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« on: April 20, 2010, 08:00 »
all laptops of all brands are actually made in china and taiwan.
sony, apple, dell, hp, acer ... sometimes a few parts come from thailand, malaysia, singapore, and korea, but the
assembly is in Guangdong, shipped worldwide via HongKong.
Apple is done by Foxconn (as iphone and ipad), hp and dell by MITAC, and the list goes on.
end of the story : the only HP thing in your laptop is the HP sticker.
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« on: April 19, 2010, 18:29 »
even your hero Yuri recently admitted he's now doing 50% RM. In another post you said 80%. What is it now? Could you please call Yuri and ask his exact numbers? 
he wasn't very clear about this. he said before he was doing 20% RM and now it's almost the opposite. so is it 50% or 80% ? i don't know. all i know is he's quickly moving to RM because it obviously pays more.
78
« on: April 19, 2010, 18:27 »
Eventually there has to be a return to quality - however you define it - in journalism, music, and stock imagery.
i wouldn't bet on this. the only ones making money with journalism are writing about financial news and analysis. war photographers are starving, and no magazine like the old LIFE mag. at the horizon. their bread and butter now is selling expensive workshops. as for music unless you're Lady Gaga and you've a contract with Sony it seems it's a hard time today to live with music. the money is to be made with live shows and DJing, those selling CDs are struggling because of piracy and the internet. it's always the same problem : how to make money off a product anyone can easily steal with a few clicks ? the success of the 3D movies like avatar shown once again that piracy is the a major negative factor in the content industry.
79
« on: April 19, 2010, 13:41 »
as a matter of fact they're already collections with cats, dogs, and flowers.
there's no way they can compete with RM on this, and obviously it will be harder and harder to get photos accepted
as micros are already more than saturated regarding many subjects, travel included.
and this once again will mean less money for the photographers.
80
« on: April 19, 2010, 09:03 »
for anything else : yes, shooting studio photos with models (paid or not) is gonna be more and more hard to sustain with microstock prices.
i'm saying the same things since the stone age but people keep calling me a "macrosaur" while recently even Yuri admitted he's shooting 80% RM and only his leftovers go in RF/micro, guess he has got very solid reasons for this U-turn...
soon even shooting food will become unsustainable and finally it will become just impossible to make money with micros starting from scratch : too many photogs, too many photos, too low payout.
i'll rather grill burgers at mcdonalds than start a career in microstock today.
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« on: April 19, 2010, 08:56 »
fully agree with the OP. digital + internet == hell. by the way, i just read recently a similar rant about musicians making pennies and losing money with the web : http://thecynicalmusician.com/2010/01/the-paradise-that-should-have-been/thinking about it, musicians are in a much worse positions than photographers and journalists. the web is gonna become a gigantic ocean of free music, books, articles and photos before or later. only a small bunch of pros will survive.
82
« on: April 18, 2010, 20:06 »
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« on: April 18, 2010, 20:04 »
How does a lawyer justify a $5000 fine for an image that was licensed for $20?
exactly my point. and going further, what if the image was licenced for as low as 5$ or even 0.2$ with subs ? don't you guys see your images ARE worth nothing, no matter if they sell 1K times ? even your hero Yuri recently admitted he's now doing 50% RM. no clear and/or straight reasons about this switch but it must be obvious.
84
« on: April 18, 2010, 20:01 »
spain is good enough.
85
« on: April 17, 2010, 18:51 »
Nice bit of free publicity for Istock.
It really was incredibly lazy of the DUP. I'm quite sure the people that designed and paid for the poster would have been well aware of general political advertising rules, irrespective of the terms of the Istock license.
as usual the wording "royalty free" is to blame. buyers just think they can do whatever they like and never read contracts. with RM instead they pay based on usage type so they can't make mistakes like this.
86
« on: April 17, 2010, 18:47 »
hahaha !
millions of euros spent in the advertising campaign and barely 20$ to buy the photo on istock.
it reminds me of another scandal involving the BNP using istock images of a "typical british family"
that was later found to be the italian parents of the istock photographer...
87
« on: April 16, 2010, 04:27 »
the problem lies with sub-distributors.
how can big agencies check their releases one by one ? and what if they're written in chinese or hindi ?
getty sub-licences a bunch of less known agencies and collections for instance, for sure there's plenty
of fake or missing releases there, but how many are going to sue getty in the end ?
it took 10 years for the greek man to find out about the yoghurt for instance.
there's certainly a lot of ads around using unreleases photos or even pics stolen on flickr.
88
« on: April 15, 2010, 18:22 »
So it's not clear who's to blame here, if AGE or another small RM agency that in the meantime has been sold or went bankrupt. Well this a very good reason for any buyer not to buy from macro, that seems to be very sloppy with releases and clearances.
Micro is very strict about all this, and most important micro sites even offer a warranty. So why do people still buy from the dinosaur macros at overrated prices? Ignorance. Let this be a lesson. ;-)
ironically the very reason to buy RM is to have you ass covered in situations like this. i blame AGE or their distributors and sub-agencies. as for payments AGE is an ugly agency anyway, for the record to get paid you need to send them a paper invoice in Spain and we're in 2010... i don't care if it's AGE fault or their sub-contractors. AGE sold the image, AGE should be accountable in case of ANY issues, period.
89
« on: April 15, 2010, 07:28 »
yes but even signing a release he wouldn't see a single euro from the photographer.
besides, as they're using the image since 10 years there's also the possibility that
because of some obscure legal loophole he's too late to complain today.
90
« on: April 15, 2010, 06:05 »
The BBC articles says the image was sold on AGE Fotostock but i think it was thru another distributor so in these cases it's not unusual that something fishy happens with model releases.
So it's not clear who's to blame here, if AGE or another small RM agency that in the meantime has been sold or went bankrupt.
Technically AGE should be the one to pay back the bearded man, and then they would recoup the money sueing the other agency or the photographer.
It's a big mess, what will happen when agencies accept model release taken with the iPhone (Alamy seems to be ok with it, they have an app for this).
For anything else, i think the old man is going too far with his claims.
His face is on a yoghurt, so what ? He's famous all over sweden now, why not
just accept it and live with it ?
91
« on: April 13, 2010, 19:10 »
fact is,
you're all less than 10 $ / photo.
92
« on: April 13, 2010, 03:32 »
So who all potentially are liable here? Photographer for not getting a release? Agency for mismarking the license (Commercial instead of Editorial) or not restricting it to Editorial? Designer for improper usage? Yogurt company for improper usage?
SNIP
It'll be interesting to see who gets nailed for this. I've been looking into an LLC and Corp business and this case just pushes the issue.
I've read various articles (which I can't seem to find to reference at the moment) and the gist seems to be that proper usage is ultimately the responsibility of the end user. Of course if there was misrepresentation at the agency or by the photographer than changes things.
gray area. what if the photographer keyworded and captioned the image saying the man was turkish instead of greek ? who's to blame in that case ? no agency check keywording nor i think is fully responsible for that.
93
« on: April 12, 2010, 17:14 »
^ Exactly. Alamy had a problem with this. They were finding contributors marking photos as having a model release when there wasn't one. After being busted those contributors were saying stuff like "I was going to get it later" or "The model never sent it back to me."
So in that case does that make the photographer liable?
yes but if he sues somebody it will be the agency first. as for Alamy what about the new "model release for iPhone APP" ? it seems alamy is willing to accept this crap, they even wrote about it in their corporate blog.
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« on: April 12, 2010, 17:13 »
hahahaha !
the bearded man discovered RM's dirty little secret....
most of the pics have no release or they have fake releases
and agencies don't give a crap unless a scandal like this makes
the headlines.
as for the liability it's of course the agency to blame, they will later
fine or sue the photographer depending on the contract they signed
with him.
with all the bearded greeks living in stockholm they could have saved money
hiring some immigrant dressing with traditonal uniform and pay
a photographer for the photo set.
you see... stock can be more expensive sometimes ....
i like that picture, it's exactly like the ethnic portraits i shoot.
95
« on: April 07, 2010, 18:35 »
the only issue is Alamy outsourcing to INDIA, who knows what's "sharp" for those guys
i never had problems uploading old 6MP stuff until november, now they reject everything and i wasted a lot of time
editing that crap for nothing.
ironically the same rejected images have been all accepted by iStock so they can't be so bad considering their snotty QC...
whenever i upload 18MP files they get accepted by alamy in 24hrs, i guess they don't even look at them or use a specific automated software for this.
96
« on: April 07, 2010, 18:27 »
Agreed^^
I never realized how naive a lot of people are until I started selling stock. Apparently the vast majority believe the people in advertisements they see actually USE the products! They are shocked to learn what stock is and that it is in so many advertisements.
it should be mandatory to teach in schools how advertisement works and i would add also cinema and music to top it off. but i learnt the hard way that people eats anything they see on TV exactly because they lack the minimum required skepticism and analytical skills needed to "reverse engineer" the crap they see on ADS and propaganda of any sort. they simply have no f... clue of how this world works nor they're the least interested in reading a user's manual or whatever technical or anything that takes more than their average attention span of 3-4 seconds.
97
« on: April 07, 2010, 18:13 »
i praise China for having booted google out of their networks.
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« on: April 01, 2010, 02:24 »
i've always been skeptic about workshops : why someone would teach you his secrets instead of being in the field shooting
more photos ?
Those who can't do, "teach" (or blog).
They might try to, but I assure you plenty of people can't teach. Even successful experts in their fields are rarely good teachers.
exactly. to teach effectively you need a lot of human and social skills. and in public schools it's a mission/vocation, rather than a job... but back to workshops : is your voice loud enough to be heard ? can you "sell" your vision about technicaland artistic aspects ? are you updated or you still talk about film cameras ? how do you deal with "slow" students ? how do you deal with "rebels" and trolls ? and the list can go on and on ...
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« on: March 31, 2010, 17:11 »
even a 100$ nikon Coolpix with 8MP will make pics for Alamy in theory but under which condition ? blue sky, sun, outdoor, non moving subjects, and a good lot of photoshop post processing ...
i had a photo blog with my early pix shot in 1024x768 and resized for the web in 550px ... they all looked great
on a laptop, i've nothing against P&S, i mean they're TOYS for snapshots, that's what they are for.
of course you can make the odd good saleable photo.
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« on: March 31, 2010, 16:22 »
it takes a long time to make a RM sale on alamy, i took months just to get the photos uploaded from CD years ago...
i don't think microstocker can easily succeed on alamy, as alamy is too much targeted about editorial, i think getty RF is a much better option.
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