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« on: June 15, 2020, 11:04 »
sales are nil, but since it still runs, no need to take it down
good attitude! And good point, Never Change a Running Team. BTW, myself looking into PVS (photoVideoStore) for WP https://wordpress.org/plugins/photo-video-store/ which is incredibly feature-rich. Any opinion on that one (except that it's sure not good old original-Symbiostock)?
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« on: June 15, 2020, 11:01 »
I'm just starting out, any tips to recommend ? This is my very scratch site www.onlineshopping.my Took very long to get it working 
I have just about lost my earlier enthusiasm for Symbiostock, and now moved on to PVS (photoVideoStore), https://wordpress.org/plugins/photo-video-store/. By far the best and most feature-rich Wordpress plugin I have seen in our niche.
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« on: June 15, 2020, 10:46 »
down a year later when it got corrupted. Had a grand total of *one* sale during that year.
(...)
Could do a lot more with it but I haven't bothered. It's just an informative landing page that sends visitors to important other sites.
sorry to hear that. But, yeah you could do more with it if it's got visitors (which luckily it seems to). It's like some real estate (on the internet) that you at least could put a sign for yourself on...
IMO better than just telling you don't offer images on that site anymore.
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« on: June 15, 2020, 10:32 »
Stock market was down in general on Friday, it is not SS specific.
more generally, SSTK is nothing out of the ordinary compared to the overall stock market level. The point is that it never made any visible advance b/c shareholder "enthusiasm" about that "brilliant move" of killing off quality suppliers though. (Just have a look at the YoY chart, looks pretty dull anyway  Another point, who in their right mind would buy a stock that has a P/E ratio of 75+ (i e you'd have to wait, trust them with your money and kind of sit in a boat with these morons for a flipping 75 years or more before even seeing your money back -- that's not a penny in profits up to that point, in 2095)... Some investment.
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« on: June 15, 2020, 10:15 »
I figured out the problem -- the word "of". When I keyword files of landmarks that include words like of/and/the
ouch, that's a tricky one -- and one to make a note of, for I also leave out all "stop words" for SEO reasons. Time to make an exception from that rule for their search then...?
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« on: June 15, 2020, 10:11 »
We are hitting a global economic crisis, worse than the Great Depression.
I accept, that the value of my images may drop to 10 cents.
despite the grand sound of this (on paper), and your 'ability' to even put it into perspective world-economically for the rest of us, do note that SS' pricing policy got NOTHING to do with any economic crises but is just a continuation on their well-documented trajectory (race to the bottom). That's a real-life fact. Everybody may do as they please, of course, but "economically" I really don't follow...
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« on: January 19, 2019, 11:18 »
fantastic @jjneff, I like it.
I have seen your many good posts on here in so many forums we apparently followed together over the years, and it's great you've moved into that YouTube thing, too. Very good content I can see over there, I subscribed immediately and will be back for more (also can see you have a really good Subscriber number there already after such a brief period of time)!
This will likely also be a great way of promoting your stock (and other) video production...
Good job.
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« on: September 06, 2015, 14:33 »
Why would any contributor put their name there?
Much less their creative work.
Button (way down on page bottom): "I'LL BUY THAT"... Yeah, really? It maybe is Creative for Creative-Financing!! The whole thing is akin to those infamous "pre-orders" for a Bitcoin miner -- have seen that before... Can't you, at least, fire up a somewhat meaningful website, WITH images and WITH legal, ToC, and licensing details?! So the only thing we really know so far is, they like "out of the box people". LOL. -- I prefer natural ones to cloned ones though That whole outfit might as well be a joke entirely. No, I will most certainly not buy that.
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« on: August 23, 2015, 15:42 »
Thanks for all the advice, I will keep exploring options, sales have suddenly dropped of to a point that working in fast food full time at min wage would earn me more money, something has happened and it's not just the site that my 24,000 clips are hosted. I am wondering if in general things are dead slow for our buyers as well as smaller budgets and it all spirals down to less of our product being needed period.
I actually did better in my first week in this game with 11 clips of a pumpkin exploding than I did last week.
as your dropping worsening numbers seem to coincide with Google's latest flavour-of-the-day update to practically "requiring" a responsive layout etc, could it be that (part of) the answer lies in that corner? Just thinking...
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« on: August 23, 2015, 15:18 »
(...) zones from countries to US states. Due to the VATMOSS vatmess my stock site is currently closed but I do use OpenCart for my Art and Nail Art site
the VATMOSS thing definitely is a mess, and we all ought to take action against it, tell all our friends etc. Next on the brilliant EU menu is extending this B/S to ALL goods (not just digital ones) starting 01 Jan 2016 -- obviously thinking it's acceptable to kill off all small businesses EU-wide. Small business is the foundation of the (any) economy (everywhere). Do not forget that the entire EU monster was initially sold to us as "allowing free trade" across Europe (we had that pre-EU, but now?)... There will be some meeting with the chief-loser-in-charge (unsurprisingly, recruited from Italy's power elites), and this whole nightmare needs to be stopped! See http://www.euvataction.org for details. Slightly off-topic, I know -- but we scored victory with Freedom of Panorama and we need to do it again in order to break free of those additional VAT shackles! (Bad enough it so often comes to this in today's Europe, remember (1) software patents, (2) seed cartel, (3) copyright and panoramic freedom, (xyz) TTIP and much more to come to a politician near you...
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« on: August 19, 2015, 11:44 »
Hello!
I am new to microstock photography. After some research I have found that Shutterstock is the best place to be, but also the hardest website to get accepted to. I was wondering if people with some microstock experience could tell me if my photos are good enough to be accepted? If not, what should I improve upon?
Thanks in advance!
if Shutterstock really is "the best place to be" or not greatly depends on one's taste as well -- wouldn't necessarily say so, although SS certainly is not too bad either. They do have their little issues and hiccups here and there, and it is astonishing to see how long it takes these guys to improve their own frontend and functions (I mean, seriously, they play the Shiny Hi Tech Start-Up card here all the time, and then they cannot even add a counter or make "Twitter integration" work etc etc)... SS definitely is NOT the hardest to get into though.
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« on: August 19, 2015, 11:34 »
I want to buy one of these
http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3#page1
But the FAA says I cannot use it legally for selling stock video. Do any of you use drones for aerial stock? Do all the major agencies accept it?
To answer directly.
Yes, stock agencies will accept video from Inspire 1 / GoPro / Phantom 3 Pro (same camera as Inspire) as long as it is stable and reasonable quality. There is generally a bit of paper work involved but flying drones can be legal is most countries if you do your research. Norway (where I am based) has a good system to approve pilots to work commercially. A headache to get everything in order but nice when it is complete. In retrospect, much of the paperwork and requirements are also very necessary (ie. insurance, proper operation manual, flight logging etc)
the FAA now has a "petition process" in place offering "exceptions" from some Sec. 330 regulation which effectively allows commercial AP/V operations within certain safety limits etc. (Check it out on the FAA.gov website, if you happen to be U. S. based). Myself much more interested in Norway, could you point me to the process (some link?) and where I would have to apply? Thanks :)
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« on: August 19, 2015, 11:28 »
Thanks Amos Struck:
All I do is aerial photos and aerial mapping ( vertical photos) with a few in microstock . But your examples in those type of photos gave me all kinds of ideas of what to take that would sell in stock. I guess you can teach a old dog new tricks.
Smiling Jack
Glad you got some inspiration from the trends. There are several really good images, especially the one from Yuri which was shot with the drone.
which one's that, is there a link for it? Would love to see "Yuri with a drone"! Maybe I am missing something her or was just too flat-out stupid to find it...
Thanks ;)
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« on: August 19, 2015, 11:24 »
They are coming ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcV71liAMwc
Great ;D (Don't tell the drone-phobes that Audis are likely to kill a whole lot more people than drones, or they will be wanting to outlaw cars.)
correct -- in fact, it should read "Audis and BMWs" though ;)
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« on: August 19, 2015, 11:21 »
Drone found on the White House lawn this morning i the wake of a historic Blizzard that is arriving and it is already snowing in DC!
Gee I wonder why?
Think maybe just maybe because someone wanted to get aerials of the snowstorm and perhaps the wind blew it off course and into the Lawn.
Now another reason for limitations.
that "reason for limitations" will, fortunately, not cut it anymore once they found out that it was one of their "own guys" (drunk, and flying the copter after "borrowing" it). The entire story speaks for the quality of Obama's security staff (same as his political staff, think Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder & Co): drunk, reckless, and unreliable... Whackos -- but they hopefully leave us alone with more unreasonable "limitations" there.
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« on: August 19, 2015, 06:06 »
Why would you give away 'secrets' if you're already having a hard time turning a profit?
true on one hand -- but the true entrepreneur (as in creative capitalist) still would (and should) on the other, if not out of idealism then at least for the "precessional" effect it brings about... (And I guess the webinar guys got a lot of "networking and stuff" out of this.)
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« on: August 19, 2015, 06:03 »
I've signed up. I will take any advantage to learn something new in an arena for which I am delving. I will say that I downloaded the templates and they are very basic, maybe because it's the kind of thing I do at my day job. What I really am hoping to get out of this is "what about the guy who is solo and shoots out of his house?" Maybe this isn't the thread for this but many microstock videographers do not have access to aerial, do not have large studios for sets, do not have 3d talents to melt with real footage, etc. so to sum up what I hope they address, WHAT ABOUT THE LITTLE GUY? I hope this is at least part of it. If it's a sales pitch, I'll drop off line quickly.
that "access to aerial" is becoming more popular now with the rapid spread of multicopter AKA "drone" usage -- even some splash screens of the agencies have begun greeting you with "drone videos" lately.
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« on: August 19, 2015, 05:58 »
I find this somewhat sad. I supposed if I was a CGI artist I would applaud it.
"Today, reveals Enthed, about 75% of all IKEA product images are CGI, and rendered at ridiculously high resolution so theyre good for everything from web viewing to wall-sized displays in IKEAs stores. And as time goes on and rendering software continues to get better, traditional photography promises to play a smaller and smaller role."
"The real turning point for us was when, in 2009, they called us and said, You have to stop using CG. Ive got 200 product images and theyre just terrible. You guys need to practice more. So we looked at all the images they said werent good enough and the two or three they said were great, and the ones they didnt like were photography and the good ones were all CG! Now, we only talk about a good or a bad image not what technique created it.
http://petapixel.com/2014/08/28/flip-ikea-catalog-75-photography-see-cgi/
perfectly fits the fabricated and artificial life the Swedish live (just have a look at their hairdoes and kindergarten clothes in your average Swedish shopping centre, and you'll know what I am talking about). Sad though that this unreal childish world is being exported to our still more or less real world (outside cloudcoocooland Sweden and much of the rest of Scandinavia) by way of Globalist IKEA and stuff...
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« on: August 19, 2015, 05:50 »
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« on: August 19, 2015, 05:48 »
It still takes considerable skill to pilot one of these multicopters, plus a large investment of both time and money. The previous version of the multicopter linked above, has many reports on RCGroups of having electronic connectivity problems which cause random crashes which usually run several hundred bucks to repair, not counting the fragile camera, if not using a gopro.
both can now be significantly reduced when you get the right platform (see my neighbouring post here): all (consumer) models more or less "fly themselves", and the non-DJI styles are very affordably priced as well while offering almost all of the same auto-fly features.
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« on: August 19, 2015, 05:46 »
I believe the newer/better drones have an electronic stability system that allows you to steer it while it maintains the attitude. http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/flying-cameras/ has an entire forum section devoted to aerial stuff.
Correct -- this BTW applies to all models (consumer ones, at least) well beyond just "famous" DJI Phantoms. So before falling for all the hype around those, in order to get one's feet wet, more affordable ones like Blade 350 QX3 offer most of the same features. More affordable particularly in the way of a **complete** set you can use for AP/V, which includes lots of spare parts and extra flight batteries etc. These are where DJI clearly overcharges you (following the old Exxon model of "free petroleum lamps" but expensive fuel), so with a Blade 350 (or even a newer-generation AR Parrot) you got what you need to learn the craft first...
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