WHAT?  That's the only reason I went ahead and joined so if it was a slow site, as everyone mentioned,  I'd still get my payout without having to wait forever. Those slow site sit in limbo forever when they don't get sales. I guess we can't do any thing to change it.

here's a link to a old tread about micro/macro lens for Nikon. The majority of photographers on here a Canon users so not alot is said about Nikon.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/nikon/for-nikon-users-what-is-a-good-micromacro-lens-for-a-decent-price/

Quote from: RacePhoto on June 09, 2010, 16:13

I don't want to leave out IS, this is the best I could do:

Glad to help. 

We're sorry, but we did not find this file suitable as stock. With the rapid growth of the iStock collection, we give valuable consideration to each file but unfortunately cannot accept all submissions.

I haven't had many, but the rejection reason does exist.

To sum it up....they are saying in a kind way.."We don't want the photo because the stack is already to high and we can no longer reach the top"

Hi,
Tim seems very nice, I trust Donna and I think designing business cards can be fun (and rewarding).
I want to join too, if possible
Will I be accepted?
What do I have to do?
Just fill the form on the site?

I'm going to give it a try in the next few hours, see if the form works,
best,

Go for it...
I just PM you.

I agree that copyright theft is illegal. Ivan wasn't saying it was legal or that he did it. What I believe he was trying to say was that when you have no money and you can not afford or your government does not allow you access to software that could better your education, then most of the people there turn to pirated software. I don't know what it is like to live in a third world country, but I can also understand his point.
Now just to clarify....I don't think copyright infrequent is legal and I don't think he does either he's just trying to explain why it is done where he lives.

ELA ..... you need to contact support. You don't have to be logged in, the link is on the main page. Tell them what has happened and ask them to respond to you via your e-mail. I just closed my account last week and requested payout. They posted back to my account and e-mailed me saying to log in to get the answer. Just like others on here I wasn't able to get the answer because my account was closed. I contacted support on the main page and got the question's answer sent to my private e-mail....so contact customer support through the main page.

Have you even tried???

I am on alamy as well, but I don't think there is a need for total switch over.  Pictures that you took which are very specific location, or copyright material, or newsworthy may sell better on alamy.  However talking about the micros.

Shutterstock is a no brainer.. submit to them
Istock.  They have good earnings but I find it fairly laboursome to submit too.  I still submit, but I grumble every time.  I also find the 20 image/day upload limit a pain.
Dreamstime- they have been good.  not as good of a $/picture/year as Istock or shutterstock (which are about the same) but I have good income from them
Bigstock, and Fotolia - they are about the same in earnings. Bigstock is a little easier to upload to I think, However Fotolia gives the .20 per accepted image which ads a fair bit.

I also submit everything to stockxpert and 123RF.  Stockxpert takes 0 work to submit to... it is just a matter of letting your ftp uloader fun, then click 1 button to submit the 200 images you just uploaded (if you have embeded keywords and titles)... very simple.  123 RF is almost as easy as they don't have any catagories.... so i find uploading to them is generally well worth my time, despite the low earnings there.

I don't submit to feature pics... I haven't heard of much action there.. but if you hear different, I would be interested in knowing.

Anyone notice the today's post?
 
"I also submit everything to stockxpert and 123RF.  Stockxpert takes 0 work to submit to... it is just a matter of letting your ftp uloader fun, then click 1 button to submit the 200 images you just uploaded (if you have embeded keywords and titles)... very simple...."

Talk about time warp...maybe he meant CanStock

Well I guess I'll try it. Besides the Indian photos I've got tons of studio shots from the 1800 Victorian era.

Quote from: eppic on May 30, 2010, 13:22

For some reason lately about half of the images that I submit get the "needs work" button due to a lack of color profile.

I have the same problem. Perhaps it's a glitch on Veer? Never had it before. I also don't know how to add a color profile on site since I export JPG color profile included.

Me too, but when I click submit it goes on through. I didn't even know what that meant til now.

Alamy has them up to it's eyeballs, multiples of the same images from various sources.

Once something arrives in the public domain, chance's are (with lots of specific exceptions) it's fair game.

Interesting topic

Oldhand

That's why I was asking because I have seen these pictures online. I've never tried it and I have a s*** load of studio photos from the 1800's....even some Indian photos. Just wonder if they would sell.....of course some of the stock sites would probably reject them for lack of MR....lol

Has any one contacted Dreamstime about this? That "glitch" can be very costly to us as well as Dreamstime. I wouldn't keep hitting the search button if it didn't work the first two times....I'd go somewhere else.

Quote from: donding on May 28, 2010, 19:14

You need to try to get a hold of Chad. Try through the customer support on the main page if you have to. They are suppose to pay you the money owed. From what I understood, Chad said, they will issue 1099's rather you withdrew the money or not. I don't know if this relates to you, but Chad told me they make final payout if you close your account rather it was to the payout limit or not, so keep on them. I just ask to have my account deleted last week and still am waiting for a reply. They withheld taxes on me at the beginning of the year for my screw up, but they HAVE to pay you that money especially if they give you a 1099 or withheld taxes. Otherwise they'll have the IRS on their back.

A 1099 whether you were paid the money or not?  Sorry to be OT but I've having a hard time wrapping my mind around that.

Ok let me try to explain this. I don't know if you live in the US or not. The conversation I had with Chad had to do with them taking taxes out of my earnings. At the beginning of the year I hadn't filled out the ...I think it's called the W9....saying I was self employed. I told him I had not filled one out the previous year so I didn't think much about it. Of course as everyone knows that changed in 2010. Of course I went back and filled out the W-9. I ask him if he could credit the taxes withheld from my account and he said those taxes had already been paid to the IRS and they could not credit it back to my account. I then ask him about another concern about them withholding taxes when there was the possibility I wouldn't reach payout this year, therefore would not receive the monies and why I would be paying taxes on monies that were not yet received. He told me that they had many conversations with the IRS about this and that was the correct way to do it. I then ask him rather that means I would be getting a W-2 as well as a 1099 for the monies earned after I filled out the W9, even if I had not received the monies and he said yes I would get both. I then ask him how that would be handled if you closed your account and could not collect the monies owed because it was below the payout level. I told him that someone on here had been told that they could not collect the money owed them upon account closure because they had not reached minimum payout. He told me that they pay the monies owed, rather it be at payout level or not upon account closure and said that who ever was told that needed to contact him. That's pretty much a summery of the conversation. So from what Chad said you will get a 1099...at least for the US...so you need to ask for the money. As to rather they can legally withhold taxes on money which an employee, which would mean you if you didn't fill out the W-9, is legal I don't know and rather they can legally issue 1099's without actually paying the money...again I don't know if that is legal, but I would get a hold of Chad and tell him what is going on.