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« on: June 08, 2006, 14:53 »
I do not wish to be interviewed as I have far too many posts here already.
Hence my new avatar like this lamb I never shut up (he has lost his mum so i had to carry the lazy bugger down the hillside to find her)
627
« on: June 08, 2006, 14:08 »
They are starting to drive me crazy. My first batch of London were mostly approved now they have got around to "reviewing" the second part, plus a bunch of old photos of American National parks that were accepted at StockXpert, assorted construction and industrial stuff and some model shots. In all 158 shots a fair percentage of the non USA ones have been accepted and some even downloaded from other sites in the last week but what do Big Stock say please resubmit only the best 10% of your images from
this batch. 90% were of subjects that are not marketable/low interest
that will not sell or shot on cloudy days so colors are washed out
looking. Please re-submit to Admin Approval Queue ONLY THE TOP 10% or so
from this batch. You do not reupload them... you just click to push them
back to Admin Queue.. just the top 10% best images though. Thank you. So 16 shots I think we have another rogue reviewer there. I thought it was their job to review
628
« on: June 08, 2006, 13:04 »
The top ten
1 istock 841,114
2 Shutterstock 814,122
3 Fotolia 779,565
4 Dreamstime 430,000+
5 Big Stock Photo 379,000+
6 123 rf 300,000+
7 Can Stock Photo 217,000
8 Stockphotomedia 60,449
9 Stockxpert ??
10 Gimmestock 43,098
Thanks to kcastagnola for letting me know how to find SPM numbers. The blank search didn't work for StockXpert, anyone any ideas.
My comment on the istock vs SS
I joined the former over 3 months ago and the later 9 days ago I have made more in 7 days at SS than at 3 months at iS even though SS accepted 360 photos cf to 198 on iS.
As newest photos appear first I think it is best to submit only one or two from each subject and to save the other photos when your photos have drifted from the first page.
629
« on: June 06, 2006, 08:55 »
Hey Leaf you have lost the number one position at StockXpert by one photo better get uploading! On a more serious note StockXpert certainly get traffic as I found one image that has had 199 views in two months only 5 downloads 
630
« on: June 06, 2006, 08:54 »
Four sales so far this month with 639 photos on StockXpert so count yourself lucky
but with a mostly "travel orientated" portfolio I find with the exception of Shutterstock. Sales are very much peaks and troughs across all the other sites. In the case of CS, BS, PSM there are some very wide troughs with some fairly short peaks.
I have noticed quite a few disgruntled submitters complaining elsewhere photos that have earned three flames on iStock being refused by StockXpert though its a lot easier to build up a portfolio at StockXpert with 350 cf 30 uploads a week limit
631
« on: June 06, 2006, 05:38 »
everything looks ok on the Fotolia UK site
632
« on: June 06, 2006, 05:34 »
Darn - I suspected as much, a pity as I would have probably got to $75 by the 14th
Thanks
Steve
633
« on: June 06, 2006, 04:36 »
Big stock seem to be trying to clear the backlog instead of an avalanche of e-mails I received just one e-mail
The batch of 167 files uploaded on 2006-05-26
have been processed by are moderation system, below you
will find the status of the files in this upload:
79% acceptance now if they could sell a few
Still a queue of 104. My backlog resulted from slipping below 50% acceptance so I could only have 30 photos in the review queue
634
« on: June 06, 2006, 04:30 »
This is post production question so an in camera effects with a very shallow DOF will not be much use as I have plenty of photos to rescue.
I have received a lot of rejections regarding framing from SS so i thought i would try to isolate some of them.
Does anyone want to spare any tricks and tips for isolation on photoshop, I have had some mixed sucess with isolation of both hard and soft objects (road signs and faces)
635
« on: June 06, 2006, 04:25 »
I think I started at the wrong time with a 30 photos/week limit at istock and after submitting about over 600 images to SS (that were accepted at either DT or FT) my acceptance rate is 52% so they are getting fussy. I actually went through an exercise for copying their rejection pages to Powerpoint to keep track what was rejected and why to try to fix the problem.
I would agree noise is a common complaint though i suspect its another way of saying no thanks duplicate.
Cropping/framing is a major concern though I will start a nw thread on that one.
Shutterstock payaments??
I read somewhere the payments are sent on the 15th of the month but what is the last day that will contribute to this payment the 14th or much earlier??
636
« on: June 05, 2006, 08:53 »
I just noticed 123rf have recalculated their payments for May just to mess up everyone's calculation no doubt.
But seriously their subscription payments have varied as follows
March 22c
April 26c
May 27c
Nice to see they share the profits with the photographers and with the new credit system hopefully things can only get better.
A pity you need $100 and the payments are only once a month
637
« on: June 05, 2006, 08:46 »
Actually 300 dpi sounds familiar thought that wopuld only give you a 2 mp picture so only good for
StockXpert, FT, BS so payments 33c - $1
So you can understand me overreaching for 4 mp for submission to few more sites and a few extra cents.
Well I have plenty of images to prepare for Alamy so i shall leave the other prints for the moment.
Thanks for the reminder and the iStock extended licence tip.
Steve
638
« on: June 04, 2006, 10:23 »
A new contender for first to go belly up if they can't read IPTC data, who is going to bother uploading to type all that stuff in?
639
« on: June 04, 2006, 10:20 »
if you could tell me how to do this (extended licences for all photos) on image manager or on the iStockphoto site that would be great.
640
« on: June 04, 2006, 10:18 »
Was everyone spammed by the Swedes?
I have been building up a portfolio here for three months and now have 681 images here. The acceptance rate is about 82% (not as good as 123rf 94%) and finally I had a sale 1.80 euros of course minimum payout is 60 euros so still a very long way off. Strange this sale occured shortly after I mentioned on this forum that I was going to stop uploading to them.
Hopefully they will start trying to attract customers instead of photographers. As looking at some of the viewing figures they are pitiful.
641
« on: June 04, 2006, 10:07 »
I thought I would add a few words about scanning 6 x 4 prints taken with a compact camera.
From the last batch of about a dozen
SS + DT turned them all down flat
StockXpert liked them but smaller rejected 6mp and then 4 mp a that point I got bored of resizing
123 and FT accepted about half
still waiting for CanStockPhoto and BS
Though previously DT did accept some, so hopefully 123 new credit sales will justify the time taken to correct for film grain and scanner dust - but I doubt it.
642
« on: June 02, 2006, 11:58 »
I switched to image manager for uploading to iStock a while back as it reads the IPTC data and you can upload in one go once you have filled in all the catagories.
BUT I noticed the other day that you have to go into iStock site to select the extended licences feature, rather a laborious procedure just thougt I wouild mention it just in case anyone was wondering why they haven't had their $20 EL bonus. Or does anyone know of a short cut??
643
« on: May 31, 2006, 17:33 »
Just updating a table on my site so the top 10 sites in terms of numbers of photos 1 istock 824,949 2 Shutterstock 797,195 3 Fotolia 747,000 4 Dreamstime 410,000+ 5 Big Stock Photo 370,000+ 6 123 rf 300,000+ 7 Can Stock Photo 213,665 8 Stockphotomedia  9 Stockxpert 10 Gimmestock 42,650 So a three horse race still if anyone finds numbers for SPM or StockXpert please let me know where you found them.
644
« on: May 31, 2006, 15:33 »
The short answer SS take 5-6 days
the long answer a brief history of my experience with the second biggest micro stock agency
16-02-06 Submitted first batch
23-02-06 rejected with 0/10 (should have been 3/10 and could have made 7/10 if i had known about filtering out noise)
24-05-06 Welcome back e-mail !! Three month cooling off period finished
25-05-06 submitted second batch (top ten best sellers on iStock)
30-05-06 accepted 10/10 Yippee
31-05-06 First sale from initial ten
then BIG Upload started about 300 so far.
So for any newbies thinking of signing up for Shutterstock test your photos elsewhere before submitting as the 3 month wait for failure is non-negotiable.
The only good thing is that as I signed up back in Feb I can still upload 2.5 mp photos if I signed up now I would have to upload 4 mp.
So folks remember a 4 mp photo will earn you
Can 20c sub
123 22c sub
SS 25c sub
istock 60c
FT 66c
DT $1 (or 50c if its an old credit)
Can $1 credit
123 $1.50 credit
StockXpert $2
I just realized that Can stock charge $4 for a 4 mp and we only get $1.
whereas Istock, 123, FT charge $3
and DT and BigStock charge $2 (not sure about BigStock prices)
No wonder Can stock have such low sales
645
« on: May 31, 2006, 12:01 »
Featurepics also have the 90 day rule.
i think if I ever reach $30 I will think about taking my photos off Bigstock, a bit of a shock today got $5 because a referred photographer reached 75 photos accepted.
646
« on: May 31, 2006, 11:57 »
I was away in London last week snapping away (when it wasn't raining) and started uploading on Thursday the 25th so review times hopefully someone can fill in the blanks.
StockXpert <24 hours
SS < 24 hours
123rf 2-3 days
DT 4 Days
iStock 4 days
PSM 4 days
BS 7 days
FT 7 days
CanStockPhoto 8 days
CanStockPhoto say 7 days on their website
Thanks
Steve
647
« on: May 31, 2006, 11:44 »
I must admit I have never risked upsizing for the microstock agencies, though I have been accused of it a few times in rejection e-mails.
Alamy seem to very different as their minimum requirement for camera's is 6mp but to make a 48 meg file you end up with a 15 mp photo so some excessive upsizing.
still waiting for any cooment from Alamy regarding my CD received on the 5th of May, I am not surprised that most microstock folk don't stray over to the dark side of macro stock.
648
« on: May 31, 2006, 11:33 »
Actually the comment regarding shutterstock being down was in terms of the person's sales.
I can't complain about by shutterstock sales with a portfolio of ten I had one download within 24 hours of being uploading compare that to SPM who now have 600 photos and have sold nothing in nearly three months. The next site to give up uploading to.
Actually found using activeX was OK to upload having two windows open one uploading and the other catagorizing, (filling in IPTC data that has not been read). The compulsary spell check is both infuriating and enlightening for Scottish place names, yankie spelling and my own inability to spell.
649
« on: May 30, 2006, 12:57 »
Did you also suggest that iStock start paying more than 20% to newbies?
650
« on: May 30, 2006, 12:54 »
I presume you are converting for Alamy - who apparently are switching to submission over the internet so all this messing around with Cds and 48 meg Tiff files will be over as they will just want an upsized JPEG.
I must admit I have yet to venture into the RAW zone can you convert from RAW - TIFF ?? best to stay away from JPEG. So try resizing your 6mp file to 3433 x 5150 (click on bicubic Adobe CS should be fine) and when you save as a TIFF file select uncompressed and that should give you a 50.5 meg TIFF.
I sent my CD off at the beginning of the month no e-mails except that they received the CD.
Good luck
Steve
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