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« on: January 05, 2025, 09:39 »
I've been using Topaz AI for noise reduction / sharpening for more than a year now and super pleased. However, I've noticed that iStockphoto have rejected whole batches of commercial and editorials. See screenshot below. I went to find out why and from November 2024 they changed their policy. See link here: https://contributors.gettyimages.com/article/10847In summary: If you want to make significant changes to your content, either separately or in addition to work youve done under the Retouching Requirements, follow these rules (Modification): Do not apply Modification to your content with generative AI tools (only use traditional, non-generative AI tools). Do not add location keywords, titles or descriptions more specific than Region/State/County if you modify recognizable, named, or famous locations. Do not alter a models body shape to make them look thinner or larger than they are in real life. Find out more.
NOTE: Under these Modification Requirements, without using generative AI tools, you can: Retouch more than 10% of the images total pixels. Add new elements you own the copyright for, including creating composites. Retouch your models more extensively. Had no issues at any other agency. Frustrating, might just stop uploading to iStock anyway for what they pay and now further hurdles of creating two separate batches.
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« on: August 02, 2024, 05:02 »
...and Potentially Earn Dear Colleagues, This topic is highly relevant due to the abudance of copyright theft going on. Curious if anybody on here has had any success in earning compensation for copyright infrigements using third-party copyright infrigement companies. I've just published this blog post on 5 tools that are currently being used by an Alamy-exclusive contributor who appears to be having more success at earning from infrigements than actually earning from licensing his images. Which begs me to ask whether chasing thieves may be a viable business model. Here's the link to the blog post: https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/08/01/photo-justice-top-5-tools-for-stock-photographers-to-combat-infringement-and-potentially-earn/Alex
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« on: July 26, 2024, 08:04 »
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« on: July 13, 2023, 11:07 »
Dear colleagues, I've just published this blog post on a trend that I potentially see occurring soon (hope I'm not giving these agency decision-makers any ideas): During the past six months, most notably, Wirestock and Picfair have dropped their respective statuses as free to upload stock agencies in what is a potentially significant trend for contributors. In this blog post Ill discuss whether this business model will become more commonplace and if it may present itself as a threat to contributors income in a time when were already experiencing diminishing returns coupled with rising inflation. Or perhaps, this fee will be an opportunity! https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/07/13/will-contributors-soon-have-to-pay-microstock-agencies-to-host-their-content/Alex
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« on: March 09, 2023, 06:51 »
Keen to share this useful tip.
Was looking for some images back from 5+ years ago and found out that you can download a high-resolution copy from your own DP port instead of digging through backup drives archives.
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« on: February 01, 2023, 09:39 »
Greetings from Rio and happy to share my first detailed monthly report of the year where, as usual, Ill be focusing on my overall earnings for the month and other industry-related news, including news on uploading a portion of my images for free as an experiment, a legal complaint via Alamy and another nasty street photography episode (illustrated by AI). Lets get started! https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/01/31/january-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/Hope you're having a great start to the year. Alex
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« on: November 30, 2022, 08:23 »
Dear Colleagues, Happy to share with you my November 2022 detailed monthly report focusing on my overall earnings for the month, including a new book cover sale making it four months in a row! Ill also discuss why Ive decided to re-start uploading to Robert Harding. Lastly, Ill tell my side of the story of a recent unpleasant encounter as a humble street photographer. Lets get started! Hope you had a good month. https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/30/november-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/Alex
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« on: November 10, 2022, 07:19 »
Trying out for the first time and created two clips. TikTok is apparently all the hype now with Gen Z, so may be a good way to reach out, even to promote POD for instance or talk about the photo industry developments like AI. Or perhaps just a giant waste of time, not sure yet but willing to experiment. Anybody having success? Wrote a blog post on it which shamelessly includes a link to my channel on there. https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/09/tiktok-is-it-worth-uploading-content/I'll give it 6 months promoting my travel photos/videos and if that fails I'll put on my dancing shoes! All the best - Alex
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« on: July 18, 2022, 15:22 »
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