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« on: February 16, 2025, 12:48 »
I think that's a very good way to find subjects that are best for both. Specific locations are the main attraction, but that doesn't stop anyone from seeing it as a good generic landscape as well. But either way, specific locations are a good way to attract specific uses. 
Selling generic landscapes is really hard for search rankings.
Being at the top for the keywords: landscape, nature, and outdoor is like winning the lottery ... (although I don't know if there are customers who do such a simple search  )
Good point. I was trying to say, if someone has specific locations, there's always that outside chance that a generic landscape could sell. Lots of maybe, could and wishful thinking. Yes, specific locations, for anything, seems to be a good way to hit the marketplace. Especially since everyone else, can't go to the same places or doesn't live near them. All that aside, you made me look: 32,780,180 landscape, nature, outdoor stock photos  That's a wow number. And the winner is...  Really? "Asphalt road square and green mountain with sky clouds natural landscape at sunrise" Not what I would have expected. 2nd is nice, #3 is the lone tree in a field photo, my God cliche, and #4 is a cityscape. #5 is the Sun in the clouds. Now something like "45 pikes peak iowa stock photos " I'm on the first page, because everyone is. I'm around 10% of the images. I don't know about the download limits, if that's some kind of set number and there's a way they manipulate sales, I wish my fixed number was higher.  What I get, from week to week, day to day, has wild swings, on Adobe. Speaking of: 11 results for pikes peak iowa in images at Adobe and none are mine. I need to see what's going on with that?
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« on: February 15, 2025, 13:16 »
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Well, if you look at it that way, RPD is as important as volume. Both go together in terms of
earnings. And earnings in relation to effort is what really counts if you see it as a business. In other words, how much do I earn at an ency against which effort. In that regard, submitting to Adobe or Shutterstock is more or less comparable. iStock requires more effort Motion Array even more. ...
again, RPD is worthless as a measure of usefulness or performance- my RPD from alamy is $30 but actual % of my income is < 5%. similarly, pond RPD has varied from $2 to $15 but overall income is again < 10% since actual sales (ie INCOME) is just a blip (tho welcome) on monthly sales
if RPD were important i'd be concentrating on alamy & pond rather than AS & SS which provide 90% of my income. i heartily endorse those who make their decisions based on RFD since it pays for my additional international travel!
But I am concentrating on Alamy? Yes, of course and this is what it all comes down to in these threads. Alamy has a wonderful RPD IF someone gets a download. SSTK has the worst RPD but for many had higher volume. (that's ended now, from what I see) Adobe has the best mix of downloads and RPD for many people. iStock is a mystery. For what used to be the top agency, they went downhill, until (for me) they are doing slightly better than DT. Wirestock, for all others, all the agencies where I don't want to have an account, I only have 500 images or so, and I make more there than IS or DT. The RPD is scary bad, but the all others, and the $30 minimum, I get paid, makes up for that. I may have never made payout at 123RF or Envato or DP, but just by having the old collection, on WS, I get "Free Money" from all the deadbeat agencies. The other problem and I've said this for years, all agencies don't accept the same images, some sell different types better than others. I sell many more Illustrations on Adobe than SSTK. IS seems to sell anything, but the problem is, low RPD and low volume. Alamy is all kinds of things that none of the previous do well on. Anyone who's comparing RPD, RPI or pick your stat, and they have a different number of images, different images or video, different styles, and then compares agency A to Agency B, isn't using comparable data. And especially when someone says, SSTK is much better than Adobe, and someone else says, Adobe is much better than SSTK, the point is, we don't have the same images, subjects, or numbers. My numbers are nearly worthless to anyone else, and visa versa. SSTK 5,500 images, RPD for 2024 was $0.65 Adobe 1,041 images, RPD for 2024 was $0.87 And total I made 3 times more money from Adobe bottom line - SS pays more bills than AS, no matter what the RPD says. everything else is window dressing & bragging rights
And yes, I agree, except Adobe pays more bills than SSTK, and all the letters and numbers are mostly, after the fact, observations, that don't really change sales? It's like looking at the weather. Watching doesn't change it. Besides the stats and bragging and watching, the most important part of this, for anyone who's actually trying to make some money, isn't RPD, RPI, or position, rank or any of the other junk stats. The heart of the business is, what sells the most, what sells best, and where. Then recognizing the market demands, and creating more of that kind of material. ps I just passed 7,000 images on Alamy. I expect I'll make more money this year, than when I had 5,000 images last year. Of course my expectations don't mean anything to the buyers. They only care about their needs. One Alamy DL is equal to an entire month of iStock. I just need to get up to one DL a month on Alamy, to have things balance. Otherwise 1,087 images on IS is making me more than 7,000+ images on Alamy. $$$ to DLs I'll take Alamy over IS for now.
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« on: February 14, 2025, 16:43 »
RPD matters because it represents the average price that you sell your work for. Microstock is a business and, in a business, you can't work out if you are making money if you don't know what your sales price is.
you need more than sales price to determine if you're making money. again, my AS RPD is 2-3x that of SS but SS brings in more cash , often 2x or more.
so reporting JUST RPD is meaningless - at best, it's only half the equation - you need to consider actual income = RPD * sales.
Or actual income is = Total pay from sales minus expenses? Or $$$ - Cost of doing business! RPD, RPI, acceptance rate, how many images, sales per image, sales % of portfolio and pretty much anything else someone can come up with, (oh yeah almost forgot Position) is just a way to see how images or agencies are preforming. You said it, the only real answer in the end is, how much did I put in the bank. (or spend on scotch and more camera gear) Hardly anything ever gets to the bank. I picked this up last week. A Loupedeck+  Not sure why, except it seemed like a good idea.
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« on: February 13, 2025, 13:21 »
For landscapes, in fact, I stopped taking generic shots.
Now I only deal with specific locations.
I think that's a very good way to find subjects that are best for both. Specific locations are the main attraction, but that doesn't stop anyone from seeing it as a good generic landscape as well. But either way, specific locations are a good way to attract specific uses.
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« on: February 13, 2025, 12:59 »
So they work in groups then, all swapping images and accounts between them, and if one gets banned they move onto the next and share the profits from stolen images/video between them?
Here's the person you can trust, who knows what's going on. gnirtS It does not have to be a passport and i believe now, not even photo.
Nothing stopping someone from using their driving licence, national ID it ID from their wife/sister/47 cousins neighbour and so on. Which most of Pakistan seem to be doing.
Some other people are just doing what if and making things up, and they don't seem to understand that this goes on all the time, SSTK doesn't try to help us, or stop the problems. SSTK doesn't check for duplicates for new people, doesn't check most of the time for new uploads from the rest of us. 2019! and it has never ended. That plus SSTK threatened people who were reporting the fakes and thieves. Like happened to Brasilnut Summary of last week (week ending Jan 27):
Total moles identified: 250
Moles wacked (by SS) from Jan 20 - 26: 120
Moles pending: 130+ (new accounts identified today)
https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2019/01/27/update-why-shutterstocks-copyright-infringement-problems-should-concern-you/
Complete list:
https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/96297-thieves-thread-update-week-ending-jan-27-251-so-far-flagged/
Small victory but huge huge challenges ahead...
People who wrote and complained got told, we could only report our own images being misused and stolen. When an account gets shut down, a new one pops up, with the same images. You would think that SSTK could notice that? Anyone who tries to say that SSTK is doing a good job or any job, or trying to end this, is in denial of the years this has been going on, and blind to the facts and evidence.
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« on: February 12, 2025, 15:10 »
Downloads-
Earnings-
Position-
Dear friends, do you worry about your rank, every day, all day. Do you find yourself concerned that the "algo" has changed and your best sellers aren't best anymore. You go check, to see what page you are on, at a minimum of daily? Do you see new images getting no traction and old images declining in sales numbers. Do you go to the best sellers page, every day, at least once, so you can see what other people are doing? And you check your earnings, morning, noon and night, then last thing, before you go to sleep, just in case something changed in the last few hours.
Is that what's got you down Bunky? Well let me tell you, there's an asteroid coming, that's going to hit the Earth and blow us all into cosmic dust. Making pennies from Nanostock, isn't so important after all? We have global warning, climate change, people in power that half the population, generally doesn't like. Dictators and wars, someone could push the big "end of the world" doom button and nuke the planet.
While you're more concerned about how the algorithm runs and obsessed with your image rank?
One can observe their rank without being obsessed. It's a useful piece of information. For example I also observe my Google rank (not for microstock obviously), which gives me a data point about what works and what to change.
And about the asteroid, you can relax. It's a small asteroid about Tunguska size (google Tunguska if you don't know what I mean). Also I think you're from the US and US is not even in the possible impact path. Also it's not so difficult to deflect with current technology.
The joke is, checking a few times a day, over and over, all day, not observing on an occasional basis. Yeah to Tunguska interesting case, comet or air burst. It's still a mystery and a good one. OK small asteroid blown up story. What about the volcano in Yellowstone, how about the Earths core moving. What about the poles swapping? Oh of course climate change. Then there are the aliens, airplanes spraying chemicals... Much more important things to worry about besides, how's my rank and is the agency biased for "other people". Position is relative and if you go and look back at this thread, most people just go up and down, like a cork floating on the waves. It's not as if Position actually goes up or down much or changes, for most of us. Do my images have a Google Rank. Tell me how I can see that. I'd be interested in seeing what that says. I did Chatgpt and found my name. Not very exciting. There was a joke in that first post, my rank shows as "-" because it was so bad this week.
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« on: February 12, 2025, 15:03 »
Last weekend I upload some images to Alamy, before if is one images failed all other images from same submission is also failed. Not at this time. One is failed but other stays online for key wording.
I am not sure it was accidentally or no. I hope, they finally find out it was not smart way before.
If it fails for intake data, error or image size, the whole batch doesn't fail. If it fails QC, the whole batch fails. As far as I see, no changes to the one fail, all fail rule.
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« on: February 12, 2025, 15:00 »
Apparantly in India a government-issued ID is required to open a Paypal account.
I've just checked their website, and a Photo ID + proof of address, (in the form of a bank statement or utility bill), are required. I'm in Europe.
That's a good start. So someone explain, how do they have dozens of accounts as the evidence shows? And those accounts are filled with copied, altered and stolen images. As fast as they are closed, another one shows up, and many have the same sets of images. We're the honest people. I have one account, one ID, one email that I use for photography. How come SSTK doesn't stop these people, when it looks like Adobe, IS, DT and most of the rest, block them?
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« on: February 12, 2025, 14:54 »
That's interesting, because the support pages for PayPal certainly say you can have just one business account and one personal account only.
Shutterstock are the same, and if you have a business contributor account, it has to be a separate legal entity, and with a payment account in the business name.
When a Shutterstock account is set up, the name you use is added to the 'Payment to' field on the account settings page. You can't change this yourself, and if it doesn't match your payment name then you don't get paid.
So if your payment account is in the name of Jonathan Smith, and you innocently sign up to Shutterstock as Jon Smith, then you have to provide an ID document to Shutterstock to get them to change this, otherwise the payment fails.
I've had mine since PayPal started, could be the rules changed. But I do have two accounts going to the same bank account. Paypal uses the email account, not the name. Two eBay accounts, two PayPal accounts. Yes, there is another PayPal for the business. For SSTK I wouldn't try to have two accounts, too risky. They watch camera data, IP addresses for one. I disagree. I was in a situation where I uploaded a photo taken by a friend of mine. He also uploaded this photo to the site. We both quickly received a warning and wrote explanations. I have read many similar stories on the Internet and on this forum as well. And many were not as lucky as us, many were banned by Shutterstock.
Same camera? Please explain how over the years and right now, the OP have found multiple accounts with the identical images, and SSTK does nothing to stop this. Ask about the SSTK FaceBook page where people are selling accounts and collections and some of them just seem to be making new accounts as fast as they get banned, then upload the same collection of images.  Explain that duplicate checker again? IF they checked new peoples uploads, and didn't pay for 90 days, something that simple, they would deter people who do nothing but cheat the system, over and over. They don't and you can read back here for years, the stolen images, copies and multiple accounts.
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« on: February 11, 2025, 14:41 »
Usually Shutterstock is very good at tracking copies of photos or videos, if it finds a copy in another account, it bans that account very quickly. So I am surprised that thieves upload the same works to different accounts and Shutterstock does not ban them automatically.
No they don't, that's the problem. When we report image theft, they stonewall and deny and make it difficult. Sometimes they only delete the offending image, and leave all the rest. As for Payoneer, PayPal or Skrill, I believe it's only possible to have one account on each, and they need to be linked to a bank account for withdrawal. Certainly, where I'm from, you can't open a bank account without verifying your identity.
Not true, I have more than one Paypal account and two of them are linked to the same bank account. Yes, true, you can't open a bank account, without proper ID, but no one checks to see if that data matches your Microstock name and account. The stock agencies just like to know that you have a valid Paypal account, and they trust that. I use one Paypal just for Microstock, another for eBay, and a third for marketplace sales. Best of all, Paypal keeps sending me notifications that I "have been selected, to apply for PayPal credit card" DraftKings does a better job of making sure people don't have more than one account. They read IP address, and computer ID, if you use a phone, or tablet, they are probably looking at the IMEI. It costs money for SSTK to care and have good security, they don't give a *. All they would need is minimum security for new accounts, and put the earnings on hold for 90 days. During that time, check every upload from new accounts, against the entire database. Once the cons saw that they couldn't get money from stolen images or multiple accounts or cheating, they would stop playing the system. SSTK could stop this, and could have 15 years ago. They don't.
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« on: February 11, 2025, 14:27 »
Downloads- Earnings- Position- Dear friends, do you worry about your rank, every day, all day. Do you find yourself concerned that the "algo" has changed and your best sellers aren't best anymore. You go check, to see what page you are on, at a minimum of daily? Do you see new images getting no traction and old images declining in sales numbers. Do you go to the best sellers page, every day, at least once, so you can see what other people are doing? And you check your earnings, morning, noon and night, then last thing, before you go to sleep, just in case something changed in the last few hours. Is that what's got you down Bunky? Well let me tell you, there's an asteroid coming, that's going to hit the Earth and blow us all into cosmic dust. Making pennies from Nanostock, isn't so important after all? We have global warning, climate change, people in power that half the population, generally doesn't like. Dictators and wars, someone could push the big "end of the world" doom button and nuke the planet. While you're more concerned about how the algorithm runs and obsessed with your image rank?
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« on: February 11, 2025, 14:10 »
Unless they have changed, PayPal doesn't require any ID. But you'll need a bank account to get your money? So email address and bank account, you can have all the PayPal accounts you want. Last I looked SSTK asks for an email address, that's it. Yeah, tax ID, which anyone can make up. Address, which apparently everyone in (Asian country here) uses their neighbors, relatives or access to unlimited mailing addresses? Does SSTK care where you live, after you sign up? I think it's funny that some people here are asking about fake credentials, or IDs, and why the agencies don't check better. But when Alamy asked for your Birthday, people went into conspiracy mode, "why do they need that?" "Hell no that's private" Yeah, something as simple as a birthday? But those same people want SSTK to get IDs, numbers, locations, and have better security.  ps if Alamy doesn't know your birthday, and that's top secret, highly secure information, then they won't know if you made one up. Pick some date you like and make a note, in case you need that date again some day. Wasn't that easy? 
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« on: February 09, 2025, 11:29 »
Leaf needs to repair that. Until then and when we can see 2025, here's the last I see on my hard drive.
2020 vs 2022
Site Earnings Rating 2025
Shutterstock 73.7 51.6 42.2
AdobeStock 50.5 55.7 91.3
iStock 23.9 26.6 18
IS exclusive 64.3 69
Pond5 14 10.1 10.4
Alamy 10.7 12.6 34
123RF 6.4 5.6
Dreamstime 4.6 4.9
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« on: February 09, 2025, 11:10 »
Shutterstock knew very well the rate of use of its subscriptions and therefore moved its entire business from on-demand sales to subscriptions. In this way it increased its earnings significantly.
Did you mean from Subscriptions to Single and Other? That's the way mine changed last year. I had one month with Subs totaling under $1 for the entire month. May 2024 was the only month that Subs equaled or beat S&O and that was by one cent. It looks to me, like they either lost the subscription clients or they moved them over to image plans, for less. I made more in 2009 with probably 200 images, @25 a DL, than I do now with 5,500 images. RPD is down and so are the total sales. I sure hope this merger goes through and they get more sales. Otherwise it's just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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« on: February 07, 2025, 13:55 »
Careful. The batch system at istock is not advantageous. When you submit a batch of say five photos only one of those photos will appear in search results. The rest will only be shown as similar images at the bottom of the main image page. Sales will suffer. Best to submit in as small batches as possible, perhaps only one photo per batch.
Really? I don't see that. Exactly as I said above. When you create a batch the submission system assumes the batch is of similar or related subjects.
Since almost everything I do is one of a kind, and I submit in batches, I don't think the similar applies and only one image from a batch will show. Maybe IF they are similar, that can happen? Reminder: illustrations can't be uploaded in the same batch as Photos. I know nothing about how IS handles Video.
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« on: February 07, 2025, 13:49 »
I have not uploaded to Alamy but things like this make me wary. The amount of the so called "fines" vary for the same "offence" as though it is a random amount from some person who may or may not be having a good day. Coupled with the number of people who find sales for which they have not been credited .... it does sound like their accounting department needs a good shake up!
Yeah, Alamy is different in many ways, but they are honest. Or at least were, for their history, before they were sold to PA news. I don't see any changes. This whole fine thing is new and started end of last year. The first I saw was someone on the forum who got fined $50. I didn't think anything of that, because I didn't believe I had any mismarked. Then someone else got one, and said, they had gone through and removed any settings that said "Exclusive". The answer from Alamy was, the violation had occurred months before they altered the Exclusive Settings. Wow I should have jumped at that as a warning, but I didn't. Then I got mine for an image from 2014 that wasn't Editorial and wasn't Exclusive, and shouldn't have been. I admit it could have been my mistake when I was marking others, but the whole batch, wasn't anything Editorial and wasn't exclusive, and they were marked as such. I appealed to Alamy, they basically said, "tough beans" the people who find infringements found it on a different agency site. They charged Alamy a fee and Alamy charged me an addition fee. Thank You. As for the other part, Alamy has never charged at the time of download. They claim it's some standard use system in the business. The buyers are supposed to report uses. True, people do find unpaid and unregistered uses, and have since the start. I wish Alamy would change their system. I'm sure what they earn and collect would improve substantially enough to cover and perceived loss from the honor system clients who go somewhere else. I don't know if Alamy calls it a fine or an offense, I called it a fine, because they took money from my account. If I used the wrong terminology, then I stand corrected. I'll just add some humor to this. As the new email came out and said people would get one warning, and they could correct all their assets. I wrote back using the support email thread that was created when I committed my "Offense" and quoted the email and asked if I would get my money back for my first fine, and that I had marked all my images, non-exclusive. As probably everyone here is laughing at me, and somewhere saying, "You must be kidding, I bet they don't answer you!" Or "do you really think they will refund you anything?" Nope, I'm not so sure I'll even get  and I'm more assured in my opinion that I won't see a penny returned. But at least I wrote them with a chance that they could do "the right thing".
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« on: February 07, 2025, 13:29 »
this was also seen in January,in which I had the same number of sales as in January 2024,when instead I certainly should have sold more,given that a year has passed and my portfolio has grown by 40%.
Why should sales increase, just because of more images? Your answer is "visibility"? I wonder if the other possibility is, what are the images and what is the demand for those images? That's not just aimed at you, but all of us. How do you measure visibility? Mine vs yours or mine vs anyone else? Or is that just an opinion of why, adding more images, doesn't make for more sales.
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« on: February 07, 2025, 13:10 »
I have photo sales, no gaps for that period. Could be a video problem.
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« on: February 07, 2025, 13:04 »
I said the L version. The premium Macro lens you won't find cheaper. Thanks. I use to do weddings and portraits, sadly I can't get more leads, not sure why. I guess because if financial crisis and people don't want to spend money of photography.
Oops, the regular f/2.8 is quite good as well. Yes, any L lens is going to be expensive and, worth it, if someone cares about the extra quality in construction and the images. Smart shopping and being patient is important. A great all around lens. The 70-200 2.8 peaks at about 45-48 lines per mm at f/5.6. (Varies by focal length). However, the 100mm at f4 and f/5.6 it resolves about 54 lines per mm. Canon 300mm f2.8 II is the sharpest lens Canon has ever made as tested by DXO. Followed closely by the RF 135mm 1.8 and EF 85mm 1.4. I'd ay any of those, would be a good choice, depending on what someone intends to shoot  The RF lenses and cameras have been kicking the heck out of EF lens prices, especially if someone is willing to buy from Japan. But it's not just new RF, the RF lens test ratings are better than the EF. I was kind of collecting my opinion of the best Canon EF L lenses. The 135mm L is one of them. I probably paid too much, at an auction, no box, no bag, no hood, just a lens and lens cap. But it's every bit as sharp as promised. The 200mm f/1.8 will be hoarded. I'm not so sure that the F/2 isn't just as good. 70-200mm I dropped to the f/4 non-is version, for the value vs the cost. I don't shoot low light, I don't use IS. "good enough" I used the money from selling the big ass, IS USM f/2.8 to buy a 400mm f/5.6. Sometimes finances demand a step down. I agree with you, the theory for anyone, should be the best lens that someone can afford, that meets the needs of what they shoot the most. That's the first lens they should buy, and then figure out the camera second. That lens will still be great in ten years and often, most people, will have replaced the camera body 2 or 3 times as sensors and electronics are improved.
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« on: February 06, 2025, 13:07 »
Microstock is Dead! Stock imaging is not...
Not a chance you can get the Canon 100L version for that low money. I just had a look, and the lowest I found was 450. Which is still a lot. I am shocked because this lens on Canon website is now 1300 when I paid for it 890 years ago. Means is still in demand.
I still plan to get a mirrorless camera hopefully soon. Aiming for R6 M2.
But have some gear around me, definitely won't sell any of lenses.
Canon 7D Mark II
Canon M50 M I
Insta360 x3
GoPro12
Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 IS L II
Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8 L II
Canon EF 100mm macro USM f2.8 IS L
Canon EF 70-300mm f4-5.6L IS USM
Canon EF 50mm f1.8 STM
Canon EF-S 10-18mm f4.5-5.6 STM Wide Angle Zoom
Speedlite 600 EX II-RT
DJI Air 2s
DJI Mini 3 Pro
DJI Avata
DJI OM6
Nice collection and I know how we all do that, more and more. Yes a chance:  Sold this morning just so it's not some ancient news or stale. I have a original M now as my car camera. That's a long way from an A1200 that used to ride next to the hand brake. Just in case... But still the original point is, someone could get started without a huge investment. I think editing software is an investment, and then time, time, time.
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« on: February 06, 2025, 11:57 »
I wont say using a camera is cheaper. I would probably say using Ai is cheaper. To get a decent camera, you need to invest couple of grands, you want awesome quality, you need top notch glass, that aint cheaper. But yes, it is quicker at some point to click the button and take the photo.
Not necessarily true, except probably for wildlife, sports and high-end portrait photography. I often sell files made with an entry level DSLR and glass I bought over 10 years ago. Current value of the whole system is probably below $100. If you are on budget, you can get a perfectly fine used camera and glass for maybe below $300-400.
I guess depends what you are shooting. A good glass still wont be cheap. Example
I have Canon EF macro 100mm L which cost me nearly 1k, and provideds
Me with amazing results compared to the 50mm lens which cost me 130.
Because of mirrorless, the value of the EF for a DSLR has taken a dive. The 100mm Macro is under $250 now. If someone wants to save some money, the supply won't last forever. Someone can get a nice 18MP DSLR used for around $250. Then a nice sharp 70-200 f/4 under $400 but there's a really good, high quality sharp zoom. In my version of what someone could get, that and the memory cards and batteries, for around $1,000 would be a very top quality system, that isn't using lesser quality lenses, which can be a constant cause of flaws and a need for editing. I'm still not sold on AI, and as others have pointed out, it takes some work, to get a good image from prompts, that's what you want, and then a bit of time to edit and make it right. I'd say, either can be about the same, in many ways. I can make a photo in minutes, but still the idea, the location, the setup, anything else, takes time. Just like AI, where getting the prompt right and getting a good starting image, takes time. Editing, depending, could take about the same amount of time. Personally a photo takes less time than going over every inch of an AI image. Since I won't pay for AI, I don't know how the sizes are, straight from the generated output. If they are as small as what I see, then there's another problem, upsizing, cleaning and repairing. Oh was this, this months sales? Adobe is still best for me. SS is nothing but dimes. Microstock is Dead! Stock imaging is not...
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« on: February 02, 2025, 12:01 »
https://www.alamy.com/blog/safeguarding-your-photographs-from-copyright-theft
We have also updated our monthly process and comms about when a contributor may have incurred an Exclusivity Admin fee, so that if an image has been incorrectly marked, they'll get fair warning to fix any incorrectly marked images whilst we pause the infringements process for their portfolio. Unfortunately, these fees cannot be avoided, but we hope that the improved comms will reduce the number of incorrectly marked images we find, and this will be a benefit for both Alamy and contributors. Well I'm so happy for everyone else now that people got $50 and $150 fees and Orchidpoet the worst I've ever read $250!  True, Alamy is supposed to protect our Exclusive images and go after stolen and misused images. If someone is interested, that's fine. But no warning, and they've been slapping people with fines for months. Not only that, there are questions whether the images were actually marked Exclusive, when uploaded many years ago, or if something in the Alamy system, changed them. But we have no way to contest the fines or prove some image from 2013, wasn't altered. And I'll admit I could have made an error, or maybe it was exclusive then, and I added it to Adobe in 2015, after they bought Fotolia. So yes, there is some help, for someone who does have true exclusive content on Alamy. And if someone does and they find an infringing use, and we report it to Alamy, then Alamy will go after that for us. Reminder: Cannot be marked as exclusive to Alamy if: Its available on another stock agency site Its an exact reproduction (in all or part) of a work of art (this does not include having additional unique or incidental features in the image, for example a person standing in front of a painting. The general rule of thumb is that to be exclusive an artwork cant take up any more than 1/3 of the image frame) Its not protected by copyright Its in the public domain Copyright ownership is unknown
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« on: February 02, 2025, 11:47 »
Congratulations on completely crashing and burning SS! I made $60 which is about 1/5 of what I made my first month in March of 2013.
Just because you did 2013, I went to Jan. 2013 for myself. And believe me, I have nothing like you or many other people here have. But 5549 images now, and probably under 2,000 back then. In a nice simple way, an average DAY on SS in January 2013 was double what I made for the entire MONTH on SS for 2025. It's that bad. Or as people used to say back in 2013, about how bad things were?  Who knew that the actual change would be so terrific.
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« on: February 01, 2025, 15:09 »
You enter the word in the PDF. You then enter your password and hit verify. That checks that it's the right password and PDF word. It will display a green box that says verify successful.Then check the little box at the bottom and hit submit.
You should get a pop up box with the tax form highlighted in blue. Click on that and it will download it to your computer.
Just a thought ... do you have pop-ups disabled?
Interesting thought. Just for clarity, the order is: 1) Open the PDF to confirm that you can download PDFs for the "secret word" 2)"Enter the word that appears in the PDF you just viewed:" [secretword] 3) Enter your contributor account password [account password] (Verify) 4) I consent to electronic delivery of my 2024 tax forms and understand that I will not receive a paper copy [ ] <---- tick box Download, which also opens the form, so you can save and/or print.
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« on: February 01, 2025, 14:58 »
They did tell me the specific image ID and I'm pretty sure it was up on Adobe. I don't think it has ever sold anywhere. But that means, yes it was me and my image, not a stolen image that someone else was using. An underlying fact is, we don't get paid more for exclusive anymore, there's no reason for me to have anything exclusive. Now I don't.
It looks like AIM has tools where someone can find all the exclusive images and mark them to regular status. Alamy was kind enough to do that for me, after I wrote.
I'm glad you brought this up again, it might have been missed, within another thread or only on the Alamy forum. Anyone can go look, make the should go look, right now and check for Exclusive images that aren't or possibly Exclusive images, that don't need to be, because there's no benefit to uploading Exclusive to Alamy anymore, that I know of?
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