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901
« on: July 22, 2011, 08:48 »
Below is a link to one of the most hit posts on my blog, 'How to maximise your sales on 123rf'. Faving images and rotating which are ur faved images from time to time is paramount to getting good sales on 123rf, you can see some of my results in the blog. At the time of writing the blog, my sales on 123rf were not as good as on dt, but for around 8 or 9 months my sales are on a par with dt and on occasions more than. http://www.microstockposts.com/how-to-maximise-your-sales-on-123rf/
902
« on: July 21, 2011, 15:19 »
How's the monsoon for you?
There are no monsoons here. I live in a country with the most idyllic weather (for me anyway). The temperature is around 28 - 32 c, all year round. In the past there were definite rainy seasons, but now noone can figure out what months they are in and it doesn't really rain like the monsoons in India.
903
« on: July 21, 2011, 14:52 »
This may be true, but my feeling is that Asian mentality is often different. Asians, living in Asia often believe in getting reward quickly for work done (which isn't such a bad thing). Microstock is a long slog and it can take years to create a decent income.
I'm not sure if that's true in India, or at least not in Kerala - one of the most highly educated states. I've seen too many people slogging for little or nothing in the hopes of having some kind of position in the future.
Also microstock isn't a long slog for India. At all. They could easily make a decent living off shutterstock alone in just the first year.
And don't forget that they'll get as hooked as us by seeing sales everyday. Except that the money attached to their DLs will be a lot more meaningful: salaries are really, really low here compared to the west.
Although India and Asia have huge populations, I just don't see a large proportion of them trying microstock with the intention of making a living. If they had the means, they are more likely to look at the profits of microstock sites and invest money in making one themselves.
That's possible. Entrepreneurship here is huge. But that only suits certain types of people. Don't forget - there's a highly educated, highly tech-savvy middleclass demographically exploding - all with laptops and internet access and a hunger for something new.
As you and I both probably know there are 2 types of India (the same like there are 2 types of Indonesia, which is where I live) which makes this conversation a little confusing. There's the Indian who will never own a dslr or even pick up a dslr in his/her life and there is the Indian who can afford to upgrade his/her equipment on a regular basis and wants and can afford the latest in thing, the tech-savy middle class that you referred to. The first kind which is the majority, won't be doing microstock. The second kind could do it but wouldn't see the point. They wouldn't be too impressed seeing 25 cents or $1 attached to their downloads. I was mainly referring to the second kind. Yes I know that in microstock you can make decent money and all the small amounts add up, but it takes time and I just don't see too many of them being able to see that far. I may well be proved wrong though.
904
« on: July 21, 2011, 13:06 »
Everytime I click on an interesting thumbnail it seems to come with an eastern european name attached. The cost of living in some countries makes microstock really worthwhile. I reckon it's in the thousands...
And soon enough there'll be a lot more because the amount of indian contributers is going to shoot up. The infrastructure and training is there (and then some). Young indians are highly digiliterate - they're just not yet fully aware of the opportunities.
This may be true, but my feeling is that Asian mentality is often different. Asians, living in Asia often believe in getting reward quickly for work done (which isn't such a bad thing). Microstock is a long slog and it can take years to create a decent income. There are a lot who live in the West who try microstock and give up quickly, as the reward they were seeking didn't come quick enough, but I think that there is more chance for a Western artist to see this as a long term thing. Although India and Asia have huge populations, I just don't see a large proportion of them trying microstock with the intention of making a living. If they had the means, they are more likely to look at the profits of microstock sites and invest money in making one themselves. There are already quite a few Indian stock sites (not really microstock though) springing up.
905
« on: July 21, 2011, 11:55 »
like we are here asking for this and that.. how about a profile feature showing how many people we are ignoring?
Now that is something that I want.
906
« on: July 21, 2011, 00:39 »
A major factor for me in choosing a camera, is its feel. I am really fussy when it comes to how good a camera feels in my hands. A lot of people shoot with Canon 500d or 550d. I find them really awkward to hold, the body just seems too slim (and I don't have big hands), I imagine the 1100D is similar. I was playing around with a Canon 50D in a shop recently and that just feels so right. I currently have a Pentax K-x, which is a pleasure to take photos with.
907
« on: July 20, 2011, 12:09 »
That's interesting Pixart, cos I've had a few of these rejections lately. On one of the rejections I wrote to them. I shot the image 2 years ago, it was never sent to any microstock site until now, I sent the image on its own and not with a bunch of other shots from the same shoot and it was rejected for, "Too many photos/illustrations on the same subject or from the same series..." My first thought was that they are scanning titles/keywords/descriptions, they have to be. And as you say the image could well not even have been looked at. Very frustrating, as the OP says.
908
« on: July 19, 2011, 10:22 »
I think anyone who has me on ignore  is missing out big time !
I'm just finding my feet on this forum and in time i will be dropping in on the other microstock site threads and my fans can expect lots of site mails in the coming weeks 
My dearest fan, This is a personal site mail to you, to thank you for not ignoring me. Everyday the numbers of people who ignore me grow but I have faith that there are still people who want to listen to me. Keep the faith and remember Shank Ali lives on!! Yours sincerely The One and only Shank Ali! 
909
« on: July 19, 2011, 00:39 »
Ignoring is the most idiotic feature in a forum because you end up with half-arsed conversations and people talking to themselves. It causes more b.itch fights than it reduces them. It will devalue the site and look stupid to new people who look in. Have you seriously become that self-involved that you think this website/forum was built just for you only? A forum exists so a group of people can get together and discuss their opinions on a matter. You're never going to like everyone and everyone's opinion. Can't you accept that and live with it? If you're so bothered about it, the forum doesn't need changing, you do... you need thicker skin and the ability to not let things bother you so much. This isn't your living room, it's a forum that's open to the public.
It takes a few seconds to skim the homepage, as it should for most native English speakers. As for ignoring people, I have a pretty strong character, there's no need for me to ignore anyone. I practice tolerating people and opinions which are so adversely different to mine in real life (I'm not always successful), that coming on a forum like this is a breeze. I always want to know not only what people think but why they think it and what experiences people have had for them to get to their conclusions. I don't even know how the ignore thing works, if u ignore someone, then I guess you can't see their posts, which could make reading a thread completely disjointed. A public forum with disjointed threads (and threads which are hidden, maybe) and opinions you only want to hear. Horses wear blinkers because if something suddenly appears in their field of vision, their first response is to flee. Humans have greater strength of mind than any animal. Most of us anyway.
910
« on: July 18, 2011, 04:47 »
Have over 100 images stuck in review since July 1st. I don't remember such a long review period at 123rf 
It is summer now. There is bound to be a few on leave. I think sites like ss for example, I think have a lot of temps in for the summer and lots who seem to be heavy on the rejection button. I prefer to wait longer and have the regular reviewers review our stuff.
911
« on: July 18, 2011, 01:58 »
No, it's not true at all. It's a myth that needs debunking.
Cheers for that 
912
« on: July 18, 2011, 01:32 »
Slightly different subject, I think I have heard a few times that it is ok to use images in a blog with a watermark. I'm wondering if anyone knows if this is true. Not that I am planning to do this, I buy all my images (or sometimes use free ones) for my own blog and wouldn't consider using an image with a watermark. I just want to know what the rule is for this, maybe someone knows.
913
« on: July 18, 2011, 01:17 »
@ Jsnover - I think that's the kind of info they really want while things are in Beta phase.
On the left of the screen, you should see a green feedback link. You can use that to report the kind of issues you're experiencing.
I'll give them my feedback too - I'm not getting any graph lines. I tried entering Christmas, Thankgiving, and Pumpkin just to see if maybe it had been the words I was entering but I'm still not seeing graph lines. Windows XP and IE8
That's an easy one. Get Google Chrome (FREE) or FireFox (free) and dump IE!
Also you might consider IE eradicator, that wipes it off your computer. Kind of like removing a virus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Internet_Explorer
Yeah, I have no problems using this on Firefox and and Chrome. IE has been behind the times for years. They were the first, so there is no need for them to be innovative or making sure that everything runs ok, as they still have plenty of users by the mere fact that people have always known them and often people are hesitant to change. Kind of reminds me of istock. I do have all three browsers on my laptop and it's rare that something won't work in all three browsers.
914
« on: July 18, 2011, 00:58 »
what we don't realise is that one picture more or less of the Eiffel Tower or an isolated tomato makes no difference at all to an agency with millions of shots. Accepting new stuff that is virtually identical to what they already have is more of a courtesy to the photographer than something that benefits the agency. New images on the same subjects are likely to be better and larger, so I can understand agencies accepting new material on the same subject, if that is the case.
Exactly. Dt is culling their database by deleting old images which haven't sold, but at the same time not accepting different versions of same shoots and not accepting new images of stuff which is already online. This kind of thing is obviously detrimental to us, but also detrimental to buyers by not giving them more choice and more choice of newer images, which as you say are likely to be better than older ones. I don't understand the logic of the agencies. They might as well refuse all new images, if they feel they have enough of everything and save money by not having reviewers.
915
« on: July 17, 2011, 09:59 »
916
« on: July 17, 2011, 03:21 »
What evidence do you have that the collection is not working? My own experience is that it is performing quite well.
I have an acute ability to see into the future,read the present and understand the before and i no for a fact buyers believe they are getting screwed for more money by this collection.
I'm not being funny, but were you able to foresee the commission cuts? I personally couldn't foresee that commissions could get any lower, but just curious if you did.
917
« on: July 17, 2011, 01:50 »
Am I the only one who thought "Austin Powers" for the subject of this?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmJKY59NX8o[/youtube]
This man did, but he entered the wrong thread  
918
« on: July 17, 2011, 01:36 »
Can someone enlighten me on the reason that Istockphoto introduced this extra price tier.
Cock Up 1- "We are sorry your file did not make it into our sexy Vetta collection but we hope it screws some more money out of the buyers by entering the Exclusive + collection"
Cock Up 2 - "We have decided that you the talented artist are best at managing your own portfolios and can nominate a % quota of your portfolio to add to this new collection "
Cock Up 3- "Non exclusives are now allowed to screw more money from the buyers by nominating files for the exclusive +
collection "
Just scrap the collection.It stinks !!!!
Have u ever thought about leaving istock?
919
« on: July 16, 2011, 13:27 »
What's weird is that I don't have ANY SUMMER material. I wonder what my sales would look like if I had...
i have lots of summer material (travel shots). Sales at all sites have been really slow though the past 2 or 3 weeks. I do really well January to May usually and fairly well in the Autumn. November and December are slow also.
Well I wouldn't consider those as summer material. It's the beach, people swimming, kids playing on the beach, building sandcastles, cheesy family portraits (on the beach of course), people sunbathing, waterskiing etc.
Huh? I live in Bali. My ports are small, but if you can't see them, just type in 'beach' in search on my port. I would say I have summer material.
920
« on: July 16, 2011, 09:56 »
What's weird is that I don't have ANY SUMMER material. I wonder what my sales would look like if I had...
i have lots of summer material (travel shots). Sales at all sites have been really slow though the past 2 or 3 weeks. I do really well January to May usually and fairly well in the Autumn. November and December are slow also.
921
« on: July 16, 2011, 04:39 »
so how would someone become a reviewer? they ever post on craigslist or anything? It sounds like a pretty interesting job to me
I did a blog recently about an ad. I saw for reviewer positions. Obviously, I doubt one of the big agencies would have an ad like this, as it seemed like anyone could apply. http://www.microstockposts.com/become-a-microstock-image-reviewer/
922
« on: July 13, 2011, 11:08 »
Would the list of "likes" and "reposts" be a customer list? 
I just had a look at a few of them and I seriously doubt it. Well nakedfeetannoymous and insteadofdeath aren't, but maybe Loveulongtime is. Yeah it is ridiculous though, "Thinkstock and Getty Images both briefly crashed earlier today, sending our site into the 'no new stock images' vortex." Just buy a credit package elsewhere! It's not as if they are unaware of other agencies or they can't figure out how to use paypal.
923
« on: July 13, 2011, 01:36 »
Most of the restrictions are, I believe, the fear of counterfeit notes. I ahve several images with banknotes, cropped or in an angle with shallow DOF (therefore mostly blurred) and agencies always accepted them.
I think someone had mentioned at some point that the issue with the UK pound is the figure of the Queen, isn't that so?
Yeah I have an issue with that, she never gets older. I have a limited edition $10 millennium note (New Zealand), I think only online with BS. It might be worth me re uploading to the others and explaining that the note is not likely to be counterfeited, as it is out of date and relatively rare.
924
« on: July 12, 2011, 15:30 »
If I were a buyer and didn't know anything of the history of microstock but just came across the ad, I would interpret "Great images. No surprises." as that site having great images and great pricing. I wouldn't be surprised when I found the image I needed and then saw that it was going to cost $100. Or that I had to buy extra credits that I may or may not use, etc.
I will say that no surprises could mean no bad surprises or no good surprises, so I think it might have said Great images. Only good surprises. or No bad surprises. or something like that.
On the other hand, I do believe a lot of frequent buyers of micro have noticed the happenings at istock and may have been looking around already. In that case, I think they would get the meaning.
If you were a buyer/potential buyer and didn't know anything of the history of microstock, you would think there was a massive typing in error in the word stuck.
Maybe if you were a technology averse buyer who just learned about the internet you would think it's a typo. Everyone else knows putting "i" in front of words is common practice. There's a small company called Apple thats been making a business out of it.
Love the ad!!!
Yeah that's why I added potential buyer. The ad. only really caters for those who already know about microstock, if that's what they want then that's fine, but advertising is seen by everyone and not just those who know about the history of a particular industry. The iStuck would be weird to a lot of people, especially if the company being advertised is called Bigstock. A lot of people just won't get it and in that respect it's an opportunity missed. There is still a massive potential market out there. Most people I meet have never heard of microstock and many people are under the illusion that to buy good quality images is really expensive. With Bigstock introducing pay as you go recently, they must realise that this is a way to get people to start to buy. But they ain't going to start if they don't get the advertising. To a potential customer, "Great images. No surprises", just isn't all that impressive, there is not even a Great image on the advert, just text, they could have thrown in a few thumbnails of Great images. I always find that images work great in advertising, especially for a company that sells images. Anyway, their objective is to ween away buyers from Istock I guess, maybe they will work on getting other customers later, if they don't already think they are weird. "The all new iPhone 5. Great Phone. No Surprises!"
925
« on: July 12, 2011, 14:31 »
If I were a buyer and didn't know anything of the history of microstock but just came across the ad, I would interpret "Great images. No surprises." as that site having great images and great pricing. I wouldn't be surprised when I found the image I needed and then saw that it was going to cost $100. Or that I had to buy extra credits that I may or may not use, etc.
I will say that no surprises could mean no bad surprises or no good surprises, so I think it might have said Great images. Only good surprises. or No bad surprises. or something like that.
On the other hand, I do believe a lot of frequent buyers of micro have noticed the happenings at istock and may have been looking around already. In that case, I think they would get the meaning.
If you were a buyer/potential buyer and didn't know anything of the history of microstock, you would think there was a massive typing in error in the word stuck.
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