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926
« on: July 13, 2010, 08:17 »
927
« on: July 13, 2010, 07:32 »
Bryan, I have a question and the answer might interest many. So I don't send it by PM but I'd rather post it here.
I have quite a few images rejected just for keywords and they "need work". As they were uploaded and submitted during the Dash for Cash period, will they still count for the program when I correct the keywords and resubmit? Or will the date of the resubmit be taken (obviously out of the program period).
928
« on: July 12, 2010, 13:41 »
For the forseeable future, until another business model emerges that makes sense to contributors (free? that's an argument for another thread) microstock will prosper, and will become much larger than it is today. Bingo. Ellen Boughn had some slips of the tongue a while ago, and also Arcurs. There is something being cooked, and one of the most prominent artists here made a slip of the tongue too. All those people were in Dublin and they apparently conspired there about that new "free" business model. It seems to be covered by an NDA, but we will know soon enough, I've been told in private.
930
« on: July 11, 2010, 20:02 »
Most of the people commenting on the DT forums lately are new contributors. They are excited when they get their first sale or when they finally reach 50 uploads. They are cheerleaders, for a short time. If you go to their portfolios they have few sales. The heavy hitters seldom chime in. Of course. If you have a comment that goes beyond cheering, you get a (private) comment back from people at high places.
931
« on: July 11, 2010, 19:57 »
No need to tilt the screen if you have a S-IPS based panel monitor..  No money for an S-IPS based panel monitor looking at my dwindling income from microstock. If they all start to pay 0.25$, they should be happy with my shots edited on a plain laptop-screen. If they're not happy with that, that's their problem. Or they can pay a decent fee. Whatever suits them.
932
« on: July 11, 2010, 19:45 »
I just need ONE more sale at FP for payout! My very first. lol I had several. The last one was Nov 2009. After that I only had 7 sales with an average RPD of 2$. They lost their USP that you could set your own prices and that they had no subs. That's all gone. They're not Midstock any more. I kept them since they were the engine for my portfolio site, but I found another solution for that. Nothing keeps me there any more. I expect them to die a gentle natural death soon. The stock world will soon belong to StinkStockers with 20...10 cents subs.
933
« on: July 11, 2010, 17:14 »
aaah, I did search for website stats here on the forum I knew the one I liked was cube something but couldnt remember and then couldnt find it  Don't want to bother anybody, but I keep an Alexa and Cubestat one-glance table here for years. (I'm worth $264.99).
934
« on: July 11, 2010, 17:00 »
Why go digital with your camera? Film is sometimes better, can be printed and scanned. Why use any technology at all, for that matter? Because often technology is an improvement. In this case it isn't.
935
« on: July 11, 2010, 08:23 »
Call me a naive old fashioned moron but I can't see how all these expensive gadgets can make my life easier or perform tasks better compared with what I already have and use. There is a perfect solution for a Model Release. It's called paper. It never gets snatched, it never runs out of batteries, it is well readable at a glance for all Models, it doesn't arouse suspicion (what if you switch their signature digitally with a contract for the sale of their house?), they can keep it next to their face, it doesn't need to be backuped, it can't be faked and it will hold in court in case of litigation. 
936
« on: July 11, 2010, 07:47 »
If their emphasis is commercial stock, I can understand it, as these look like street snapshots. More of editorial stock. One of their goals is Editorial. You can't have perfect studio lighting on shots like these. Although my ethnic shots where done in daylight and lately a guy with a big lightbox 2m next to me. http://flemishdreams.com/portfolio/ethnic.html
937
« on: July 11, 2010, 07:36 »
I thought I'd submit a few to cc, as I haven't submitted in a while. I sent them just 6, 1 was accepted, the rest rejected for poor lighting. To get back on track, one of the two reasons ( the second one is irrelevant in this thread) for dumping CC was that CC rejected most of my editorial (I have tons of lifestyle and culture images in the Far East) with the argument there were occasional children in the shoot. For the record, I never upload children pics where they are the main focus, but for heaven's sake, how can you keep children out of the background in an area (Mindanao - Philippines) where half of the population is under 20? In your shots I can see some children in the background too. Maybe they forgot to reject it for that reason. 
938
« on: July 11, 2010, 07:27 »
Posting about rejections without posting samples of the images? Not much point really. Speaking of silly rejections (sorry Komar to hijack your thread for a short moment) our new kid on the block, StockFresh, rejected this lifestyle image of a Muslim girl with the argument that I need to change the background. Now it is shot with a lens that produces a beautiful bokeh (Canon 24-70/2.8 ) and the tropical suburban background isn't that sloppy I figure. I can't grasp why beginning or low-sales sites are so anal-retentive in their rejects. The result is I halted my uploads to StockFresh, till they find some less ignorant reviewers. 
939
« on: July 11, 2010, 07:03 »
Income on DT going down with more photos. RPD going down by the avalanche of subs at max size. Although the recent joiners and people with small ports seem to cheer "BME" every month, many long-term stockers experience a drop. Is this just a reflection of the bubble of microstock 1 bursting further, or is it specific for DT? Whatever, this is not a time to blame or even dump DT. They still have a reasonable acceptance policy and they are in the top 4. So why not keep supporting DT? Do you think DP, Fresh, Zoonar, Veer offer any viable alternative? Stick with trusted and proven values. No this was not a product placement. ________________________ 1 The bubble in microstock is not an agency phenomenon but a contributor phenomenon. All larger agencies report higher profits and higher volumes. Contributors are confronted with an ever increasing supply of new contributors and they will have to yield market share to those. As Ellen Boughn stated in an interview recently, image supply will become a lower-wage countries business, just like what happened with the production of sneakers.
940
« on: July 11, 2010, 03:21 »
I resisted ... and resisted ... Ok then... I still think that Whitechild was a better nick. Actually, I find the captcha of SS quite annoying. Sometimes I have to retry 4 times to login. It's the most unreadable I know.
941
« on: July 09, 2010, 10:43 »
Holy Cow! I'm stressed! 
942
« on: July 09, 2010, 10:38 »
Update: 48 submitted yesterday, 15 rejected today. They probably expected an avalance of uploads, so this is pretty fast.
They sure don't like nature and landscapes, but they love models, objects and concepts. Nature rejects were sometimes for lighting, which is BS since the histogram on my 5DII was nice and full (shots accepted on iStock).
They also have problems with any architecture shot (even if state property) that is non-released, just like on BigStock recently. Feel likes a Fotolia kind of collection policy.
943
« on: July 08, 2010, 12:03 »
i think you're confused with "Aramis" from the 3 musketeers  With old age, mind is the second thing to go. 
944
« on: July 08, 2010, 11:51 »
not yet " All regulars are created equal, but some regulars are more equal than others." (Orwellish) (my router is smoking now)
945
« on: July 08, 2010, 10:23 »
Just had approval. Same here. Habemus papam! Around 3 1pm CET there was white smoke coming out of the chimney of the Budapest FreshVatican. All regulars can storm the fort now. Wo's next?
946
« on: July 07, 2010, 19:01 »
It seems like a joke. I made a search in DT and IS and there is no portofolio for SIFD. Than if it is not a joke why don't you put your link on your ID ? So we could have a look at your pictures. That's what killed Old Hippie/Macrosaur here ;-) BTW, where are your port links?
947
« on: July 07, 2010, 18:54 »
I don't like the prices of subscription as well, but what can I do? There is a difference between the real subscription site SS, and sites that adopted the model later, out of greed. With SS, you know what you'll get and you can upload smaller sizes there pre-emptively. With hybrid sites like DT, you tend to upload the largest size possible for the size/revenue benefit on credit sales, just to find out that the max size is almost always downloaded as sub. Since higher level images on DT are very costly as a credit sale, buyers can make a huge profit after 3-4 days in a month with the smallest subs package and at max size. What can you do? Upload small sizes to DT (and forsake the almost non-existing max size credit sales) and reward SS with larger sizes since after all, SS makes (me) 5 times as much as DT. The problem would largely be solved if hybrid sites would put a size limit on the subs. After all, the argument for subs is that buyers can make comps for customers without an unprofessional looking watermark. They don't need the max size for that: 1024px will do fine.
948
« on: July 07, 2010, 18:16 »
so, the dog's him and artemis is her?
Artemis is a French perfume and a musketeer, one of the 3. I didn't know the stock Artemis was a she.
949
« on: July 07, 2010, 18:12 »
Images with real impact are hard to find on the microstock sites. iStock actively promotes those kind of shots lately. I just love the Smoked Salmon on the IS front page now... http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=13499189If I would open a fish restaurant, this is definitively the type image I would put up framed at the entry. The impact is classy and original.
950
« on: July 07, 2010, 14:32 »
Thanks! Subscribed with your referral. It's indeed handier than making a separate FTP account for every collaborator and then explain him how to download FileZilla and how to handle it. This is very transparent and intuitive for naive users. Nice interface. Enjoy your 100 250MB
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