Quote from: grp_photo on February 12, 2007, 11:32

If i look at the news i can clearly see that the biggest liers and cheaters come from the U.S. and not from the Eastern Europe or any other part of the world...

Wow! What a generalisation.  I guess you believe everything that you see in the news.

I guess it doesn't matter that the United States has helped the word time and again (e.g., both World Wars), or that they are the most generous nation in the world when it comes to acts of charity.

All of humanity is sinful.  We all have our bad side and our good side.  Some more than others...

I don't like to talk about politics etc , but ichiros post was offensive for 100s  of millions of people never mind about if he wanted to sound like that or not.

I don't know where is he from and I don't care , I never look at people from the point of where they come from but how they act , and we are all individuals , and there are idiots everywhere but luckily  there are more good and honest people everywhere too.


Im will always be more critical to my first neighbor than to someone who lives on the other side of the world , I will be first one to say that my coutry is full of idiots.

Yet again I will be first to stand against any generalization of a nation race etc.


Just to make things clearer  east European countries especially Slavic countries  never attacked no one in history , never had colonies , never had slaves , never used atomic weapons etc...

Than again , you can always google about crime rate in all world countries, and you will find your answers. 

Like i could read something like this:

"According to the comparison of international crime statistics produced by the UN's Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, England and Wales had 9,766 crimes for every 100,000 people in the year 2000. America had 8,517, South Africa 7,997, Germany 7,621 and Russia 2,022"


And from that I can just can make  a preconception that ichiro was probably high at the time he was posting 

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Is there ftp upload option on ImageVortex ?

I would suggest you to avoid sky in first submition , cause it can be tricky to reduce noise and not do remove details , and SS don't want , noise .

I wouldnt send nothing over white  in first batch also.


I would sent the money shot , Spanish chapel ( but get rid of the noise on the sky , if any , you can use the blur tool also cause its clear sky shoot) , few of baby shoots , 2 lets say

As I understand its not 2$ per photo but up to 2$ per photo and its from 10 cents per "acceptable quality photo" up to 2$ for "panoramic/ premium quality photo" , that means that you get  less than 2$ per photo , probably even less than 1$ , and you get 20c when the image is downloaded.

Well here is what they offer:

http://www.stockphotospot.com/photographer_signup.php 

Fintastique , thanks again that was exactly what I was looking for

Well I recently started to use keyword helper on CanStockPhoto and I find it more then useful.

The problem is that  I would like to sort the keywords by alphabetical order somehow without doing it manually word by word ,but I don't know how to do that.




Thanks 

Void, totally understand.  I'm not suggesting you're doing anything wrong.

We're in the early stages on building a customer base- I thought I would convey the images that are selling well on our site right now.  I'm guessing these are also big sellers on other sites as well.  As our reach becomes greater, a larger pool of our images will become marketable. People concept shots sell well. 

I also wanted to convey as a general trend, the photogs that seem to upload on a regular basis have more downloads.  This trend has changed a bit since we introduced our related images.  This is specific to our site.

Our growth is being measured by weeks now, so I'm optimistic that we're on an upward trend that will benefit our members. I'm ok with being in the second group now, but we're not satisfied with just resting in the middle. I appreciate all the hard work our Carnies have put into our site.

Hi Bryan

I would just like to ask you is it possible that you will start accepting borders again? I understand its LO policy not to accept them now , but they are selling quite well on all other sites I even sold few at LO so maybe it would be a good idea to reconsider that decision.

Given how much you'll save on the lens by buying here in the U.S., I'd have your friend order it with the more-expensive overnight shipping option.  I have bought from Beach Camera, and recommend them.  I just checked for you, and the lens is $1,100 U.S., with overnight shipping charges of $40 and guaranteed arrival by Dec. 20th if you purchase it today.

B&H has the same price for the lens, and they offer next-day delivery for $48.
 

Thanks

Well over here the price of the lens is over 2300$ so almost everything is acceptable for me

The problem is that I personally dont know that person that is buying the lens for me, and he is doing me a favor , he is buying it with his money and I will pay him when he arrives. But as i understood he prefers buyng stuff directly in the store and lives in a small town. The shops over there dont have internet addresses etc.

So if I want him to buy it over the net I will have to explain him  how step by step.

So as I understand you I should mail him him to order it as quick as possible from BH photo , with express shipping and this shipment will be charged about extra 50 $ ?

Thanks



   

And when we're talking about quality/rejections...

It would be easy for istock to make a profit from selling pictures of lousy (or not optimal) quality - The previews aren't very big and doesn't say much about the quality, so the customers will have to trust the agency in order to buy images.

I can agree on most of your points , IS has its standards and thats good. But if you are trying to say that all other sites are selling photos of worst technical  quality then you are wrong. I'm ready to bet that SS (for example) rejects more photos with technical problems and demands at least the same quality as IS. The reason that they have higher acceptance is because they don't refuse for too many similar photos on site or we don't  consider thats stockworthy   reasons , and In my opinion thats positive , if the work is technically good then let the buyer decide  if its worth buying or not ,  there can never be too much of good photos.

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Well I wasn't involved in those topic , but just to jump in ....


So if you lurk so much u probably know what happens at certain forums if you post  something it cant be beaten with words or if it doesnt please someone......  , locking , deleting etc .... so If you want to defend the freedom of speech so much you have some more places to visit and posts to write. 

And next thing , if certain approver can criticize mine  or any other persons work, why couldnt  I  or any other person criticize his work on a neutral site  and post an image that after him or her is worth approving , ant that photo was never the subject of that post it was just an object for judging someones objectivity.

You miss the point , on purpose or not  but anyway  it  never was about the photographer it was about reviewers work.


If i had to bet about how many people are hiding in those 2 post i put my money on one , and if I had to say if  the photographers work that was posted  was the whole problem or was it something else I would  bet on something else.


And for the end as good old Dylan would say : "So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"






     

I requested a payment from StockXpert and it took 11 days to get a payment notification saying they had sent a check. It's been another 11 days and still no check. Doesn't seem like it should take this long for a check to go from Hungary to the US. Only takes 4 days for a letter to make it to Germany.

For those who have requested checks before, how long did it take to receive it?

Im from Croatia , and we are neighbors with Hungary , so aprox same distance to USA . When I was still requesting cheques it took about a week from the day they were sent from USA till they arrived in Croatia. Well thats the opposite direction , but it should be the same.

I never had a check sent from SX , so I cant help you there , but  I had few Moneybookers payment from them and they were  always on time , at least in my case.