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Messages - Valaaami
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« on: January 27, 2009, 09:00 »
I believe you when you say you are not doing it for profit. And I am sure people love to use the site and they will be very sad if you close it. By the way, it is a great tool and works better then the Arcurs version. But still... it is not really clear legally.
If you would provide this service for free - like the Arcurs site does - it still wouldn't be nice to those people who are investing a lot of energy and money into 'real' keywording, but yes, I think it would be less risky legally.
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« on: January 27, 2009, 03:25 »
Keywords are intellectual property of the contributor. Your software is stealing these keywords and you are asking money for it? Hmmm... risky.
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« on: December 11, 2008, 04:01 »
This is the guy who should be banned and not Bobby. I mean he sould be banned from all the sites not just from FTL.
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« on: December 07, 2008, 17:04 »
I think all the sites should limit us to 10 keywords. It would be great if none of us spammed but I often see the highest selling images have loads of inappropriate keywords.
This would be terrible. All the similar images on a site would have the same 10 keywords and buyers would not have a chance anymore to narrow the search by using terms like 'one mid-adult man only' or 'looking away' or 'hands in pocket'... etc. All images showing a business meeting would have these 10 keywords only: Business, Business person, Businessman, Businesswoman, Meeting, Office, Team, Teamwork, People, Discussion Nothing about the outlook and age ot these people, nothing about the place, the camera position, the number of people, the colors... etc. This would be even more terrible on a site where they do not use controlled voculabry.
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« on: December 06, 2008, 16:50 »
What I still don't understand about Alamy: are you allowed to upload microstock RF images to their RF category? I have a few images there already but those are completely different images and they are in the RM. But I would be happy to upload my RF images as well.
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« on: December 03, 2008, 04:08 »
I asked their keyword guru in PM about the use of 'photography' and he said yes, photography should be used to separate illustrations from photos. It was two months ago but they still keep rejecting keywords like photograpy, color image... etc.
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« on: November 25, 2008, 09:22 »
I have decided to give them a try. Uploaded 13 images as a test. The java interface is very fancy but extremly slow... took about an hours to set up everything for those 13 images. I saw no chance that I'll upload 1000s of images there. Today I got the first emails from their reviewer team. They liked my images and want me to reupload them but they can use them becuse they are not set to 300dpi. What?  It is just a measure! The images are still there and they are bigger then 5000x3000 pixels. No way I'll upload them again. The site is off of my list.
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« on: November 18, 2008, 16:38 »
Unfortunately I had to stop uploading to StockXpert. The uploading process is still buggy. When you move your images from briefcase to gallery and then you choose to batch edit them the site crashes. When you try to join images of a mini series all of the images are forgetting their sleected categories. I have reported this bug on the forum more then a month ago - no anwer and it is still not working... just tested it a few hours ago. I am sad, I liked StockXpert and it was my 3-4th best earner before.
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« on: November 17, 2008, 16:36 »
It won't be much use in a studio using flash. The flash exposure is so fast, there should be no possibility of visible camera shake.
This is not true. If you have strobes with head generators (for locational lighting) they still can't offer more speed then than the flash syncron of your camera. Practicly it is around 1/160s. If you use a telephoto lens and a camera with high mpix sensor you will need the support a monopod offers.
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« on: November 06, 2008, 18:26 »
I paid a programmer to create my own DAM software where I am storing all the release file names an image has in the 'people' iptc field. I am sad no agency can read it but at least it is very easy for me to create shot-model relation .XLS files for those agencies who need it.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 11:39 »
Just an idea... The easiest and best web tool to attach MRs to uploaded images is the one 123RF has. It's worth the time to check it. I wish all agency would have the same.
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« on: September 30, 2008, 16:22 »
Nice raise everywhere especially at FTL and StockXpert and bad drop on IS. Earnings percentage of IS is falling back drastically months by months. I am glad I droped the idea of exclusivity earlier this year - I was very very close to make that decision but now I am light years away from doing it.
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« on: September 19, 2008, 05:59 »
Valaaami -not sure what's happening here. Please email me directly:
[email protected]
Or call +44 75123 69400.
Tom
Thanks for your help Tom, but meanwhile Lawrence answered my questions.
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« on: September 18, 2008, 04:02 »
They sound very impressive. They do a heavy recruiting via emails... I got it twice already. What is a letdown that the do not answer the questions I asked, even thought they encouraged me in every email and on every forum to ask if I have further questions. I did have some. No answer yet.
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« on: September 16, 2008, 11:07 »
So this difference boils down to new and substantial incremental sales by increasing the market for Microstock in a way that has never been done before.
A week ago I got a sitemail on IS from a buyer who works for a big advertising agency. She asked me about model releases of one of my images. They liked the image they wanted to buy it but they needed the release to be proven. I told them that every image contains recognizable people on IS has a model release attached so she can be sure the given shot is also released. And I suggested her to ask IS support if she need more proof. 24 hour later she came back to me and old that they still need the image but IS support is not aswering. This time I emailed her the releases - I am not sure I allowed to do this. Next morning I saw they paid 150$ for it. I think this is the new marked segment Tom is talking about.
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« on: September 13, 2008, 18:02 »
SV is a bad joke. I had really high hopes when I heared Corbis is enterig to the MS marked. But the result is a bad joke, really. And we all know it and we all keep saying it... but noone has eyes or ears there at Corbis. I doubt they want anything serious with that pathetic SV, I can imagine.
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« on: August 30, 2008, 04:58 »
The same here. They reject MRs which they accepted 1000s of times before. Photographer's information is missing, this is their problem. It is thue that my contact info wasn't there except my name. This is a genral MR form, all agencies are accepting it including IS. I tested it before I started to use it with all my models.
Well, I can accept that they do change their rules but they should accept that I am not able to go back in time and resign the releases with models I photographed with a year ago.
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« on: July 01, 2008, 07:35 »
Fotolia is going pretty well now for me as well. But the increasing number of subscription downloads is very alarming. Somehow I can not believe they are new customers.
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« on: June 03, 2008, 05:05 »
3.6$
IS is leading this statistics for me.
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« on: April 19, 2008, 09:37 »
You are absolutely right. The SS's approach to the most popular sorting is completely wrong and it is very bad for established photographers. SS is the main source of copying in the industry. Even if SS is making me a lot of money, I am thinking on to stop contributing there (or upload images with a 6 months delay) becuse of this. Well, yes, I am also one of those Estern European guys who has images on the first pages of most popular sortings but I am there since two years now. And this is not only a russian or eastern europian thing. Even the biggest guys are copying each other's work on an industrial level. Unfortunatelly this became a microstock standard. The agencies must love this - a talented pool of excellent photographers who don't need to be paid western rates. No wonder Shutterstock is advertising there.
Good. Maybe this will convince people in various forums to stop putting up "How to Make Money in Microstock" pages, and contantly yapping about how wonderfully successful and number 1 they are.
Very true, but of course it won't. And next year they'll all be wondering why there are so many identical images as their No.1 sellers.
It's always amazes me when I see threads on SS about the Top50 most popular images and questions like "how do I get in there" "how many sales do you need to be in the top50" .
The SS top50 can't be seen by buyers it is only for contributors, why do these idiots think SS post the top50 images!!!!
Every time I've had an image in the top50 within days there's always a load of copies in the search results...it's a complete PITA.
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« on: April 19, 2008, 09:25 »
Yes, You are right. But in the 'technically superior' category I would be happy to include lighting/composition. This is where IS is very forgiving with their exlusives and this is what I can see on the thumbs as well.
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« on: April 19, 2008, 08:59 »
No, it sounds like the non-exlusive inspection at IS, because they accept nearly anything if it comes from an exclusive - at least this is what I see on the front page.
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« on: April 19, 2008, 03:43 »
If there would be a price given to the most innovative, most contributor friendly agency my vote would go to 123RF. Of course they are going to the same direction as other agencies but every time they do it different: on a simple and friendly way. I wish they would be a major player! If the same intelligence would go to bigger microstock agency we could see something very interesting soon.
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« on: April 03, 2008, 03:09 »
Then imagine a business lifestyle photo! Description of each people, their outlook, clothes, genre... etc. What they are doing, what is the situation, where they are, what equippment are they using. Then the situation and the image technical parameters, camera position... etc. Everything should be described by synonims. It can be 100-150 keywords easily. This 50 rule is stupid. Noone will use distinguising keywords but every single image will have the same 50 most popular keywords only, like 'business, meeting, people, man, woman... etc. I think this was a very stupid and amateurish move by FTL. I wrote a message to their support but I doubt they care.
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« on: April 03, 2008, 03:01 »
In this case, it would be nice to see that 'dictionary'.
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