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« on: July 20, 2006, 03:38 »
I would opt OUT if I knew how - please help I always get lost in iStock!
Come to think of it this signature is looking quite bulky how do get a bit of text staying one thing with a link to the relevant part of my site, HTML doesn't seem to work. - Thanks CJ
552
« on: July 20, 2006, 03:26 »
Some of you who have looked through my guide on the micro stock agencies may have stumbled upon some film reviews. I have been in the process of linking them together via the principle actors. Just in case you want some more non photography/microstock reading material.
I am adding a link to that page in my signature.
Nuff said
553
« on: July 20, 2006, 03:21 »
I must admit I haven't noticed any wierd delayed typing while using 123rf java uploader.
I won't be opting out any time soon as with their leinent acceptance policy images that don't get a chnace elsewhere have the chance to earn a few cents.
I noticed they now post the subscription payout per image on the earning screen and it was 27c again last month.
Downloads have been good this week for subscriptions 6 yesterday and 14 the day before but then I have 1149 images so I should be getting more.
I was recently surprised 123rf recently rejected for "minimal commercial value" a series of photos that I did based on that type of photo selling well on other sites - very strange.
A pity they don't lower their payout to $50 or $60 bucks though I would still have to wait a few weeks.
Steve
554
« on: July 19, 2006, 07:43 »
Yes its a pity DT post when they break the 500,000 mark etc
but for the other sites its a question of periodically noting down the number of images and I only started that in Mid March and I only started in Micro Stock in mid Feb.
I may ask around
From the slope of the graph ie if they continue to increase at a similar rate I estimate these sites will be breaking the one million mark
Fotolia 11 days so by the end of the July
iStock 35 Days - late August
Shutterstock 49 days - early September
Obviously there are SO many variables involved I will be surprised if they are correct or even close, I expect SS will be faster as Newbies only have to wait one month if their first ten get rejected before they can try again.
555
« on: July 19, 2006, 02:54 »
http://www.fintastique.com/fotolia.htmscroll down A graph to show the rise of Fotolia (SS and Istock seem to be running parallel) Data from this morning added but Excel doesn't label the very last data point
556
« on: July 18, 2006, 05:45 »
I suppose it depends on how many buyer versus how much competition each of your photos has. For instance if a buyer visited LO and wanted photos of London or Paris I would be very happy. StockXpert don't have that many photos but they seem to get visitors who actually do buy. At least number of views gives you an idea if people are at least interested in your photos. I have quite a few images which have had 100 views but no sales I quite like DT option to buy an image with Paypal for customers who don't want to buy credits which net us $3. Anyway for those of you interested in DT growth over the last two years I have added a graph (a work in progress I seem to have screwed up the HTML) http://www.fintastique.com/dreamstime.htmYou need to scroll down. The source data taken from DT website is underneath.
557
« on: July 18, 2006, 03:25 »
Not sure if any of these new fangled devices takes AA batteries or equilavent (I doubt it), the best you can hope for is to buy one of their batteries. I know most portbable MP3 players with hard drives have theri own Li-Ion battery which is sealed inside the unit which is susceptible to the memory effect (less power each time you charge) and really useful where you are in the middle of nowhere with no power sockets about.
A colour LCD will eat the batteries but obviously writing to a hard disc won't help.
So where are you going on your grand trip? How long for? Who will look after the forum in your absence?
558
« on: July 18, 2006, 03:17 »
OK Notre Dame had 7 photos but different angles east, west, south, close up BUT it is the most popular tourist attraction in Paris receiving 10 million visitors a year so I think it merits more than one photo. For those of you who are REALLY interested OK 42 photos at DT Dreamstime Link16 photos at LO and 7 of those were generic modern architecture ones taken at La Defence http://www.luckyoliver.com/searchyou will have to type in Paris Just a bit miffed as I went to trouble of filling in the IPTC data as they were old photos just checked and only 17 were rejected so mustn't have uploaded the other 5. Professorgb who many did you upload? Referrals are good
559
« on: July 17, 2006, 18:50 »
Anybody had any strange rejections so far? I notice no reason is given either by e-mail or on the site
I had over half of my photos of paris rejected all of which were accepted at DT. I though maybe a few people uploaded their entire Paris portfolio but no a search for Paris gave 20 results and 16 were mine.
I was a bit more successful for London 41/66 so I suppose I can't complain.
560
« on: July 17, 2006, 18:38 »
I actually bought an Archos mini Gmini 400 as a MP3/movie player which has a compact flash card reader built in (now I just use it as portbale hard drive for photos). Only problem was once when I filled the hard drive up to full capacity a few files got corrupted. There are cheaper alternatives but the idea is a good one especially if you are going on a trip, you can transfer files on the hoof as well.
Unless you have pocket fulls of 2 GB cards and obviously a laptop and CD/DVD burner is safer but a darn site more bulky.
I would recommend something with a colour screen so you can see if the files are really there, if you could move the files about that would be good as the screen won't show you any faults but you will get an idea of how the thumbnail is going to look.
561
« on: July 17, 2006, 18:29 »
I keep on reading posts about SS reviewers going a little crazy, high rejection rates. Well they will be the biggest subscription only site for a long time to come
When this default search option being "most popular" its going to be a kick in the teeth for the newbies but I will still contribute as they still have one of the easiest upload procedures and despite a slow start I should get enough for a payout this month.
562
« on: July 17, 2006, 18:11 »
Well its no big mystery who will break the million mark but I wonder if SS will ever actually catch up with iStock
Today (7 July) <3rd July> [22th June] 8th June
1 Fotolia 944,904 (899) <880> [839k] 779k inc 45k
2 istock 926,538 (904) <892> [869k] 841k inc 22k
3 Shutterstock 891,452 (871) <863> [844k] 814k incr 20k
4 Dreamstime 490,000+ (480) <470> [450k] 430k inc 10k
5 Big Stock Photo 417,000 (409) <404> [392k] 379k incr 8k
6 123 rf 300,000+
7 Can Stock Photo 236,056 (231) <228> [224k] 217k incr 5k
8 Stockxpert 150,000?
9 Stockphotomedia 66,235 (64) <63> [62k] (60k) incr 1.5k
I think I really should draw a graph
563
« on: July 17, 2006, 17:41 »
I must admit I was a little worried I feared things might go the way of the one of a yahoo microstock group e-mails that I am signed up for where the majority of the post are either bragging or bitching, which can make things very tedious. I had the bright idea to divert all those e-mails into a separate folder so I can dip into it to see what's up when I am really bored.
This is great place to compare the different sites and talk freely about microstock in general without too much fur flying.
564
« on: July 17, 2006, 17:29 »
I do the same all the generic shots go to microstock and all my NEW location specific shots go to Alamy.
Big Stock in particular just LOVE those generic shots
Unless its a world famous landmark location they will reject photos for having place names in the keywords I can understand if you had used up quite a few of your minimum of 10 keywords with place names but sometimes I think it is better to include them than use those keywords that make up a very small part of the image. What happens if someone actually wanted a picture of the isle of skye for instance?
565
« on: July 14, 2006, 02:02 »
Any chance of making the watermark more central or more prominant, top right hand corner very easy to crop off and the preview is a generous size. The Lucky oliver writing is hardly noticable on some photos.
As a customer suggestions for the programmers
A search box on home page and after the search if you click on a thumbnail hitting back should ideally take you back to the thumbnails not a blank screen to do another search it does this on IE but not on Firefox. Unfortunately IE is still very popular.
Not sure about LO price structure
1 300x 400
2 600 x 800
3 1200 x1600
4 1920 x 2560 not sure what mimimum size is
Expensive for small shots (>2 mp) and a very wide range for larger shots
Standard price structure
1 600 x 800
2 1200 x 1600
3 4 mp
4 8 mp
CJ how big was your photo?
566
« on: July 14, 2006, 01:27 »
One small fly in the ointment when uploaded files make sure your IPTC data is in order because if the keywords are missing. You are back to entering them one by one.
Vector illustrations??
568
« on: July 13, 2006, 07:34 »
Yeah referrals the way forward.
FTP and IPTC reading went OK except one file with garbage for a desciption.
569
« on: July 13, 2006, 03:05 »
Uploading some photos today i will let you all know how I get on. Of popular subject that don't really get a chance to sell elsewhere Hopefully FTP + IPTC + no cat =  though sales is the most importnat thing Certainly was a very busy day at the forum yesterday
570
« on: July 12, 2006, 02:04 »
SS actually reviewed everything in the queue from 6th to 11th July inclusive lasyt night and accepted all my illustrations (I stick to signs and skyline/flag combos now)
Still no sign from FT
Thanks for the feedback
571
« on: July 11, 2006, 10:53 »
Completely different photos if they are online tomorrow I will post a link
Generic ones go to the micros and specific ones of more obscure places go to macro at the moment assorted Scottish bridges and a trip I did to NW Scotland.
I notice now Alamy offer rf as well not sure what they charge.
I just sort out any noise, crop (if needed) and upsize to 3433 x 5150
So just the upsizing and saving as a tiff, the upsizing is cool as you can crop a bit tighter than I would for micro. I have a 7.96 mp camera and FT 7.8mp for $1.05 payout doesn't let you do much. StockXpert are more generous $2 for anything over 7 mp.
I have had ten photos on line with Alamy for about a month no offers
(micro = scratch cards)
(macro = lottery)
Looking forward to a cheque in hard currrency the yankie dollar is so weak
If I get enough photos I would like to try to do a book so it would be a bit stupid having those photos circulating as rf.
I don't think any of the micros (apart from Featurepics) would accept 88/88
572
« on: July 11, 2006, 10:33 »
Are all the reviewers on holiday?
I have images from the 6th of July which still haven't been reviewed at Shutterstock and Fotolia
Photos uploaded 28th June reviewed 4th July
photos uploaded 29,30 etc still no word
Unless they want second opinions for all of my illustrations
Big stock 28th June still not reviewed
can Stock 3rd of July (who admit they have a 9 day wait)
Dreamstime states a 5 day wait
573
« on: July 11, 2006, 10:16 »
From the Alamy newsletter We have received a number of queries from our contributors, so we'd like to clarify a few points:
The new upload system will only accept jpgs, so you should now start submitting jpgs, as opposed to tiffs. Tiffs will simply be too large to upload online.
You should continue to supply your images to us at a file size of at least 48Mb before saving as a jpeg (the compressed jpeg file will be around 5-12Mb).
Our submission guidelines remain the same other than the new requirement to submit jpegs.
When shooting digitally, as always, the choice of whether to shoot in Jpeg, RAW or Tiff is a matter for your own workflow, as long as the end file is a high quality jpeg that meets our technical requirements.
We will be letting you know exactly how the new system works nearer the time, but we can tell you that it does not involve emailing us images, or FTP.
DOH no FTP what the ****? I hope its at least a java platform uploader. I actually had a DVD accepted this morning 28 days from receiopt to being online oh what a joyous morning keywording 88 images. I have another two in the queue I hope they don't take even longer. Fortunately their keyword input screen looks like 123rf enter for 10 files at a time and no categories
574
« on: July 11, 2006, 10:11 »
I must admit July has been rather slow at Shutterstock oh those $10 days of june (OK so there was only one but it certainly helped get a payout)
Regarding default search settings at Shutterstock I'm not sure if its my computer but try this go to Shutterstock site do a search then change search criteria to something else for instance "oldest first" close shutterstock and navigate back to that page and do the same search again. I think you will find the last search setting has been saved as a cookie so the computer remembers your preference.
So it would be up to the designer to decide whether they are a newest first or a most popular first kind of person. I would hope they would choose the former if they are working on similar projects. Othewise there is no point any of us uploading.
Don't forget so far this month we have had two weekends and the 4th of July (I hope this is one of the low points of the summer).
575
« on: July 10, 2006, 02:39 »
Hey who stole my thunder that will teach me for spending my weekends away from my computer.
I suspect FT are going to have a big publicity spash when they reach 1,000,000 though Chad remarked he hoped that image was a good one. I suspect they may be some tweaking so their millionth image is an impressive one.
I would say it may be months before it reaches its full potential but at least it appears to be here to stay. A pity they don't streamline their category system.
It appears for referrals you earn 10% of the what the photographer got as I have payments of 6.7c and 13.4c from one affiliate which would tie in with 67c and $1.33 that they might have received.
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