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976
« on: June 25, 2010, 15:33 »
Upload in bulk! And get rejected in bulk.
I have tried once more and my last batch was almost 100% approved
But do you like this kind of unpredictability in reviews?
977
« on: June 25, 2010, 15:30 »
See, that's the thing. If I upload people isolated on white, nothing "fancy", no shallow DOF, no special lighting, they snap it up. Objects, too. The problem with these is they don't sell this days - there are way too many of the same style and theme on every agency. You would think they would want to diversify their collections with more interesting shots - that, by the way, if you manage to get them through, sell like crazy. ... Maybe I should concentrate on building up my Getty RM portfolio - never had a rejection there by the way, not even once. Plus you can get really creative with that, which is way more fun... Hmmm....
But that was a bit the point. Give Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what's God's. My gloomy mystery stuff sells much better on iStock than on ShutterStock, by the way.
978
« on: June 25, 2010, 15:10 »
This is a real problem on all agencies: I have the same issue with industrial pictures, brutalist/rationalist architecture, rainy days pictures... I came to the conclusion that microstock only wants positive, optimistic concepts and there's (almost) no room for the dark side which I like so much Bingo! That's why I said in my earlier post I don't upload those on microstock any more.
979
« on: June 25, 2010, 14:46 »
Upload in bulk! And get rejected in bulk.
980
« on: June 25, 2010, 13:47 »
It is broken again, Anglee. Same thing as before; the web form uploader responds as if uploading but no images are there.
HELP!!!! 
Their earnings page is broken too, all zeroes for more than a week.
981
« on: June 25, 2010, 01:56 »
For the last month my approval rate dropped at SS to 20% - I am submitting batches of 5, and pretty consistently get approved only 1. Approval rate on IS did not change. Is it me that cannot fit SS composition and lighting standards (majority of rejects), or others see something similar too? Not at all. SS is 100-80% consistently, IS varies between 80-50%. It takes a while to find out what they want. In general it's clear (not necessarily high-key) in-focus shots with a simple and uncropped commercial concept. I still love to do other stuff, but I became very selective what to upload to microstock. Reviewers of both sites are strict, but they know their trade. With 20% acceptance on SS you should review your style, or better, post some examples of rejected shots.
982
« on: June 25, 2010, 01:12 »
About contract? Is there an easy way to get one? I dont wanna spend $1995 on a lawyer. Try Ellen Boughn. She has links to specialized legal resources, or she can help you out with a standardized contract. http://www.ellenboughn.com/resources
983
« on: June 25, 2010, 01:03 »
And how to see how much I get - Total Earned there now has 3 decimal digits... It's like that for more than a week. All earnings numbers are zero, for all months of the year.
984
« on: June 24, 2010, 12:11 »
Do others get that too? If you mean "edit" instead of "sumbit", the answer is yes. That function is temporarily disabled, as the man said on the screen. 
986
« on: June 23, 2010, 20:11 »
If you are an illustrator and if you developed your own style, it's hardly possible to get successful copiers.
Except when people download your vectors and and use bits and pieces of them and reupload them as their own. 
Not being an illustrator, I wasn't aware of this kind of reverse engineering. Does it really happen? Well, there are angels and *insult removed* everywhere. I was thinking of OP stating he does 3D. If he bought his models, he is quite vulnerable too. No matter if he prefers to keep his links private for now. If he gets flames on IS, soon enough the guild of copiers will find him.
987
« on: June 23, 2010, 19:55 »
Yeah - I am reluctant to show you my portfolios because I think a lot of newer people like me will want to copy my images to get the same RPI. If you are an illustrator and if you developed your own style, it's hardly possible to get successful copiers. In photography, it's much easier to copy, depending on the setting. Apart from style and technical skill, the choice of your concepts (if they fill in a niche) could pose a vulnerability though. Although we are a community, we are also competitors, at least some. Your concern is fair enough. I am not a photographer though I do 3D images and photoshop created images. Well that says enough. Illustrations in general have a much higher RPI, and if you mastered a style and you found subjects that the market likes, you will certainly continue your success. It would have been totally different if you were a photographer shooting more of the same. Being a graphic designer gives you a buyer's feeling of what is needed and missing, which is more than most of us have. I do think my SS portfolio will drop in RPI. as already after such short time my first images I uploaded are not getting downloaded anymore! shame! You will have to live with that. You'll get a higher exposure as new contributor for a while, plus that new images get a boost. After that, they fall back on a baseline. You'll have to keep feeding the beast to keep it going. It will be compensated by iStock that only takes off after a while.
988
« on: June 23, 2010, 19:27 »
There's truth in all of the answers posted here, from healthy skepticism ... everybody can push a button on a cam, illustrators' talents are scarce.
Come on!!! 
Pushing a button on a camera doesn't make anyone a photographer! Knowledge and talent are necessary to be a good photographer and have success.
I should have added a smiley. The fact is that there much less (good) illustrators than there are photographers, and that illustrations are in demand.
989
« on: June 23, 2010, 19:23 »
What do you consider a good seller? How many DLs per day would you need to see for you to consider an image to be a good seller? Considering most sites are quite slow to pick images that become good sellers later on, and your period is just 2 weeks, I would only look at ShutterStock. It also has the volume to draw some conclusions that aren't statistical noise.
990
« on: June 23, 2010, 19:11 »
Hey, how come, you are not an amateur anymore? The term "regular" comes from Peter's announcement that first all the divas of stock have been pre-added to the collection of Stockfresh, and that "later" the "regular" contributors (you know, the type that uploads pictures of their cats and brick walls) will be considered. (You must admit, there are some great cat photos online )
991
« on: June 23, 2010, 03:31 »
There's truth in all of the answers posted here, from healthy skepticism We don't know whether he is a photographer or an illustrator. Good illustrations always have a much higher RPI than photos, and while everybody can push a button on a cam, illustrators' talents are scarce. That gives him a great competitive advantage, and that's why I asked, out of curiosity, for his port links.
992
« on: June 23, 2010, 03:14 »
@Holgs @FD-regular it is good to knwo. No problems from here (Malaysia) yet...
What about Thailand? I guess Indonesia is on the black list as well. Malaysia and Thailand, of what I heard, are way out that league. To start, connections from Thailand and Malaysia are blazing fast and they do well in business too. Any economy doing well in global business will avoid financial insecurity. In my part of the (Southern) Philippines, unemployment is around 60%, add underemployment and it's 90%. Go out in a mall or in the city on a weekday in daytime and it's full of young people hanging around. Some of them have respectable degrees in IT. They will move abroad sooner or later, but what do you think they do in the mean period? Not writing church software.  You can rely in general on the surveys of transparency.org, and their surveys here. Take the BPI (bribe payers index) for instance, or the CPI (corruption perception index) for Asia-Pacific 2009 (PDF) here. At the top are NZ and SG (score 9.4 and 9.2, global rank 1 and 3), Malaysia and Thailand are well in top tier with 4.5 and 3.4 (global rank 56 and 84), Indonesia is much lower with 2.8 and global rank 111 but the Philippines are, amongst the large and democratic nations, the lowest with 2.4, global rank 139. Malaysia is a great place with still much of the rain forest intact. In the Philippines, the 5% (down from 60% 50 years ago) left is still illegaly logged by you-know-who. Don't try to expose it or this will happen. He was the third in 5 days. In time, I'll probably move to Malaysia too. Nuf said... Is a software like ultrasurf can help? All I can say is I had a locally brewed virus end last year that went undetected by Norton and AVGfree. I kept the code (VBS) and it's a small marvel. He added a cellphone number so you could txt him a small fee for "consultancy" and get rid of it (simcards are not registered). I only trust in periodic hard-format.
993
« on: June 23, 2010, 02:11 »
I saw that video on 9gag.com. Where you saw it from? On a political forum, a guy posted it there. He has more good vids but they are in French... Here is Obama looking for experts that kick ass (from autotune the news)
994
« on: June 23, 2010, 01:48 »
They block my account every so often when I log in from places that you're apparently not meant to log in from... Colombia, Croatia, Mozambique, Namibia.... can be a real pain! I can feel your pain. I don't log in any more from the Philippines, one of the mothers of online phishing. I would rather die than log in anywhere in a netcafe. HTTPS is fine but with a keylogger on your system, it's pretty useless. Even providers can't be trusted. I'm on wifi by antenna in a palm tree which is totally insecure since all the city can tap in. Apart from hanging around on facebook on the servers most of the day, I'm sure the system managers have set up sniffers for paypal.
995
« on: June 23, 2010, 01:19 »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM[/youtube]
996
« on: June 23, 2010, 01:06 »
Okay so maybe they should have been more clear. "We would like images from all of you minus most of you." I like the term regular.  And of course, no "new" agency is interested in selling cats any more. 
997
« on: June 23, 2010, 00:36 »
Hi! I am new to the forum and started on Microstock 3 months ago. I am now up to a point where with with 80 files on Shutterstock I earn 80 dollars a month, and with 30 at Istock I earn 30 dollars a month. Before taxes etc. Well I earn 100-150$ per month on SS with 1044 images now, and 30$ on IS with 555 images. This means that your images must be the nec plus ultra, and that mine are crap. If you earn that amount with that quantity of images, you should continue by all means. If you put 800 instead of 80 images on SS, you will earn there 800$ per month, so hurry up! Why are you asking advice here, since (a) you can do the math and (b) most here are just, ahem, regulars. Could we perhaps have a link to your portfolio, par hasard, por favor, Bitte Schn, 请 ?
998
« on: June 20, 2010, 08:12 »
My point was: theres a general lack of quality thinking nowdays, everything is geared towards quantity which is exactly what buyers DONT want, only most agencies havent understood that, yet. Quantity is what makes income. If buyers don't want it, they should revert to assignment shoots.
999
« on: June 20, 2010, 08:04 »
I guess I thought they meant Stockfresh and that Lee Torrens had approval to do the review and to post here. Guess it doesn't really matter...contributors will get approved when they are ready. Obviously. But when they are going to play the same trick as CutCaster did, i.e. put all the images of the holy guys right on top in searches, I'll be faster to delete my port than I did at CutCaster. And I won't put the same effort in it any more. CutCaster gave all the big guys a bump in the searches and I researched it well, despite the denials of John. I'm not up for the same game any more. The pre-acceptance of the 4 divas of stock was ominous. Let's see...
1000
« on: June 19, 2010, 16:01 »
Ok, then, but did you say they were accepting photographers then? He did: "Today, the new agency opens its doors to both contributors and buyers." No, he was making it "under the radar" then. Apparently, viral marketing works and it is cheap. Everybody is clearly dying to get in, and he doesn't even pay for upload. Il faut le faire.
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