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Getty may have made small images really expensive, but on the other hand, they are also giving them away for free!

Isn't this new model designed to push web use images towards their embedded image platform - for free.

In turn, these are then used as advertising for print resolution sales at a higher price?

That's what it looks like to me anyway.

Still testing the waters in here - I won't be holding my breath.

Once you've done all the sub-category keywording thing in DeepMeta and added a MR ... anyway of rolling this over to the next image or applying to a batch of similar shots?

I must be missing something.

Thx

For words already used in Title and Description, is it still necessary to include these in the Keywords as well?
Does this vary from agency to agency?

A couple of years ago I created my Model Release template.
I think I probably took the text/format etc from iStock and/or maybe from Yuri�s website (I think they were the same).

This template did not include any specific shoot date or description information.
It also didn�t include the Models date of birth.

I have used this MR ever since and it has never been queried or declined by any of the agencies I have been uploading to (SS, FT, DT, BS, CS + others).

After much moral/ethical dilemma and soul searching; financial pressures have forced me into finally giving up my resistance and I�ve decided to give iStockphoto a go.

However, with my first upload the reviewers are telling me that the model release is missing that above information (dates and description etc)

Was this a change in policy at some point?
I can see that the current iStock MR template does contains this information now, but I�m fairly certain it did not a couple of years ago.

Can I add this information to my existing and already signed models releases?

I already have a hosting package with 1and1 ..... I get the impression they're not great for Symbiostock .... but are they completely out of the question?

Would like to get started with a Symbiostock site, but only have a small portfolio and don't really want to incur additional costs if possible.

Many Thanks

I have a small set of images that I think could do really well if discovered by the right buyers in a place like Fine Art America.

Excitedly, I opened an account and put in all the work to get my page up and running -  finally I had it all sorted and I reckon my page looked pretty good.

The images are basically a set of arty slightly abstract creations deriving from flowers and plants .... so I put them under the Floral category.

I then left the site for a few days (3 days I think) - then went back to the site (didn't login) and started searching through Floral/Recent Uploads, click, click, click, click ..... I don't know how many pages I went through, at least 15,  until I finally gave up, still not having found my work. So much new uploads in just a few days!!!

The only way I can actually find my work was to look up under my name.

Now the images have been up for a few weeks and they have only had one view (I think that was probably me).

So this seems completely useless - me thinks.

I left all the keywording very generic because the images just look good for what they are - for me it's not about which particular plant they are etc, so I didn't say 'rose' 'tulip' etc.

Anything I can do to get my work found and seen?

Thanks

Dear DepositPhotos,

Please could you provide a "keep me logged in button"

Really annoying!

Thankyou

Yikes - I was on the Canstock site, everything was fine, but then I seem to have clicked on something and now all the menus have changed into another language.

Anyone know how to revert back to English

I've looked all over and even tried a computer re-start but it's still not in English.

Thanks

Hi,

Have I got this right please .....

After you hit the SUBMIT button ....

the image just completely disappears from everywhere, until at some point in the future when it reappears in again in your 'online files' (after approval).

Thanks

After FTP and files are in Unfinished area .... is there no way of assigning MR and assigning categories in bulk?

Help appreciated, thanks

Hi,

Is there a list anywhere of which agencies require a unique Model Release for each and every shoot with the same model versus which agencies will accept one generic release per model?

Also, does this depend on whether the Release itself is 'generic' or specific to a shoot?

And lastly, is any of this different for Minor Models?

Many thanks in advance