I came here to find information on what was happening at SS and because of that I disabled my portfolio of 6500 images 5 minutes after first 10 cent sale. I was a level 5 contributor and it was a painful thing to do but after reading the forum's here and at SS i knew it had to be done and a strong message had to be sent to this boardroom about who really owns their products.
I hope all who are involved also disable/delete their portfolios on SS and move on to better things, as of the first of June SS has forced thousands of people just like me to literally start working for every business they are competing against and in the same market.
Personally i think that its a done deal that SS will never retract on this and are just waiting to see what the fallout does over time, most of the board members are from pre public ownership and have been in the industry for a long time and have seen when other stock agencies tanked like this for exactly the same reasons. So they are well aware that this was going to happen i think SS arose from the ashes of Istock anyway.

Anyways just wanted to show my support to you all and let you know there are more people with you than you think.

Above all remember there is also a global health pandemic to deal with so keep yourself and your loved ones as safe as you can.

Just went down in Australia 5 mins ago for me

Payments take about 2 weeks from end of month totals here in Australia anyways, then takes another week to go from PayPal to bank account for you

hope that helps and congrats on making payout

Sean

I also take many photographs of strangers in my travel photography and submit them as editorial with no problems at all.
I do however check that the strangers in the images are not shown in any disparaging light that may embarrass them if they see and recognize themselves.
IE: a women's dress caught in the wind or someone stuffing a hamburger into their mouths or things of that nature.
It is up to you the photographer to initially decide were you draw the line on what is acceptable and for the very few times someone in the street has asked about why they may be in one of my photographs i always will show them the image i have just taken and find that they are always OK with it as they can find no hidden motive or agenda on my behalf.

Lastly though you should give regard to children and people with obvious police/military uniforms or insignia's as they may have sensitive information (serial no's etc)
But if any member of the public ask to not be in a photo they have seen me take I  would also be happy to delete that image and take another without them in it think along the terms of women escaping domestic violence or any similar situations.

But in reality you will be OK 99% of the time as long as you behave in a proper manner and show respect to all.

FYI i will stand in an open area during any public photography and will be visible to all around me with my intentions quite clear that i am taking photographs of what is around me.

I just checked and found a lot of my photos here to , they all have Dreamstime watermarks although they are also on other sites as well as DT. Im new to the industry and not sure how to deal with this as its the first time i have become aware of my photos being used like this, Is it worth informing DT about this and will they do something about it as if its theft its theft from their site, have so far found 50 plus of my photos before i stopped looking in despair, and a lot of them have had the captions changed into other languages as well


Edit:

Well I have just contacted DT with a link to my DT images on this site and I will let you all know how they reply

Ok just came back in Australia

Just went down in Australia 5 mins ago to

Down in Australia last 6 hours now

How do you become a premium contributor ?

I'm waiting from early April just use the time to take and edit more images they will get to you

Nice Job, works good and very useful

Thank you sigalavaca

I installed the script and it works just fine,
it was an easy install and the whole process took less than 5 min

Quote from: sigalavaca on April 09, 2016, 16:03
this is the script https://gist.github.com/satinka/5479a93d389a07d41246

you will also need to install Greasemonkey on Firefox or Tampermonkey on Chrome

Seanh

Hi All
First time for me posting to the site but I have followed the threads for a while now and gained some valuable information and inspiration from you all so first my thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I think i saw a post here a while back about a java script that allows the locations of buyers on the map on my homepage to be shown.
Could any one please point me in that direction and apologies if this has been covered before.
Also If you have the time maybe you can check out my portfolio and tell me if I'm on the right track as I have only started in January this year and rather new to stock in general

( not sure if this is how to link my portfolio )
http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?prev_sort_method=relevance2&gallery_id=2568499&safesearch=1&prev_sort_method=popular&sort_method=relevance2&page=1

Thanks to you all