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« on: January 30, 2009, 12:34 »
Please don't leave - I don't think those replies were intended to be unkind, it reads to me as though they were just joshing a bit.
And that was Sean being nice!
I'll buy you a Guinness if you're ever in Aberdeen...
577
« on: January 30, 2009, 12:19 »
Yes, I don't know if that's a bug or what.
Her sales are still in the total downloads though, a drop of 800,000+ would be obvious if not...
578
« on: January 29, 2009, 17:58 »
It isn't actually financial information... and it's always been publicly available, just not collected - or at least, not where everyone can see it.
But I have been wondering what iStock's position is on it. Generally they don't publish things like total downloads and this site makes it possible for anyone to track their (iStocks) peformance over time.
Wouldn't surprise me if they decided to allow an opt out, or perhaps made it so that the information could only be seen by the user when logged in.
579
« on: January 29, 2009, 16:20 »
how do you get your data removed from the charts? just curious as some people aren't listed but I can't see an easy way to request removal.
You can sitemail multimedia_de (on iStock) and ask to be made anonymous; your figures may still be included but no identification.
580
« on: January 28, 2009, 16:18 »
I've sold 5 scanned 35mm transparencies today - that's unusual for one day, but I normally would sell at least one or two a day on average.
581
« on: January 27, 2009, 17:23 »
I mentioned it in the "totalitarian" thread, but I'll agree here, that sales at istock are not down across the board. Just shifted.
The people who got a HUGE bonus of sales from mid October through December are no longer so heavily favored, and those of us who lost thousands of $ in sales during that time are recovering to the sales levels we had before that massive best match shakeup in October.
I don't agree that sales at iStock are not down across the board; I've been monitoring total downloads as reported on the multimedia.de site since November, and average total downloads over the first two weeks of January were as low as 30% of the figures during November. They've recovered somewhat since, but are still only about 60% or so of the November figure, though rising again. But isn't that what you'd expect over the holiday season? That's not to say the best match changes had no effect - obviously they caused a shift, as you say - but a drop in downloads of up to 40% compared to November can be accounted for by this fall in overall sales, it's not just the best match. Unfortunately I don't have anything to compare with previous years, so I can't even guess if this is a normal seasonal thing or not. My own downloads didn't show any radical changes (I guess I was one of the lucky ones) and seem comparable to last year in terms of being good in Oct/Nov, dropping down in December, back up in January but not all the way.
582
« on: January 22, 2009, 18:16 »
There were some issues - logged me out a couple of times - but it's back now and so is uploading and editing.
Go for it...
584
« on: January 21, 2009, 11:32 »
No problem here, I can still log in OK, FireFox and IE.
What OS/Browser are you using?
585
« on: January 17, 2009, 07:22 »
Mine's looking about the same as December - perhaps a little better - but that's what I'd expect in January.
Last October was my BME, closely followed by November, but it's normal to drop over the holiday season so I see nothing unusual.
586
« on: January 16, 2009, 04:55 »
are you sure you want to submit this sort of high key lighting?
Just don't submit them to Istock. You will get rejection reasons such as:
"lens flare,...clipped highlight... please use Levels to correct loss of color saturation
... use of lens hood will help with lens flare".
This is not so at all. Look at Yuri's portfolio on iStock, there are many similarly lit images. Most of it in fact! iStock will accept high key lighting, it just has to be done well.
587
« on: January 14, 2009, 06:23 »
As for spain just get a nice pair of cassternets resting on a table with a glass of wine and the sun setting in the background.....
There are no marine sunsets in Spain, since the entire coast is oriented East to South-East. 
Except for Galicia and the Costa Verde generally, which is oriented North and West... but OP isn't going there!
588
« on: January 10, 2009, 04:24 »
Spain is great, both for pictures and generally! Your best bet for picture ideas is to search the micro sites and see what others have taken, see what sells well and then try to come up with your own slant on it. Not necessarily just the tourist sites, local colour and detail often works better.
Japan is great too, the temples are wonderful.
As said, travel stock doesn't sell that well, but I find it can give steady sales and you enjoy photography anyway don't you?
I don't know about the other micros, but iStock has model releases in Spanish and (I think) in Japanese; might be worth printing some copies in case you get friendly enough with anyone to want to use them in a picture.
A note - Barcelona is a wonderful town and has great architecture (Gaudi), but take care. It's known for pickpockets and muggers. Not violent, but bag snatchers and the like. Especially around Las Ramblas. Look after your camera gear. And, anywhere in Spain, do not leave items visible in cars. Any items, not just the valuable stuff.
In Japan however, it's said you could leave your camera on a park bench and come back next day to find it still there. Not that I'd recommend putting that to the test!
Enjoy.
589
« on: January 09, 2009, 08:11 »
What, buyers aren't important?
590
« on: December 11, 2008, 11:22 »
I think the business with losing keywords, description and title is just a bug - it didn't used to do that.
Don't know why they haven't managed to fix it yet though, surely can't be that hard and it's been reported several times. I guess all the programmers must have been working on the new best match and the new "Collections" just announced!
591
« on: December 10, 2008, 07:23 »
Shank
If you'd read what the window said - assuming it's the same one I got - you would have realised that it was warning that importing the standard thesaurus would take some time and IE would pop up a warning about it being slow.
As it said, quote: "just be patient and continue".
There is nothing wrong with the link.
Also, although going through a router is good, it doesn't mean a software firewall is not useful too. I'd advise both.
592
« on: November 25, 2008, 18:18 »
Here's mine. I vote positive. But then I'm exclusive. 
593
« on: July 09, 2008, 11:45 »
yeah, i have a referral link, I was just surprised that you can get credit from them clicking a banner, because they would already be online at istock if they clicked it.... but it could be true.
Well, I can't swear to it working, I'd seen it used that way by others, that was all. After all, the images can be viewed by someone who isn't a member (or isn't logged in) so if they were to click it, it would count.
594
« on: July 08, 2008, 18:09 »
Not just from a click, no - I've never checked, but I assume it saves a cookie when the link is clicked and if the user joins iStock and buys credits within something like two weeks or whatever, iStock give you $10... so it would really only work here if someone new went to the lightbox FROM the link in the image description, then joined, etc.
Not all that likely in this case perhaps, but whatever, it does no harm, and I've earned $50 from referrals so far. I put referral links on all my cross linked images.
Oh, I think you have to have signed up for the referral program too of course...
595
« on: July 08, 2008, 15:56 »
Hi leaf
Is it OK to add referral program links to the lightbox code, after the images have been added to the lightbox? I tried doing it beforehand but then it didn't recognise the banner code of course...
Thanks for all your work on this, it's a great idea.
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