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Messages - Satforce
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« on: April 12, 2009, 15:42 »
Yes I do  , I love photography and by the way I am a Photographer, a Graphic design, an Illustrator and a Web designer in the same time. I will not say I am the best..  but I know about the industry. Test: wich aperture gives shortest dof. 2.8 or 8 ? Cheesy 2.8 , Thank you Magnum for this test  I think maybe one day I will publish this thread as book and I will sell it on Amazon  , let say "The Story behind Fotomina..", "The biggest contributor's war" or maybe "learn who to open a new Micro stock site for dummies" ... Most of "your" money will come from earnings on our images.
True but, actually, you as contributor, you will take sharp shots and then you will upload them and then wait for Photo Sold, etc. And you need to know that your images will be sold because their are very nice, then because of our marketing: we will pay a lot money for advertising (Google sponsored results, Mailing list, banners, Phone Calls, Direct client contacts, Search Engine Optimization, etc.), we are paying TAXs, we are paying for a server and we are paying a domain name, we are paying for scripts and updates, we are paying for reviewers All that to Showcase Your Photos on our Website and get money and since we will get only 50%, 35% or 25 % we are not simply earn from your images...  It takes time to upload your portfolio to a new site.
It will not takes to upload your portfolio, we are offering FTP access it means you can include IPTC and then upload your images via FTP software and then you can have a coffee if you have a good connection or you can sleep then after 10 hours your portfolio will be uploaded.. We will make the review and we will chose the category for you.. considering you will most probably do the same to attract customers, I will not give you the plan to attract customers... Those are the main reasons i stay away from new sites, at least until they have proved they are worth it.
Let me tell you something... I used internet more than 13 years now, in 1999 AltaVista was the best Web search engine, we knows only about him, Yahoo and Alltheweb at this time... When I find Google search engine, I was saying: Whats this why its not colourful like yahoo or like AltaVista and I never use it for more than 5 search, Now my 2 years old daughter know Google... Istockphoto was founded in May 2000 (purchased by getty for $50million in 2006) Shutterstock was founded in 2003 Fotolia was founded in November 2004 Dreamstime Founded in 2004 (before they sell CDs from 2000) Now we are 2009, we are not very far...Patrick H.
Thank you What's DOF? Oh righty, Department Of Funding. No Comment ...  I can already see the demise of the agency,most contributors are turned off.
They are not turned off... You asked me to delete you are account, because we did not approve your uploaded images. If you want, I can tell you here why they where not approved... their chance is slim,if any, I'll take a look a year from now and see where their at. Maybe look at FP,MP,CC,YAY,and several others,anyone making any real $ at these .Contributors wants to make money not waste time with a lot of new agencies that talk a lot. We are not talking a lot... We are just giving answers... Regards...
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« on: April 12, 2009, 10:52 »
I agree with you, If an agency does not split the cake with submitter of course they will fail .. 
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« on: April 12, 2009, 09:25 »
i will try this agency nothing to lost... they have ftp... so i let my fille zilla work some nights... there is no work... and when they dont work... not my problem .. when they work... great Thank you for giving us a chance.. i never understand you... give a new agencie a chance.. ok you have work... but it is not work to start the fille zilla even you always keyworded in english... my pics are all keyworded in german.... Thats work to change it... I want to ask the same question, in micro stock industry, we as photographers/contributors, We are looking in the end for getting sales and making money... So what is the problem to upload on new agencies if they are legal (not like thos scams who install nulled script and start inviting artists for nothing ).. Why are you afraid from new agency!  regards
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« on: April 11, 2009, 15:11 »
Wait and see... but maybe after one year Fotomina will be "invited only" like getty Getty
Getty isn't invite only, anybody can apply, you pass a quiz upload a batch for review and then they tell you whether they like them and if so what collection they want your images in.
So far I'm not overly impressed wth your replies and knowledge of the stock industry.
My freind I am not here to pass an exam about the stock industry.. I'm trying to answer people.. As I know, Flickr users are all waiting for getty invitation so I know about the stock industry.. Regards
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« on: April 11, 2009, 14:23 »
I am not BEN, I am satforce .. Who know maybe the dream come true if you make it that big, you would not invite an poor old photographer like myself to your site? I am not saying we are that big..  We need old photographer to learn from them..
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« on: April 11, 2009, 14:14 »
satforce.... I uploaded some images for viewing at first they were there,now Just a couple are there. What's up with that? thasnks
Hi gbcimages, Please check your email.. Regards
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« on: April 11, 2009, 14:03 »
I will also let you know in a year if I'll be uploading there, once the site has proven it self somehow, besides verbal promises (sounds too much like other sale pitchs I've heard before from other starting sites)...Peter you're very correct on your post.
Wait and see... but maybe after one year Fotomina will be "invited only" like getty Getty BEN Helllllllpppppp...
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« on: April 11, 2009, 13:46 »
Hi Peter, You are IN I was waiting for your reply .. You are very know in microstockgroup forum... not true. if an image is good, it will be accepted, Not true, we will give the chance for people who recived this message: "We have enough of this subject already...sorry. More unique images will help your images stand out from the crowd." Since we don't have enough of all subject we can approve those images but we will not aprove crappy images 
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« on: April 11, 2009, 12:47 »
Are you using one of the established agencies as a model? To which current agency would you say your company most closely compares?
We are using Big 6 as model .. We can not compare our company to any other agency for the moment maybe after one year I can answer thank you Warrenprice
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« on: April 11, 2009, 11:33 »
Is FTP Available? Hi Jack Schiffer, We do not have the automated process for auto ftp accounts but what we can do: You send a request for FTP access to [email protected] and we will give you FTP access. you have to simply upload all your files via FTP and we will do the rest. Regards...
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« on: April 11, 2009, 10:27 »
I'm going to venture into fotomina Thank you .. Like I said before I usually stay with new sites for at least a year and give them a chance to produce sales. A year is fair enough to see results, I promise you..
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« on: April 11, 2009, 07:36 »
I am very happy to hear from you FlemishDreams Thank you very much for your tips.. FTP or import of a zipped file (technically easier to program). We are working on ftp access. And we can offer zipped file. - The addition of the company's name, address, phone and legal status on the "About" page. Buyers are worried about that. Removed .. Only name and registration date... - Proper review of image technical quality and of the keywords. If you don't do that, you will attract a lot of amateurs uploading straight from cam, bunches of similars, and batch-added spam keywords that ruin the search result. Like YAY, you will have to spend a lot of time later to remove these shots again. Better be selective from the start. The BIG 6 are mostly right about their rejections, except for the LCV reason. Approving is different between big 6... for example: 123rf accept photo which not approved by istock ... We will do our best while reviewing... - Add an easy Model Release attach module. Most scripts like Coppermine, Lightboxphotos, yours? don't have that so you will need to program it in. Most work on a new site is to attach the MRF, so it needs to be fast and easy. We will add the model release upload and the ID upload very soon... maybe in 2-4 days.. Good luck, but you are entering a very saturated market where relative newcomers like Zymmetrical and Cutcaster find it hard to survive. We will survive ... Cheerz
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« on: April 11, 2009, 06:18 »
You are welcome mjb, What is your target market area (just Finland, scandinavia or world wide?) Our target market area is worldwide. I see you company has just started (registered date 18.03.2009), but how you are going to enter market and get buying customers? In terms of buying customers, if a buyer needs a photo or an illustration on Fotomina which is not available on other big stock photo company, he will verify first if the company is legally registered and then he will buy for sure... Unfortunately, we have few photos and illustrations but we are trying to invite Artists like you to upload their stock and we are working on vector and photo stock now. When we will have a good stock we will start our marketing project (Google sponsored results, etc...) We will give also the chance to amateur artists to upload their artwork and photos since it becomes very difficult to approve photos on Big 6 even if it's perfect and like that we will have our unique stock.. Lot of new companies are entering in the market place and many will fail because lack of funding to even get things running 6-12 months. Don't worry... We have studied the project very well; we know what buyers need and contributors needs like: - IPTC import. - Good SEO. - Minimum of 10$ payout. - Fast approve. - They can delete their photos anytime. - Good support. - Etc. And all that is available on FOTOMINA...
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« on: April 10, 2009, 17:03 »
Why didn't you work with lightboxphoto? lightboxphoto does not meet our requirements... It's better for photographer website not for micro stock. Maybe they will make a better version on the futur ..
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« on: April 10, 2009, 16:07 »
Hahahaha, great! You changed it after my post and you also removed the comment section stating the blogger where you got the code from Grin I swear a god I did not made anything after your post I only changed the pic of the ostrich .. Well good luck anyways! (I mean it). Now we are talking thank you ...
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« on: April 10, 2009, 15:13 »
Haha, great to see there's someone behind this
Hi Vonkara, I will replace the Ostrich photo from featured part if you don't liked We sincerely appreciate your taking time to provide your comments and feedback about Fotomina..
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« on: April 10, 2009, 14:46 »
The war started!! First, I want to say hello for everybody here, I belong to Fotomina and I like to give some answers.. In the beginning we wanted to wait sometimes before we start a thread announcing Fotomina launch here in microstockgroup forum but ...  This one is going to be huge. They already got 21 photos and 13 illustrations Wink Theyre all toprated, most popular and most downloaded. This is the best of the best. LOL Big 6 websites did not start with 1500000 photos and Illustrations, every stock photo site start with one photo... They start small and then they become big, if there is no photographers/contributors they won't exist. Nothing is ridiculous here. That's a single guy that doesn't even has photos. Looking at the page source, he is using some free script from a blogger, registered in Nepal. He forgot even to fill in the keywords and description metatags in the HTML head. It's a joke at its best, and an identity trap at the worst. Domain has been registered 6 weeks ago does not mean that we have to wait 3 years before we start inviting artists! We will move of course to dedicated server if we need to. About the script nothing is free as FlemishDreams says we paid the full script code and we are making a new version... About SEO (Search Engine Optimization) from domaintools also Fotomina.com has SEO Score: 97%... and if you can see the source code of page: <title>Royalty free stock images and photos at Fotomina</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/templates/template11/style.css">
<script language="javascript" src="/inc/scripts.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<meta name="description" content="Search our royalty free stock images and photos. Buy and Sell royalty free stock photos at Fotomina.com.">
<meta name="keywords" content="royalty, free, stock, images, photos, stock photography, stock images, pictures, photographs, fotomina">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link href="/images/favicon.gif" type="image/gif" rel="icon">
<link href="/images/favicon.gif" type="image/gif" rel="shortcut icon">
There is keywords, title and description... Thanks
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« on: March 26, 2009, 04:23 »
Yes, 100% of my shoots.
Here is a brief of my workflow:
- Shoot in RAW 14 bit uncompressed
- Process in Capture One Pro, save as TIFF 16Bit
- Final tune in PS
- Save As TIFF in Archive
- Save JPG quality 12 for Agency
- Archive RAW
bye!
nice process, but why don't you keep the archive as RAW file not TIFF?
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« on: March 25, 2009, 16:56 »
Thanks .. "a minimum of $1 million in insuranc" I will never use the tripod
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« on: March 25, 2009, 16:43 »
Hi,
I write a lot of questions but in the end we are sharing informations ... My question is about shooting with tripod, I am goind for 4 or 5 countries in europe starting by france and I heard that using tripod in france is not allowed !
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« on: March 25, 2009, 15:10 »
I thin we are buying our photos to clients will use them for priniting usually!! I am confused !
DPI is an instruction for the printer. Read this article carefully.
The issue is important in deciding/calculating what resolution you need to buy at a site (S,M,L,XL) to print a given shot at a particular physical space (like 2x2 inches on paper).
Thank you..
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« on: March 25, 2009, 14:59 »
I can no understand how 300 DPI = 72 DPI !!!! I am a graphic designer and I know the difference between them.. When printing something it has to be 300 DPI but If you make something for website design or for screen in generally you can use 72 dpi...
I thin we are buying our photos to clients will use them for priniting usually!! I am confused !
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« on: March 25, 2009, 14:44 »
Do you mean I can change the DPI from 72 To 300 on photoshop without loosing quality ??!
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« on: March 25, 2009, 14:37 »
Hi,
Please I want to know is microstock sites actually accept only 300 DPI or they can accept 72 DPI ?
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« on: March 25, 2009, 14:17 »
Hello,
Do you use editing with photoshop or any other software to your photos or you just keep it as it is?
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