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Messages - dragonblade
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« on: February 10, 2017, 18:18 »
When submitting photos through ESP, I cannot find any way of marking them as editorial. Has anyone else found the editorial option (if indeed there is one)? I have submitted some editorial images but the only thing I could do is fill in the standard caption with the location, date etc and just hope that they're accepted as editorial. Though who knows, they could be accepted as commercial which wouldn't be good (no release attached.)
802
« on: February 10, 2017, 03:48 »
I'm getting the same error.
Tried again this morning and it worked fine. I didn't do anything different this time around. Did you have another go?
803
« on: February 09, 2017, 11:47 »
Just before submitting an image, I have to click on 'Save' first within ESP. Problem is an error message keeps coming up. The message says: "There was an error saving one or more file(s)." Does anybody else get this? Ive been trying to save at least 6 times but the same message appears. Hence I cannot submit. It's pretty late now (well past midnight.) I think I'll quit and try again tomorrow and fill in the title, description and keywords all over again.
804
« on: February 09, 2017, 10:53 »
Oh man, what a b**ch. Sounds like she has no conscience. Name and shame - that's what I'd do. It's good that you called her out on her Facebook page. I would go even further and launch an all-out assault on her through social media. Write posts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc about her low life, thieving ways. Expose her for the crook that she is.
805
« on: February 09, 2017, 01:38 »
Rather than drag and drop, I select an image from a row and then select 'Open'. Not sure if that would make a difference.
806
« on: February 08, 2017, 23:46 »
Mat, thankyou for the offer. This very same file was accepted by other stock agencies and has sold on two sites. Unfortunately, a number of other files have also been unsuccessful in the uploading process. Though there have also been many files that have gone through fine. E-mail coming soon.
807
« on: February 08, 2017, 22:24 »
I submitted a photo via FTP just now. According to Filezilla, the transfer was successful but I can't see the image in the "Uploaded Files" page on Adobe. I refreshed the page but still no luck.
808
« on: February 08, 2017, 22:11 »
I've been submitting pretty regularly via FTP. No problems to speak of.
Ive just recently started using FTP for video uploads there. Maybe I'll do the same for photos as well.
809
« on: February 08, 2017, 21:23 »
Does anyone else here experience regular upload errors when trying to submit photos to Adobe Stock? It happens so many times for me. After waiting ages for the upload, I'm greeted by a camera icon instead of the thumbnail of my image and all the fields on the right are blank. When uploads are successful, those same fields are filled with suggested keywords. Ive been trying to upload a particular image for the last five days but still no success. Occasionally, other photo files will upload okay. Ive also tried some other, older photo files but get the upload error with those too. Is this a common problem for other contributors?
810
« on: February 07, 2017, 20:49 »
I can't even see my portfolio on ESP. Ive been looking all around the website but there's no sign of my images from iStockphoto. At least I can still upload new ones (though no visible way to designate an image as editorial if and when I need to.) No earnings visible either. I feel like I'm stumbling around in the dark like a blind person.
811
« on: February 07, 2017, 11:10 »
Ive noticed a few contributors on Shutterstock have some super 8 film footage in their video portfolios. Just wondering how well this sells? I also note that a lot of it is quite old footage - from the 1960s etc (or so it's claimed.) And that makes me curious as to how the contributors obtained the footage. Perhaps they shot it themselves back in the 60s. Or perhaps they inherited it from their parents or bought someone else's home movies from eBay. If the latter is true, there would obviously be an issue with copyright but difficult to prove who really shot the footage in the first place.
I shoot super 8 myself as a hobby. I am considering uploading some of my footage but it's not really all that old - most of it would be from the 1990s onwards. I wonder if there would be more demand for 60s / 70s super 8 footage. Then again, every time you film something on super 8, the footage always turns out rather vintage looking regardless of the decade!
812
« on: February 07, 2017, 08:48 »
Ive just started to use ESP today and there are a few things that are not entirely clear. Ive tried to search for my portfolio that was on iStockphoto but I can't find it. I cannot view any of my online files or recently submitted files that are pending for review. Sorry for asking a silly question but where would I find my images?
Also, when submitting files, I can't see an option to select commercial or editorial. I'm submitting an editorial image at the moment so hopefully the reviewer will get a hint when he/she reads my editorial caption with the standard location, date info.
813
« on: February 06, 2017, 09:53 »
Thanks! Previously, I was submitting photos to Adobe (I have a very small portfolio there.)
814
« on: February 06, 2017, 09:37 »
Ive been submitting videos to Shutterstock for a little while and now I'm thinking of doing the same with Adobe / Fotolia. Ive just visited Adobe's stock contributor site and read their video submission guidelines but there's no mention of their ftp address. Would it be something simple like ftp.adobe.com? Also once your video files are transferred via ftp, whereabouts on Adobe's website do they appear?
815
« on: February 06, 2017, 09:22 »
They don't sell frequently but because you are a new contributor, video sales make a massive difference in getting you up the pay-scale ladder. Many of the commenters here have been around long enough that they are not in the bottom ranks. You probably still are. It's only a few cents per sale (often) but it adds up, in both $$ and pride.
Videos sell for a few cents? I was under the impression that, at least on SS, a HD video could bring you close to $30.
816
« on: February 05, 2017, 00:27 »
Wouldn't the creator of those x-ray images have copyright over them?
817
« on: February 04, 2017, 21:53 »
With this specific photo, it was not actually uploaded to any microstock sites. And I know it didn't sell. Oh, and the watermark is still on it... 
Uh oh!
818
« on: February 04, 2017, 21:39 »
this photo is available for sale, but has never been sold)
There's always the chance that the image may have sold through one of the partner sites of the stock agency / agencies that you contribute to. With iStockphoto, most of my sales are through iStock's partner sites and I'm never informed which images are sold (except for the ones that sell through the main site.)
819
« on: February 04, 2017, 21:29 »
The agencies will let you know if you do it wrong according to their rules, which are often more conservative than legally necessary.
I guess the agencies try and protect their artists but looks like Dreamstime failed in this regard. Not too long ago on the Dreamstime forum, someone made a post about them getting into trouble for submitting a photo of a European monastery as commercial. The guy received a take down notice and had to pay something like 1000 Euros.
820
« on: February 04, 2017, 19:52 »
When I first started uploading to stock sites (mainly iStockphoto and Dreamstime) I had no sales at all. However, I kept persevering - constantly uploading on a regular basis. I kept doing that for a few months and still 0 sales - nothing. I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere so I took a break from it all for about two or three months or thereabouts. When I came back, I logged into iStockphoto and discovered that I had made a sale. Checked Dreamstime too and I had made two sales there. Then less than a few days later, I made another sale through Dreamstime. And that gave me the motivation to start uploading again. Then more sales followed. I also joined SS later on.
And later on I took another (short) break from stock photography and later found a good number of sales had occurred during my absence. So yea I know that my experiences differ from a number of other people in that sometimes I'll have a decent surge in sales during a break.
821
« on: February 04, 2017, 18:50 »
I'm not sure about others' experiences but I find that iStockphoto accepts just about anything with regards to photo submissions. Is this generally the case with most contributors? They don't seem to be very fussy. I admit I only have a very small port on IS with over 160 photos but Ive never had a rejection there due to technical reasons. The only times IS have rejected my photos was due to possible copyright infringement or people being featured that they thought would be recognisable (despite them being blurred during a long exposure in one image.)
Dreamstime are fairly generous too but not quite to the same extent as iStockphoto. DT accepts most of my photos with the occasional rejection. Shutterstock and Fotolia are much more strict - I find that about half my submissions are accepted by those two sites. Though lately, Shutterstock seem to be more generous, allowing a larger acceptance rate.
Are other people finding the same overall?
822
« on: February 04, 2017, 09:59 »
I can't speak for other sites but on Shutterstock, many contributors say that video sales are pretty rare. Generally, photos sell much more frequently. Though there is one contributor on SS who is the rare exception - he sells videos quite regularly - more so than photos. He does so well that he doesn't even bother submitting photos anymore. I looked at his video port and I have to say it's a really high standard. A lot of his videos look like TV commercials.
823
« on: February 04, 2017, 07:34 »
824
« on: February 04, 2017, 04:07 »
Some contributors on the forum over on Shutterstock are saying that SS are testing a new subscription package where contributors will receive 5c per image. This is outrageous. It takes long enough to accumulate a decent amount of money with regular subscription prices. With just over 100 images on SS, I made $16.81 and it took a long time just to make that much. But 5c a photo? What a joke. The scary thing is that other stock sites might copy SS and offer their own super low subscription prices.
825
« on: February 02, 2017, 09:32 »
I only just started submitting to Fotolia myself. After about a day or so following my initial uploads, I made my first sale there. Since then, sales have been very slow but to be fair, I only have an extremely small portfolio on that site. Ive now accumulated 38 photos in my Fotolia port and made a total of 4 sales. I also submit my work to Shutterstock, iStockphoto and Dreamstime and I currently have over 100 photos on each of those sites (so still a very small amount of images.) Also just started submitting videos to SS.
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