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526
« on: January 24, 2008, 18:09 »
At DT my subscription sales rates are 50%, all maximum or large size ! I don't like it at all. I'm thinking about stop to uploading here.
527
« on: January 20, 2008, 06:00 »
I have only uploaded 50-60 files to Crestock, they rejected about half of them. Only 2 credit and 4 subscription sales in 9 months !
Only 0.25 $ earnings for the site with "our standards are much higher than on others microstock sites". This is ridiculous. I don't want to upload more. If they change earning system I can accept high rejection ratio and slow downloads, but not for 25 cts.
528
« on: January 19, 2008, 09:55 »
I agree with Nazdravie. My numbers are the same (IS + SS 80% of my earnings). I think that uploading to 123, LO, BigStock is only waste of time. At DT I have more and more subscription downloads and I hate it. FT and StockXpert give me about 40-50 $ a month each so I can live without. Only IS and SS work for me. The problem with SS is that I have to upload new images all the time and I'm tired to produce all the time the same kind of cheap crap. I would love to spend more time (and money) to do same intersting projects. But with SS I will never get my money back. 5-6 good images with 200-300 dls each will give me 500$ first month then earning drop very very fast. IS system works much better for me. Maybe uploading RF only to IS and start to build good quality portfolio at RM sites is the best choice.
529
« on: January 19, 2008, 07:21 »
And like allways SS communication team is doing great job. 
530
« on: January 18, 2008, 06:30 »
They don't like the watermarks. They want to be able to use the low resolution photos for sketch and outlines before they buy the high resolution.
Where the problem is ? For sketch and outline they can use watermarked images. MP watermarks are very small and almost invisible. I will remove my portfolio (very small at MP at this time, you will not lose a lot ;-) if you remove watermark.
531
« on: January 16, 2008, 10:20 »
IS rocks, SS is 20% up. DT, BigStock, StockXpert, FT are down. 123, FP, SV, Albumo, LO are almost dead.
532
« on: January 16, 2008, 08:58 »
Strange thing, after prices increase IS rocks. I have about 100% (2x) increase in download numbers and about 30-40% price increase per download.
I havent thought about this before, but maybe, with too low prices somes buyers don't take microstock like serious business. With higher prices they start to consider MS more professional.
533
« on: January 15, 2008, 07:33 »
I don't know why people would bail on LO once putting images up there... and it is absolutely painless to upload to with FTP.
A painless upload is not valid argument. What for ? For 30% from one sale a month ? 30% commission is not acceptable For sideshow in 2010 ? If slideshow is so great why not to give us a possibility to test it immediatly ? For payment in 2009 ? 100$ limit for slow earners is not acceptable. We should support sites that are good for us and boycott others. There is no other way to be respected. If everybody upload everything to all sites we will never have better commissions. Buyers will not disappear with a site...
534
« on: January 14, 2008, 09:22 »
perhaps because they made 188 comments on the odditorium other lucky oliver members are viewing their profile.
Luckyoliver is good for writers, not for photographers.
535
« on: January 11, 2008, 07:29 »
I send them an email long time ago (2 months), no response. I'll not fight for 15% commision...
536
« on: January 10, 2008, 06:18 »
I've started to upload there. All my images price is 50 euros. I've tried to change it (I think 50 is too much) but I cannot.
Any idea ?
Thanks
537
« on: January 08, 2008, 08:53 »
Yuri Arcurs
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helix7
moori
sharpshot
lumina
sharpshot
lathspell
brm1949
Freezingpictures
GeoPappas
rene
538
« on: January 07, 2008, 13:02 »
One more, 2MP image (medium) for 1,1$ 
539
« on: January 07, 2008, 11:57 »
Hi,
New prices started today on Istock. Good news, I have 4 downloads with new price and 3 with old price. Customers are still there!
540
« on: January 07, 2008, 07:19 »
Yuri Arcurs
Freezingpictures
GeoPappas
Smithore
rene
541
« on: January 07, 2008, 05:57 »
I'm tending towards dropping agencies that offer subscriptions unless they have an opt out option, like StockXpert and SV. I will lose some profit short term, but long term, it's the only way to go, at least if I believe that my images have qualities that customers are willing to pay at least $5 for.
Agree
542
« on: January 07, 2008, 05:21 »
I still don't understand how an experienced photographer can sell full size images on subscription model sites. With your 39 or even 16MP customers get 4-5 pictures for 30cts. They can crop then and get good quality images of hands, legs, skin texture, hair, clothes... with only one picture of your business woman.
Suscription model for full size images is not acceptable.
543
« on: January 02, 2008, 06:50 »
Anyway, my question is this: which 3 images in my portfolio do you think would stand the best chance of getting accepted? Thanks for any help.
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=98072
... no one. Your work is excellent and better than majority of IS submitters (included me). But if they rejected twice your work that means that they don't like this kind of images for initial submition. Forget Photoshop, take some "normal - real" photographs of your gir/boy friend, landscapes... After been accepted you can upload your entire portfolio and they will take it.
544
« on: December 27, 2007, 09:04 »
Yes, it's better to support the site that give us 70% than another slow earner that pay only 30%. I think it's a good idea to boycott all the sites that pay us peanuts. ON STRIKE 
545
« on: December 23, 2007, 13:20 »
Snapvillage has an obvious potential. I just had my first 10 dollar sale there, and they're still in beta.
Featurpics, but only if photographers helps by promoting their portfolio there. For me, that's an obvious thing to do since they generate the best profit per sale.
Bigstock has been developing nicely, and with their new price structure, they have the potential to become a proper earner.
And as for Lucky Oliver: to me, the only thing they have proved so far, is that they are good at designing websites. Unfortunately, their abilities to sell my images are close to zero. It's like driving a Ferrari with no engine: completely useless.
Agree
546
« on: December 21, 2007, 11:42 »
I don't resize. This is partly because I'm simply too lazy to add that extra step into my post processing work flow. Plus, one day sites may raise their minimum resolution requirements and I'm not about to re-upload all my images. I guess I can understand why other people do resize but it's just not for me.
It's very easy and fast to do. I use xnview (freeware). If one day sites raise their minimum resolution do you think that they will delete all smaller images ? Imagine ads: yesterday we had 2000000 images, today only a half of them...
547
« on: December 21, 2007, 11:36 »
I always downsize my images to 4MP for 123rf, SS and LO (LO before I stop to upload there...)
I understand why most people downsize for SS (because they are a subscription only site), but why for 123RF and LO?
123rf - for max price (3 credits - Ultra High Size ;-) 4MP is enough LO - they downsize all photos. My 10MP images were downsized to 5MP (1920x2560) by LO! So I can do it by myself, images are smaller, ulpoad is faster and no rejections any more for noise and artefacts. Small price - small size
548
« on: December 21, 2007, 09:44 »
I always downsize my images to 4MP for 123rf, SS and LO (LO before I stop to upload there...)
549
« on: December 17, 2007, 12:00 »
iStock without a shadow of a doubt.
SS would be last on my list. I think they're great - but I don't think they are a good investment for the future.
Agree.
550
« on: November 28, 2007, 10:18 »
Have you tried AlamyMeasure new tool ? I found it very interesting. It'll be nice to have this kind of analyse at all microstock sites.
BTW my CRT is 3.3%
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