Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 08, 2018, 02:43

Quote from: Supermax on June 07, 2018, 23:29

Thanks for you response. impressive truth.
I am totally agree with every word you said.
I tell you one think.
this site could be what you say and as everybody know are stealing and making money for themselves not correct way etc. but there is one thing, my friend has an account on mostly all stock sites and freepik also, and making about twice bigger on freepik than all other sites together. So, yes its stealing, but make good profit for contributors.
Would you accept that your hard work have just been rewarded?
seriously,
you work and make money - we all work for money.
Maybe, for those who do not care about stealing their works it is no problem unless they making money from it?
what do you think?

what other people think?

please share thoughts.

thanks

I think you literally just said you were working with Freepik in another thread. what are you talking about. Your "friend" LOL.

yes i work with it.
and not only me, also couple of friends of mine.

And you are happy about poaching work for your site and stealing from other hard working, honest artists who rely on their sales to support their families? Seriously, I would love to hear your honest response to this.

Never sold a 4K at SB.  And the single HD sales are very soft, as I believe, like many of you, that the growth of their member collection is covering many subjects. SB reminds me a "little" of Dissolve. They came in here wanting our work, being very involved in the discussion, and some of us bit, me included.  Now, you never hear from them in here because their end game is coming to fruition.  Every day suppliers like me helped launch their model, now we are a byproduct.

I think uniqueness is the key there. Everyday stuff like traffic time lapses, clouds, ocean waves, etc are well covered subjects; even drone footage, while cool looking, are more and more common.

Stock is more strategic than ever nowadays.  Shoot more unique stuff that is in demand and you can probably progress your income.

Just another operation going beyond free stuff.  It would never pay off unless, possibly, they sold millions of of copies and people who actually needed art like yours happen to be readers/buyers of the book.  I will tell you from first hand experience being a book author that asking for you to pay them for your illustrations to be in their books is nothing more than a way to help fund those books.  There really is nothing in it for you except to show off that your illustrations are in a book. If that's what floats your boat then here's the chance.

Hi Mantis, this is the content from the mail:
"Spring greetings! We wanted to touch base with you to say thanks again for helping us get the Photo Marketplace off the ground.
We also want to acknowledge that we know sales are currently low, but we are making on-site changes to our user experience that will surface and promote Marketplace content -- all to get more sales to you!
To kick-start this effort, we are having a Spring Sale on Marketplace images! You will receive full price for your content -- we will be covering the temporary price difference.
We believe that this Spring Sale, coupled with Marketplace content surfacing and user experience changes, will kick-start sales back to you.".

As usual, nice communication from them, maybe even a bit naive (I use a French word, as I cannot find an English word that fit, someone certainly will suggest a more appropriate one. I am not native speaker)

Thank you, sir. It's possible I got it but I have been traveling a ton for work.  Right now I am on a different time zone so maybe I'l have a martini and call it a night...even though it's the afternoon:)

good job . keep it up

Ahhh the studio rental guy (or gal). 

I would accept $200 per chocolate chip

At this rate I might not get 1099'd next year. This is my third month not making the $50 payout threshold.  If Google really is affecting 123, they have taken my income from the $200 a month range to the $30-$40 a month range.

Quote from: increasingdifficulty on March 28, 2018, 10:16

By the way, how do you go about previewing all those huge files from the camera? Load them all into Lightroom and wait for the previews? Shoot RAW + jpg?

If you haven't tried it already, I can really recommend a small little tool called ERawP, which extracts all embedded jpg preview files that hide inside every RAW file.

I don't shoot RAW + jpg, I just drop the RAW files into ErawP, and boom, within a few seconds it extracts all the embedded jpg previews so I can quickly look through all the images without having to open any applications at all.

It has probably saved me a couple of work weeks. 

To preview the 8k file I am using more end more the preview in LRTimelpse, very fast.
The main thing I need to check is if I need stabiliser, in which case I have to go through AE.
If I can avoid going to AE, I do everything in LRT (including encoding) and the process is a breeze, very fast.
If I need to go to AE, the computer get grilled , it takes forever and often the PC crashes

Fast for the original. Once you use Visual Workflow then not so fast if you want to see anything corrected from Lightroom.  I think Gunther has a huge opportunity to do a better job in that area.  You have to wait for all those DNG previews in order to use Deficker.  That's not productive. But you are correct for a quick raw preview. 

I know, I know ... stupid question. But, I'm asking it anyway...  is there ANY way you can get access to your own images, other than buying them?

What are you trying to do? If you have lost files some of the agencies will allow you to download your images. If all you are wanting to do is influence DL stats then no.

Quote from: angelawaye on March 22, 2018, 21:27

LOVE your work! Too good for micro.

Arcangel is another one. You are committed to a 3 year contract.

Thanks a lot Angela for compliments and useful input. Your work is so beautiful and artistically inspired...

I agree. Angelawaye's work is really fabulous.  So is yours. 

Low downloads, but I am getting some spikes in SOD, one for over a hundred. But without those, weekdays would be similar to weekends, slightly better.

Quote from: Brightontl on March 21, 2018, 10:50

Now with the Nikon D850 I can certainly ramp the ISO and this is probably going to be my preferred way

Interesting, but doesn't ISO ramping cause "jumps" rather than flicker, since the colors change when you change ISO (gradually desaturates etc.)? I think that increasing shutter speeds (and increasing motion blur) can be a rather nice effect, but I guess it's not always ideal.

No way will be 100% perfect of course (except maybe ND filters) but it's nice to have options.

Yes. You can really never get a smooth ramp using iso ramping, but with some devices like the VIEW or RAMPER PRO they create smoothing XMP files that you are supposed to dump into the directory with your raw files.  You do get much smoother output and that is further improved by the deflicker feature in LRT. Like Uncle Pete says, it is a lot more work to monitor and adjust when you are doing dramatic light changing scenes (day to night) as I'm sure you already know. But yes, you do get obvious jumps and when that is combined with flicker from the aperture if you are not using a manual lens you have to be careful in post.