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« on: October 28, 2019, 17:38 »
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« on: October 17, 2019, 16:40 »
The future is movie quality footage and stills.
Yes, lot of expenses, but i know several people doing well, so...
I afraid the same will happen with videos in a very close future (2-3 years) as it is happening now with images. However I am shooting more and more videos now, and it really pays off. Videos give me 3-5 times more profit when compared with photos from the same trip. But it takes me 1-2 weeks to post process all the videos, and 1-2 months to do the same with the images. And video sales went from 0 to 600-700$ a month very quickly. Of course it is not comparable with my photo portfolio, nevertheless it looks promising.
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« on: September 19, 2019, 03:50 »
Replay is not available? I missed the beginning, and wanted to replay it, but nothing happens when I hit the Play button 
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« on: September 14, 2019, 13:49 »
It seems to me Dreamstime fall started with their "submit only the best from the series we accept no similars" policy. Rings a bell, huh? 
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« on: August 13, 2019, 14:18 »
Finally I have it - -0.62$ per image! Now we pay iStock, not vice versa
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« on: August 12, 2019, 04:54 »
first you need to define the tasks you need the camera for and your requirements. Do you really need the full frame (are you going to shoot a lot of portraits or night photos), are you going to shoot the video (Canon is inferior in this respect), do you really need the best available autofocus, etc. Personally I wouldn't go with new mirrorless cameras from Canon and Nikon. They are pretty immature yet. I believe they need one more iteration to get rid of all flaws. Besides Canon lenses for R system are very expensive. As for me after 9 years with full frame Canon I switched to Fujifilm X system, which is APSC in tough weather sealed body with great video capabilities, and I am pretty happy with it  . It has the image quality that matches 5D Mark IV to say the least, far better 4K video, costs (including lenses) 1.5-2 times less, which makes it a great travel camera. But if I was shooting portraits and no video, most likely I would have chosen Canon. If I was shooting only landscapes I would go with something else. So you see, it all depends.
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« on: August 07, 2019, 14:54 »
I do full-time for the last 10 year .
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« on: August 05, 2019, 13:30 »
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« on: August 03, 2019, 05:22 »
Well, if you a getting your lens hit by stones from speeding cars, then it is wise to protect your lens with a filter.
Otherwise a lens hood will suffice. For 10+ years of travel photography I've had a scratch only once - not sure how, but I believe it happened when a small stone got between lens and lens cap.
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« on: July 30, 2019, 14:08 »
Were you using a lens hood?
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« on: June 30, 2019, 16:47 »
I downloaded the demo version yesterday and was disappointed. No real improvement in speed nor quality using it on Davinci Resolve 15 Studio. The Flickr and Noise reduction work quite well and I would say are faster than Neat Video 5. But I have to say that I also did not dig enough to see if I could improve results but speed wise it is quite slow.
I have an i7 8700 32gb Ram and Nvidia GTX 1070. with SSD disks
Interesting...
I have not tried with DVR, I use it with After Effects and Premiere Pro.
I have a computer with similar specs to yours and I have no speed issues at all
I believe Davinci Resolve noise reduction is good enough on its own (it well worth the extra $300 that you pay for full paid version of DVR), so NeatVideo doesn't really shine in comparison (though it is a kind of hack - you can use a free version of Resolve and buy NeatVideo for noise reduction, and save $200). On the other hand all Adobe products have a lot of flaws and miss a lot of features so you have to buy plugins, panels and actions to make them functional. For me Davinci Resolve NR does a great job. I shoot night videos like this https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1032129905-famous-greek-tourist-landmark---iconic-athens and they are accepted and sold.
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« on: December 18, 2018, 18:11 »
we won! (almost  ) We recently sent an email regarding a change in the commission structure at Alamy where the commission contributors receive for direct sales will change from 50% to 40% in February 2019.
After careful review, and taking into consideration photographer feedback, we have come to the decision that images exclusive to Alamy will remain at 50%.
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« on: November 07, 2018, 13:08 »
one more "pearl" from them: Markets have changed and free sites are getting more and more downloads and are a threat to our business.
We think there is a long tail of customers who are using free who can be happy to pay for top images if it is reasonably priced and such people are many . This is who we target . Also we want to keep amount of contributors low in order to increase revenues for each of them . You will always keep your revenue with others, Onepixel will be a new revenue stream .
and for my business the threat is the agencies who are going to sell my work for less then others to customers who want free images, but agree to pay a negligible amount to license top images.
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« on: November 07, 2018, 09:11 »
they are in a desperate need for contents, and has contacted me again.
I understand your time is precious, and we respect that. We made the upload really easy and fast, in few hours the work will be done.
Weare not offering an upfront payment, but are inviting you to join a very selected collection, where the profits will be shared among few Contributors only.
We are about to launch, it would be great to be able to display also your images. We gathered the very best of the Stock production. and again, but this time this was Chad "THE CHAD" Bridwell who contacted me. I asked if he was the one behind the Dollar Photo Club, this was the answer: Yes part of the team is very experienced people in that market. We all have learnt from our mistakes so it can only be better. Best artists are already on Onepixel, you will not regret it if you join. I still don't understand the difference between Onepixel with 1$ for image and DPC with the same price.
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« on: October 30, 2018, 15:56 »
DaVinic Resolve is an amazing tool!
In free version you don't have Noise reduction and motion blur (and no 10-bit video which is less important).
But you need a good video card for it to work - at least 4Gb of video memory, better 6Gb and 8-11Gb to really enjoy editing.
When compared to After Effects DaVinci is much faster and offers better workflow.
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« on: October 12, 2018, 13:40 »
they are in a desperate need for contents, and has contacted me again. I understand your time is precious, and we respect that. We made the upload really easy and fast, in few hours the work will be done.
Weare not offering an upfront payment, but are inviting you to join a very selected collection, where the profits will be shared among few Contributors only.
We are about to launch, it would be great to be able to display also your images. We gathered the very best of the Stock production.
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« on: October 04, 2018, 13:11 »
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« on: September 13, 2018, 11:22 »
If I am not mistaken I have read something like the following (the name of the stock agency was not mentioned but I assume it was Shutterstock) by anonymous microstock reviewer: before an image comes to a human reviewer (and what is interesting, reviewers work in pairs), it is assessed by some kind of AI that gives it one of the statuses: Rejected, Likely to be rejected, Likely to be accepted (I am not sure about the first one, but quite sure about the 2nd and 3rd). So it is possible that the reviwer doesn't even check the image if it has "Rejected" or "Likely to be rejected" status. Sounds realistic, IMHO I was thinking to start similar topic.
Few days ago i uploaded some Italian vineyard aerial shots, and two sunset shots i was almost sure they will reject (due to noise-grain issue) actually got accepted, but three other during the day got rejected due to "Noise / Artifacts / Pixelation -- Clip contains excessive noise, compression artifacts, pixelation a" reason. I find this very interesting... Ill post here those clips but from Fotolia, they all got accepted on all 6 agencies i upload to.
Accepted shots:
1
2
Rejected ones:
1 - marked this one as editorial
2
Is there a way to resubmit somehow, or i have to upload again on SS?
as far as I know, Tuscany shots from Val d'Orcia are not accepted as commercial RF on Shutterstock. Though not all intectors might be aware of it.
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« on: September 11, 2018, 13:11 »
Would you consider acceptable for an agency to sell your stock content on all major platforms given that you only need to provide the content (no need for metadata, keywords and other details to be filled)?
this is called production agency: f-stop, imageSource, cultura creative, etc
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« on: August 31, 2018, 13:16 »
I was also contacted by OnePixel.
In such cases I ask for compensation for my time and effort. Like Veer, Depositphotos and some other new agencies did at the time.
If the reply is no (and it was such from Onepixel) than sorry, no time wasting on my side.
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« on: November 02, 2017, 10:06 »
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« on: October 29, 2017, 02:21 »
The message (I got it 5 min ago) says nothing about the customer deleting the file:
"The customer no longer has access to the file and this sale has been removed from your sales history. "
For me it looks suspicious.
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« on: October 09, 2017, 14:36 »
...I do travel photography ...
Your portfolio is gorgeous!
thank you! What about the SilkyPix Raw File Converter EX supplied by Fuji (there's a new version). Does anyone use that?
garbage. Too slow and clumsy. Though I haven't tried a new version yet. Let's see what Fuji rolls out in November (they promise some kind of a new processor that uses camera attached to desktop )
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« on: October 04, 2017, 15:09 »
I switched from Canon 5d Mark II to Fuji X-T2 and had to switch to C1, because Lightroom demosaic of X-Trans files is subpar.
However I use C1 only for RAW conversion as catalog capability of C1 is terrible compared to lightroom (I do travel photography and have to manage large numbers of images)
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« on: August 11, 2017, 13:08 »
friendly zombie (and Crestock must have died a long time time) - sounds almost like an oxymoron
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