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Messages - melastmohican

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951
I guess most want business-related photos cause it sells but do they publish criteria list reviewers use for those "well covered" or "not a stock" rejections?

952
It always be subjective as long as human is involved besides different agencies have different criteria. Stop worrying about this, same photo may sell somewhere else.

953
Agencies were not aware of these services until they become popular. Now they think they can get money from them especially ones that are businesses and got founding.

954
Alamy.com / Re: Story on Alamy latest Revenues
« on: June 05, 2009, 12:19 »
If whole industry went down 30-50% in one year soon some smaller players will start falling. Maybe we need to find a bookie and start betting on this :-)

955
I stopped uploading after huge number of rejections. After couple months I tried again. No change 90% rejections and 1-2 sales per month. It's just waste of my time.

956
I am hoping solution is close to come.

957
General Stock Discussion / Re: ATT : all microstockers
« on: June 04, 2009, 16:24 »
I think years ago some people were saying that automobiles will cause cows stop giving milk :-)

958
General Stock Discussion / Re: 10 images a day
« on: June 03, 2009, 18:25 »
I must admit I did not know that.  I guess I can just do /usr/bin/php script.php from command line ;-)

959
General Stock Discussion / Re: 10 images a day
« on: June 03, 2009, 17:51 »
Why would I use web scripting language for uploading? Images are my my local hard drive and I want to pick some of them and upload to multiple ftp sites. All tools are available on desktop: scripting language, ftp clients. If I want to use cannon to kill a fly I would write a program :-) Some hard core programmers would even write ftp client :-)

960
General Stock Discussion / Re: 10 images a day
« on: June 03, 2009, 16:59 »
Most of programming languages got some sort of random number generation built in

961
I sleep when my upload script runs :-)

962
Alamy.com / Re: Keywording is a little confusing to me
« on: June 03, 2009, 15:37 »
I guess you can still choose and pick individual words in each box.

963
Each site is probably different but most of them got lightboxes and forums. When I joined microstock year ago many people were advising that I should put my images into collection and participate in forums, especially posting images for critique. It seems like worthless to me. What is your experience?

964
Best business is on contributors who never reach payouts  ;D

965
Alamy.com / Re: Keywording is a little confusing to me
« on: June 03, 2009, 15:22 »
It's on the right side.


966
Alamy.com / Re: Keywording is a little confusing to me
« on: June 03, 2009, 14:24 »
Use this keywording tool: http://www.findphotokeywords.com/

It can generate keywords in Alamy format.

967
General Stock Discussion / Re: 10 images a day
« on: June 03, 2009, 13:42 »
I will publish my bash script on my blog when I feel that it is working well. In words it takes count of files in directory and generates random number which is index of file in the list.

Code: [Select]
FILES=($(ls))
COUNT=${#FILES[@]}
for i in {1..10}
do
INDEX=`expr $RANDOM % $COUNT`
RANDOMFILE=${FILES[$INDEX]}
echo "$i $RANDOMFILE"
done

968
General Stock Discussion / 10 images a day
« on: June 03, 2009, 12:43 »
Finally I decide to streamline my upload workflow. I have been using sitecopy for months but I was always manually picking files for upload before running it. I decided that it takes too much time. Script modifications allow me to run in from task scheduler at 1AM.

1. Pick 10 random files from my ready images (no repetitions from series should happen)
2. Upload with sitecopy to all the sites in the list
3. Move uploaded images to backup location (I am thinking about putting backup on Amazon S3)

In the morning it does not take long to submit 10 images on every site.

969
I wonder how many developers are here. I really think it's great idea.

I can contribute in Java or C# :-) Is it going to be open source? Maybe more people would join?

970
General Stock Discussion / Re: Easiest submission system
« on: June 02, 2009, 18:44 »
If anyone votes for Istock, Fotolia or Dreamstime they should immediately be banned from the forum as either a) crap stirrers or b) insane.  ;)

Masochists :-)

971
Cameras / Lenses / Re: Do you insure your equipment
« on: June 02, 2009, 15:03 »
I think I should now, after little accident couple days ago. I ended up with just broken filter but I might not be that lucky next time. Where should I start? I have no idea which companies are doing this.

972
General Stock Discussion / Re: Easiest submission system
« on: June 02, 2009, 11:41 »
CanStockPhoto, Crestock, Yaymicro, 123RF, FeaturePics, Shutterstock, Cutcaster

Noticed a pattern, only one Big 6. Guys with sales do not care about contributors :-)

973
Upgraded but did not have time too read manual shooting guide...

974
Firmware Version 1.1.0 incorporates the following improvements and fixes.

   1. Includes a function to enable the manual exposure setting when shooting movies.
   2. *For details on how to use this function, please download the PDF files from the bottom of this page. Disables the function of the depth-of-field preview button when images are played back or when the menu screen is displayed on the LCD panel.
   3. Fixes a phenomenon where the peripheral illumination of images cannot be properly corrected, even if the images were captured with the lens peripheral illumination correction function set to Enable.
   4. *Digital Photo Professional software version 3.6.1 or later (for Windows and Macintosh) can be used to automatically correct the peripheral illumination of RAW and JPEG images that were captured in the Peripheral illumination correction setting with cameras that have Firmware Version 1.0.7 or earlier. Fixes the algorithms of the Auto Lighting Optimizer function when Custom Function C.Fn II-3 Highlight tone priority is enabled.
   5. Fixes incorrect indications on the Arabic, Romanian, Spanish, and Ukrainian menu screens.
   6. Changes the battery information displayed on the camera when using the optional Battery Grip BG-E6.

Firmware Version 1.1.0 is for cameras with firmware up to version 1.0.7. If the camera's firmware is already version 1.1.0, it is not necessary to update the firmware.


Download: http://tinyurl.com/nxm5qw

975
iStockPhoto.com / Re: what? third reject from istock
« on: June 01, 2009, 19:04 »
If I have to guess reasons:
1. Not enough commercial potential. What would this image sell?
2. Maybe they need more copyspace, subject too central?
3. Nothing comes to my mind.

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