SS separates them but for Adobe, my compound keywords don't get separated as far as I have noticed.

Then there are images that make no sense in the search if you separate the compound keywords. Like Golden Gate Bridge. You could separate and have bridge as a separate keyword but golden and gate by themselves wouldn't apply at all. FWIW.

Thanks. After shooting at the Chinese New Year's parade last weekend, I realized just how much I missed the chaos of it all. LOL. I usually only catch the Northern California events since the LA events are an 8 hour drive, but we do tend to have a lot going on up here so it still keeps me busy.

Quote from: Firn on February 21, 2022, 13:08
SS is currently taking around 3 days for me. Batches are always reviewed in two waves, for whatever reason. I guess there is a first wave of reviewers that just leave all the images they are unsure about up for a second wave of maybe "more experienced" reviewers.

I've noticed this too (the batches reviewing in waves). I figured the AI did the first review and anything it didn't think was ok was left for the humans to decide.

Just spent half the morning back and forth emails to get credentials for an upcoming event in the city. I had sent them my initial email the first part of the month but hadn't heard back. So glad that's finally done. With Covid restrictions lifting in CA, I'm finally trying to get back into the groove of editorial event photography.

They sold the base land on Alameda to the city too. They're building that up with condo complexes as well, but I understand the military put a cap on how many housing units they could build and they had to pay the military a large amt for each one over the cap they decide to put in. They had to clean up the toxic waste that was dumped there by the military and some of it couldn't adequately be cleaned up so it's not zoned for housing (my understanding of it, but I could have misunderstood and be wrong). Traffic is already crazy here since there's only the four bridges and one tunnel on/off the island so it's going to get significantly worse on that end of the island with commuter traffic despite the fact that they've put in a new ferry terminal as well.

Pete, you likely wouldn't recognize Treasure Island now days. By the time they're done with the hotels there, it'll look even more radically different. They're building hotels facing the city on the isthmus of Treasure Island. And probably onto the area that used to be the military base. They put in what looks like condos on the Oakland side of the hilly part of the island where the Bay Bridge hits the island to go through the tunnel. There's also now a bike/pedestrian bridge open from Oakland to Treasure Island. It doesn't run from Treasure Island to the city though and doubtful they'll do that on the double decker. They are putting in a ferry landing in front of the hotel area to go to/from the financial district and Pier 41 from the island as well. Not sure when that's going to open.

I guess I'm doing better there than I thought there then. I have 31 sales totalling $279.63 from Dec 1, 2021 to present. Most of those were the super small sales to China last month. I think there were 20 or so all at the same time.

I have a mini tripod and an adaptor for a larger tripod that I use when I'm shooting video with my phone. I only shoot video with my Nikon when it's on a tripod too, but the D800 and D810 only shoot HD where as the phone and GoPro will shoot 4K, so I tend to do those instead. I know there are adaptors for the mirrorless, but I suck at attaching those things. Almost all my lenses are Nikor. I might have one Tamaron left, but not sure. I'd have to check. My husband bought a lot of my original gear thinking he knew more about photography than I do so I have several things I rarely if ever use too.

I'm still relatively new to stock photography (less than 10 years) so I'm still learning and growing. Haven't really set hard goals. Gave up the idea of making enough from this to live on, but it does pay for a lot of gear. I just topped 19,000 images on SS. Only 7600 ish on Adobe since they don't take event editorial.

I would love to upgrade to mirrorless, but the Nikon Z series are still out of my price range. Esp since I'd have to get all new lenses too. I have the Nikon D800 (and a D810 because I had to send the D800 into Nikon to repair the shutter mechanism and didn't want to be without a camera) Those meet my needs. I have one set up with a portrait lens in my "studio" (bedroom converted into one) and the other one has my zoom lens that I use when I'm at events. I have a 200-500mm for nature as well (love that one). Still love my gopro though. Shoots good video and easy to use IMO.

And I have actually taken photos at forte point. Introduced one of my uncles to the site. Fun hallways to shoot with repeating patterns. And nice views of the Golden Gate bridge.

Treasure Island is not the same as it was. they're building a hotel and new housing on it. Putting in a new ferry terminal there as well if I have that correct (to cut down on traffic to/from the city once the housing and commercial properties are done). I take photos from there, but not usually there. The military section with the light house is hard to get to if you're not military (I shoot that from the water when i take the ferry into the city). Alcatraz, I've taken the kids a few times but i never submitted any of those photos for stock. you can get a nice view of the city from there, if you have fast enough shutter speed to accommodate for the high winds that are typical in the middle of the bay.

I'm not much of a history buff. I'd never heard of anything like that. A bunker I'd know, but if I saw the dragon teeth, I'd be like "huh, wonder what those are for". We had planned to do more travel to Europe but then Covid took our plans and tossed them out the window.

It appears to be not just China. Just had a 20¢ sale to Germany.

No forts or castles here (unless you count Hearst Castle) but lots of Missions. One of my photo buddies is obcessed with the missions so we try to hit one or two when ever we do a nature road trip.

I have enabled the two factor authentication for all the sites that offer it as well. Esp my online banking. I'm glad they started doing this.

I get a message that I can't opt out of the novel use until april. I don't recall opting into it. It says I opted in in 2017. Why do I have to wait until April 2022 to opt out?

Deb, yes. I still foster. Just had a litter a few months ago. I started working for a state run agency though so i sometimes take "deployments" as they call them and those run several weeks so I can't always foster as often as I'd like. I'm sure I mentioned before that I'm also an RN, so I've been doing covid relief work working at care facilities that are impacted by the disease as well as vaccine clinics and border screening sites (I prefer the last two over the first as they are less stressful IMO). Some groups of kittens are more cooperative than others. I use those images mainly for my greeting card site, but also submit to stock.

We don't get nearly as much wildlife as Sari does. Love watching her trail cam compalations. The racoons normally don't go in the backyards (or at least we never noticed them before). I never leave food outside for our animals, but I do leave water on the back porch so they might be coming for that. We have inside/outside cats as well (which is who we put the doors in for) and we've had one neighborhood cat come in the house to check out the place. My cats were not impressed and he didn't do it again that I'm aware of. The side door, my dog can't get through (he can just pop his head out) so only the cats can come in and out that one. It had a micro chip reader but the battery died and the unit seems to have failed so it's a moot point now. my cats would rather use the windows as doors and they'll sit and holler at the upstairs windows sitting right outside wanting in. I try not to encourage that though. LOL.

Congrats on the sales Deb. Living in California, we have a diverse array of colorful birds (and other wildlife, not so colorful). We've had to start putting the flap cover on the doggy door to the backyard because Racoons are coming into the house to steal the cat food and dog food in the kitchen (and one of the Racoons attacked our dog several times. the first few times we weren't sure if it was a Racoon, stray cat or a possum, but my kids and husband got out there the third time pretty quick and the Racoon had jumped on our dogs back and was holding on and peeing on him at the same time - not fun to clean up. I missed the commotion because I was on a long assignment working at the border).

I hate change. I payed for CS6 and love it as well, so I've never used my free app yet. Also afraid if I try it I won't be able to go back to CS6 if I find it to challenging to navigate (since upgrades generally mean things are in different locations - I feel like the blind person who needs everything in the same place to find it)...

Hello to some I recognize and some I don't. I was a regular poster on the SS Hummer thread (I thought of it more as the humming of voices in conversation at a cafe more than just about nature - not sure what the original intent was). Anyway, we get a lot of hummingbirds. Just planted Pineapple sage last year and they love it.

https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/annas-hummingbird-drinking-nectar-vibrant-600w-2065722428.jpg

Also just started getting wild turkeys walking up and down our street last year. They nested here and this year we had even more. For those that don't know, I live on a small island next to Oakland, CA with a view of San Francisco (on the Bay Bridge side).

Here's a clip of three turkeys getting ready to cross the street in my neighbors driveway

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1085249771-4k-hd-video-close-four-juvenile-wild

Quote from: DO on February 01, 2022, 07:44
Nice to see you here Sheila.

There is also a Hummer Thread here which is, sadly, Sari & Wendy-less, but good for talking about wildlife.

Thanks. I'll have to look that up. Love wildlife photography when I can get a chance to do it. I have contact with Sari and Wendy off forums so I still keep up with them

I joined this forum years ago but never really posted much. Since the main site I went to died, I figured I should jump back in here.

I'm guessing my sales aren't normal after the pay cut on SS, but I actually have 637 sales on SS for Jan 2022. Of course, RPD is down. If it wasn't for the video sales, my over all income would definitely be pathetic. Adobe sales are picking up with 289 sales so far. I don't do models/lifestyles so that limits a lot of sales from what I've heard.

Anyway. Hello everyone.

I can't get into the Fotolia contributor site at all now either.  It also kicks me to the front page of adobe, and I can't even find how to get to the contributor page from there.

OK, I read through the thread (quickly, so I may have missed it). When I upload, the default setting seems to be to set the price at the lowest level. This is part of why I upload via fotolia vs adobestock, so I can adjust the price level up to my current level. Why is this not automatically default to the higher level since we've theoretically received the "raise". Is this going to be an issue when I have no choice but to upload to Adobe directly?

If you aren't planning to provide an app, can you at least work with the group that provides the Microstokr app so we can check our stats/sales via their app? I get my numbers from them now through my Fotolia account, but Adobe Stock is not even on the table for their app for some reason.