Ok maybe this isn�t such a crazy idea! I�m a stocker and shoot in my Amazing loft studio in central Madrid. Like all of us we get bored of our city and looking for adventure. As full time stock photographers we could just do a life swap! I�m looking to trade for maybe a month in any part or the world, looking for modern flat, fast internet, studio or workable apartment with light stands and background and a few models to work with in exchange you will get all this in Madrid! Sounds crazy but it just might work! What�s the point of being a digital nomad if we don�t do this type of thing! Hit me up if this sounds interesting.

Sam

Hey Stockers, Im uploading in ESP istock and I'm getting " WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE YOUR TERM " a lot on about 60% of my keywords... my keywords are very good i think and when I click on the not recognised word it totally changes the keyword which i don't like much its either the same as an other keyword or just not right. My question is, the no recognised keywords are they still added to the photo and are these keywords searchable even though istock doesn't recognise them? not only does it do a bad job when you click on the no recognised words but it takes a very long time.. seeing istock sales are really bad these days i would like to spend as little time uploading... any advice would be great.

Sam

Hey stockers, Ive been running a stock company with my partner for the last 5 years, Ive been mainly shooting and he has been controlling the uploading and keywording. The company has run its course so its time I start learning all this stuff. I have  few questions and any feed back would be great.

I generally pick topics to work on and get maybe 150-200 images from a session, now Im just starting out again my photos are not getting picked up quick enough and falling off page 1 in the first 24 hours. I was thinking of batching my uploads over 4 weeks uploading 50 per week so my photos will be all over the new search pages for longer. Has anyone out there tried this? if so I would love to hear what your thoughts were.

Keywording is pain in the ass but it must be done, Im hoping to find a formula or templates that I can keyword and title and description once and upload across all platforms, does any one know what the limit to the title is across all agencies? also is it true the top 5 keywords should be the first 5 keywords? and what about running or run, depression of depressed do I use both?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Sam

I will sign today, but can anyone or everyone give me some more information? I have like 12,000 images on Istock and normally make around 700-1000 a month from my no exclusive portfolio.

this month I'm looking at around 150$ with only a week to go... Can Istock really be this bullish? I'm thinking about pulling all my images but i can only guess Istock will make it very hard for us to take the images down.

Maybe if enough of us got together we could strike? demanding istock to take our images off line or change the deal back to what it was which was already the worst payers out there.

I'm very depressed about the situation.. any insight to what is actually going on and the actual new Commission rate would be great. Getty write it in such a way its very hard to understand it.

I'm feeling for all the stockers out there right now.. this really is a punch in the face in a already hard time.

Sam