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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Problems logging on at IStock
« on: February 15, 2008, 13:07 »
Works fine for me as well in France

902
iStockPhoto.com / Re: image stolen Flickr and sold on Istock !
« on: February 09, 2008, 05:10 »
Beside showing your pics Flickr is a fantastic learning tools because of its the groups (it is there I saw my first HDR pic by the way).
Also I met a couple of people to go out an take pictures in my town .
Contact list is pretty handy as well.
Usually I put my microstock pics there small size+watermark to be covered but also put more artistic pics I don't sell on MS

L

903
iStockPhoto.com / image stolen Flickr and sold on Istock !
« on: February 08, 2008, 05:56 »
I came across this article today:
http://www.cnet.com.au/software/internet/0,239029524,339285758,00.htm

Basically someone took pictures from FlickR and sold them IS !

One good reason to downsize pics on Flickr and a lot of people are not doing it even pro .....

L

904
General Stock Discussion / Re: January 2008 Earnings Poll
« on: February 06, 2008, 16:15 »
I see so we have to X by 1.73 then  ;D

905
General Stock Discussion / Re: January 2008 Earnings Poll
« on: February 06, 2008, 15:24 »
Humm might be a mistake there, the total is only 57.9 %  ???

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907
Shutterstock.com / How you doing this month?
« on: February 05, 2008, 08:03 »
I know it is soon to draw conclusions but my downloads are much slower than usual this month, did not even get one today yet :(
I read on SS forum that some people experienced the same trend
What about you ?

908
General Stock Discussion / Re: Most likely to go under
« on: February 05, 2008, 08:01 »
I think also that LO will be there for a while my bet is on
1.CanStockPhoto
2.FP
3.CT

909
General Stock Discussion / Re: So...how am I doing ?
« on: February 05, 2008, 05:30 »
I agree with nicemonkey you have to keep uploading and don't look back too much, downloads will increase some sites are slower to start than others.
If you want to read my 6 months stats you can have a look here
http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/

Good luck!

910
General Stock Discussion / Re: January 2008 Earnings Poll
« on: February 04, 2008, 16:07 »
Thanks Lorraine for putting in place the pool. I suppose this is earnings combining everything (micro+mid+macro)
L

911
General - Top Sites / Re: January 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: February 01, 2008, 14:07 »
Ok DanP68 and Mellimage let's go this month for the $300 race
Anyone is welcome to join ;D

912
General Stock Discussion / Re: HDR Image
« on: February 01, 2008, 14:05 »
Well done Paulo way to go
It is true that there are lot of quality HDR on Flickr.
If you want to see amazing ones took in Manhattan go to Shutterstock and type HDR

This one is mine that I did recently


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General - Top Sites / Re: January 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: February 01, 2008, 07:32 »
Yes the last days were pretty good, hope I will have more midstock sales new month to break this $200 :)
Time for you to work on the $ 300 then:)

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General - Top Sites / Re: January 2008 earnings breakdown
« on: February 01, 2008, 07:29 »
Congrats DanP68 for the $200 :) I was $ 4 away ....

Here are my stats

BME (+ 8 %) + 20 % with midstock

SS  %   (-22%)   >:(
FT % (+32%)   ;D
IS % (+128%)     ;D BME
DT % (-19%)   >:(
123RF % (+83%)   ;D BME
StockXpert % (+46)    ;D BME

and more stats on my blog here

http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/


L

915
Shutterstock.com / Re: Graph plotting downloads decline at SS
« on: January 31, 2008, 16:23 »
interesting graph I plotted a similar one on my blog a while ago it was going but this month it is going down quite deep >:(
Will make an update soon

916
Very interesting analysis Andresr:) I think at one stage the only way to increase $ is to gradually move pictures from microstock (avoiding sites with purely  sub sales) to midstock. Quite a lot of agencies are present on this market now and they pay  in Euros : I am thinking about  mostphotos, zoonar,panthermedia......
L

I think too that moving to midstock sites makes sense. Let sites with subs envy midstock growth. Should we have a  section devoted to midstock only discussion ?



Yes I think a midstock would make sense, someone suggested this earlier this month. Who do I have to pm for that ?
L

917
Adobe Stock / Re: Slow slow sales @ Fotolia
« on: January 30, 2008, 09:21 »
Overall rank: 2046
7 days rank: 572 my best so far ;D

918
Very interesting analysis Andresr:) I think at one stage the only way to increase $ is to gradually move pictures from microstock (avoiding sites with purely  sub sales) to midstock. Quite a lot of agencies are present on this market now and they pay  in Euros : I am thinking about  mostphotos, zoonar,panthermedia......
L

919
I have 27 %  this months of sub sales and interestingly it was 0 % last month....

920
Rene, is it  % in numbers or % in $ you are talking about ?
L

921
123RF / Re: 123... yawn
« on: January 28, 2008, 05:14 »
123RF was slower than usual for me this month but got better after the 15 so I might have a BME. It takes at the moment 7% of my earnings.
Overall I like the website and I my best sellers are very differents to the ones in IS and SS.
One thing to do increase sale is to "pimp" 20 of your pictures by adding them to your favorites, it really works very well.
I like the new movable watermark very much
L

922
Adobe Stock / Re: Anyone submit 2272 x 1704 images?
« on: January 27, 2008, 07:40 »
I switched a while ago from 4 to 5MP it makes a big difference overall for submissions . My 4MP shots did not do the cut for SS.
You can be a second hand on ebay like a Lumix FZ5 I still use it from time to time.
Also this website could be useful :
http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixel.asp

Good luck
L

923
General Stock Discussion / Re: HDR Image
« on: January 25, 2008, 17:25 »
Sorry for the confusion about the  slideshow Adelaide  but it is not linked to this particular post just something anchored at the bottom of the blog...
The slideshow is not working yet ...
Otherwise I agree for the halo I always try to avoid it :)
L

924
General Stock Discussion / Re: HDR Image
« on: January 25, 2008, 06:53 »
Thanks:) It is difficult to get HDR pics to IS because it create artifacts, SS is much easier I found.DT take them usually as well
L

925
General Stock Discussion / Re: HDR Image
« on: January 25, 2008, 05:43 »
Hello Paulo,


Please have a look at my blog below I posted something about my experience my HDR and microstock

http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2007/09/hdr-and-microstock.html
Cheers
L

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