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751
« on: January 25, 2016, 13:45 »
i will not pick and tell you the problem with your work... but more give you in general
the thing that ss likes about night images.
there is a moment in night when it is just enough to see everything in detail..
and yet , you look at the sky and you can tell there is night ...
this is about that moment when the sky is just about brightest before the black cloak comes on.,.
more or less just like the dawn... when you just about see the luminence or what they call it..
glow.
ss likes to see that. some ppl call it the blue moment, some others like myself .. don't know what to
call it LOL,.. just know that is the moment to be shooting.
752
« on: January 24, 2016, 16:01 »
SS allowing more images is an exercise in BS; search the keyword "food" as of right now I get 9,094,385 hits
check undiscovered (never sold) I get 4,711,579 hits
By that little estimate 51% of those images never sold. I bet the same goes for lots of other categories.
yes, may be so... but what %-age is earning the bucks for ss? if we say like your estimate... 51% never sold a penny, 59% earns xxx millions of $ for ss. that makes it even more impressive to the shareholders than the xxx millions of new images per month,year,etc..
753
« on: January 23, 2016, 19:21 »
"Jon Oringer
January 11 at 10:27am New York, NY
Financial incentives only work well for mechanical non-cognitive tasks....?"
Yeah, well, it's hardly news: we're Artistes: money isn't what makes us happy.
C'mon SS, you want to diss contributors? At least think up your own scams, don't plagiarise.
yes, of course not... we are , like Zappa says, not in it for the money.oh, just the other day i was helping my grand child to find some wise saying of different cultures. imagine my red face when she pointed out to me an ancient chinese saying, and asked me why "anyone would want to pay peanuts to monkeys"..
"when you pay peanuts you attract monkeys". 
754
« on: January 23, 2016, 14:08 »
However. I want to add to Beketoff's comment. I've been seeing FT increase and then match SS this year. As of today (2/3 through the month) my sales on FT are 75% higher than SS.
Yes, 75%.
Wow! Do you have the same port in both agencies? I'm reporting much better sales on FT, but it is still only 20-25% of my SS income and I have the same portfolio of 5000 on both. How come there is such huge difference? 
wait a little while.. we hate FL a while back with DPC now they seem to be the new darling  only thing i know is that we don't want this announcement to be the dejavu of istock and lobo. if so, our goose is cooked
756
« on: January 20, 2016, 13:15 »
on a lighter note, ... yes, in agreement to one of the commentors above.. dogs ... like the horse in Alice said, "will do anything!".. but cats, when a cat actually lets you pose it, or tolerates your studio lights and have you poke a camera in its face, believe me, the cat consented. 
757
« on: January 20, 2016, 12:57 »
I'm not sure that legally you actually require a property release for ANYTHING......so its the agencies call and they tend to be cautious
http://danheller.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/busting-myths-about-model-releases.html
This person skims over the facts and ignores the cases where we do need a release. Famous animals are protected. A neighbor dog or a stray cat aren't. Unless it's somehow a prize show dog. He gives people a false impression that we are allowed to do almost anything, when the truth is, it's each case and situational.
http://asmp.org/tutorials/using-property-releases.html
We don't need a release to take a photo. We don't need a release to sell a photo or a license. As news or art we can display and sell. But if it's used in a way that is harmful to the owner, we can be sued, should have a release. It's much more complicated than yes or no.
re: red area above... well said! it is the same as property. generic looking property is not IP problemetic... but an architectural specific design is. same for animals. if the dogs are those expensive toy dogs or cats are those angora , siamese, etc ,.. i think they would err on the side of caution to ask for a release. if the cat or a horse or a dog is like most of the strays you see on a field or farm, i am sure it would go through no problem without a release. mr. ed, trigger, silver,... lassie, rin tin tin,.. even garf,.. would definitely need a release.
758
« on: January 18, 2016, 11:18 »
consider the following quotes which i got when i bumped into a pet-owner, ...
- yes, i spoil them rotten
- my dog is more important to me than my bf
- if you touch my collie, better get ready to leave with just your socks on
- there's only one thing more important than my hubby...
so, from these experiences with total strangers, i would say, i would be more cautious when
using a photo of a pet, than i am with a person.
i even remember reading of a woman who passed-away and left nothing to her husband
and everything to her poodle.
so, once again, yes, ...
759
« on: January 16, 2016, 12:05 »
"Today, you need to have knowledge of SEO, marketing, a broad understanding of different fields and a mixed portfolio (instead of just a photography portfolio)."
You always needed these skills and many More If the Photography Business is what you choose. being a top Notch Commercial Photographer trumps all other tinfoil Hat theories. Being in business requires Business skills regardless of what your in business doing. Taking The pictures is the easiest part. getting and keeping Clients is far, FAR more difficult. SEO,Marketing,Promotion,personality,Being Out there more than the competition and a 100 other things are paramount if any success is wanted. There and always have been a zillion GREAT painters,Dancers,Photographers,musicians and anyone in the arts that will never be seen. because of not having the gift Of salesmanship,Promotion skills and Plain and simple Chutzpah I've met very few in my 55 year career making a very good living in the arts..And without even finishing High school. I knew at 16, I needed to get out and get on the road. and had my Dads blessing. He made me a fake ID and that was it. What I learned, No school was teaching.
so true, all that you wrote here. one look at the "arts" business and you will know it has nothing to do with ability... from music (look at the best musicians... mostly starving... some till their death ...Lenny Breau is one example ... while lady gaga justin beiber make millions)... to yes, photography. even art... as in painting... or one walk through the Musueam of "Fine Arts" or whatever they call it ...with toilet bowls to meat to paint strips to body with oranges,etc.. you know it has nothing to do with ability. it's who you get to promote your work. the best selling authors have the best selling hustler working for them. i once knew a real estate salesman who told me he was selling used cars when he was 15, and learn how to "gyp people". he was proud of it, and he became one of the biggest sellers in real estate during the boom. he "hustled people" as he puts it, and he was proud of it.
760
« on: January 15, 2016, 17:03 »
My Old friend Lev Dolgachev Has 159,597 Perfect stock Photos. and the best Pure stock Port I've ever seen, Probably Ever.
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64260p1.html?id=64260&rid=64260
yes, absoluto... i always thought he was one super stock photographer. anyone with a port like that has to make money. even if he did not have 100,000 images, he would still make money because his work is like you say, perfect.
761
« on: January 15, 2016, 12:32 »
There's a difference between 8 years ago and today. Today, you can't rely on the skills you learned 8 years ago. The market was young back then. What works then no longer works today. Today, you need to have knowledge of SEO, marketing, a broad understanding of different fields and a mixed portfolio (instead of just a photography portfolio). 5 years from now, different skills will be needed. The question is...will the veterans learn those new skills or will they give up altogether?
You've been doing this less than a year. You're not a guru.
I'm doing this since more than 3 years. I'm obviously not a guru, but you don't have to be a guru to realise that he is right.
I'd say he's partly right. It helps to be up to date on the latest stuff but I'm still selling shots every day that I took 12 years ago. No doubt having a lot of video as well as photos would add to sales (if it didn't involve shooting fewer photos), but the photo market is still as strong as ever - in fact stronger than ever, given that stuff keeps selling despite the scores of millions of shots that are available compared with a few hundred thousand a decade ago.
i think both (old and new ) are right. .. depending on where you are. eg. i agree that some vets are having trouble getting themselves updated on the styles or workflow to compete with the newbies who have the IT smarts. but i also agree with sjl who once mentioned (to the question how can i make money)_... "you get one good image or 1000 bad images". .microstock is indeed a numbers game, and also like the other comment said, "10% earns most of your earnings". but flooding the market can help you be visible if you have 35000 photos instead or 3500 . ..even if it is all apples and marijuana. remember those days when that bloody golden man flooded the first 100 pages of the new section of every agency??? that's definitely still the secret to making money. ie. push everyone else to page 1000 so no one bothers to go look for their work, even though they are far superior than the crap on page 1 to 100.
762
« on: January 14, 2016, 14:09 »
i would say niche is more workable these days . as you keep reading about how come drop in sales by many older contributors, the silent contributors are seeing increase in sales. why? because they don't follow the crowd. it's much like the other stock market... in a crash, some still make money, if not more profits because they don't fall with the crowd.
in other words, the more you copy the top sellers, the more you fall when the sellers fall. still, i think it was yuri arcurs who said , if you copy us, we are already sellers, you are competing in a field which is already full of copycats.. (or something like that).
but if you shoot as ellen pointed out... things that tell a story , stand by itself, and things that are not so over published, you find yourself in an enviable position.
and with ss it is great because you don't have that silly thing where other sites show how well you are doing with number of dls . i think that is the secret today to winning..
if you do well, keep quiet... so no one will be copycat-ting you like mountains of ppl copy yuri, sjlocke, etc..
763
« on: January 13, 2016, 11:51 »
It's been happening for about a year now, and new files have hardly been selling (they tend to get pushed right down, very quickly, in best match, especially if exclusive, but best match is officially 'all over the place').
It might just be a 'your turn to think up a new policy' thing, or they might have an Evil Plan behind it.
Who knows? Probably they don't.
What they don't accept, however, is apparently what they deem 'too simple' illustrations. I discovered that an ancient and much used Chinese symbol wasn't properly represented there, spent ages measuring and positioning all the elements exactly in illustrator (true, I'm an Illustrator beginner) then rasterised it as I don't do vectors, as such. Firstly, it spent weeks 'pending executive', although I had put in the description that it was thousands of years old, then it was rejected as being 'too simple' , and Scout upheld it. I think that was probably the last non-IP rejection on iStock. Around the same time I saw a photo where the main subject was both well out of focus and well over-exposed, which the contributor had titled, and described, as 'bird on the ground'.
I have seen some very simple vectors accepted - and selling! - since, though; so who knows?
(re red letters): LOL, so they approved it??? reviewer : "i don't see no bird!!!" scott : "oh, it must have flown away"... reviewer : " ah OK!... so, approved???" 
764
« on: January 11, 2016, 20:45 »
i will believe everything is au natural and smelly is in ... the day i look at all those boxes and ads of makeup, hair coloring, etc when they start exchanging the super made-over gorgeous stars for some grubbie with brown teeth and clothes like they robbed a ruggamuffin.
Au naturel doesn't sell unnecessary products.
We have to be made to 'need wants'.
that's true too... like creating a false demand ... so everyone thinks this product will make you a transformation of your dream. but i was too quick to say what i did too. this "made to need wants" like you put it so well, has been done ages ago... from the time when they get a bunch of not so good musicians , dress them up, get the public fed to think they're the hottest thing since wawa... fill the pop charts worldwide they are shooting up with a bullet... even if they can't hold a note in a paper bag.
765
« on: January 11, 2016, 15:51 »
oh yes, i forgot to say...
that also when the toilet paper i buy ... start having a stray cat on it, instead of that cute fluffy furry white * cat.
766
« on: January 11, 2016, 15:49 »
this is normal for when viewers ratings are low, and there are no news about some countries at war or whatever. it's like grunge and those selfie movies with the camera shaking all over and they informed the world that this is the new big thing in show business, and not the well-produced movies like Batman, Matrix,etc.. whatever. this is also when some used to be national TV was the household station that everyone tunes in to every day and night... but is not ever nowadays. so they need to get noticed, so they bring in some grubbie from the street and made him/her the TV news manager or whatver instead of the sanitation director. if it is all so true, i will be the first one to change my look and stop combing my hair and brushing my teeth; not even bother getting out of my pyjamas before i get out of the house. i will believe everything is au natural and smelly is in ... the day i look at all those boxes and ads of makeup, hair coloring, etc when they start exchanging the super made-over gorgeous stars for some grubbie with brown teeth and clothes like they robbed a ruggamuffin. until then, i will say it's all a lot of BS ... and i don't mean "Big Stock"
767
« on: January 10, 2016, 21:10 »
Or some, not all, from US pronouncing "internet", "international", etc with a silent "t" => "inernet", "inernational" 
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yes, i noticed that too; the ppl from the States (*US that is).. say aluminum and not aluminIUM and would of ..and not would HAVE , and wa*er instead of WAT-TER *water. it all goes down to sheer laziness ( * like my lax of caps , heheh..) as latinos from say mexico will say domicans are lazy because they drop certain consonant in their spanish pronunciation. (no offence to dominicans, as even dominicans themselves admit it)
768
« on: January 10, 2016, 14:14 »
This is the most intresting:
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3026732p1.html
He started 2015 and, have 76 000 icon? Why?
76,000 on Dec 3 and 94,000 five weeks later. Super productive!
wow, another superhuman. so, what happened to that reviewer(s) who kept harassing photographers for "poor composition" if it was correct WB, well exposed ... and no other rejectionable reasons??? oh, i forgot, that ANALysis only applies to contributors 2 years and more experienced with ss
769
« on: January 09, 2016, 17:24 »
Resubmit next month when the new batch of reviewers are hired and those that are harassing us now are fired or quit.
LMAO, that is the funniest comment and hopefully the best news i get for starting this new year. good one, Striving i can see it now. all the harASSing reviewer(s) being marched to the door; most of them nepotism case as their cousin's cousin's cousins , uncle, etc are no longer main shareholders, so ss can now sacked them. let's hope the new ones are properly trained, and not have the same eye-sight and monitor problem as the existing ones, who keep see everything blur at 300% 100% and wrong WB. also that they know how to set their monitor screen to show full screen instead of partly- cut off so we stop getting the other rejection reason (Poor composition).
i believe the days of marijuana spam are numbered when the new reviewers come in. (i hope!!!)
770
« on: January 09, 2016, 16:40 »
Amusingly, this user's name is popular.vector! There are 64,723 items in their portfolio and it's about 100 or so objects presented in endless variations of box color & shape, background color & shape. It's mind-numblngly boring repetition of super-simple objects, each one to a file. Does that mean the trend on SS of ever-increasing collections of icons in one file is pass?
http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_landing=1&gallery_id=2939971&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest
About the only good thing I can think of is that the keywords are pretty close (so there are a few misplaced words like computer on an icon of an eye dropper, but they're mostly OK)
yes, according to her avatar she is a lady and she created 64K in one year. wow, that's more than I can make in my lifetime . .. even if the robot reviewer approved the other half of my properly produced photographs ( yes, I average between 10 % /50% rejection... weekdays/ weekends , and some weekends 90% rejection ( which I resubmit a month later during the weekdays to get 100% approval anyway.. .. irritating but oh well, what can I do??? back to topic, I wouldn't even be able to create 6400 in one year never mind 64000 . she is a super woman from ukraine
771
« on: January 06, 2016, 18:24 »
of course we did
As we always do, yet, the next time SS will be late day or two with notification, someone will open a new topic. Again.
LOL.. to the OP, you only worry if the total does not go back to zero once you reached payout. but if you see 0 on the first morning of the new month, you know ss is going to be sending you the money. take it easy, you are just one of xxx thousand/million/ etc of contributors they have to pay. we have never had an instance when we were not paid. as it always says, by the 15th you will get your money. save your energy on creating new works 
772
« on: January 06, 2016, 13:48 »
they don't ... usually.
my guess is maybe you did not file the tax exempt form if you are in a country with a tax treaty
or that you are in a country without a tax treaty
so , they withhold tax. just that..without any more info re this matter.
773
« on: January 04, 2016, 12:29 »
one thing i can tell you about ss...
if they reject it... it won't sell.
I have some images that I have re-uploaded and they sell very well. It really depends on the rejection reason. But it's hard to understand SS rejections.
That said, maybe your strategy of discard the file and move on could be the most efficient in terms of productivity.
yes, in terms of productivity this is the work method i use , like the other person who advised before me the same. the thing is , i believe , we are working against robots you cannot fool the robots; you change this, you change that, .. the robot sees it in the workflow .. as i mentioned in the other thread, (re: spam)... you beat the robot with marijuana , tomatoes, apples.. because the robot of ss will review all that as perfect histogram, sharp, white white, no blur in the foreground, no cut off zebra b*tt or man's tail etc (this will get you rejected on bad composition or blur). blue sky , and no creative lighting, (this will get you rejected as unfavorable lighting or whatevr they call it in their disposition). that is why a good image get rejected by experienced contributors and marijuana and tomatoes get approved 100% by the millions each day robot (like human) love marijuana and tomatoes
774
« on: January 04, 2016, 08:40 »
I'm sorry but the guy with the 35000 weed images still wins !
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Probably SS just need more marijuana stuff, but does not need
more Zoo pics. Less people have access to marijuana than
To the Zoo. IMHO 
exactamento... as i said in another thread. it's very easy to get 100% approval/rejection approval (levels and focus must be spot on) (your black , grey, white must be that) rejection (bottom of screen has anything chopped off or out of focus)(sky is not blue) exception, where for sure 100% approval - (subject is smoking weed or someone is offering the reviewer a kilo of weed, tomato, apple... best to add a note to the reviewer on this) btw, there is no human reviewer, it is a robot, that is why when you log in, it wants to be sure YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT... because they do not want you to sense that they too are robots at ss
775
« on: January 03, 2016, 23:23 »
here's something interesting i just found out about ss editorial.
with alamy, etc editorials are accepted just about anything.. events, etc no problem.
but ss even if you went to say crossroads, loolapooloza (spelling???) rock in rio,a megadeth concert,etc
where anyone can take a picture with smartphone or camera, ss will not accept your editorial
unless credential-ized.
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