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701
« on: August 23, 2010, 07:30 »
Two wishes are left here: Hoping that Yaymicro will get more sales Oh don't be too mundane! Sales are just a detail. As long as it looks good!  Try to look at it as a buyer: search for " business success cheering". YAY: 3 images: 2 Arcurs (you can find on a gazillion sites) and 1 badly lit bleached out shot that was probably rejected elsewhere. DT: 441 images, great variety to choose from. Why would any buyer with a minimum of common sense buy from YAY instead of from DT? Sad, but that's business.
702
« on: August 23, 2010, 07:07 »
It depend from serie to serie but it is up to 1500 images per day. I using nikon capture nx and there you can batch edit several images. Usualy editing 10-20 images in one batch.... so it going very fast. Time consuming is photoshop and images with people, logotypes etc..
If it's time consuming does young daily amount drop to under a thousand?
703
« on: August 22, 2010, 22:31 »
I just uploaded about 200 additional images to Deposit Photos. I stick with the site because it was (traditionally) pretty easy to upload to, but I see that they now want us to sort the keywords to show the three main keywords, then 4 secondary keywords and then the rest. Finally! Linear keywording doesn't work in a set of 1M+ images. No site (except CanStockPhoto for a short time) dared to tackle it. Since 2006, I'm keywording in the order of relevance, in the hope the sites would come to their senses. I wrote a script for that: one-click sorting. Still in vain... Great DP realized it.
704
« on: August 22, 2010, 22:23 »
Does DPP cure CA on jpg shots, too? I haven't checked. No. DPP is pretty useless for jpg. For RAW it's great. The CA is removed without any loss of sharpness.
705
« on: August 22, 2010, 15:20 »
There is no benefit in having the 24-105 over the 24-70 according to this: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/28-105.shtml
and you lose a stop of speed, which is significant for focusing in lower light. You may notice that contrary to your observation, the 24-70 is described by Michael Reichman as being as fine a lens as was ever made for that focal range. My attempts to interpret MTF charts are amateurish, to say the least, but I think the chart is saying that the 24-70 is the better lens. I picked the 24-70 on a FF by reading the reviews. there are only 2 issues with it compared to the 24-105: weight that can unbalance your cam and just a little short for cropped portraits and close-ups. I was surprised by the fair amount of CA (peak hairs against white bg in models) but it's solved well by the DPP software that comes in-box with the 5DII. What dedicated software you use to get rid of the 24-70 CA?
706
« on: August 22, 2010, 13:56 »
Anyone who doesn't want his pictures reviewed (not edited, btw) by part-timers probably shouldn't submit anywhere. Last I heard the reviewing process was generally done on a part-time piecework basis, it may differ at different sites. You also have to take into account that reviewing is a very lousy job and the pay has gone down from 10c to 6c the past 3 years. Excuse: the economy. CanStockPhoto reviewers get 4c. To have 8$/hr, you'll have to review 128 images per hour, or 2+ per minute (included the wait for the d/l and peeping for logos). If you pay for Attila's, you'll get Attila's.
707
« on: August 22, 2010, 13:15 »
Right. I funnel a large portion of my earnings into a combination of stocks and Treasury Inflation Protected securities. Hmm... I really hate to sound perhaps obnoxious and it's not my intent to hurt, but when I compare your d/l on IS with mine (3200/1900) you won't probably be able to retire from your bonds. Let's assume you make 3x more as an exclusive than me, it won't do much if you count the depreciation of your gear (photo, PC, backup, software) and your internet. Even if I earn about 4-6 times more on SS than on IS, I have to admit my microstock venture was a net loss, counting 3 cams, light, backups, props and model fees. When even Alamy reverted to 24c sales for hours of silly uploading, I think more and more submitters will disappear when they finally dared to do some proper accountancy. I didn't touch my cam in 2 months. The very relaxed upload limits on IS and DT are an omen.
708
« on: August 22, 2010, 12:55 »
When I said two search-engines, as default, it wasnt my idea, that was the idea of a friend of mine who is total computer wizard and who has been working with Adobe (Thomas Knoll) on a number of programs, i.e. one of the very best!
He explained: a search-engine is the making or breaking and in an industry which accepts thousands of applicants and millions of keywords all the time with one type of search and one CV. As the number of images, keywords grow the less effective the search, its an impossibility to maintain. Further, you cant build a CV and maintain an effective search based on generics. Yap, I did some math begin of 2006 when sites were far below 1 million. With a linear set of of 40 keywords, any search engine will break down. It's pure math. I predicted sites would anticipate with a weighed keyword system, which would extend the relevancy algorithm till 10 or 50M items. As it turned out, the sites didn't change their concept at all. Just CanStockPhoto's Duncan tried it in 2007 and he was scorned away. What they do now is patching and patching with D/L, views, best match, but they've lost it. Search algorithm breakdown
Now imagine this: the linear isolated keyword search won't be around that much longer. No doubt image agencies will follow along the Fotolia path sooner or later. With the advent of 1,000,000+ images and hundreds or thousands of similarly tagged images returned on a search quest, search algorithms based upon linear equal-weighted keywords are mathematically bound to break down.
Therefore, it would be wise if a photographer started to tag in order of relevance already now, as an investment in his adaptation to future search algorithm strategies of agency sites. It would be a tantalizing job to re-tag a large portfolio, but new images can as well be tagged this way. This was written in 2006, when DT had 300,000 images...
709
« on: August 22, 2010, 12:05 »
Welcome to the Lion's den Linda.  Why can't I start a new threat?
710
« on: August 22, 2010, 07:53 »
Im making myself a promise. Im not going to entertain sites anymore if they show what I call untrained, uneducated reviewing. I dont want some half-assed part-timer reviewing my shots.
This summer Ive seen such piss-poor editing, obviously from summer staff with total lack of the English language that you get more out of it in a burger bar. + 1
711
« on: August 22, 2010, 07:25 »
Fags resting on the ends of sofas, FD? I keep having rejects there but they changed reasons a bit. "although the shot is technically sound, the model looks messy and clothing and/or makeup are outdated or sloppy and won't appeal to Veer customers". As for now, they selectively rejected most of my best sellers over sites, and accepted some crap. Just like before. A waste of days uploading since they don't read my IPTC. My projection is that I will get stuck at 399 approved, missing the bonus. I'm not losing my sleep over it. The 300+ more in the edit queue can die there pissfully. Sales need to be massive to reach the high payout level of 100$ at least once per year. But let's see in December how they are doing for me. It's still too early. In the mean time I'm making more money not to upload to microstock, but painting my apartment myself, earning 8 euro per hour. I tried to find a subscription painter for 0.25 euro per hour but it didn't work. 
712
« on: August 22, 2010, 06:52 »
just don't tell Sjlocke The "don't dodge" rule came actually from sjlocke. I tried it out and he was right.
713
« on: August 21, 2010, 13:11 »
I realize that for people where SS is the dominant earner, we have a gap. But we're finding that this isn't true for a lot of contributors. After SS, which sites matter most for you? Shutterstock makes up the vast majority of my earnings and donwloads. For a proper analysis on the level of images and especially shoots, it is vital. The other ones are Dreamstime and iStock but they have tools onsite to quickly evaluate sales per image. Probably the main reason most of your users don't care about Shutterstock is a selection artifact because people that do care about ShutterStock (like me) won't even sign up. I enjoyed Lookstat long ago when SS, IS and DT were there, but after SS went, it wasn't of much use any more.
714
« on: August 21, 2010, 11:58 »
We focus on analytics, not addition. We won't track every last dollar and cent, but we will help increase your performance and find gaps in your portfolio. We offer a free version but also have paid plans that offer more insight and functionality. But it doesn't work for ShutterStock, the largest seller for most, certainly in number of sales. Until then, it's pretty useless.
715
« on: August 21, 2010, 11:26 »
Did SS accept him  Yes after I cloned out the nothingness as you can see here and here.
716
« on: August 20, 2010, 22:11 »
What I've learnt from him is that as soon as IS goes down the pan, he's going with them. You wish. If IS would go down the pan, SL will call Jon (SS) and Serban (DT) and FT and cut a deal. The next day a few DVD's are fedexed and before you know, he dominates all searches there. On IS, he's isolated and he can't do that much harm. He can even organize an auction for his referral link at SS. I would start bidding at 1000$.
717
« on: August 20, 2010, 22:05 »
set your tolerance to about 15 That's a fine way to destroy a shot, and another one to destroy it is dodging (the edges).
718
« on: August 20, 2010, 21:11 »
I have learned so much from SJ, I really appreciate it The main lesson I learned from SJ is in his profile. If you feel the urge to make a blog and/or a site, go for the buyers, not for other photographers. Raking in new photographers and teaching them the ropes is bad for business, raking in buyers is good.
719
« on: August 20, 2010, 20:49 »
Here is my best selling photo from four years ago... Great! I have many of those but they never sold. 
720
« on: August 20, 2010, 20:46 »
Ah, but even though you may be operating in different spheres than Sean, 'the walls have ears', meaning that his post would be visible to any number of people who might be shooting in the same genre ergo are possible rivals. There is a part of this forum thats is not accessible to lurkers where you can tell all you want. You'll get access after a number of posts.
721
« on: August 20, 2010, 20:42 »
But, doesn't that dilute the usefulness of this forum?
Why bother coming here if you are in fear of revealing classified information? For nagging of course, and spanking spammers.
722
« on: August 20, 2010, 04:45 »
Reading this thread that Crestock didn't change its habitual weird rejection policy at all, I wonder about the same. When Thinkstock came up with its 0.25$ commissions, there seemed to be a consensus not to upload there. Yet they (or at least some) are (re-)considering Crestock with... 0.25$ commissions.  I mean, it's probably OK for the big guys (and gals) that can have significant earnings by the mere size and quality of their port (on condition it's accepted), but not so for us regulars with 1K images or less. At least the wise Elena won't hold her breath...
723
« on: August 19, 2010, 19:27 »
Didi someone else notice the same thing maybe? Yap, there are mostly less.
724
« on: August 19, 2010, 19:14 »
Looks like fun... and pain That's why most pole dancing is done by females ;-)
725
« on: August 19, 2010, 19:11 »
it takes seconds to mass reject everything, but it takes a contributor hours to upload and then months to wait for the review. what a waste of time. although is is another pita, at least their reviewer has spent more than a minute per photo when they isolate an area to explain to you the reason for their rejection. I only had that at iStock.
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