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Messages - Sean Locke Photography
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« on: May 04, 2009, 20:20 »
I will have my programmer improve on it a little this summer. I promise. Remember. It is non-profit!
Server expenses are about 600 USD per year with the amount of user now using the service.
Don't forget all the sales you lose in there by assisting your competition  ...
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« on: May 04, 2009, 13:08 »
I think we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. Everytime a new site comes on line ... we attack it. I saw CutCaster as just the right vehicle to fight against the monopoly. It could only work, however, if everyone went exclusive there and quit uploading to Getty and Corbis.
The approach we are talking about in this thread is like re-inventing the wheel. If you want to fight the monopoly ... don't use them. Unite behind an independant.
Then the independent gets successful, is bought out and you get screwed, or they screw you.
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« on: May 04, 2009, 13:00 »
As a critique, they all have blown out white skies, except for the ones where you put in the fake blue gradient. That may make them undesirable. You have much nicer other stuff in your port.
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« on: May 04, 2009, 12:33 »
I disagree that our value is being slowly eroded -I think it's happening quickly.
I've only been doing this a few months and I have a small portfolio. My acceptance rate has been good, and my earnings have been dismal. As a relative newcomer, all I see happening in microstock is a "race to the bottom" with agencies selling the same images to the same people and competing on nothing but price. Keywording abuse has made searching tedious and frustrating. The archives are flooded with boring, similar shots. As buyers get turned off, prices will be lowered further.
You only perceive "quickly" because you've been in a few months. We've already risen from the bottom. iStockphoto used to be free, after all.
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« on: May 04, 2009, 07:13 »
It's still in Yuri's blog on iStock. I think the problem was copy and pasting it into the forum on the same day it was promo'd here on his blog to get traffic there. Just my guess.
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« on: May 03, 2009, 03:23 »
I assume a lot of people would use the Alien Bees Vagabond battery system to power their AB strobes. Or a really long extension cord. Walmart has those
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« on: May 02, 2009, 20:55 »
"Planning my escape from this humdrum existence. You may want to step back."
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« on: May 02, 2009, 11:38 »
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« on: May 01, 2009, 19:46 »
If it led to a sale yes . Let the buyer decide, surely! (they ain't stupid) Regards, David
Then you should spam all kinds of stuff on there. Business, medicine, health, etc. Who knows, it might lead to a sale, and who cares about the unknown quantity of people you annoy with your pig in a "swine flu" search.
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« on: May 01, 2009, 17:25 »
Sorry, I disagree. Would you like all thermometers tagged with "swine flu"? I mean, you have to take someone's temperature when you have the flu, right?
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« on: May 01, 2009, 15:25 »
Would you keyword a picture of a horse in a field with "Kentucky Derby"?
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« on: May 01, 2009, 15:17 »
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« on: May 01, 2009, 12:29 »
Saw this on a news site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/22/AR2009042200900.html"There's another online marketplace for buying and selling stock photographs in town, and its name is ClusterShot." I like this line: "Like Adography, the quality bar is intentionally set quite low. Basically, anyone is free to upload images, even amateurs willing to contribute crappy photos of their pets."
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« on: April 30, 2009, 19:52 »
Sure it's spam. You can't just add "flu" to any picture of a pig. That would be like adding "married" to all pictures of women, because some of them are.
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« on: April 30, 2009, 17:58 »
First ever sale on Yaymicro today (2.5 euro). Guess what, a picture of a Tamworth pig. It is just possible that editing my keywords last night and adding "swine" and "flu" may have helped a bit. Not exploitation, just following journalistic instinct for an old RM editorial hack. Regards, David
Otherwise known as "spam".
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« on: April 30, 2009, 12:33 »
Maybe it's the "first" of it's kind?
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« on: April 29, 2009, 15:11 »
Earn from the crisis? 
Absolutely. Just because there is a negative effect from the disease doesn't mean there isn't a market for imagery to help communicate news or other articles.
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« on: April 28, 2009, 16:17 »
Keep uploading (part of the job) !
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« on: April 28, 2009, 14:40 »
Thanks for joining in Dan. I'm always pointing out your model and property release pages.
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« on: April 27, 2009, 20:49 »
I think some people enjoy posting about themselves more than others care. I also don't like people who just congratulate and promote each other back and forth. I want one, maybe two tweets a day from people, and if I start seeing them pop up too much, it's unfollow time.
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« on: April 26, 2009, 08:34 »
Ah, well, my experience is a bit limited, I guess. I've used them for 8 or 9 years, with just a couple of issues. My needs aren't too great though, although I've never had a bandwidth issue, even with all the banners I serve to my iStock pages. I use goDaddy to register my domains, and their autorenewal is a nice feature.
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« on: April 25, 2009, 21:23 »
I use page-zone.com, but one hosting site is pretty much as good as another.
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« on: April 23, 2009, 19:38 »
Yeah, yeah. What he said.
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« on: April 22, 2009, 21:41 »
Indeed, they should know what they are doing, unless a teenager is doing their webdesign.
Might be. It's just a local chapter page.
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« on: April 22, 2009, 21:37 »
He's trying to play "dumb consumer" who wants to buy an image for personal use.
i'm not even sure sjlocke. it seems to me he's trying to convince the sites to accept more
...(quote) The types of images I am talking about include everything from artistic images suitable for prints to Youtube-style comedy images. If you do a search in most microstock sites there is an enormous variety of images to suit all interests. For example some of my favorites are the funny pet images (unquote) ... stuff.
perharps he is already a contributor and unsuccessfully submitting these sorts of images, and trying to "create a market" so they can be accepted.
I'm not sure anymore what he's talking about. Is talking about trying to get niche photos accepted somewhere or creating some sort of new sales opportunity? BTW, you used to be able to buy an image on iStock without joining up. They got rid of the option because, surprise, surprise... the buyer did not have to agree to the license. http://www.maccreator.com/articles/bitpass-interview.htmlhttp://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=21353&page=1"We have discontinued Bitpass for the time being, principally because under the structure by which they accessed our images, Bitpass users were not entering into the Content License Agreement in a way that ensured we could track compliance properly. We determined that our photographers and other artists would be better served by proper protection of their copyright than any infinitesimal increase in revenue brought on by the higher price. We will look at this again when the issue is addressed properly." So, the experiment has been done already.
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