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My June photography sales is on YT right now https://youtu.be/3kqFZUGAdNA?si=QIs_IXsl4HNSu0kY

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5 Not -So- Important stock photo and video themes. My new video on You Tube https://youtu.be/s-3a7ijjy5Y?si=IB9yO1wXWPfzCDiY
What is Your "No" important themes?

Best
Miro

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2. Mechanical and design drawbacks
Plastic body, with metal mount only durability is not on par with premium lenses.

No weather sealing not safe for shooting in rain or dusty conditions.

Very basic design only a focus ring (by-wire), no AF/MF switch or custom controls.
 
I talk about that part and I do not like it but not major problem, I am not planing shooting in rain and I do not have jungle forest on my list also :) I do not need $800 lens, for vlogging is to good and for some wide angle photo and video is great. Price is very fair. For stock, zero problem. Some first image are already accepted and footage also

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General Stock Discussion / Viltrox 20mm new video on my YT
« on: June 13, 2025, 07:24 »
I buy this Viltrox 20 mm lens for vlogging with my Sony camera and I am surprise is really good for the money. I believe it was coming also for other brands https://youtu.be/eq-JKPHkIRg?si=QosNG8dz4KTXRi9X So far I love it. Here is link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLDBF1LX?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

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General Stock Discussion / My May 2025 sales
« on: June 03, 2025, 16:06 »
My monthly sales in May 2025 is online on my You Tube channel  https://youtu.be/b8LwjsRhRCI?si=CqPWmnwrmjugybtS

Miro

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Off Topic / Re: Canadian Wildfires
« on: May 30, 2025, 15:31 »
Just saw the news of the Canadian wildfires and hoping our Canadian friends here are safe and out of harm's way. It looks horrific, and wishing you all a safe and speedy end to this devastation.

"A wildfire emergency in western Canada has spread to another province as thousands of people flee their homes.

"The conditions that our northern residents, communities and wildland firefighters are facing today are as severe or quite likely unlike anything we have faced in quite some time, if not ever," said Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan.

He has declared a state of emergency as 14 wildfires rage uncontrollably in the province.

A day earlier, 17,000 people were told to flee wildfires in the neighbouring province of Manitoba, which declared its own state of emergency. More than 166 fires are actively burning across Canada, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre."


- BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj988j9ddxo
I am not Canadian But I am supporter and crossing fingers

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The rejection things is annoying especially when you can't work out what it actually got rejected for. Totally understand fair rejections that are my fault. 

I usually just brush rejections off unless I'm getting a lot and it's something I'm doing wrong. 

Feeling more anxious about rejections now in case I get blocked from uploading because either I made a mistake (humans make mistakes) or because of a review process mistake. 

Let's hope it plays out fairly and doesn't turn into Adobe Gestapo.

My biggest fear is that they will prefer AI images and this is a way of discouraging images made by humans. 

Injustice for all - well said and LOL. :D
I do not think Adobe is proffered AI images at this moment, yesterday I upload 10 images around 9 years old an it was approved. I believe it was still more important what is on the images and quality.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime Website dead?
« on: May 18, 2025, 15:33 »
Uploading is very easy, sales are slow. In 2024 I made exactly 100 dollars while adding 2700 files and reaching around 4600 uploads.

Now I have around 5k files and this year so far 10 dollars.

Wow.  That is brutal.   I have ~2500 files and ~25 dollars so far this year and I thought I was doing poorly.   Single Alamy sale last week is more than entire year on DT at this pace.
No bad. I have 7000 file and  $19.40 in 2025

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try nightcafe, they have a variety of video generators.

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/explore

it is more expensive than doing it directly on kling and they only have kling 1.6, but they also have luma dream machine, runway gen3, wan 2.1 and a simply stable diffusion animation.

It is not cheap, but to experiment and learn with different models i think it is ok.

I might try kling later in the year, we will see.
Thank You, I will look at that

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I am testing motly kling 1.6 via the nightcafe creator. they also have other generators, but they are expensive.

I only upsize to hd and want to get a workflow to see what gets accepted before I invest any money.

Currently I am stuck with a large batch of ai, that might now be unsellable. I will use these files as base images for video. Hope that works.

Otherwise I prefer to do it all with camera. Much cheaper and you aleays get exactly what you want.

Hm I can not complete my kling security verification, the puzzle is not moving to empty spot :( and so far no respond from kling.

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Photography Equipment / Re: Stuck Polarizer Ring
« on: May 11, 2025, 09:13 »
I also use plastic wrench https://youtu.be/dGI_whvT3rI?si=2dEr9Jh1BJhZqYpP and works great

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nice work and i like your thumbnail photo.  have you gotten monetized yet?  nice consistency and thanks for sharing.
Thank You yuriy, no monitized at this moment

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Hi everyone,
my April 2025 sellers is on my YT right now https://youtu.be/Vb3enhVPu5M?si=sojtvda1ZyRe8rph

Miro

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Where did you buy it? Give a link to the product.
From Amazon

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New video about SmallRig armand clamps for ,,not just,, B-roll and photography https://youtu.be/op97jcPJ2wE?si=Ak0tUxo9i19JMXwS
Video is not sponsored.Maybe can motivated You for some new ideas for microstock

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Im wondering about the best timing for holiday uploads.
I upload a small amount of vectors and since early buyers are fewer than those buying closer to the holiday, I worry that if I upload too soon, my images might get buried before the peak season.

Whats your strategy?
I have no strategy I  think this is not really ,,strategy business,, :)   but I think  4-6 months is ok but I have some last minute seller uploaded 1 month before holiday

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe announce images removals
« on: April 13, 2025, 16:18 »
I got the email and I have no idea which were removed.  Because they could be buried in my pages of rejections somewhere.
Yes, absolutely buried.

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I have very small around 10 years old mini portfolio there, no too much sales but I do not upload to much there today but maybe I will try it again. All my sales is with partners agency. 

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Income from March sellers in 2025 https://youtu.be/nmWfbUCahhM?si=Bm1xbkfgEb6YSm7T
All Best

 Miro

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Six stock photography theme You must have in Your portfolio - my new video on You Tube https://youtu.be/oGgp8FNmK9M?si=yeN3C2Rpyv5uaUmK

Best
Miro

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Same her I use Voukoder for long time, this is great and everything in one place

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How fast is the noise removed from the video, how many hours do you wait? How powerful is your PC?
Why don't you use Topaz?

Around 7 minutes for 20 second 4K short clip Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz   3.60 GHz 64GB RAM
Topaz is more expansive for video, I try it couple months ago. At this moment I do not need it.

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I add new video about enhancing video and images https://youtu.be/j0uIPf1CdRg?si=aWjetI-CNxaKl2tz
New for me but works well with some my images and video.

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My February sales are online on my YT channel https://youtu.be/RAwilLSEPi4?si=ZAmdBXkOGns1cbOl

Best
Miro

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General Stock Discussion / Re: My 10 Best Seller with Alamy
« on: February 28, 2025, 09:04 »
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing!  8)
Thank You very much

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