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New Sites - General / Re: Time for a FOAP subforum
« on: April 14, 2013, 21:56 »
well I must have know at the time... but it's been so long I've forgotten! and now my log in doesn't work.

just too hard.

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New Sites - General / Re: Time for a FOAP subforum
« on: April 14, 2013, 21:32 »
I think i've uploaded maybe 3 images, they take ages and then stall. that was months ago. just couldn't be bothered. what's the payment per sale?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Need Your help quick PLEASE
« on: April 14, 2013, 05:02 »
ah. :) got it.
it's been a long day (final day of school hols, kids driving me crazy)
have still got 2 shoots to edit tonight.
might have to turn the coffee machine back on.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Need Your help quick PLEASE
« on: April 14, 2013, 04:29 »
why do you need our help quickly?

selling your work yourself is great, except that you don't have a boatload of customers knocking on your door.

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General Photography Discussion / Re: Web storage service
« on: April 14, 2013, 02:00 »
Most of the time those unrecognized drives are the controller card, not the drive. You can pull the drive and put it into an external caddy, dock, bay (whatever someone calls it) read everything. Worth the try and then you can use the docking station for an external drive as a backup, so no loss. 1T drives are under $100.

Sorry but still save your own on a drive is much less expensive than paying for storage on the web. Thing time and speed also.

This one reads IDE and SATA, if you'll never see another IDE in your lifetime, they make a dual SATA that does copies, drive to drive. There's your backup! Around fifty bucks, just buy a new drive every year and keep using the old ones until they go up in smoke. Copies laptop drives, hard drives, backs up drives...

Inexpensive redundant backup.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Drive-Docking-Station-2-5in/dp/B002UAR8JY/ref=sr_1_11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1365899321&sr=1-11&keywords=external+hard+drive+bay+star+tech



I've been looking into crashplan, $70 for the year, unlimited storage. I've got a hard drive from 2011 that powers up but can't be recognised, it'll no doubt cost more than that just to have some tech person recover it.

[rant]
No doubt USA plans are cheaper, cos we get "the lucky country" premium added to all our costs and services.
[/rant]



I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understood much of that. :D

but a 1T hard drive is @$100, and i'd need one per year, so $70 for back up that (knock on wood) will never fail is a good deal.

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remembering of course that this is an American ruling. We are heading into different times now where a global company like FB can impose USA rules of the entire planet (ie, the no 13 year old "law").

Hasn't France tried to rule out street photography too?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Answer for long reviews
« on: April 13, 2013, 18:23 »
ditto. but you end up with lots of batches of pics, as some go through and others get flagged, then you just resubmit them again. i always try to include both lots of spelling in my KWs.

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Stocksy / Re: Stocksy - Are you in or out ? Experiences.
« on: April 13, 2013, 17:25 »
well I am in. I got an email inviting me to submit 10 good images, and within 24hr was approved. Now the tricky part: deciding what to put there.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Answer for long reviews
« on: April 13, 2013, 17:22 »
...the "you spelt "colour" wrong" type messages)
Seriously?
Sh*t.  :( >:(

yep, and I still make a *sigh eye rolling* comment. if you use their KW generator some of those words get flagged too. On the plus side, the number of times they fix a spelling mistake.... it all evens out so can't complain too loudly.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Answer for long reviews
« on: April 13, 2013, 17:10 »
(last week) i've noticed it's slightly longer, like a day or two, so maybe pushing out to 10 days? but then, all images get reviewed (I tend to end up with lots of batches due to the "you spelt "colour" wrong" type messages), so some that are only a day old got through too.

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General Photography Discussion / Re: Web storage service
« on: April 13, 2013, 16:58 »
I've been looking into crashplan, $70 for the year, unlimited storage. I've got a hard drive from 2011 that powers up but can't be recognised, it'll no doubt cost more than that just to have some tech person recover it.

[rant]
No doubt USA plans are cheaper, cos we get "the lucky country" premium added to all our costs and services.
[/rant]

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any normal person with common sense could come to this conclusion within 5 minutes. Yet somehow, politicians are unable to show the same level of intelligence? meanwhile, they're drawing a salary....... ugh!

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General Photography Discussion / Re: Advise to boost my sales
« on: April 13, 2013, 00:47 »

Then from the agency point of view, all their statistics are automated so if you have 200 images that are getting no views or purchases these are lowering your rating on that agencies site and making it very difficult to move up.


it would be good to know if this is actually true, on any site. you can't possibly know how the search/rating algorithms are written, have you read this info somewhere on the agenices' site?

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^ i must confess I also had the same thought....  :)


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but then they realised they'd have to take on Google?  :-\

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Off Topic / Re: use of the term "footage"
« on: April 12, 2013, 18:24 »
I shudder at "snaps". I often get asked if I have any "snaps" I can give people. I usually reply, somewhat pretentiously, "I don't take snaps".  :P


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Off Topic / Re: For gamers !
« on: April 12, 2013, 18:10 »
egads! cheap and nasty quality chinese goods are changing the way we all behave and contributing to such hideous global waste.


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Gillian, can you send us your cv? :-)
We are already working on a new homepage since the one we have right now does not look professional and was intended only for photographers. We will consider all your feedback.

ha!  di niente :)  enjoy the freebie.

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Off Topic / Re: For gamers !
« on: April 12, 2013, 05:53 »
a touch over long, and I gave up at the laundry comment.... but I get the general idea: very cool in Bloke World. I don't feel the need to spend time hooking up a psx controller to my iMac just to sort photos. Suspect my boy 'tog friends would disagree but I don't really care what beer drinkers think.   :P

But to offer a Female/Wife Response/Public Service Announcement: laundry has many steps: sorting clothes, sorting and putting on loads of washing (+applying pre-wash treatments to disgusting man clothes), hanging washing out, bringing it in, sorting and folding (even ironing), and finally, putting it away. There's a whole room devoted to doing the laundry, as opposed to gaming, so I suggest - in the interest of your future relationships - you give it more respect.  :-*



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there is an iPhone app I've got that's v similar to your site though, with  a very similar name. I use it sometimes (when my bloody network coverage works, thanks for nothing Vodafone), it gives me an idea of what's been done to death already. I can quickly see what angle is popular (shoot it), and then try to find a new or different angle.

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I'm afraid I'd suggest losing the whole thing, cos it makes me laugh, and I'm not a 15 year old boy... but still! the "!" is also not used widely, except by teenage girls and rubbish marketing types who think red and yellow are still great colours.

I would also say the capital "p" in "Photos" is making me cringe. Why the random capital? Lots of people do that, and it's just wrong. I'd rather see no capitals at all - much friendlier.

"sell and buy photos from all the world" should probably be " ... from all over the world" and that full stop ("period" for US/canadian types) is just ugly there.

the "enjoy selling them with gratification" is getting more and more lewd as I read it, lol. (esp if you read the "you do nothing, we do everything" .... um, can you come visit me sometime?  ;D)  so yeah, just scrap it. you don't need that line at all on your english page.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: The best WHAT?
« on: April 12, 2013, 04:43 »
Whenever I see local business using this sort of double-entendre, crude advertising, I make it a point to tell everyone that I know not to use their services. While I have no problem with vulgarity, I feel that it shouldn't be out there for children to see without warning.

Another example is the giant testicles that some geniuses feel that they have to hand from their trucks...
I have 3 daughters under 12 and while I agree that it's ideal to keep them sheltered from this adult content I can't help but remember that I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was 9. We owned the soundtrack which I sang over and over with my mum and I had no clue what any of it meant.

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i never look at SS forums, they are a bit too clunky/chunky/ugly.

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Photo Critique / Re: Not in focus
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:53 »
Ha, I live 7 miles from the sea and we never get lovely sunrises, it just gets paler grey. We get nice sunsets over Arran, in late October to December, but only if we're lucky!

I'm not really a landscape tog.
amen to that! it's hard, and lucky: you have to be there at just the right time and then face a ticking countdown to get the shot. Sure, there is some gratification in that... but still, there's also bugs and stuff... (++ for Australian landscapes, last week we were out west on our hobby farm; I just shot pics of my new boots  ;D )

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Model Mayhem site
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:13 »
MM is full of horney guys with DSLRs who call themselves photographers. be cautious. bring escorts


I would agree with that, and am quite surprised that - despite the cliche - young girls still fall for it. I actually use my "40 something mum" credentials with pride on MM. :)  Having said that, the few times I've used it the models have been either too young (one turned up with braces on her teeth!) or just flaky. I'm not into fashion so much, nor tattoos or zombie "art"....

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