I have seen a gradual rise in my BigStock sales for the past month or two.  Just attributed it to growing my port and coming out of the summer slump.  Last week starting getting into the $20/day range for the first time. 

But nothing out of the ordinary over the past two days.

it is all about your stuff, GOOD stuff

It didn't work. When I went to upload and keyword I finally (After all that) got the message "Your account needs to be validated before you can submit. Sending conformation email". Again, I am already logged in with a username and password. It just goes round in circles.....

contact them, perhaps you need to send some identification, don�t remember, if you are European enter with a European URL or you will get $ instead of EUR

I am more concerned about the recend refunds.. had my firstS this month.. on 7 refunds and like 15$

Quote from: rinderart on September 18, 2011, 20:07

Quote from: luissantos84 on September 18, 2011, 12:45

Quote from: rinderart on September 18, 2011, 12:26

Do I play and manipulate? hell yes. when Im trying to create something or be artistic. My job as an artist is not to determine the value of my work. my job is the keep it mine, And Keep the channel open. There is no satisfaction and in that is what keeps us marching and different from the rest.

so you DO NOT NAIL IT on camera! you do heavy post-processing, so leave all the big photographer crap about I nail it on JPG, if you do 10h of post after! nobody asked your daily rate, what a ridiculous post of you, maybe I am starting to understand what many talk/say about you, not saying you aren�t a great photographer, artist, painter etc but hell what the heck was this post? are you bipolar?

Thanks for the nice words.

don�t play the vitim here, read your post, you are attacking every possible contributor that read this forum, you were like expressing the rage in you, I believe you should send private message to people who really piss you off not to all microstockgroup community (I don�t have anything against you, actually I do enjoy read your posts back in SS forum)

You're mistaking very much. This concept of sharing has only led to oversupply and the whole enormous pile of copycats that are microstock agencies today. And it might as well lead to its end.

that�s very true but what have you done? what are you doing? that�s stock even if Yuri or other don�t share, it will never stop unless agencies stop approving more of the "same" stuff and perhaps deleting older pictures without sales, agencies till approve a lot of noisy pics..

microstock will shrink day after day unless you keep on producing more and more and diversify which Yuri haven�t done

my 2cents from a nobody

have nothing worth enough to say but will keep on reading

(HEY after 4 years and 11 months growing and now 1 down.. I understand but it doesn�t mean much unless you have been dropping for the all year)

sorry, but I think time spent on the process is a part of overall quality. not always, but I think you would find that most established, successful contributors spend a lot fo time setting up their shoots and processing. it doesn't help our industry at all when contributors brag that they work less hard on shots for little ol' microstock. I take my work for microstock as seriously as I take assignment work. it's work, it pays and it's important to me to deliver the best possible product to the client.

the brag here is: I dont need the RAW, I do it on camera, it is the same stuff about RM earnings from our dearest top notch rig photographer!

I use Xnview too, cool stuff and freeware

we aren�t talked the same stuff for sure.. we are talking about RAW or JPG, not about heavy post-processing.. masking, cloning, whatever is done on photoshop or gimp or other..

shooting JPG you can nail whatever you want, I nail it on camera too and still shoot on RAW but I am not 100% sure of the exposure (if I need to go a little forward or backward) I am not sure if the AUTO WB is working nicely and if I am getting warmer or colder temperature.. if you use AUTO and not using RAW I am sure you will have crap when you look in the computer, you can�t adjust AUTO WB on your camera, or you are shooting crazy until the AUTO is nice?

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Quote from: ruigsantos on September 15, 2011, 05:56

When I'm shooting indoors with studio strobes I shoot in raw and use a grey card to set the white balance later. Every time I change the power of the strobe or the distance from the strobe to the model, I take one shot with the model holding the card. My question is: is this necessary or I just need to take *one* image with the model and the grey card in the beginning of the shoot? The color temperature of the strobe is the same no matter it's power settings or distance to the subject or am I wrong here?

No. I've never even seen let alone used a grey card. Ever. I always leave WB to Auto and I shoot JPEG. It saves time and storage and works just fine for me.

I specialize in studio Lighting and teach it and have long before this business was even thought of being a working Product/portrait photographer since the middle 60's. I used grey cards for exposure for many years. I use auto WB now. The difference between 5600 and 5700 is Very < very small. Im a pure Manual shooter except for  unless Im trying something different. A complete understanding of WB is critical in Digital. As is the Complete understanding Of the principals of DOF and how it relates to distance from Subject and focal length Used. It is the foundation Of Photography. In the film days we had 2 choices, Now we have Hundreds. Digital is great but unfortunately it has spawned a whole lot of Lazy Photographers thinking there gonna fix it Later. This is penny stock Guys, The more you twiddle, The less you make. I shoot Raw for clients and Jpg for stock. Why? because I nail it first time. levels adj and Im done. For a possible 38 cents cost effectively it makes no sense not to. IMHO.  Glad to see a Photo thread instead of another IS thread. LOL

sorry but you are saying yours pics are straight from camera?? thats not true! are you doing heavy processing in JPG? I don�t  know crap about photography or editing or other but I cannot see why you re saying you shoot in JPG for stock..

Alamy seems rather hard to get into, or am i misreading it?   I've never submitted to any stock agency before, so i'm not sure how tough it is.

no its not, just need to be sharp at 100%, they don�t look into the subject, anything goes, upload is quite boring despite latest improves

Quote from: luissantos84 on September 14, 2011, 17:56

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am I the only one reading this? you kicked me out 2 months ago because I said CC was DEAD!