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Stocksy / Re: Call To Artists is Open!
« on: November 06, 2017, 12:51 »
Hello everybody, I have completed my application on September 17 and I sent 100 photos and videos as asked. I have sent 25 exclusive footage and, 30 exclusive photos. The rest were non-exclusive photos because I have asked how is working and got the answer that yes, I can send non-exclusive content, but, in case of approval, this content will be deleted by the reviewers. I have tried to send various photos and footage, even if my specialty is food, I have sent lifestyle, conceptual, animals and travel. I choose some of my best content. I am pretty active on socials, specially with my Facebook page. With all this, on October 12 I have received the negative answer:
"Thank you for your interest in Stocksy. After reviewing your work, we dont feel there is a fit at this time.
As you can imagine, we get a lot of applications and its always a difficult decision, but we only have room for a small group of contributors.
We wish you the best in your future endeavours and thank you for taking the time to apply and share your work with us.
We hope you have a great day,"
I strongly believe they rejected me because my photos doesn't tell a story. Portfolio must tell a story and has to have a beginning related to the end, everything in the same style. In my portfolio the story lacks and is pretty messy. Also I have sent some exclusive images which were part of non-exclusive series. This was wrong too, but I didn't know. I try to reorder my ideas and my portfolio and I will try again. But I want to tell you that is hard to reach what they want, I strongly believe that only an editor can have enough eye to order portfolio and public image in order to match with Stocksy.

Oh, so sorry, after the hard work... Thanks for sharing yours learnings. I have a question: you said that they allow to upload non exclusive material and if they selected you should deleted it, where did you read about this? I just uploaded exclusive material, but if that you said is tru I would like to complement with my best shots (wich ones arent exclusives) If you or anyone can confirm this, or this will penalize me... Thanks a lot!

My understanding was that you would have to be able to delete any images accepted from all of the other sites that they are currently for sale now - and they would stay at Stocksy.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Best number of downloads
« on: November 05, 2017, 15:14 »
sadly my ratio of images online to images sold per month has dropped the longer I have been selling. This has been offset somewhat by increased return per download, but mostly I am uploading to try to keep up with my past sales levels.

It has been a long time since I have had a number of sales = or > the number of images I have for sale. Not that I produce the most wildly commercial images, but it is sad when a daily seller suddenly disappears from the first page of search and becomes a monthly seller.

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General - Top Sites / Re: How Was Your October?
« on: November 01, 2017, 13:38 »
Amazingly my BME too beating Oct 2012, (unless you count the month I got a big payout for Veer's Dash for Cash)

Sadly it was mostly due to a number of big sales at Alamy, so probably not part of a trend. P5 and Canva also contributed nicely and Adobe had a decent showing. It was an ok month at SS for the new norm, but 1/3 of they heyday there and unlike in the past when it was reliably my highest earning site, it was #3 this month.

It was my BME for 4 different sites and none of the decent earners were super low.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: New Witness date on Model Release
« on: October 27, 2017, 19:03 »
I had my model release rejected by them from time to time - this is for photos of me, so I am unlikely to sue myself. The original MR was pretty sparse since it was the first one I did, so I redid it to include what they required at the time, then it got rejected a bit later. Of course every time it gets rejected I think I must have forgotten to attach it because they include not having a MR in their rejection so that takes a resubmittal to find out that they no longer accept that MR... except that they still take it about 90% of the time...

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Pond5 claiming they overpaid me!!
« on: October 27, 2017, 14:01 »
Yeah, I got one saying they double paid me for an upgrade so they were taking 1/2 back. I had 2 upgrade payments this month (I never knew that they were a possibility before) and it looks like the smaller was the one that was doubled, but I didn't take careful notes before this happened so I am not sure.

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I think I figured it out once with my RPI that somewhere around 4000 images would pay the bills ... assuming the relationship was linear. It's not but :/ meh
That number was almost the same for me. A mix of 4000 images and some 200-300 videos to get me by. Still in the phase of getting  a up, lets hope the math works

Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

Well I figured I could get by with about 1000 images, by the time I got there it was up to about 3000, I've got over 3000 now, but make less than I did with about 2000.

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I had a small batch, 4 accepted, one file transfer error, and one not reviewed.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What is happening to SS?
« on: October 21, 2017, 11:43 »
^ I am far from a travel photography but I should imagine that Travel is one of the most competitive fields of them all. There must be hundreds of thousands of amateurs and whatnots with a dslr or a compact running around on hollidays taking pictures.
A friend of my son went to south-america Machu-pichu and all that and came back with thousands of shots. He pulled over some shots on a CD and sold the lot to a huge  PR agency!...must have been over 100 pics and sold it all for $100. He was only too pleased to get his name as a byeline.

Some wanabees are even getting into my own highly niched market which for many years I thought was totally impossible.
It's the least competitive field. I wouldn't call travel photographer who went to few obvious places or all-inclusive resorts. Even in USA there are plenty of uncharted places. Look : Machu Pichu 15,000 potos, Slab City: 100 photos.

And the demand is probably equally weighted.

Good point.

It is also not entirely clear if you need a property release for Slab City or not or who you could get to sign one if you tried.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Two new Adobe Stock features
« on: October 19, 2017, 22:08 »
This is a potentially interesting new feature, but it still needs some work.

For instance searching in your portfolio with keywords and then selecting all or at least selecting a range with shift-click would be a lot easier way to add images to a collection. It would also be nice to have the option of selecting which image in the collection will be the cover pic and also how it will look cropped.

I also like the idea of being able to have more collections available to buyers, maybe a button to go to more collections or something.

It would also be cool to be able to see sales stats for each collection.

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General Photography Discussion / Re: Can we go by this formulae?
« on: October 19, 2017, 22:03 »
No, not even close. Sorry, I wish it was linear.

686
Envato / Re: Revenue Share being Cut Already
« on: October 19, 2017, 11:22 »
there is that word - "sustainability"...

I'd be really pissed if they didn't already delete all my stuff.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Have i been scammed by facebook?
« on: October 19, 2017, 11:19 »
The only benefit of FB is that they know an awful lot about everyone - some of it quite wrong. If I wanted to buy a print I certainly wouldn't go on FB to look, but if I was asking my friends for a recommendation for a local photographer and an ad for one came up maybe it would be useful. I'd probably avoid them just out of principle though.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What is happening to SS?
« on: October 17, 2017, 00:41 »
I just got a bunch of rejects for keywords. I'll have to look at the keywords again to try to guess what they objected to, but I think it was for stuff like the scientific name of the subject. How they can complain about that but let some seriously egregious spam through is beyond me, but I am guessing it is semi-automated.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Exclusive VS indie for beginners?
« on: October 11, 2017, 15:41 »
I remember $1 an image a year posted re Alamy...didn't believe that one for an average photographer either!

Seems it could be 10c per image per year on Alamy:
http://discussion.alamy.com/topic/8395-alamy-financial-results-for-2016-now-available/?do=findComment&comment=147533

(I'm overachieving, LOL!)


I think there are some people on Alamy that seem to upload their SD cards and keyword them all the same, so they have huge numbers of images, but probably not a lot of sales per image.

back when I first heard of stock the number for traditional stock was 1$ per image per year and microstockers were talking $1 per image per month. I am pretty sure those per image per month numbers have dropped drastically. I know mine have.

In general I think that vector artists have a higher return per image.

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123RF / Re: What the...I
« on: October 07, 2017, 17:47 »
I just had a refund at the end of last month for an image sold a few years ago. Frustrating.

In addition with their messed up reporting on the first of the month it made me wonder what had happened to my total (since it was lower than I had recoded the afternoon before).

I suppose I should just give up on their promised doubling of sales when they cut the percentage paid to artists.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: How to save uncompressed jpg?
« on: October 07, 2017, 15:16 »
why any site persists in describing their required sizes this way utterly baffles me.

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but content can also rise by being paid for, thereby bypassing the very thing you are trying to promote - the best images in front of buyers.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: September Sales
« on: October 03, 2017, 18:24 »
It was a better than average month for this year barely - thanks to a few big sales on Alamy. SS was about average for now - so less than 50% of what it was a few years ago. Most sites were just a bit on the low side so it would have been a sad month without Alamy.

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Microstock News / Re: Is GL Stock still operating?
« on: October 02, 2017, 12:11 »
I'm happy to see the site back up.

In line with a recent discussion thread here, I have a question.   Would GL's 'extended' license allow reselling as wall art on Etsy?

Perhaps to clarify the question - does it allow reselling of digital files, possibly slightly modified (like flipped, cropped, or background color changed.

695
As best I can tell I got 4 cents and 6 cents for Istock sub sales. It is pretty pathetic what they roll out after a year of working on it.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS and Moovly integration
« on: September 30, 2017, 13:59 »
I guess the real screwing would be if Moovly paid SS a heap of money for this deal (for which we get nothing) and then sells our content rather cheaply, for which we get 30% or less of whatever Moovly passes on to SS. I sure wish the details were disclosed and opt out was possible - what if they take 90%, and we get 30% of what is left?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Custom is born
« on: September 21, 2017, 11:48 »
Are there rates and so on buried in there somewhere or are we expected to do custom work for .38 or 33%?

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Alamy.com / Re: Getting glaciers accepted?
« on: September 13, 2017, 16:01 »
submit a few in the middle of a stack of other submissions - don't they only look at one image per submission? I have had that problem with SS - digital noise rejection in pictures of sand dunes - no reviewer, what you see are the grains of sand. Some things just have grain.

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PhotoDune / Re: When will PhotoDune submissions start again?
« on: September 11, 2017, 11:58 »
When they come begging on their knees offering lots of sales and a good percentage and no funny business with accounting.

So in other words, never.

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There has always been an element of timing and luck in an image making it in this business. Perhaps SS has the search skewed against newer images right now or maybe you just haven't gotten lucky. There are 1.2 million lottery tickets submitted every week, so it isn't a guaranteed thing. It sure is frustrating though. It was a lot more motivating to upload a batch and get sales of many of them the day they were accepted.

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