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Messages - PeterChigmaroff
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551
« on: November 07, 2013, 23:44 »
You stand a better chance of getting rich selling stock photos than getting hit by satellite debris.
552
« on: November 05, 2013, 11:48 »
I started submitting video clips to them, no photos, and found the process to unpredictable. Some submission I get a very good acceptance rate, others nearly everything is rejected, as the OP mentioned, for a plethora of reasons. The upload system is too archaic to continue in a hit a miss fashion.
553
« on: October 25, 2013, 09:41 »
I posted in the thread that the levels are a big disincentive to upload but they seem to think it will be quite easy to get 25 downloads. If they do as well as some other sites that are late to the party, it will be impossible for me. Much more likely that almost all of my clips will be on level zero and that's not making me want to upload my portfolio. It's a shame that they don't take much notice of contributors feedback. I'd like them to do well with video but they would have to at least start paying us as much as Pond5 until there were regular sales or it really doesn't seem worth the effort.
I'm uploading clips to 5 sites but it's only Pond5 and SS that get most of them because it takes a lot of time to upload. DT are now 6th on my list, almost beyond the back burner 
25 DLs on video is really tough, even on the better sites.
554
« on: October 24, 2013, 23:02 »
Achilles, I mean c'mon... Why would I want my videos to be licensed on DT instead of Pond 5 or SS?
The footage market is not so oversaturated, if the buyer cannot find the proper clip he moves on to the next site.
I prefer when the next site is Pond5.com.
$ 70-80 for HD seems to be the sweet spot for me. SS is very succesful with $79.
Achieving Level 4-5 with clips in a reasonable timeframe on a site that just started to sell footage is unrealistic.
As of now, I am not interested in your footage program.
Totally agree. Videos do not sell in the volumes of still shots and are a lot more work. Pond5 has it right and Shutterstock has good volume, if lower prices. The less said about Istock the better. I can't see any reason to sell on dreamstime. Buyers will quickly search the all the sites- there's far, far fewer pages to go through on a search. If I sell on dreamstime I'm just giving it away.
This seems a logical analysis. I tire quickly of sites that don't produce a modicum of sales. iS has flatlined with no defibrillator in sight. FT has sent me to the looney bin more than once with their erratic editing; take it all one day and nothing the next.
555
« on: October 22, 2013, 18:59 »
over-exposure could be deadly.
Slightly off topic -- I used a model several years ago, that appeared as one of the first "happy" guys on a Viagra ad, he said that although the exposure (no pun intended) was huge (still no pun intended), he had a hard (oops, but no pun here either) getting work after the commercial went live.
556
« on: October 12, 2013, 10:50 »
you are missing the other account and also the millions he must have got paid ahead
SS alone with 4k sales a day makes 120k sales, lets pretend he had 1$ RPD that is 120k a month or 1.44M a year
so yep 5k downloads at IS even at 20$ RPD its only 100k $
I would gnaw of a limb for 100k a month 
Don't forget your 100 employees!
Emotionally and rationally the difficult thing for Yuri to do is let everyone go; sell of most of the equipment and get rid of the studio(s), etc and allow the money to build for as long as possible and call it a good run. It's seems obvious from where I sit.
557
« on: October 10, 2013, 16:12 »
I'm having my worst month for a long time. No EL's, no SOD's, no footage sales, much less than usual OD's and subs are also down. Don't think I've ever had it this bad with the normal ebb and flow.
I concur, the market appears to be in a state of ED. Perhaps a little blue pill to all the designers out there.
558
« on: October 10, 2013, 15:28 »
That's the thing about language, ED is fine except, well, it isn't.
559
« on: October 08, 2013, 13:36 »
And?
560
« on: October 05, 2013, 11:29 »
Jim, I think the first time I saw the word "Midstock" was a few years ago when SuperStock was trying to pull together a collection of images to target a price point between the then, well delineated prices of microstock and traditional RF. Stock photography is probably better studied using the laws of diffusion than any business technique. For some time all the "factions", and they are that, existed with some separation. Not anymore. It has become increasingly difficult to justify higher prices of one collection while the lower tier appears to have many images that are at least as good and for much less money.
561
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:04 »
Probably one of the best outcomes is turning my wife around to the idea and being able to structure family holidays towards awesome travel photos.
I like to use my vacations to vacation. Stressing everyone out to try and get some stocky shots isn't my favorite thing to do, and I don't necessarily want to lug equipment around either. That, and that most places already have people that live there shooting stock all the time pretty much keeps me away from shooting "travel photos". JMO.
I agree with Sean, long gone are the days when you could travel to exotic destinations and make a decent return from your efforts. Unless they are avid photographers, family doesn't want to hear about getting up at 5 am or constantly or crossing a street to get a better angle. Otherwise you'll soon be getting great photo ops of lawyers offices, with people signing Separation Agreements etc. Which in reality are much better earners.
562
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:06 »
The current CSV upload for metadata works well enough but could be more intuitive and include all potential fields. It would be nice to be able to single click clips that are editorial therefor have no releases.
563
« on: August 28, 2013, 18:35 »
Does stock photography define any cultural group accurately?
564
« on: August 26, 2013, 10:53 »
Try it in the View Mode in Stills/Movie setting with camera on Tv. It sort of works with a limited selection of speeds. If you are lucky it may fit your needs.
565
« on: July 27, 2013, 17:57 »
They are easy to contribute to and for the most part they don't PO the average contributor or buyer which spills over as good will for the business. "Goodwill is an accounting concept meaning the value of an asset owned that is intangible but has a quantifiable "prudent value" in a business, such as a reputation the firm enjoys with its clients."
566
« on: July 16, 2013, 15:01 »
It's very confusing, there are so many Symbiostock threads that I don't know where to find the basic information that I need to get started. Some links would help.
No bologna. I wast thinking they should rename this site to the Symbiostock Group.
567
« on: July 11, 2013, 10:24 »
Make the CSV upload more intuitive.
568
« on: July 07, 2013, 23:15 »
This problem is a non sequitur. You see, I'd have to make enough to actually trigger the need for a pay request.
569
« on: July 02, 2013, 11:09 »
That sort of image is better off at Alamy.
570
« on: June 24, 2013, 00:41 »
I thought it was the result of unlimited uploads.
571
« on: June 20, 2013, 09:52 »
Like Mantis mentioned, it sounds like the end goal is still cloud-based software and they're only going to look for better ways to "transition" people to Creative Cloud, so it's still a deal-breaker for me.
I'm going to upgrade to CS6 in a couple of years when it's cheap and then use the heck out of that version for as long as possible. After that, who knows, but I won't be using Creative Cloud, that's for sure.
I've run on CS3 for a long time now. CS6 will be good for at least as long.
572
« on: May 30, 2013, 18:44 »
the end user wanted them for a gastrointestinal distress advertisement. I s**t you not.
Intentional pun, or not? I just had to ask.
573
« on: May 30, 2013, 16:01 »
I took a couple of shots of myself one day when i was setting up some lighting and no one had arrived to help yet. I submitted them and was asked by, I think SS, for a sensitive issues model release because the end user wanted them for a gastrointestinal distress advertisement. I s**t you not.
574
« on: May 26, 2013, 15:38 »
A friend of mine just bought the Nikon similar but somewhat cheaper, I guess the built in 1.4x Still one amazing lens. Heavy.
575
« on: May 22, 2013, 09:53 »
professional |prəˈfe sh ənl|
adjective
1 [ attrib. ] of, relating to, or connected with a profession : young professional people | the professional schools of Yale and Harvard.
2 (of a person) engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime : a professional boxer.
I don't think some half-baked CEO can change the definition of a word.
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