bit HDR files from three exposures. Just change PRO mode to HDR. The DR will be great but the resolution (sharpness) will be a little bit lower than with single exposure RAW files.
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« on: November 17, 2019, 01:54 »
Maybe it is not so bad in terms of dynamic range. But in terms of pure resolution it is cr#p.
1/2.55 size explains all. Nokia 808 with its 1/1.2 still on the top.
The thing is that the sensor in Nokia 808 is horrible, especially in DR. BTW, some smartphones today gave a big 1/1.33 sensors (the new Samsung 108MPx sensor). I would say that todays smartphone far exceeds Nokia in noise, resolution, DR and delth of field as well (it was F2.4 only).
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« on: October 16, 2019, 08:07 »
Not in my case. I am selling both old and new images. To be honest, new images are selling better than the old ones.
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« on: October 11, 2019, 12:46 »
It does not show views in my case as well.
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« on: October 10, 2019, 16:42 »
No problems here. Try another browser, clear cookie cache...
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« on: October 06, 2019, 06:44 »
Great news. I knew that it would be available for Silver sooner than I would have reached Gold :-)
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« on: September 16, 2019, 15:23 »
In my case, I usually sell new photos and not the old ones. Of course, there are some exceptions, but I am usually selling images from 2018 and 2019 (on SS since 2007)
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« on: September 16, 2019, 08:44 »
I really do not get it. The company is giving some of its contributors free software (nobody forced Adobe to do so and it is not its obligation) and so many people are complaining and considering it as fail etc.
Of course, it would be fine if there is an illustrator bonus program as well and/or ability to purchase various Adobe softwares separately instead of buying all applications at once (why one cannot buy Photoshop/Illustrator or Photoshop/Premiere bundle at some reasonable price...) but to consider not giving free software for all as a fail? I do not think so.
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« on: September 06, 2019, 06:49 »
Great news :-) Still, with my 3000 sales a long way to go, but definitely much closer :-)
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« on: August 21, 2019, 00:49 »
It has worked. I have contacted the support (the Adobe Stock support), they promised me a new key and in two days, the new key was in my inbox. I have applied that and even though it was set correctly, it still has been showing that my next billing is next week for a while. After few hours, everything corrected itself and now it is showing that the next billing is in September 2020. Great. Thanks, Adobe :-)
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