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926
« on: May 04, 2007, 19:04 »
there are some interesting threads on SS....
Ah, you must mean the "Show me" threads. Very controversial  Just joking, but there are too many of them. I'm on GMT +7 btw.
927
« on: May 04, 2007, 16:57 »
At LO, I actually have 6 sales and 367 views with only 234 images online. I plan to finance the Christmas celebration in 2020 with money from LO
928
« on: May 04, 2007, 16:53 »
I try to key in the keywords with most relevance first. That way, when there's an agency with limitations, I just delete the last keywords after the system has told me how many to delete.
I think that we'll see more of this. Even with 15 keywords, many photographers with lack of fantasy and/or language knowledge will fill up the last ones with words they think fits, but that don't.
929
« on: May 04, 2007, 08:52 »
It has been like that as long as I have been there. It's very annoying. I think they presented a fix last year, something about deleting a cookie. I can't remember if I tried, but when I bought a new Mac last week, the problem was still the same, even if i started from scratch.
930
« on: May 04, 2007, 08:47 »
I'm all for it. I spend too much time trying to invent interesting keywords that are clearly on the border of being relevant.
931
« on: May 04, 2007, 05:07 »
The website us very functional, a bit like DT. I might give it a shot. Would be interesting to get some new reject reasons for a change
932
« on: May 04, 2007, 04:58 »
One per 217 and 445 images online. Seems to be pretty normal for CanStockPhoto then. At the current rate, I will reach payout ($100) in about one year. pretty good compared to a couple of other places where I have photos.
My sales have improved there this year, and with the automatic categories, it's very easy to upload, so I'll stay there.
933
« on: May 02, 2007, 21:00 »
It goes up and down apparently. While I was having extreme growth from January to March, April was rather slow at DT. Hope that May will pick up, but so far, nothing points in that direction.
934
« on: April 25, 2007, 18:54 »
It's not great, but it's improving. Now, at least I have dl's there on a daily basis, and most of the growth come from credit downloads, which sometimes pay quite decently.
935
« on: March 21, 2007, 11:28 »
Record sales for me at DT last week, but that goes for SS and IS as well. Those three are in a class of their own.
936
« on: March 21, 2007, 11:25 »
The coop thing is an interesting idea, particularly because we represent a broad knowledge base and locations spread more or less all over the world. I would certainly be interested in participating. Unfortunately, being good photographers isn't the biggest challenge. Water-tight contracts and agreements as well as a profitable concept springs to my mind as key issues.
Still, with the experiences most of us have from different parts of stock photography, we obviously have some very valuable assets to contribute with.
My suggestion would be to set up a group of a workable size, and move the discussion to a closed forum, to avoid unlimited growth and too much transparency towards the outside world.
937
« on: March 19, 2007, 10:04 »
My sales at DT are almost identical with IS at the moment, which means they share the number two spot. Whether the review time is two weeks or two days isn't important to me, as long as the photos are approved, and most of them are.
938
« on: March 17, 2007, 05:10 »
In a couple of other threads, I'd been throwing around an approximate number that impressed me about SS. That was what percentage of my portfolio was being sold. I did the math. SS has sold over 77% of my portfolio. Now, I've never seen that number discussed so.....
I have no idea if this is good or not. Basically I have the same porfolio everywhere give or take a couple dozen pix. Some sites have sold less than 10% in the same or longer time.
I'd like to throw that question out to you all. Which site sells more of your total portfolio than others? And what kind of percentage of the total are they selling?
There was a thread about this a couple of months ago at the SS forums. I don't remember exactly, but I think most hovered around 60-70%, which makes 77% look rather good.
939
« on: March 17, 2007, 00:13 »
Crestock has been picking up for me lately. A third of my total sales there (since last summer) have appeared during the last month. Canstock is also better than before, and both of them are approaching StockXpert numbers for me. But then of course, StockXpert isn't doing particularly well, to say the least
940
« on: March 17, 2007, 00:10 »
Those numbers aren't available from the 123rf statistics, as far as I can see, but my earnings there are around 60/40 subscription/credits. I guess that means that the numbers are around 80/20.
941
« on: March 17, 2007, 00:08 »
Red_moon - be careful with Photographer's Direct. They don't allow you to contribute and sell through them if you sell through the micros. 
The question is: what is a micro? Is ImageVortex a micro? And what about agencies like Featurepics and Paxxion?
If you sell your images at microstock prices at FP, you're working in the microstock model.
I have images at high and low price ranges at FP. I'm thinking of having two accounts there to separate the two portfolios.
Regards,
Adelaide
Still, it's difficult to define. On IV, I have photos ranging from 20 to 150 (I think). 20 isn't really micro, but it isn't macro either. Nobody will buy "whatever-for-the-office" isolated on white background for more than 20$ anymore, and quite rightly so. Shots like that are easy to set up, particularly with a digital camera, and should be cheap. Photographers can hardly be blamed for adapting to realities. Still some do of course, and although they have the right to do so, I find the arguments somewhat out of date some times.
942
« on: March 15, 2007, 21:04 »
Paxxion as well.
943
« on: March 15, 2007, 21:03 »
Red_moon - be careful with Photographer's Direct. They don't allow you to contribute and sell through them if you sell through the micros.
The question is: what is a micro? Is ImageVortex a micro? And what about agencies like Featurepics and Paxxion? Some of the new agencies give us the option to set the prices ourselves. To me, that makes a lot of sense, since we can place images of different quality levels at the same agency, but it makes the definition of what is micro and what is not very difficult.
944
« on: March 13, 2007, 21:24 »
Of course it is. It makes other challenges look sooooo small
945
« on: March 13, 2007, 20:58 »
I also had a good February there. Maybe they actually did dome marketing then? In that case, they should continue doing that. Now, it's back to slow, slow, slow.... zzzzzzz
946
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:22 »
Ah well ... you've got to develop a zen-like attitude in this game.
Well said. It's the only thing that helps. I had a funny one from IS today: a pickup truck on a beach with a blurred (shot wide open at f/2.8 ) forest in the background. In the rejection note, the reviewer showed a cropped part of the forest, claiming "overuse of a noise reduction process/application has too severely degraded quality and removed detail". I'm allowed to re-submit if I correct the above
947
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:15 »
BigStock is the lowest for me, even behind 123, at least long term, but StockXpert is lagging behind now.
Crestock is picking up slowly for me now, while Scanstock, where I used to have at least a couple of sales now and then, has been completely quiet for more than a month now.
948
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:05 »
I'm not too worried about those 0.25 sales. There's a reason why SS is the biggest earner for most of us. A lot of sales can only be a good thing.... I hope 
949
« on: March 13, 2007, 11:03 »
For isolated shots, I always use manual mode, and do test shots to check exposure of subject as well as background, white balance and DOF. The great thing with digital is that it's possible to take test shots like that.
950
« on: March 11, 2007, 23:03 »
One download per 258 views with 411 images approved. That's not good, and it will take ages before I have a payout, if ever.
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