Hi Everyone,

I have not logged into my fotolia account for years now. I just noticed that fotilia is now adobe stock. 
Therefore, I tried to synchronize my fotolia account with adobe-stock. However, after providing my fotolia log-in data I just get a message saying that I should contact support. (The error message in german language: "Wenden Sie sich �ber dieses Formular an das Team unseres Kundendiensts, um Unterst�tzung zu erhalten.")
Does anybody else have a similar problem? How do I contact adobe stock support without having an adobe id? Any ideas how to proceed? 

Thanks for your help 
Gunnar

Hi,

I am interested in the ration between your microstock-returns and the amount of money you spend for microstock-shootings.

I try to reinvest about 15% of my microstock earning. Camera, lenses and other equipment is financed by this 15 %.

The problem is: I am not sure whether 15 % is a good amount or not.

From an economic point of view� is there an optimal level of investment? Which investment quota maximizes the earnings over the time?

Solow (a famous economist) would say the optimal level of investment is at the point where investment equals amortization, but I think this is not practicable for this issue.

I guess it depends on many variables.

Thanks a lot
Gunnar

Hi,
today I had loooots of these 5 cent Backup CD �sales� at SS.  I �sold� so many Images today like in the whole past 3 months (I know, the BackUp CD thing is not really a sale).
Is this just me? Do you experience the same phenomena?
Or is it just a coincidence?

Thank

Gunnar

Hi,

yesterday the US Central Bank (FED) deiced to repurchase large quantities government bonds. As a result there wars a considerable change in the exchange rate between these two currencies. Now I get a little bit less euro for one dollar.

I know that this will be only a small chapter in the history of the exchange rate, but I am curious about your opinion:

Where does the exchange rate go in 1 year? Even if this topic is not directly related to microstock, it will be a point of interest for those photographer (like me) outside the US (especially if you live in the euro zone).

gunnar

I hope it does not sound like a cockfight, but I would like to know what your acceptance rates on the different agencies are.  I am just curious about it. It�s difficult for me to evaluate whether my acceptance rates are good or not.
These are my rates:
Fotolia: 70 %
Dremstime: 78 %
Shutterstock: 75 %   
123RF: 95 %
Stockxpert: 93 %

So, how many percent of your images get accepted?
(sorry for my English�. I know it�s not the best englisch  )

hi, 

since the update at stockxpert most of my images don't show up in the search. if I go to "my account --> my images" they are still there, but you can't find them with the search-engine. I think that especially the newer images from the last 2 months are effected by the bug.
I just like  to know whether some of your images also dissapeard? can somone tell me something about the bug?
I am just a little worried since several hundred of my images (about 80 % of my portfolio) are gone. If nobody can find my images... nobody can buy the images 
so my sells nearly have been gone since the update. 

would be realy great if someone could tell me something about the issue 

Hi, 


I  have la little questionen today :-)   
when exactly do I need a property relesase?
in the past I avoided to make stockphotos of buildings because I was not sure about some legal issues. I have some nice images of the local power plant. do I need a property-release for such a picture? I tooked the image from a public street.
I just checked some stock agencies... there are lots images of industry facilities. do they all have a property release

thanks a lot 

Hi,

I read severeal times that the first seven keywords at fotolia are more important.
But I just tryed to search my images with keywords from the end of the keywordlist of these images. I found my images even with VERY good results.
so my question is: is it true that the first seven keywords are more importent?
do you  order the more important keywords to the top of the keywordlist at FT?
I just viewed some keywordlists at FT, and usually the words are in alphabetical order. does fotolia order the words alphabetical? or is this a result of the keywordingsoftware you use?
me for example... is use iTag for keywording... and iTag made automatical an alphabetical order the keywords. I never change this... so at FT (and other sites) simply the words starting with "a..." or "b..." are at the top of the keyword list.


oh, sorry for the spelling mistakes even in the titel.... 

hi,

I have just a short question: do you categorise your images at stockxpert? is this necessary? do you think that categorising is important?

Until now I categorised my images, but its a lot of work and I am not sure about the benefit of doing this.

gunnar

Hi,

I am with 5 of the big 6 now, but SS is missing. When I register on SS I have to verify my ID. So I uploaded my (german) identity card AND my driving licence (I am from germany). But they rejected my ID with following reason:

"Please upload a passport which is valid for international travel.  We only accept international passports.  We do not accept national identity cards."

So my question is: what exactly do I need to verify my ID? I am not sure about this.

would be great if somebody  tells me what I should do. thank you a lot.
(and sorry for my bad english, I should improve it ;-) )