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Messages - gillian vann
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926
« on: February 16, 2013, 17:56 »
I'm up to the 11th.
927
« on: February 15, 2013, 21:29 »
hmm, judging by the sound i'd say that was 1/10 second shooting? even using a 50 and with man hands on the camera, that's pretty good. I can do that in my kitchen, @ f4 1/10 100iso on the 50. but for stock I wouldn't.
Love Jamie, thanks for sharing this.
928
« on: February 15, 2013, 21:18 »
ok, I decided not to look at whatever it was. some things just can't be unseen.
929
« on: February 14, 2013, 00:46 »
Surprised someone hasn't started a poll - "In which month during 2013 will iStock drop to Middle Tier...?"
both sad and funny at the same time.
930
« on: February 14, 2013, 00:08 »
SS is going really well, I've just overtaken January which is nice, iS has ground to a halt, others are slow.
interesting months ahead i should imagine.
931
« on: February 13, 2013, 15:25 »
Figure your worth per hour BEFORE you consider working as a reviewer. Is it $10.00, - $15.00, - Maybe $20.00 an hour?
After you have decided what your time is worth and hour, try to picture yourself on the same pay scale level as a 7-11 convenient store clerk.
so no Aussie reviewers then? cos your "maybe $20 an hour" is pretty much our minimum wage in a job, and you can pretty much just show up in some jobs, and not work hard. As leaf commented it would suit someone in a country with a low min wage (but has to be English speaking), so apart from the USA I'm thinking Sth Africa is another good place to find cheap labour.
932
« on: February 13, 2013, 15:12 »
I think having the free section is good if it brings buyers to the site (instead of pilfering off Google) but it's a trap for us. Lucky for us there are plenty who fall for it. You don't need to add more.
933
« on: February 11, 2013, 21:26 »
I fully agree with Chromaco's post "Perhaps they (Getty/Istock) were seeing the writing on the wall that he was on his was out the door and felt that it would be better for them to control the timing. If he chose to leave on his own it might almost be worse for them."
hmm, worse than pushing Sean into martrydom? Terminating Sean keeps them as the evil overlords and keeps us peasants on the path to revolt. Is that really how they want to play this?
934
« on: February 11, 2013, 18:08 »
Just when they were hoping that their lack of action might settle the discontent...
Did anyone really believe that they wished to settle any discontent?
I think we've long since passed the point where Getty felt the need to give a %#!- about the contentment of contributors. They've perfected the art of doing whatever pleases them with total disregard for how we might react.
It seems on the iS forums that many truly believe there'll be some announcement that explains and/or makes it better? Certainly there are hints that such an announcement is coming, but the longer it drags on, despite this one from Lobo We aren't ignoring it or putting off anything in order to see how long it will take before we have fatigued the entire community on discussing it. it truly feels like they hope we all just forget. If that was their game plan, then this move is so very odd. I don't think they're stupid, they must be playing 2 moves ahead, so I'm wondering what's coming next.
935
« on: February 11, 2013, 17:48 »
well there's been some mention of it in the google thread (the one where nothing was said at all, but the ms news was tacked in as a "positive") and Lobo has threatened all to shut up about it.
936
« on: February 11, 2013, 17:16 »
Just when they were hoping that their lack of action might settle the discontent, they go and do this, reigniting the fire! What an odd move. I'm only a small part-time contributor but I have always been in awe of Sean (the Other Stock God). It's a risky move on IS' part. (Has anyone started a thread on iS about it?)
937
« on: February 10, 2013, 18:38 »
I know this question has come up before but I've never been able to quite get my head around how to proceed. I live in Australia. I'm a hobbyist who makes a loss on my photography and my turnover is less than $20,000. The Australian Tax Office doesn't want me claiming my hobby losses against my main income so at the moment I don't declare my stock income/losses and everyone's happy.
I'm currently an istock exclusive and they don't issue any forms, don't withhold any tax, and all is simple. However if I go indie I need to deal with SS (and others). They withhold 30% and issue forms and put me in a position I don't want (or need to be in) - dealing with tax as a business when I the ATO would rather I don't. The advice I've seen involves sending my passport off to the US or something and I really don't want to do that.
Are there any Australians here who have found a sensible solution to this state of affairs?
Really does Australia not have a tax agreement with the US to put you in the 0% bracket?
yes it does, or something very small anyway, not 30%. there's some form I filled in with all of them, sent over a scan of ID and it's all good.
938
« on: February 08, 2013, 22:26 »
Not only that, I'm still using a big Sony Trinitron CRT and there are some horizontal lines that I sometimes try to edit.
Spots on the glasses? Oh I thought that was a bird flying past a cloud. Thanks, that fixed it. 
Category a waste of time sometimes none match.
Is it too simplistic to suggest this?
If you scroll the image and the smudge or spot moves with the image - it's on the image. If it stays still and the image moves past it, it's on the monitor.
I always do a quick scroll test like that before I start fixing any flaw.
and hold your head still when you scroll as it might be a spot on your glasses as well 
we learnt about this at college (formal education: has some uses:) ) using the hand tool and jiggering the page around helps you see dust spots you missed. and then the brutal inspectors at iS find one more. * them. 
939
« on: February 08, 2013, 16:22 »
I'm starting a co-op stock site called crapsy. For all of those artists who get rejected by stocksy. Who's in?
ooh goody, somewhere to park all my pictures of fruit.
940
« on: February 08, 2013, 16:09 »
you may not get as many replies as you hope for due to the iStock/Getty/Google drama that's still going on.
941
« on: February 08, 2013, 01:58 »
this is good timing, and might keep more fingers off the iStock reactivate button
942
« on: February 08, 2013, 01:46 »
I'll add something new as I agree with much of what's been posted.
Stats pages. Would it be too hard to make it easy to see all my stats in one graph? and not have to jump through a bunch of pages to get to it? the worst: FT.
944
« on: February 04, 2013, 22:03 »
#6, like right now! I should be editing a client's shoot but instead I'm having a coffee and a little cruise around the internet.
I probably have at least 100 stock photos I could be editing.
945
« on: February 04, 2013, 18:33 »
But there are more freebie hunters than buyers on Flickr.
+1 probably 10000:1
946
« on: February 04, 2013, 16:35 »
This is on IS fb page. Is it ironic too? 
had a look, this has generated one sale on each image, is this facebook "exposure" ever worth it? or are Vetta sales that much better?
947
« on: February 04, 2013, 15:29 »
It hates ie. I'm going to have to give in and start using Firefox all the time.
P.S. In spite of the whole Getty/Google fiasco, I find Chrome to be superior to Firefox. I went from IE to FF to Chrome.
as a layman - and a MAC user - I too prefer Chrome over all the rest. Can't stand Safari.
948
« on: February 04, 2013, 15:14 »
does demonstrate that adding images to new sites doesn't much impact earnings of the initial ones.
It is also hard to predict which file sell on which sites - my best seller on Shutterstock, is not a great seller on Dreamstime, say, and vice versa.
Steve
excellent point. each site does seem to have a certain style and thus must attract designers who fit that type. I sell Aussie outback pics at 123 and nowhere else. I also have an architect image that SS and iS rejected but sells well at 123. health and beauty does better at SS than anywhere else (for me)... you get the point!
949
« on: February 02, 2013, 20:26 »
I did a search for my xmas ball on the beach which shows up still in Google images as an iS image, just deactivated. likewise all my deactivated xmas files are still there.
I'm sure that once IS "sells" and image to Google, there's no way the photographer can pull it back through IS. You'd have to take action against Google. And good luck with that.
Apparently the files usually come down from Google faster than they went up.
Sorry, can't find the link just now, I'm sure it was in the exclusive forum.
Really? I thought that for all practical purposes they'd been "sold" to Google. But I suppose I'm not the only one who's confused about the actual terms of this deal, or how they might be interpreted.
I certainly assumed the images were now on Google's servers. And that IS wouldn't respond to a contributor's request to remove an image by asking Google (or any other customer) to do the same.
The initial comment was about Google Images, not Google Drive. Google Images is just part of Google's web search. Those will eventually disappear once the images are removed from the web. But, it will probably take a few days or more for Google's crawler to update and not show the links to Istock anymore. However, the images that Google bought for Google Drive are an entirely different matter. Those have been licensed and likely will remain available no matter what action a contributor takes.
yes, I was responding to the notion that iS will miss all the links from a google search once we deactivate our work, but if my deactivated file is still sitting there (just non purchasable) then the links also remain valid?
950
« on: February 02, 2013, 18:04 »
I'm sure all the links to our images going will lose them traffic. Someone searching for a specific image on Google will now find it on the other sites, not istock.
I did a search for my xmas ball on the beach which shows up still in Google images as an iS image, just deactivated. likewise all my deactivated xmas files are still there.
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